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Google workers organize innovative new type of union with CWA

January 5, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Using innovations to attract their colleagues—everyone from software engineers to outside “contractors”—Google workers are organizing the high-tech behemoth.

In Australia, like rest of world, the ‘gig’ economy is killing workers

December 14, 2020

Five food delivery drivers have been killed in just two months, and a stunning 90% of drivers say their pay had decreased during the pandemic.

Trustbusters target Facebook, but anti-monopoly effort shores up capitalism

December 11, 2020 By C.J. Atkins

Without the intervention of the left, the lawsuits won't go far toward creating a democratic economy.

5G and ‘Biohackers’: Technology rules! (Is that a good thing?)

November 30, 2020 By Dennis Broe

What could go wrong? Plenty, say 5G critics in France.

Combat capitalist ‘truth decay’ with publicly-funded news media

November 18, 2020 By Joe Sims

In the face of “we-have-our-own-facts” GOP propaganda, social practice—that is, news reporting and analysis allied with real people’s experiences—must become the basis of social truth.