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“Informed and bold oil workers will not be silent and passive in the face of the suppression and killing of people and will protest together and in unison with the people,” calling on other workers in the petrochemical industry to join the strikes.

America has long faced structural economic crises. Democrats must win on the economy and present a pro-worker agenda. Now is the time for Democrats to take the fight to the reactionary Republican party and expose their anti-worker views

The people of Florida have a right and a responsibility to protect themselves from violence. But death sentences have never been proven to decrease crime and violence.

Cornelia Hildebrandt on Die Linke, Luciana Castellina on post-election Italy, Hilary Wainwright on left politics

This new examination of the civil rights movement considers it in terms of a military-style campaign.

Workers at KSBD, a major Amazon air hub in San Bernardino, California, announced on Tuesday that they plan to strike on Oct. 14.

Russia’s economy ministry, as reported by Reuters citing government documents, says that expected Russian energy export revenues will reach $338bn in 2022 which is nearly $100bn or a third more than the $244bn figure for last year. This is in large part because Russia was able to reroute two-thirds of its lost sales to the West to countries such as India and China through which it entered the world oil market.

Last week, Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her courage in interrogating France’s collective memory. Her work has been concerned with the lives of working-class women, which her books have treated with an uncommon dignity and respect.

"The move to privatize Medicare," said one expert, has "been very profitable, in part because insurers are good at making their patients seem sicker."

Huge scale of human-driven loss of species demands urgent action, say world’s leading scientists