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Two-day strike at biggest Amazon warehouse in Spain

Cipo Fraioli | libcom.org news | March 24th 2018

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A 48-hour strike in the Amazon warehouse in San Fernando de Henares, near Madrid, concluded successfully, according to unions, with workers bringing the company's biggest logistics centre in the country to a standstill.

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New Labour Bills in South Africa attack workers' rights and democracy

Malatesta Black | libcom.org news | March 28th 2018

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In South Africa the Minister of Labour announced the state intends to carry out a new round of attacks on workers and their rights. The attacks come in the form of three Labour Bills currently being considered by parliament: the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill, the National Minimum Wage Bill and the Labour Relations Amendment Bill. If passed, the changes to the labour laws these bills propose will be a major attack on workers’ rights, won through decades of struggle, and will further deepen and entrench inequality and roll back important democratic gains.

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Have You Seen ICE or Border Patrol in Your Community? Tell Us.

by Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, María Sánchez Díez, Univision, and Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica | Articles and Investigations - ProPublica | March 1st 2018

by Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, María Sánchez Díez, Univision, and Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica

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A woman in court, seeking a protective order against her abusive ex-boyfriend. A 10-year-old girl in an ambulance, being rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery. Men leaving a church “hypothermia shelter,” set up in the win...

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Illinois Graduate Students Win Strike!

Joshua Koritz | Socialist Alternative | March 27th 2018 The two-week-long strike waged by Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO), Local 6300 IFT/AFT AFL-CIO at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) against the university administration has been won! Negotiations for the 2,700 graduate students began in early 2017. Over a year later, and only after 1,200 members and community participated in strike and picket action, […]

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How Overbuilt Levees Along the Upper Mississippi River Push Floods Onto Others

Al Shaw and Lisa Song | Articles and Investigations - ProPublica | March 30th 2018

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Yemen: Three years on, US and UK arms supplies to Saudi Arabia-led coalition are devastating civilian lives

| Amnesty International | March 23rd 2018 Western arms supplies to Saudi Arabia and its coalition allies continue to devastate Yemeni civilians and fuel the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

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Remembering Martin Luther King's Last, Most Radical Book

Dsa 🌹 | Democratic Left - Democratic Socialists of America | February 24th 2018

by Peter Kolozi and James Freeman

Marking an anniversary of a book’s publication is, appropriately, reserved for books that were widely read when they first appeared many years ago. Books we commemorate with an anniversary are ones that ushered in a new way of thinking and influenced the way society tries to make sense of the world. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community did neither of these things.1

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