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Michael Laxer
Jan 275 min read
President Trump’s first 24 hours
On day one of this presidency, Trump signed a flurry of executive orders. What are they, do they have staying power, and what do they...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 274 min read
Thousands take to the streets across the US to mark “counter-inauguration” on first day of Trump presidency
Mobilizations took place in over 80 cities on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to honor MLK’s legacy of struggle and mount movement against...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 203 min read
As oligarchs party at Trump inauguration, billionaire wealth grew by $5.7 billion a day in 2024
It is only going to get worse. Billionaire row at the Trump inauguration. As Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 7, 20248 min read
Capitalism’s Unequal Distribution Deprives You of True Freedom
By Richard D. Wolff As the French economist Thomas Piketty most recently exposed, capitalism, across time and space, has always tended to...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 22, 20233 min read
'Get Unionized or Get Out!': Scandinavian Labor Elevates Fight With Tesla's Elon Musk
"The mistake Tesla made was challenging the collective agreements that set sector-specific minimum wages in Sweden, a country where 70%...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 20, 20235 min read
Elon Musk’s Swedish Problem: Has the Anti-Union Billionaire Finally Met his Match?
For the first time in his life, the man who opposes any "lords and peasants sort of thing" may be learning a lesson in labor solidarity....
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Michael Laxer
Dec 6, 20233 min read
Danish Dockworkers Dial Up Pro-Union Pressure on Tesla With Solidarity Strike
"We have some labor market agreements in the Nordic region, and you have to comply with them if you want to run a business here," said...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 8, 202210 min read
Business freedom convoy delivers regressive politics
By Gabriel Haythornthwaite Less than two weeks after the cross-country “freedom convoy” took up a crusade to end government COVID...
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