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The Supreme Court decision further undermined the Voting Rights Act, enabling a Republican gerrymander in Louisiana to eliminate the seat held by a black Democratic congressman.
Rescue operations were hampered by the fact that blueprints of the mine provided by the company did not correspond to the actual underground layout, forcing rescuers to improvise.
The announcement Saturday by the Trump administration that it had “largely” reached an agreement with Iran has drawn denunciations from broad factions of the US political establishment, with Democrats joining Republicans to attack the proposed agreement as insufficiently advantageous to US imperialism.
The drive to abolish online anonymity is the digital dimension of a broader turn toward authoritarianism, austerity and imperialist war.
Demonstrating the bankruptcy of the union’s strategy, the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) suspended its strike as workers faced being locked out for the summer term and beyond.
Despite ratification, issues concerning poverty wages, housing assistance, healthcare premiums, parking costs and staffing protections will remain unaddressed and will continue to worsen until the contract’s expiration in 2029.
The World Socialist Web Site calls on Nexteer workers to vote down this third sellout with the contempt it deserves and build the Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee as the instrument for carrying forward the fight, constructing a new leadership drawn from workers rather than bureaucrats.
The IG Metall apparatus and its works council representatives have made it their main task to ensure that all the company’s attacks are enforced and the workforce is squeezed to the last drop to increase Bosch's profit margin.
Democrats from LA City Hall to Sacramento colluded with union bureaucrats to strangle a 77,000-strong strike—then imposed more cuts.
Districts face budget deficits amid declining enrollment, budget crises, inflation and war.
The veto of these two bills confirms—for the thousandth and first time—this fundamental reality of American politics: the Democratic party is a capitalist party charged with diffusing and disorienting popular hostility to the profit system.
New USCIS policy threatens to separate families and strand workers, students and spouses abroad.
The three cases, unfolding within 24 hours, share a disturbing set of commonalities: fundamentally unfair sentencing proceedings, defendants whose severe mental illness, unaddressed childhood trauma and neurological damage went largely unaddressed at trial, and execution protocols the subject of legal challenge.
Decades of regulatory negligence in the Democratic Party-dominated state turned a preventable chemical hazard into a crisis threatening thousands of lives.
Larry Bushart was awarded $835,000 after being jailed for sharing a Facebook meme critical of Charlie Kirk. His case exposes the severe limitations being placed on “free speech” in America.
The political crisis in Turkey escalated further on Sunday when police raided the CHP headquarters.
Part one of a four-part series examining the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, this article exposes the party’s defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Revolution and its opposition to Trotskyism.
Ahead of the release of the budget on Thursday, the government has announced an increase to student fees, nearly 9,000 public sector redundancies and cuts to welfare payments.
These results provide an indication of the worsening price being paid by working-class households, and especially young people, for the criminal US-Israeli war on Iran.
The city and county governments in West Lafayette, Indiana have approved road construction projects and issued building permits for SK Hynix to proceed with plans to build a massive microchip factory on a Purdue University site, against ongoing community opposition including a pending lawsuit filed by residents.
Just five major tech stocks have accounted for 50 percent of the recent gains in the S&P 500 index which have lifted it to record highs.
US convicts four in embassy bombings; Syria intervenes in Lebanon civil war; Britain opposes Iran oil nationalization; Ukrainian rightist assassinated in Paris.
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Gerrymandering in the South: The working class and the defense of democratic rights
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