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On November 17th, after being on strike for 35 days across 14 facilities in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Georgia and Colorado, 61% of the over 10,000 John Deere workers have voted to approve the third contract proposal. …

After defeating the laws that would have eliminated vital protections for Indian farmers, one of the protesters said the victory felt “like you’ve conquered Mount Everest.” …

Gerrymandering has drawn the attention of the mainstream media, as dozens of counties and states – many (but not all) currently led by Republican legislatures and officials – work to redraw election maps to the benefit of their party. …

A recently published a report that shows the U.S. military covered up war crimes in Syria in 2019 when it dropped bombs on a crowd of civilians, killing about 80 people. …

Argentina’s recent legislative elections were marked by the defeat of the coalition in power, and popular anger that was partly expressed through the candidates of the Trotskyist far-left. …

On Tuesday, November 9, Oklahoma’s Supreme Court overturned its 2019 ruling that Johnson and Johnson was financially liable for its role in the opioid epidemic. …

The private sector profits from the oppression of migrants at the Belarus border. …

My students who were sick were never tested for coronavirus, they eventually returned to school after 10 days, and our classroom was no longer deemed an outbreak. Students deserve safe schools now. …

According to Facebook’s own leaked internal documents, Instagram is linked to anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts and body image issues, especially among young girls. …

Approximately 150 students took part in a protest at Johns Hopkins University in response to the University’s failure to properly prevent and respond to sexual assaults on campus. …

As the world slowly moves toward the use of electric vehicles (EVs) to belatedly address the climate crises, the mine workers of the Democratic Republic of Congo are feeling the pressure. …

1,100 miners for Warrior Met Coal in Alabama have been on strike since April 1st. They have been fighting for a living wage, more humane scheduling of hours and more time off. …

The climate crisis is GLOBAL. And we see people from every corner of the world standing up to say we must put an end to it. …

The system creates the conditions that allow violent racist police to kill people at traffic stops. …

Veterans Day doesn’t do much for those it is supposed to honor. It is about the patriotic myths about American wars. …

30,000 Kaiser Permanente workers in Southern California and Oregon have voted to strike. …

On Tuesday, November 2nd, 10,000 John Deere workers in the United Auto Workers (UAW) union rejected a second tentative agreement to continue their strike which started on October 14. …

On November 6, 1968, the students of San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University) began a strike against racism on their campus.  Just over four our months later it ended in educational reforms across that began to be mirrored around the country. …

Like the mass demonstrations that ousted Sudan’s dictator two years ago, the people are refusing the military’s recent effort to determine their future. …

These activists recognize that we must rely on ourselves if we are going to see any impactful changes, and they are standing up for the future of the whole world. …

How it is that the Supreme Court has such an important role in American life, and what effects it actually has? …

The threat of a military conflict between the United States and China could escalate beyond the show of force each has been displaying in the Strait of Taiwan. …

The Algerian Revolution began on November 1, 1954, against French colonialism. …

The stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, starting the Great Depression. The instability of the period led to the organization of the working class. …

The COP26 climate conference has started. We cannot depend on the politicians to prevent disaster. …

Why should a personal healthcare decision like having an abortion – one that is deeply personal and often complex and emotional –  be judged by the Supreme Court? …

La Niña, a climate pattern of the Pacific Ocean that recurs every 4 to 12 years, is expected to affect the United States between December 2021 and February 2022. The northern states are expected to see below-normal temperatures, while much of the South will experience above-normal temperatures and a decrease in precipitation. …

Utility debt in the U.S. has more than doubled since the pandemic. …

Although the UN climate change conference hasn’t begun, we already know how much progress they’ll make. The answer? Nowhere near enough!  …

The Democrats, despite controlling the Presidency and both houses of Congress, are unable to help working people in even the most basic of ways. …

If you were going to be in a fight for your life, would you want to be armed and ready or still fashioning your weapons after the enemy has attacked? That is my answer to NBA players like Beal and others who are still unclear on the reason for vaccination. Being unvaccinated means that you are unarmed and unprepared for an attack, with luck as your only weapon. …

Since 2018, the city of Benton Harbor, Michigan has tested high for dangerous concentrations of lead within the water system. …

New leaked documents show that governments have been trying to get the UN to downplay climate change, raising questions about the outcome of the upcoming Climate Change Conference. …

The contract may be signed but the fight is far from over! …

This toxic culture of the power brokers in the NFL is a disgusting microcosm of the racism, sexism, and homophobia that is pervasive in our society! …

The past month has seen a strike wave in the United States. …

10,000 workers at John Deere went on strike against a bad contract. …

This supply chain crisis is just one more example of how dysfunctional the system of capitalism is — this system can’t even organize the basic production and distribution of goods. …

In 1956, the Hungarian masses of working people fought courageously, not for the implementation of capitalism, or a brutal rule by “socialist” or “communist” party bureaucrats, but for socialism built on their own genuine power as workers. …

“Breaking Boundaries” is a new documentary on Netflix by David Attenborough, looking into the state of the environment. …

Over 530 climate activists were arrested this past week when thousands of activists descended on Washington, D.C., to demand that the Biden administration protect indigenous communities and the environment. …

Workers at Kellogg’s are standing up to the bosses strikebreaking tactics. …

John Brown and his followers stand as an example of how working people of different skin colors and backgrounds can join together and take action against the oppressing ruling classes.  For that reason, we recognize John Brown’s raid as part of the long struggle to end oppression and create a just and equal world for all people.  …

According to new research at least 85% of the global population is already confronted with the effects of climate change. (Image Credit: Tsiory Andriantsoarana) …

Even many of the intellectuals of the ruling class see the reality – their system offers no future! …

It is now almost the middle of October, and we’ve been back at school since …

Vaccination is an effective measure against disease, but we should not blame the unvaccinated for the government’s response to the pandemic. …

Since September 16th, carpenters in Seattle have been on strike for better pay, benefits and working conditions while voting down four previous tentative agreements. …