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On top of Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare cuts, another disaster looms for the health of Marylanders.
09/27/2025

On top of Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare cuts, another disaster looms for the health of Marylanders.

BALTIMORE—Don’t look now, but there are multiple health care crises in Baltimore, and the more serious one—a feud between a major insurer and a prominent hospital system—could leave 60,000 people in Maryland, D.C., and Virginia scrambling for care.

Union leader: "Workers deserve stability and respect, not pink slips and political games."
09/26/2025

Union leader: "Workers deserve stability and respect, not pink slips and political games."

WASHINGTON —Not content with trashing union contracts and firing more than 100,000 federal workers so far, the Trump regime is using the threat of a government shutdown at midnight on Sept. 30 to order agencies to fire even more.

What was once a paternalistic brewery at the heart of Dublin is now an anti-working-class multinational corporation that...
09/26/2025

What was once a paternalistic brewery at the heart of Dublin is now an anti-working-class multinational corporation that prioritizes shareholders.

Fun fact: Guinness, the quintessential Irish drink, exported around the world, originated in the working-class pubs of early eighteenth-century London.

INTERVIEW: "Many believe there is no chance of changing Israeli society from within. I disagree. Those who claim this as...
09/26/2025

INTERVIEW: "Many believe there is no chance of changing Israeli society from within. I disagree. Those who claim this assume Israel is a monolith. But as a Marxist, I see every society as a whole composed of contradictions."

I do not accept the claim that Israeli society is lost and that there is nothing to fight for within it. We must not give up. That was the point emphasized by Ofer Cassif, a member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, in a conversation with Zo Haderekh this week.

For those eager to see some measure of justice, the specific references to arrests and trials in latest UN report are of...
09/26/2025

For those eager to see some measure of justice, the specific references to arrests and trials in latest UN report are of some comfort.

Every day brings new indictments for Israel. The early accusations of genocide by South Africa are now quickly becoming an accepted legal definition among international bodies and governments alike. The latest indictment came from the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Progressive and labor organizations are urging a "yes" vote to keep three Democratic justices on the bench.
09/25/2025

Progressive and labor organizations are urging a "yes" vote to keep three Democratic justices on the bench.

PHILADELPHIA—On Nov. 4, Pennsylvania voters will have the opportunity to vote on the retention of three state Supreme Court justices: Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty, and David Wecht. Unlike those on the U.S. Supreme Court, Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices do not hold lifetime terms.

Mass organizations worldwide vow to support baristas, dump Starbucks.
09/25/2025

Mass organizations worldwide vow to support baristas, dump Starbucks.

Mass organizations representing some 85,000,000 workers around the world announced in a public letter late last week their commitment to support unionized Starbucks baristas and uphold picket lines in the event of a strike against the coffee behemoth.

Adelita Grijalva's election further erodes the narrow Republican majority in the House of Representatives.
09/25/2025

Adelita Grijalva's election further erodes the narrow Republican majority in the House of Representatives.

TUCSON—Southern Arizona voters overwhelmingly rejected the Trump MAGA agenda on Tuesday, choosing in a landslide to send Adelita Grijalva to Washington to replace her father, Rep. Raul Grijalva, who died last March. She is the first Chicana elected to Congress from Arizona.

Warning: Republicans hiding plan to slash $491 billion from Medicare
09/25/2025

Warning: Republicans hiding plan to slash $491 billion from Medicare

WASHINGTON—The House Republican-passed “clean” money bill to keep the government going, which the Senate rejected in mid-September, contains a hidden cut of almost $491 billion in Medicare payments over the next decade, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., warns.

There's definitely a change underway, but it has nothing to do with a sudden change of heart on Trump's part when it com...
09/25/2025

There's definitely a change underway, but it has nothing to do with a sudden change of heart on Trump's part when it comes to Ukraine's fate.

Corporate media expressed either surprise or, in some cases, downright glee after it was reported this week that Trump “switched sides” and now says Ukraine can win back all the territories taken by Russia during the ongoing war there.

Transportation workers' overtime pay does not have the same protection from taxation like that of other workers.
09/25/2025

Transportation workers' overtime pay does not have the same protection from taxation like that of other workers.

NEW YORK —Workers on motor coaches, school busses and especially airlines and railroads get paid time-and-a-half for overtime work, just like every other worker who is eligible for overtime pay.

Erasing the histories and experiences of Black people in the U.S. is part of the educational pogrom being enacted by the...
09/25/2025

Erasing the histories and experiences of Black people in the U.S. is part of the educational pogrom being enacted by the administration to "whitewash" America's real history.

The white supremacist MAGA administration headed by Donald Trump has ordered the removal of information and depictions of the era of slavery in the United States from materials posted at several national parks and historic sites.

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