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Russiagate was a hoax w/Matt Taibbi | The Chris Hedges Report
Journalist Matt Taibbi has revealed that the source of many of the claims of ongoing Russian disinformation during the Trump presidency, Hamilton 68, was itself a disinformation operation concocted by former US intelligence officials. Matt…
French national strikes against pension reforms continue despite police repression
On January 31st, France saw widespread strikes as workers across the country took to the streets to protest against the government’s proposed pension reforms. Producer: T. Kelly Videographer: Timothée Zourabichvili Video editors: Timothée Zourabichvili &…
Tory austerity, Ukraine War inflation behind UK postal workers’ strike
Massive mobilizations and strikes have been witnessed in the UK over the last couple of months against the Tory government for failing to tackle the ongoing cost of living crisis. Postal workers, railway workers, public…
Inside Vio.Me, Greece’s factory run by workers with no boss
TRNN goes inside the Vio.Me factory in Thessaloniki, Greece, which is the country’s only worker-managed factory that doesn’t have any bosses. This video is part of a special ‘Workers of the World’ series on the…
Life inside an MST landless workers’ settlement in Brazil
For nearly 40 years, Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) has been fighting the concentration of landownership among the country’s elite through the direct occupation and settlement of fallow lands. TRNN contributor Michael Fox reports from…
Workers at Amazon, Starbucks, Home Depot, etc. share strategies for unionizing your workplace
We hosted another Working People live show on Feb. 22 in New York City, in collaboration with the Action Builder / Action Network team and The People’s Forum. In this panel discussion, introduced by Amazon…
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Workers Strike Back coalition for a $25 min wage & more w/Kshama Sawant | The Chris Hedges Report
After over a decade on Seattle City Council, socialist Kshama Sawant is launching a national coalition called Workers Strike Back to fight for wages, universal healthcare, LGBTQ rights, a clean energy transition, and more. Kshama…
The federal govt wants to steal from prisoners’ families | Rattling the Bars
Incarcerated people across the US could find their commissary funds depleted by a new proposed policy from the Bureau of Prisons to automatically deduct three quarters of all funds prisoners receive from loved ones on…
‘We must make Macron back down’: French workers launch indefinite strike against pension reforms
After weeks of targeted strikes, French President Emmanuel Macron refuses to change course on his plans to reform the country’s beloved pension system. Last week, unions across France upped the ante and launched an indefinite…
A deeply personal struggle for Black liberation | The Marc Steiner Show
Marc Steiner interviews Dan Berger, author of ‘Stayed on Freedom: the Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey’, along with Dr. Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons whose stories are featured in the book….
Inside the UK’s first Amazon strike
Amazon’s business, and Jeff Bezos’s wealth, expanded at a dizzying pace over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic; meanwhile, Amazon workers continue to burn out from the relentless pace of work and are struggling to…
College used to be affordable. What happened? w/Ellen Schrecker | The Chris Hedges Report
The 1960s were a decade of intellectual and political ferment on college campuses. Anti-war, feminist, and racial justice movements all found a foothold in higher education, with student activists often playing a pivotal role in…
Türkiye cracks down on May Day workers’ protests ahead of election
For years, the working class of Türkiye has been caught in the vice-grip of a global economic downturn and a government hostile to their interests. Now, with presidential elections coming up on May 14, speculation…
Texas is the future neofascists want | The Marc Steiner Show
Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/for-a-glimpse-of-americas-future-look-at-texas Attacks on LGBTQ rights, abortion access, and movements for racial justice aren’t exclusive to any one state in the union. But Texas is certainly a place where state…
To Say Their Own Word: Eddie Conway’s prison organizing | Rattling the Bars
Even though he was framed for the killing of a local police officer, sentenced without a fair trial, and imprisoned for 44 years, former Black Panther and dearly departed TRNN Executive Producer Marshall “Eddie†Conway…
COVID-19 isn’t ‘over’—but your Medicaid might be | The Chris Hedges Report w/ Dr. Margaret Flowers
The Biden administration is poised to allow the national emergency on COVID-19 to expire on May 11, 2023. Once that occurs, between 5 to 14 million Americans previously covered under Medicaid will lose their insurance….
Kayla Denker speaks out against death threats, transphobic backlash
Kayla Denker is a military veteran and a trained archaeologist who has worked in the private sector and for the US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. She is also a trans woman…
UMich docks pay, calls cops on striking grad students | Working People
Graduate student-workers at the University of Michigan are still on strike after hitting the picket line for the second time in three years at the end of March. In the time between the Fall 2020…
Haiti’s Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier: Gang leader or revolutionary? | The Chris Hedges Report
Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/a-new-documentary-offers-a-different-look-at-haitis-jimmy-barbecue-cherizier Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier has been placed in the international spotlight as an emblem of Haiti’s purported “gang problem.” But who is Chérizier really? A new documentary series, Another…
350,000 Teamsters are about to take on UPS
Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/350000-teamsters-are-about-to-take-on-ups Under the new leadership team led by General President Sean M. O’Brien, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are re-introducing themselves to the bosses and to the world as…
Making a Killing: Anatomy of the Cincinnati Rebellion of 2001 w/Robin D.G. Kelley
In a special ‘George Floyd Memorial Lecture’ hosted by the University of Houston, historian Robin D.G. Kelley draws links between the 2020 uprisings and the 2001 rebellion in Cincinnati against the police killing of Timothy…
Cops raided his house without a warrant, how they justified it is scary
The chilling raid of an early-onset dementia patient’s home in Erie, PA by multiple law enforcement agencies evokes a larger pattern of police abuse against disabled people. Please join journalists Taya Graham and Stephen Janis…
Women strike in Barcelona for fair pay, migrant justice, and more
The degradation of women’s labor and social standing is a global feature of capitalism. In Barcelona, Catalonia, 60,000 women took to the streets for a one-day general strike called by Spanish union CGT on International…
Neoliberalism’s anti-democratic stealth revolution w/Wendy Brown
Half a century of neoliberalism has transformed the politics of the globe. The supremacy of free market ideology has stripped away the commons and reduced most states to their purely military and repressive functions. In…
Cops demanded his ID, this is how it escalated when he refused | Policy Accountability Report
When a local police officer approached Paul Brophy of Weymouth, Massachusetts, and demanded to see his identification, Brophy attempted to invoke his constitutional rights. The officer then escalated the situation to an arrest, claiming Brophy…
Mexico’s epidemic of murdered journalists w/Katherine Corcoran | The Chris Hedges Report
More than 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000. The case of Regina Martinez, an investigative journalist assassinated in her home in the state of Veracruz in 2012, is emblematic of this war…