Last weekend was the Kentucky Derby, a nearly 150-year-old horse race, attended by spectators with elaborate hats sipping mint-julep cocktails. This year, while the fancy crowd dressed up and relaxed, the horses who actually ran the race were dying – literally –...
In 1920, British dockworkers in East London carried out a little-known strike. It was not simply a strike for higher wages or better conditions. British workers struck to stop the British government’s attempt to militarily crush the Russian Revolution – the first...
Rail workers organized in the Railway and Transport Union (EVG) in Germany have engaged in two short “warning strikes,” on March 27th and April 21st, in an effort to win their demand for a 12% wage increase phased in over the course of a year and meant to counteract...
On April 18th, Chile’s president, Gabriel Boric, announced his government’s plans to nationalize the country’s lithium mineral reserves. This mineral has enormous importance in the production of electric car batteries, a massive and growing industry in the world....
Last Friday, in yet another horrifying case of armed violence, a man shot and killed five people in a suburb of Houston, Texas. The incident began after Francisco Oropesa had been shooting his gun in his yard. The noise woke up a six-week-old baby next door...
