20+ hour, 18+ min ago  (605+ words) The uproar over the abrupt dismissal of Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) music director Andris Nelsons early last month shows few signs of subsiding. This episode, the subject of big media attention in Boston and among music lovers elsewhere, raises fundamental…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (628+ words) The Teamsters and global logistics giant DHL announced a tentative agreement Monday, blocking a strike of 6,000 workers across 16 states. Workers had voted earlier in March to authorize strike action by 96 percent if they did not get a new deal before…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (910+ words) General Motors has again idled its flagship electric vehicle plant in Detroit, temporarily laying off the 1,300 workers on the last shift left running at the factory. Factory Zero stopped production on March 16 and is not expected to restart until April…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1142+ words) Emily Bront's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights is an astonishing work of art. Its wild intensity has attracted many filmmakers, with adaptations by directors as varied as William Wyler, Jacques Rivette and Luis Bu'uel. It deals with two landowning families on the…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (437+ words) About 150 workers at an auto parts plant in Findlay, Ohio launched a strike on March 24 for better wages and health benefits. Neither the UAW nor the company has made public statements about the content of the contract negotiations. Workers say…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (1041+ words) To understand Paoli's significance requires more than considering his catalog of achievements. His long career reflects the emergence of the cantautore (singer-songwriter), the growing integration of music into commercial mass culture and the political limits of a generation shaped by…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (673+ words) Build a rank-and-file committee to expand the strike! For more information, fill out the form below. The strike by 3,800 JBS meatpackers in Greeley, Colorado has now been extended into its third week, a significant development in the growing confrontation between…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago  (482+ words) Bus drivers in Doncaster employed by First South Yorkshire began strike action on March 28, with a further four 24 hour stoppages planned for March 30, April 7, 22, and 24. Drivers rejected almost unanimously a 7 percent pay offer backdated to January. The 230 Unite union members…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1084+ words) An exhibition by Art Against War Club (AAWC) in Bristol, England, has been censored by the Greens-led Bristol City Council (BCC). Just one day after "Anatomy of Solidarity" opened at Bristol's M Shed, artists arrived to find the venue roped…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (792+ words) This is the second of two articles on short films at the recent Berlin International Film Festival. The first part was posted March 20. Excess and decay'a portrait of our times Cosmonauts is Leo "ernic's first animated film since graduation. He…...