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The transformation of society in months has been done before

Abortion activism networks support and guide women through at-home procedures in Brazil’s legally restrictive and socially conservative landscape

A review of Michael Albert’s No Bosses

Under-resourced and overlooked, the South is tired of waiting for organized labor

U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu’s proposed $60 million federal investment in “cultural infrastructure” would lead to the re-hiring of writers, editors, fact-checkers, publishing assistants, librarians, and historians who lost work and income due to the pandemic

A total of nine comrades have now been arrested on trumped up charges in the latest wave of repression against the eKhenena Commune

Sinema reads as a cautionary tale of what happens when political ambition becomes a be-all and end-all

The cold war in the Taiwan Strait threatens to turn hot

The search for the new era in Chile has two important avenues: the writing of the new constitution, which is what the 155 members of the Constitutional Convention are doing, and the presidential election to be held on November 21, 2021

Let’s Restore the Legal Right to Strike

Buffalo’s transformation is the fruit of years of struggle

This was an open-and-shut case, and it started leaking to community leaders and independent journalists that the police claim about McDonald having lunged at police was totally false.

“It is painfully clear that the developing world cannot rely on the largesse and charity of rich nations and pharmaceutical companies, and hundreds of thousands of people are dying from Covid-19 as a result.”

UN Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan reiterated her call for sanctions relief, stating they undermine Venezuelans’ human rights

Missionary Abductions Shed Light on Growing Crisis

The Biden Administration is intertwined with Wall Street but must deliver some election promises to workers

The findings challenge “the media-driven narrative… that white low-income voters are the de facto base of the Republican Party.”

War in the Middle East since 1990 has cost the US roughly $7 trillion. Yet the United States evidently can’t afford a $3.5 trillion bill for the well-being of all its citizens—a real national security bill

It is time to take action against corporate methods of agriculture which poison the food our families eat

The AUKUS Alliance Takes the World to the Brink

South Korean workers have thrown down the gauntlet, and we should all pay close attention

It is not accidental that the attack on Jefferson, the figure most closely associated with equality in American history, comes in the midst of a pandemic that has killed 750,000 Americans

NYC Taxi Drivers Launch Hunger Strike to Demand Relief from Medallion Debt

Warren Leads Bill to ‘Stop Wall Street Looting’

“Workers must be allowed to keep their healthcare during the strike”,

The Industrial Workers of the World — the shock troops of the early-20th-century labor movement — virtually invented the protest song for the modern age

Burnout, especially in these times, seems to have become extremely common

A planet-wide general strike is our way – our only way –  of collectively stopping the capitalist death machine from within

“The dire consequences of climate change we are now experiencing could have been avoided if Total executives 50 years ago had decided that the future of the planet is more important than their profits.”

Microwork sites are modern-day digital sweatshops reintroducing piece rate that regularly steal wages while employers remain hidden behind opaque interfaces

Now that rightwing media has arguably caused more Americans to die than has tobacco, it’s time to consider a strategy like we used with cigarettes to balance their deadly lies and misinformation

For months, Bernie Sanders has been making a case for the multitrillion-dollar reform bill he’s spearheaded in the Senate. Now, he’s taken that case to Joe Manchin’s home turf in West Virginia

Workers at Kellogg’s are proud to feed the country with the cereal they make, but they say that the company’s exploitative two-tier employment system keeps many of their coworkers from earning a fair wage

For some unmentionable reason, all rationality and political or cultural empathy disappears when the subject of Kashmir comes up

With two weeks to go to the Nov. 2 elections, Walton remains strong

The need for critical media literacy and mass organizing has never been more urgent

“Passing a poorly designed paid leave proposal is a dangerous political game for Democrats”

The World Wide Web celebrates its 30th birthday this year. Its users are less empowered than ever

In country after country around the world, people are rising up to challenge entrenched, failing neoliberal political and economic systems, with mixed but sometimes promising results

Simply teaching kids about the science of the climate crisis isn’t enough. To prevent feelings of disempowerment, they need to see how they can make a meaningful impact

The Biden administration and other governments may make climate pledges. But often it’s indigenous-led movements who will see that they’re kept

On the Nobel Prize in Literature and Its Discontents

“Why are some human beings more deserving of rights than other human beings?”

Black students only make up 33 percent of the student population — but the report found they accounted for 52 percent of all disciplinary actions taken by school administrators in the county

FEMA plans to spend $9.4 billion on fossil fuel infrastructure instead

There has been almost no “meaningful dissent among Democrats” in Congress about “the need to make sure that we don’t let this beast run out of control.”

“Who besides a cartoon villain would ever think this is a good idea?”

Another Marker of a Wider Problem

For the time being and the foreseeable future, Manchin and his corporate sponsors hold the top cards. Unless something spectacular happens, there are no good ways out of this. The Joker was right: Everything burns

If you want more strikes, make more union members