Our coming rail strike chaos—When? Why? Who?
A series of rail strikes is expected to lead to what could be the largest outbreak of industrial action since 1989 in Britain. Unions say their actions, which they claim are a response to pay freezes while inflation soars, could lead to a near shutdown of England’s railways for three days. The strike will be […]
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Surveillance Tech Is Wrongly Accusing Disabled Students of Cheating on Tests
Modern college students are often faced with stressful situations, such as managing massive debt and dealing with the global pandemic. To make matters worse there is a growing narrative about cheating in higher education. This narrative has widened the divide between faculty and students, inspired stricter policies and created additional challenges for today’s students. Cheating […]
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Progressive Orgs Seek to Bar Trump From Office Through State Elections Officials
Our Revolution and Free Speech for People, progressive organizations, are encouraging election officials in 10 states that current and former legislators involved in the January 6 Capitol attack to be deemed insurrectionists and unfit to serve as office-holders ever again, according to the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The organizations sent letters to secretaries […]
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Trader Joe’s Workers in Massachusetts File to Form Union as Company Fights Back
In a move that could be monumental for service workers across the country, Trader Joe’s workers in western Massachusetts have filed to form a union weeks after Publicizing their unionization efforts. Workers organizing under their union, Trader Joe’s United, in Hadley, Massachusetts, petitioned for a union election on TuesdayTo form a union in order to […]
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The First Amendment Could Provide a Fresh Legal Approach to Defending Abortion
Roe v. Wade was decided per a right to privacy based on the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, but there is another, perhaps at least equally compelling, way to look at the abortion issue — and that is through the lens of the establishment clause of the First Amendment. The establishment clause asserts […]
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Attacks on Trans Youth Are a Fascist “Moral Battering Ram”
Individuals display in help of transgender rights in St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 6, 2022. Michael Siluk / UCG / Common Photographs Group by way of Getty Photographs “Alabama was capable of go a felony ban on healthcare, primarily, doubtlessly punishing docs and oldsters with as much as 10 years in jail for offering or […]
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We Both Were Incarcerated at Rikers Island. Now We’re Discussing Its History.
Two years ago, the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings started, mainstream politicians are pushing a fear-based law and order politics. In this precarious moment, Jarrod Shanahan’s new book Captives This is more urgent than ever. The book traces the history of post-war New York City through the lens of the city’s jails, focusing largely on […]
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Johnson launches housing plans in wake of backbench revolt
This afternoon Boris Johnson has addressed rising prices and launched new housing plans in an apparent attempt to relaunch his premiership following Monday’s vote of confidence. Speaking in Blackpool, Lancashire, the prime minister referred to the recent Platinum Jubilee celebrations, and said that over the past 7 decades of Elizabeth II’s reign, there has been […]
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Cleverly insists government actions on NI protocol are ‘lawful’
Following an urgent question on whether the government have taken the appropriate steps to ensure their position on the Northern Ireland protocol, foreign minister James Cleverly insisted that government “actions are lawful”. This follows media reports that a government advisor was told “not to give an opinion on whether the plan would breach international law”. […]
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Rees-Mogg rejects claims of ‘suspicious’ Covid contracts
During cabinet questions, deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner and government efficiency minister Jacob Rees-Mogg clashed on what Rayner called “suspicious” PPE contracts during the pandemic. Rees-Mogg told the House of Commons that “these charges made by the Socialists are completely false”. The former leader of the House explained that the government “delivered” on calls at […]
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