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Teddy Ostrow (Chicago)
Labour Notes 2022: US Workers Pushing Unions Into Mainstream
23 Jun 2022
After decades in a rut, the US labor movement appears to be reinvigorated. At the Labor Notes conference in Chicago, labor leaders wanted to ensure it's a true upsurge and not just a blip, as Teddy…
Tanupriya Singh
Lauded by WHO, India’s Frontline Health Workers are Still Fighting for Basic Rights
28 May 2022
Over one million Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers have been awarded the WHO’s Global Health Leaders Award, recognizing their role in ensuring access to care in a health system that is…
Sonali Kolhatkar
How Young Workers Are Unionising Starbucks
30 Apr 2022
Starbucks Workers United is racking up victorious union votes in one branch after another of the iconic American coffee chain. A young California-based worker-organiser explains why this campaign is…
Richard D. Wolff
The Role of Capitalism in the War in Ukraine
13 Apr 2022
Global warfare has always accompanied the globalisation of capitalism and its profit motive.
DW Staff
Amazon Workers in US Vote for First Union in Company's History
02 Apr 2022
New York warehouse workers have voted in favor of establishing Amazon's first union in the United States. Although not yet final, the win looks likely to encourage labor activists across the country.
Miguel Leyva
Can Eating Organic Help Prevent Parkinson’s Disease?
16 Feb 2022
A growing body of research suggests a connection between the pesticide paraquat and Parkinson’s disease.
Richard D. Wolff
How US Politicians are Papering Over Social Problems Caused by Profit-Driven Capitalism
29 Jan 2022
One example is US capitalism’s failure to produce what is needed to manage pandemics known to cause menace to societies from time to time.
Vijay Prashad
Right-Wing Hate Speech Runs Rampant in India’s Elections
05 Jan 2022
A bizarre event took place in northern India between December 17 and December 19, 2021.
Richard D. Wolff
A Critique of Capitalism’s Obscene Wealth
17 Dec 2021
Nearly everywhere in the capitalist world, the non-wealthy pay more in taxes and suffer public service deficits caused by tax evasions of the obscenely wealthy.
Monica Cruz
Workers in New York Vote to Form First Starbucks Union in the US
10 Dec 2021
This is one of three stores in the same city to vote on a union in recent weeks, part of a larger push to unionize at the multi-billion dollar company