Labor
General strike brings Sudan to standstill
June 10, 2019Shops are closed and streets are empty as the opposition demands the resignation of the ruling military council.
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GOP moves to ban teacher strikes in West Virginia
June 5, 2019West Virginia teachers and parents may have to hit the streets to defend their kids—again.
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Sit down! The CPUSA, the CIO, and the great industrial union drive
June 3, 2019In the second half of the 1930s, Communists took on the task of organizing America's industrial workforce and fighting fascism in Spain.
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Post office thrills kids; in the future, they may have to save it
May 23, 2019This is our annual “School Trip to the Post Office,” and I am lucky enough to be the tour guide again this year.
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Working-class internationalism: Italian dock workers block Saudi weapons ship
May 21, 2019Genoa has a long history of solidarity. It was the first to block U.S. ships headed to Vietnam, and dock workers here refused to allow war equipment to disembark for the 1973 Chile coup.
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