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Election Day 2020 should have mimicked 1932. What went wrong?

August 13, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik

While a broad coalition beat back GOP control in several branches of government last year, progressive majorities don’t match the ones we had in 1932.

Coronavirus upends world of work, opens workers’ eyes to unions

August 13, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Hundreds of thousands of workers had their eyes opened to the need for protections unions offer

Australia sends military to quarantine working-class communities, leaves wealthy areas untouched

August 13, 2021 By The Guardian, The Workers’ Weekly

In working-class areas and communities of color, authorities are using military might to look like they're controlling the pandemic. Meanwhile, rich neighborhoods with COVID cases go unpoliced.

‘People’s Vaccine’ needed to break monopoly profiteering and end vaccine apartheid

August 12, 2021 By John Bachtell

Vaccinating the world’s population faces two big obstacles: right-wing sabotage and extreme profiteering by pharmaceutical companies.

Pity the downtrodden landlord: Big property owners say they’re eviction moratorium victims

August 11, 2021 By Andrew Wright

The CDC’s federal eviction moratorium is hitting landlords hard, apparently.