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Los Angeles braces itself for a teachers strike Monday morning

January 11, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Only the highly visible public drama of a District-wide strike will draw sufficient attention to the multiplicity of problems, many of them of a fiscal nature, that plague public education.

Secret White House memo says end pensions and retiree health benefits

January 11, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

And James Sherk, the “labor” advisor for Trump’s Domestic Policy Council, also demands Trump call for enacting pension “reforms” – a code word for cuts – for the nation’s current two million federal workers.

House Dems go to court to defend Affordable Care Act

January 11, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

“Having seen families struggle to pay ever higher insurance premiums and deductibles every year, I understand we need improvements in our system. The answer is to shore up the ACA, not dismantle it.”

A brief history of the world communist movement

January 11, 2019 By Emile Schepers

In the context of the expansion of industry and the industrial proletariat in Europe, Marx and Engels came on the scene.

Routine FDA food inspections suspended by shutdown

January 11, 2019 By Lorraine Chow

Americans only just survived the great romaine lettuce scare of 2018, and now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has postponed routine domestic food safety inspections.