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Where has the extra money you’ve been paying for gas gone? To oil company shareholders! …

California extended COVID sick leave for workers until September 30, but 1 in 4 workers are excluded from it. …

Today, February 20th is the anniversary of Fredrick Douglass’s death. Douglass was a former slave who became an important figure in the struggle for the abolition of slavery. …

While politicians in the United States are always talking about how our society is based …

80 years ago, on February 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066 was signed by President Franklin …

After eight months of research, a small company, Afrigen Biologics, has reverse-engineered the Moderna vaccine. …

Looking at the tension between Russia and Ukraine, it seems very easy to identify Putin …

330 truck drivers, concrete pourers, technicians, mechanics, and yard workers have been on strike since …

BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) management is warning that without additional funding, BART will start …

All across the country, amid the rise in Covid patients, medical facilities have been calling …

Democrats in the California State Assembly killed a single-payer health care bill, showing where their priorities lie. …

A review of the docuseries We Need to Talk About Cosby, and the social issues it raises. …

In these protests we can see a glimpse of how people, especially those working in strategic industries like transportation, could pressure those in power to respond to our demands. …

Thousands of people in Brazil protested against the murder of Moise Kabagambe, a Congolese immigrant. …

The EU wants to transition to nuclear and natural gas energy sources. …

A report on the economic situation and living conditions in Pakistan. …

From coast to coast, we have seen students list their demands for safe schools and stage walkouts, refusing to accept the breadcrumbs the people in power have tossed them. …

There is a famine in northern Ethiopia. In the Tigray, Afar and Amhara regions, over …

Cities all over America are spending billions of dollars on new infrastructure to improve water …

This Sunday, Feb. 13, the Super Bowl will take place in Los Angeles, featuring the …

On Feb. 4, more than five thousand teachers took to the streets in Puerto Rico …

The struggle to keep the school doors open may not be easy, but it is winnable. But it will take an even larger, more organized and continued mobilization by Oakland parents, students, teachers and staff to win this fight. …

Newark’s Penn Station is practically a homeless shelter, and the local politicians’ attempts at addressing it do not get to the root of the problem. …

Workers at Golden Gate Transit have voted to authorize a strike. …

UC students skipped class last week to protest the administration’s reopening policies. …

Healthcare workers continue to face the reality of Covid during the Omicron wave. …

This article was written by Jules Boycoff and originally published at jacobinmag.com on February 4, …

A scandal has started in France about the quality of care in Orpea nursing homes. …

Brian Flores has made public the racist hiring practices of the NFL. …

Black History Month is a reminder to look to the past and to make our own history. …

Any celebrations about the killing of ISIS leaders miss the fact that ISIS would not exist without the presence of U.S. imperialism in the Middle East. …

On Tuesday, Feb.1 a nationwide “silent strike” took over the streets of Myanmar to honor the one-year anniversary of the fight against the military takeover, of Feb. 1, 2021. …

As Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is finishing its second week of the current semester, it …

Maybe you’ve heard of coral reef death or bleaching, but do you understand what coral …

The Oakland School Board meeting on Jan. 31, 2022 was attended by over 1,800 community …

Climate change is causing conditions at the Winter Olympics to be less safe. …

The COVID pandemic, on top of all of the longstanding economic instability, is causing record levels of forced migration from South America into the United States. …

While there may be some people who look at our schools and see them as a money-making opportunity, these schools are our schools. It is not their decision to make — it is ours. We must link up across school communities to stand side by side and say, “no school closures!” …

Punitive measures against truancy set in place by Kamala Harris, are now being leveled against students in Oakland who have had the audacity to demand that their schools provide real safety protection. …

On January 15, a major oil spill covered the northern beaches of Lima, Peru. The …

Indonesians can no longer have their capital in the coastline city of Jakarta because they are literally struggling to stay above water from the impacts of climate change. …

The Algerian Socialist Workers’ Party was suspended. This is an act of repression that must be opposed. …

A war over between NATO countries and Russia over Ukraine does not benefit the people of any country. …

Some striking workers in Guadeloupe have won concessions from the government. …

Are the CDC’s new looser guidelines based on science, or economic considerations? …

The aviation and telecommunication industries have come into conflict over 5G. …

The following video report was put out by the New York Times. It is a …

Since Wednesday, Jan. 12th, more than 8,000 workers in the Denver metro area at King Soopers, a grocery chain store owned by Kroger, have been on strike against low wages and poor working conditions. …