Working Class

Nurses at two hospitals in western Sydney staged protests at the end of their shifts on Monday morning, protesting chronic understaffing and overcrowding amid a growing rise in COVID-19 infections.Nurses demonstrate in Westmead, western…

Of the. Dan Cox, seeking the Republican nomination for governor of Maryland, gives two thumbs up as he walks into the Emmitsburg Ambulance Co. for his primary night on Tuesday. Photo courtesy of Ric Dugan/The…

I just read this NYT column by Bryan Stryker, about how Democrats can win back the working class. I have no idea what impact his proposals will have, but from an economic point of view they will do little to help the working class.The big…

IIt's not every day that a politician's gaffe perfectly encapsulates his party's growing separation from a community that has been a vital part of his electoral coalition. But Dr. Jill Biden made just such a misstep on Tuesday when she…

Two months after he disappeared from work, the Spartanburg County Coroner determined that Duncan (Alex) Burrell Gordon died when he fell into the plastic shredder he was working on.The 20-year-old went missing in the middle of his overnight…

Edward LouisOne woman's struggles and transformations (Farrar, Straus and Giroux New York, 2022) One woman's struggles and transformations, the new…

Massive popular protests in Colombo on Saturday, attended by around a million workers, youth and the rural poor, forced President Gotabhaya Rajapakse to announce he would step down next Wednesday. Having initially refused to do so, Prime…

In 2009, James Caan, one of the main movie stars of the 1970s, told Vanity Fair that he had twice been honored as "Italian of the Year" in New York. Kicker: He's not Italian. Caan, who died Wednesday at 82, according to a post from his…

AMAC Exclusive – By Barry Casselman Five years ago, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, I wrote that a shift in national political identity had begun, and thereafter I…

In 1845 Karl Marx said: “Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; it is about changing it”. Change it, he did. Political movements representing masses of new industrial workers, many of whom drew on his…

"Brown" evokes several things at once. Brown representation. The magic of the brunette girl. Badass betis. Apu of The simpsons. Outrage over Apu's The simpsons. Subtle hints of curry. Instagram story pages with black and white photos…

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman wants to elect more Democrats to Congress this fall, but first he has to defeat some Democrats this summer.The billionaire is spending millions on campaigns against what his advisers see as radical far-left…

On Saturday, the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union held a strike rally outside King's Cross station in London, attended by around 1,000 people. RMT Deputy General Secretary Eddie Dempsey, Communications Workers Union General…

The Sri Lankan government, with the active support of trade unions, has begun to unleash a new round of International Monetary Fund (IMF)-dictated attacks on jobs and social conditions.On Monday, an IMF team traveled to Colombo to begin 10…

There were a total of 768 violent attacks against mosques and Muslims in Germany between January 2014 and June 2021. In particular, the years 2020 and 2021 stand out, with more than 140 attacks, although the unreported number of these…

Juneteenth evokes for me a swirling haze of emotions. On the one hand, it's a celebration of freedom, and on the other, it is the commemoration of a lie.Juneteenth is named after June 19, 1865, the day some 2,000 Union soldiers marched…

Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union general secretary Mick Lynch called for direct talks with the Tory government on June 15, in a letter of entreaty to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps . Had Shapps agreed, there is no doubt the…

Breathing new life into an award-winning classic tale can be tricky. But famed local playwright Kirsten Greenidge's approach to revisiting real families and the turbulent tone of Boston in the 1960s and 1970s detailed in J. Anthony Lukas'…

Hollywood's inclination to romanticize the art of writing is a familiar story. by Woody Allen Midnight in Paris is an example of a script that moves in and out of Parisian “café culture”, as screenwriter Gil Pender (Owen Wilson) collects…

Arriva Yorkshire bus workers went on an indefinite strike on Monday at five garages in North and West Yorkshire: Selby, Heckmondwicke, Wakefield, Castleford and Dewsbury.Strikers on the picket line at Arriva's Heckmondwicke depot in…

A reporting team from World Socialist Website spoke to workers donating, volunteering and using the Spiers Food Bank in Arbourthorne, Sheffield, about the cost of living crisis. Arbourthorne is a working-class neighborhood in a town…

TAMPA, Fla. — Working-class Americans died of COVID-19 at five times the rate of those in higher socioeconomic positions in the first year of the pandemic, a study has found.The staggering disparity was revealed in a study of around…

Coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths are rising rapidly in the United States, belying official optimism and complacent claims that the pandemic is over. The number of cases has more than quadrupled since the low point in…

Over 30 years ago, I interned at a small publication.I don't know if the experience did me much good, but it didn't hurt me at all. I had to write some reports. The guy in charge showed me how he edits them. I was able to use the…

Following the adoption of new district maps to take into account population changes reflected in the most recent census data, four candidates are campaigning for the open seat representing the redesigned Assembly District 20, which now…

Property owners will need more cash if the city's Environmental Protection Department's biggest water…

The last time I saw Bernie Sanders in person, he was basking in one of the greatest triumphs of his political career.It was Feb. 22, 2020. The Vermont senator, the spiritual godfather of that country's democratic socialist movement, had…

One rainy spring morning, an old cherry tree was beginning to bloom in a small park along Cherry Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Several protesters surrounded the tree to protect it from New York workers who were about to cut it…

By Connie Lee, May 17, 2022 In 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States adopted the decision to guarantee the protection of women who choose to have an abortion without any consequences. A draft majority opinion of the…

the ubiquitous STEM against the humanities and the liberal arts debate makes for a less than memorable college experience for many. Although both STEM and non-STEM disciplines will prove essential in the workforce, STEM receives…

ON THE PICTURE : Steve Bennett speaks with voters on Ventura Pier. Photo submitted by Alex Wilson Ventura County's state assembly districts saw significant boundary changes during the recently completed redistricting process.…

Amir Khafagy joined Documented as a member of the Report For America body. For the next year, it will cover work as it relates to New York's immigrant communities.!-->…

DEnnis Waterman, who died at the age of 74, was an actor whose gritty charm and gritty tones were particularly effective as criminals or crime fighters who walked a fine line between danger and humor and could pass side to side at…

My parents were old school. They believed that politics and religion…

Attention "Owner": If you're reading this, I escaped. I thought we were equal. You would drag me out of my house and caress me, and I would not gnaw you; a fair and equitable arrangement. But then you stupidly left a book open,…

Republicans attack Democrats and President Biden on the issue of student debt cancellation, linking the effort to inflation and calling it a transfer of wealth to the elites. It's "absurd fiscal policy that will make inflation worse"…

Vowing to defend the hard-won rights of the working class, laborers and laborers held rallies on Sunday in industrial areas of the former undivided Khammam, Karimnagar, Warangal, Adilabad and elsewhere in the state, marking May…

The Oklahoma Legislature on Thursday passed an anti-abortion bill that bans the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant, and allows private citizens to file civil lawsuits against abortion…

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Dozens of maintenance requests are being filed at the Southwood Apartments rental office as residents say things need to change. A protest was held at the South Richmond complex asking the owner to make a plan to…

IIt would be easy to dismiss this revival of Emlyn Williams' semi-autobiographical drama as an example of post-lockdown "comfort theatre." First presented in the West End in 1938, this tale of a talented Welsh miner's son and his inspiring…

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 79, based in Toronto, Ontario, has been plunged into crisis after local president David Mitchell was forced to resign by the national office of the CUPE. Mitchell reportedly accepted cash…

Feminism is often misinterpreted as a hatred of men when in reality, it is only defending equal rights for all. (Photo courtesy of Unsplash) When I ask people if they are feminists, I am baffled by how many people say no. It's not…

How does a printing company find and keep great employees? Meet them where they are — who are currently feeling burnt out, financially unstable, and overwhelmed — and offer solutions that make choosing your company the best decision for…

Michael Meyer is the author of Benjamin Franklin's Last Gamble: The Dividing Death of the Favorite Founder, the Lasting Afterlife, and the Blueprint for American Prosperity. (HarperCollins, April 12). He lives in Taipei. @meyerwriter…

The Party for Socialism and Liberation of Chicago was honored to work with the Alvarez family to seek justice for Anthony Alvarez. He was killed by Chicago Police Officer Evan Solano on March 31, 2021. On the last day of this year's…

The announced acquisition of Harborplace by Baltimore developer P. David Bramble and MCB Real Estate might be the best news heard in downtown Baltimore in years (a concert performed in June by a certain former member of the Beatles…

Imagine that you are descending from a paved road onto a strip of greenery, looking for a shortcut. Over many years, many others do the same. By trampling the undergrowth, a new path is created - together, unconsciously, you have…

