As figures from Tucker Carlson to Nigel Farage flirt with neofascist rhetoric and mainstream leaders edge toward authoritarianism through war and repression, the conditions that once nurtured Hitlerism re-emerge — yet anti-war and anti-imperialist sentiments are also burgeoning anew, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Unions and workers get little attention in Democratic debates
Workplace rights were not on the agenda for almost all of the 20 Democratic presidential hopefuls at a debate last month, writes MARK GRUENBERG
TWO days. Four hours of spirited debate. Twenty Democratic presidential hopefuls. Some 41,800 words, give or take a few, according to the debate transcripts.
And what words were uttered few times during the 20 Democrats’ two debates in Miami the last week of June?
The rarely mentioned words included “union,” “worker,” “labour” and “employee.”
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