Politics
New York’s first primary: High stakes, big money, and left unity
June 23, 2022As usual, big money has been shaping New York’s June 28 primaries, especially the governor’s race.
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Public school privatization privileges profits over learning
June 23, 2022Structurally segregated by race and driven by economic inequalities, the U.S. education system is designed to limit the technical and cultural development of the working class.
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AFL-CIO: Supporting PRO Act is a litmus test for politicians wanting labor’s backing
June 22, 2022Unions won’t devote money or volunteers to electing anyone in the midterms who doesn’t support stronger labor laws, regardless of their record on other issues.
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Before Trump coup, Georgia elections official warned: ‘Someone’s going to get killed’
June 22, 2022"There were a lot of threats wishing death upon me,” election worker Shaye Moss testified. “Telling me that I’ll be in jail with my mother…things like, ‘Be glad it’s 2020 and not 1920.’”
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150,000 bring Poor People’s Campaign demands to D.C.: “We won’t be silent”
June 21, 2022The campaign and its allies will hold politicians’ feet to the electoral fire unless they move fast and forcefully to help solve the problems of poor and low-wage people.
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