Tens of thousands of doctors drew attention to their precarious situation on Thursday with a nationwide warning strike. About 4,000 people took part in the central rally on Frankfurt's Römerberg. Nearly 500 municipal hospitals across…

Stock prices crashed and the biggest fanatics moved from r/WallStreetBets to a new subreddit, r/Superstonk, and started posting multi-thousand word essays they called "dds", short for "due diligence", to explain what had happened.…

Working Solutions NYC is a team of employment law attorneys working in New York and New Jersey. The working class is struggling the most when it comes to unpaid wages and overtime.—Chris Q. DavisNEW…

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Cooking and cooking shows can often seem frivolous. Chef Roy Choi's Broken Bread doesn't, and the reasons why it makes it an important medium. As entertaining as food culture shows can be,…

Phil Lord, Oscar winner for "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse," produced the nominee for this year's animated feature "The Mitchells vs. the Machines," released by Netflix.(Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times) Since the 2009…

Last Friday, the British Office of Communications (Ofcom) stripped Russian state news channel RT of its broadcasting license. Ofcom ruled that RT was not "fit and proper" to broadcast in the UK and that failure to revoke its license risked…

As we gallop towards $6 gas, I know, I know, it's not Joe Biden's fault – it's important to point out the utter stupidity and stupidity of our energy policies. The country demands that we stop importing Russian oil even…

Top-to-bottom GOP groups and campaigns produced 93 separate TV ads mentioning inflation, spending $13 million on more than 30,000 airings from the start of 2021 through Thursday. By comparison, their Democratic counterparts produced just…

A worker in protective gear takes a swab from a resident at a residential compound under lockdown, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China March 14, 2022. Photo taken on March 14, 2022.…

25 years ago: Labor protests sweep across Europe German coal miners demonstrating, 1997On March 16, 1997, more than 100,000 workers from Belgium and across Europe descended on the capital Brussels to protest against mass layoffs and the…

NEW DELHI: The Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO), the state-run pension fund manager and popular savings scheme for millions of middle-class salaried Indians, decided on Saturday a 8.1% interest on provident fund deposits for…

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Intense fighting around the nuclear power plantUS says assault on factory could be catastrophicLviv prepares for child lossesNATO says 'no' to no-fly zonesLVIV, Ukraine/KYIV, March 4 (Reuters) - Russian forces in Ukraine seized Europe's…

Despite an overall decline in cases, the UK is still recording hundreds of thousands of COVID infections per week. In the seven days since February 24, when all COVID restrictions ended in England, 231,973 cases have been recorded and 741…

The online hacking activist, or "hacktivist," group Anonymous, whose adherents often disguise their identities with Guy Fawkes masks, claims responsibility for disruptions to Russian and Belarusian-backed websites.Anadolu Agency | Anadolu…

Many of Colorado's homeless are military veterans. This image taken by Annabel Attridge shows a weary Ethen, who was pictured in Denver in 2021 and said: 'The army promised me a way out of poverty instead they left me worse than me. But…

'CYRANO DE BERGERAC' There is no shortage of variations on Edmond Rostand's 19th century play "Cyrano de Bergerac", in which the brilliant but big-nosed Cyrano writes beautiful love poems that his handsome but - let's say less brilliant -…

Spain's far-right Vox party is set to enter the regional government of Castilla y León after winning its best result in regional elections on February 13. The ruling right-wing People's Party (PP) increased its total number of seats by two…

Over the past fortnight, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) has campaigned at a number of orientation events where it has student clubs, including Macquarie University in Sydney , Newcastle University in the…

Edward F. Palm In 2012, The New York Times reported that racially segregated communities were all but a thing of the past in America. February being Black History…

Canadians are like hobbits. We go quietly and kindly about our business. But we can also rise up with surprising courage and determination against our administrative overlords and suddenly throw them off a political cliff when…

In the turbulent 1960s, American journalist Hunter S. Thompson spent nearly a year following the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle gang. His most striking conclusion was not their violent hedonism but their "total retaliatory ethic" against a…

Tens of thousands of nurses across New South Wales (NSW), Australia's most populous state, walked off the job today in their first statewide strike since 2013. Nurses demand staff increases to address decades-long shortages, an end to a…

EZ Pass billing issues continue to plague Maryland drivers, many of whom have called and emailed the I-11 News team for assistance. The state attributes the big bills to the delay in toll collection due to the…

