On US Labor Day, millions of workers gifted jobless aid cuts and more hardships
Though the number of new claims for unemployment assistance and the unemployment rate has decreased, the numbers are still much higher than pre-pandemic levels
No polls in war-hit Tigray as Ethiopia holds parliamentary elections & other stories
Today’s episode looks at parliamentary elections in Ethiopia, protests in Palestine and cuts to unemployment benefits in the US
Workers suffer as US pandemic relief bill goes nowhere in Congress
As the COVID-19 pandemic spirals out of control in the United States, inaction and deadlock in the government have left workers to fend for themselves amid mounting unemployment.
This holiday season, hunger and poverty stalk the US
It’s holiday season in the United States but the country faces an unprecedented crisis as poverty and hunger are soaring and millions face the risk of evictions
The US elections: What lies ahead?
Claudia de La Cruz of The People’s Forum and The Popular Education Project talks about the broken US political system, the implications of the support for Trump and the path ahead for people’s movements
- Turkish trade unions demand release of arrested unionists and journalists
- Bolsonaro was “fully aware” and engaged in a coup plot, report reveals
- Honduran court confirms the sentences of Berta Cáceres’ murderers
- US social programs under threat with Trump’s promised government cuts
- Gunman killed, Jordanian policemen injured in a shooting near the Israeli Embassy in Amman
