Full Tanks Put Squeeze on the Working Class
Check out these moving portraits of people who can no longer visit family or friends, who can no longer take their children to the movies, even--all because of the stratospheric gas prices.TRUTHDIG’S JOURNALISM REMAINS CLEAR
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Americans across the spectrum voted to raise wages, expand health care, and protect abortion rights.
For service workers, there’s no such thing as paid sick leave or working from home, two measures that could slow the spread of the disease.
Our oligarchic rulers are determined to ban all discussion of class warfare, which is why they are trying to block the nomination of Sanders.
Class- and race-conscious and uncomfortably relevant, the politically charged horror franchise doesn’t just amount to a big-screen nightmare.
The teacher strikes, rallies and walkouts in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky and elsewhere are a stunning reminder that socioeconomic class has always mattered in our public and private lives.
Our society descended from colonial Virginia's sinister caste system, in which race, class, labor and slavery were inextricably linked.
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