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If you've ever driven Highway 51 through Minocqua, it's hard to miss the giant sign with a flannel-clad lumberjack and blue ox next to his namesake restaurant. Paul Bunyan dominates the woods of the Upper Midwest. Supposedly a giant man…

Detroit's best-known playwright scores again on Broadway. Three years after critical acclaim for a Temptations musical titled "Ain't Too Proud to Beg," Dominique Morisseau is getting strong reviews for "Skeleton…

There is a heartbreaking Iranian drama called A hero Currently playing on Amazon, and it's getting a lot of attention. It's sure to be nominated for plenty of awards, including the Oscar for Best International Feature Film, not just on its…

South Africans are once again having to endure an unreliable…

QUITO, Feb 1 (Reuters) - The death toll from a landslide in the Ecuadorian capital, Quito, rose to at least 22 on Tuesday, with 47 injured so far, Mayor Santiago Guarderas said , as fire crews continue to search homes and mud-covered…

In the first episode of 1883, the ancestors of the Dutton family are shown. James Dutton arrives in Fort Worth, TX, followed shortly by his wife, daughter, son, sister and niece. Elsa reveals that she and her family are from…

- Messenger photo by Chad Thompson MidAmerican Energy Co. recommends setting your thermostat to 68 and lowering it when you plan to leave the house. With rising heating bills, customers are looking for ways to heat their homes more…

VMARKED IDEAS #moneytok had 10.6 billion views on TikTok, more than #tacotuesday, #gossip and #cookingtiktok. Creators can use the tag to flag their posts as part of a genre on the short-form video platform that offers financial advice.…

In his last official speech as governor, Charlie Baker, sometimes the only effective Republican voice in Beacon Hill, came as close to his party's conservative principles as he has in the past seven years, calling for tax relief for…

Irish gypsies and Travelers are the "unappreciated" people in the UK, with almost half of people feeling "negative" towards them, according to a new report.Statistics revealed by the University of Birmingham also revealed that…

Zeke Miller and Alexandra Jaffe ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden began his second year in office Thursday with a new focus on making weary Americans believe they are better off under his leadership…

“Having a blatantly false conversation and narrative is offensive, not just to me or South Americans, but to millions of Americans who fought, bled and died for the right to vote,” Mr. .Scott.This brought a pointed response from Mr. Booker.…

Since October, Oakland's Independent Redistricting Commission has held more than two dozen meetings to discuss the pros and cons of various potential changes to the city's district boundaries, which determine city council and school board…

Conservative estimates suggest that inequality contributes to the deaths of at least 21,000 people every day. The impact of COVID-19 has been much worse for low-income people. A one-time 99% tax on the…

Abdullah Hammoud will be officially sworn in as mayor of Dearborn on Saturday, the first Arab-American and first Muslim mayor in the American city with the highest concentration of Arabs. The mayor and members of the Dearborn City Council…

This article was written for an international year-end collection and published in French and Spanish translations on lapluma.net and tlaxcala-int.blogspot.com. Times Square, New York, 22 December 2021. WW Photo: Tony Murphy Workers at…

KAPALUA, Hawaii - Cameron Smith is a champion golf needs. RELATED: Full ranking | Winner's bag: Cameron Smith, Sentry Tournament of Champions Do not mistake yourself. There is no shortage of great players and personalities on the…

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Marianne Williamson approves Imani Oakley for Congress Montclair, NJ - Former Progressive presidential candidate Marianne Williamson supported Imani Oakley's campaign for New Jersey's 10th District. “I am…

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BRENTWOOD, Pa. (KDKA) - A fourth candidate has entered the race to succeed U.S. Representative Mike Doyle, who will retire at the end of 2022.Democrat Stephanie Fox brings a unique perspective to this congressional race.READ MORE: New…

Bowling Green native William Compton has announced his candidacy for the position of United States Representative for Kentucky's 2nd Congressional District, the seat currently held by Brett Guthrie. (Editor's Note: Daviess County is…

Evolution of rents in the Inland Empire, click to enlarge The Inland Empire multi-family market is booming. Rents averaged $ 1,993 in October, an increase of 1.9% over the past three months (Q3). The year-over-year metro rent gains of…

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William Holman Hunt This painting by British artist William Holman Hunt depicts Jesus Christ as a young carpenter in his father's workshop, stretching and giving thanks to…

Not a day goes by without hearing some head talk deploring the state of political polarization. Standard proclamations include "America is a country divided!" And "We haven't been so polarized since the Civil War!" But believe it from a…