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When movements are eating each other alive, the fascists win.  Let’s avoid that fate

White supremacy, racism & the rest of America subsidizing Red states weren’t just realities in 1787: they’re alive and well today & Hawley and his white supremacist buddies want to keep it that way

From Canada to Colombia, protests erupt against legacies of violence, exploitation and cultural erasure

When it comes to public health and infectious disease, even small cracks can produce system-wide damage

Rather than force hospitals to be up front with patients about their costs, we should strip them of the power to set them

Dozens of janitors employed by 13 downtown Milwaukee buildings rallied outside the Service Employees International Union Local 1 offices July 21 to call for a $15-an-hour minimum wage

A Review of Why the New Deal Matters, by Eric Rauchway

Only Private Prison Corporations Profit

“How can we have someone who is the party chair and says that she’s a Democrat’s Democrat but is accepting Republican money?”

Vaccine Mismanagement Will Have Dire Repercussions

“We’re done waiting,” she said. “We’re done having to take a back seat. We’re done playing nice.”

Is This Country Heading for the Exit?

Big Tech companies continually put profits and growth over the safety of their users. We cannot wait for more people to die before we take action

“We had no concept of what the devil was until Barrick Gold came to our lands”

The Movement Standing Up to Biden’s Maximum Pressure Campaign

This is not just about driving the organising programme, it is also about building a union that can defend jobs and deliver better pay and conditions

Once again it is Black women artists and movement leaders who are pushing forward, taking us in new directions

In a survey of tech industry workers, about 50% of respondents said they are very or somewhat interested in joining a union in their workplace, and more than 60% of millennials said they were interested.

A former minister of Hugo Chávez talks about the government’s new economic strategy

After recent protests, Cuba needs political solutions that resist all forms of co-optation

How communities develop infrastructure, social and economic systems, planning and preparedness can make them more resilient – or more vulnerable – to extreme events

Unfortunately, that’s not a metaphor

Are radical worker struggles, which waned as a result of protracted government efforts to infiltrate and co-opt organized labor, making a comeback in East Africa?

The notion of cooperating with Republican leaders like Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. Kevin McCarthy was always a fool’s errand

Biden pointed out that workers have shouldered disproportionate blame for businesses not being able to find workers

The anti-vaccine movement has taken full advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to sow doubt and regurgitate false or misleading information

“Every American deserves and should be able to rely on a baseline level of voting access… Only passage of both the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act can make this aspiration a reality.”

Though little known, the Korean Armistice Agreement and the war it holds in abeyance are a “still-present-past.” Their grip on contemporary U.S. Korea policy remains virtually uncontested

The Tokyo Games should be a warning to potential Olympic hosts everywhere. The 2020 Olympics are unfolding like the nightmare scenario so many medical officials predicted

Amid a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” more than 40% of the nation’s nursing home and long-term health care workers have yet to receive vaccinations

Nearly 100 women from around the US were arrested outside the Supreme Court as they marked the 173rd anniversary of the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls with a protest calling for voting rights and economic justice

The working people of America, outnumber the corporate executives and big investors by a wide margin. Together, you can change the rules, and build a world where workers have real power

Americans should realize how close Washington, D.C. came to looking like today’s Tunis

Resisting the Pandemic and Criminalization

With prosecutors seeking a maximum sentence, Hale delivered a powerful handwritten letter describing his motivations to the court

We are committed to work with all progressive forces and all people of good faith to build solidarity in this crisis via unity in action

Interview on organizing for expansive voting rights legislation, the importance of grassroots organizing at the state level, and the urgent need for federal action on voting rights

The reality is that the only way to improve land health, soil regeneration, and even livestock weight gain is to significantly reduce the overall intensity of livestock grazing on the land

A union set to be wiped out by layoffs says politicians are missing in action

Water that should be crystal clear has become a green-brown slop of microscopic algae because of industrial farm waste

“So may his light continue to guide us as we face another wave of Jim Crow laws. His example is more important now than ever…Rest in power Bob.”

“No investment in the fight against Covid-19 is more urgent and cost-effective now than an investment in getting the world vaccinated as quickly as possible.”

It’s become fashionable to suggest climate activists are too hard on Joe Biden. Being hard on Joe Biden is what got climate spending into the infrastructure package

The chilling effect of the pharmaceutical industry’s veiled threats

Nearly 600 water protectors have been arrested during ongoing protests in Minnesota against the construction of the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline at the Shell River

Biden should reverse Trump’s sanctions and call an end to 60 years of brutal economic warfare

It is strange that the Modi government, which denies targeting the individuals named, does not feel impelled to find out who it is that may be attacking democratic opinion critical of the establishment

Why is the U.S. an outlier with regard to health care? What keeps the country from adopting a universal health care system, which most Americans have supported for many years now?

The only way to deal with parasites is to remove them from their host. It’s time to expand Medicare to all Americans so we can dislodge these healthcare parasites from our body politic

In Buffalo, socialist India Walton scored a landmark win against a four-term incumbent mayor. In nearby Rochester, shakeups on the city council and county legislature could chart a new course for local politics