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14/07/22
Author: 
Ben Parfitt
Chief Roland Willson: ‘To say reconciliation is working would be not developing Site C and working with us to identify better options, not ignore everything we say.’ Photo by Zoë Ducklow.

July 13, 2022

BC says a deal with the West Moberly First Nations over Site C damage shows reconciliation in action. The nations’ Chief disagrees.

In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, tasked with informing Canadians about what happened to Indigenous peoples in residential schools, defined reconciliation as a process of “establishing and maintaining a mutually respectful relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in this country.”

14/07/22
Author: 
Jake Johnson
People walk past a "we're hiring" sign posted outside of a restaurant in Arlington, Virginia on June 3, 2022. (Photo: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)

July 13, 2022

In the wake of a higher-than-anticipated inflation reading, experts implored the Federal Reserve not to pursue more "aggressive interest rate hikes."

Hotter-than-expected inflation data published Wednesday intensified fears among progressive economists that the Federal Reserve—in its single-minded drive to tame price increases—will needlessly lock in another major interest rate hike at its policy meeting later this month, further suppressing economic demand and moving the country closer to a recession.

14/07/22
Author: 
Matt Huber
Over 200,000 people took to the streets of Washington, DC for the climate march, 2017. (Zach D. Roberts / NurPhoto via Getty Images)

05.12.2022

Spreading knowledge and awareness of the climate crisis isn’t enough. There’s no hope for the planet without climate policies that address the material interests of workers.

Excerpted from Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet (Verso Books, May 2022)

12/07/22
Author: 
Sam Gindin
Union organizing - illustration

 July 12, 2022

If today’s unionization rate in the US was the same as it was forty years ago (already a low bar, as that number is significantly down from the mid-1950s peak), the number of union members would be well over 30 million instead of about 17 million. In fact, though the workforce has increased by some 56 million since the early 1980s, the number of union members has fallen by over 3 million.

12/07/22
Author: 
Ben Norton, Multipolarista
Stoltenberg, Biden, Putin, Xi Jinping

July 10, 2022

NATO’s 2022 “Strategic Concept,” Its First New Plan Since 2010, Declares Russia A “Threat” And China “Systemic Challenge.”

It demonizes the Eurasian powers as “authoritarian actors” and “strategic competitors,” essentially declaring a second cold war to maintain Western hegemony.

The US-led NATO military alliance has published a historic new plan outlining its goals. The document, officially titled the 2022 “Strategic Concept,” is the first such blueprint NATO has released since 2010.

12/07/22
Author: 
James Hutt
Chris Smalls addresses attendants at the 2022 Labor Notes Conference. Photo by James Hutt.

July 2, 2022

Dispatch from the largest event in the organization’s 43-year history

The white collar crime syndicate known as Corporate America is hereby put on notice that the working people of America have had enough!
—Sean O’ Brien, Labor Notes 2022

Fuck Jeff Bezos!
—Christian Smalls, Labor Notes 2022

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