Fast-food joints like Burger King are monitoring staff “friendliness” using AI headsets. These Big Brother tactics are dehumanizing and don’t help productivity.
Corporations
Insurance companies prey on victims of climate crisis
Large insurers show massive profits, even after hurricanes, tornados, floods or fire. How do these corporations make a killing off of crises?
Fight for the Arctic
With Greenland as a point of entry, a scramble for resources and renewed “national security” plans for the U.S. threaten the region’s Indigenous peoples. PLUS: Mega-capitalists may deny it, but they plan to profit from climate catastrophes.
Solar and wind power surging, while US doubles down on fossil fuels
While across the globe dirty energy is being replaced with clean, the U.S. is backpedaling to protect gas and oil industry profits.
Borders be damned: Labor fights for immigrant rights
Across the country, solidarity-minded unions are intent on protecting migrant workers from Trump’s endless attacks.
New “environment” law: a pro-business hoax
New legislation in Australia will reduce restrictions on multinational corporations which systematically annihilate the continent’s ecosystems and landscapes.
War on the working poor
Multi-front assaults by the Trump administration take a toll on the most vulnerable, from cuts to SNAP and AmeriCorps to attacks on homeless encampments.
Bowing to pressure, corporations pull the plug on Pride
Big business joins in the escalating war against LGBTQ+ rights.
Starbucks workers organize against chaotic schedules and conditions
Newly unionized employees continue fighting to improve the on-the-job lives of baristas.
New California law supports workers
A victory for workers that bars employers from using forced meetings as intimidation.
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International Trade Union and Social Movement Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine
A call for endorsers and volunteers to help Ukraine get through the difficult winter ahead
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Cuba: A Socialist Dream Deferred
Traces the ups and downs of the Cuban Revolution and the critical issue of rising capitalist influence. Analyzes the main actors in Cuban society today and discusses the path forward.