A look at Tangled Up in Blue: Policing The American City (Penguin Press), by Rosa Brooks

“There’s more work to do to ensure other proposed fracked gas export terminals… are never built, but today we celebrate this important victory for our people and our environment.”

Trump didn’t win the working class, the Democrats lost it; it’s urgent that progressive organizing focus on the working class and unions – human civilization depends on it

A New Cold War = A Scalding Planet

We praise the hopes and struggles of the people, whose desire to advance history will cut through your repression

Dr. Michael Osterholm is warning that a “Category 5 COVID-hurricane” is on the horizon, with the B117/UK Variant posing the greatest threat

Slashing emissions at home is only part of the challenge—the United States must also help other countries go green

These are some of the bold and brave women who have taken to the streets to protest against the military coup and demand a return to democracy

Presidential elections, a constitutional reform process and rising social tensions: 2021 is shaping up to be a critical year that will define Chile’s future

Only 17% of Europeans want closer economic ties with the United States, while even fewer, 10% of French and Germans, think their countries need America’s help with their national defense.
 

The undemocratic appointment of a party loyalist as rector at a prominent university in Turkey is fiercely resisted by its student body and faculty

Raising the minimum wage can and should be one basis for a mutually beneficial alliance between wage workers and small businesses

rare contested race for president of the IAFF has given its members a clear choice between a union traditionalist from Boston and a progressive activist who backed massive labor protests against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker a decade ago

Universality strengthens support for maintaining a program into the future, rather than opening up the means to chip away at it until it’s gone

An interview with Andrés Arauz on his surprising journey to the verge of state power

Faced with an epidemic of femicides and government inaction, Mexican feminists are turning to increasingly radical tactics in their collective quest for justice

There is need to invest in different structures, organizing alongside or outside of the traditional unions, base-building and nonprofit organizations for multi-year struggles, especially worker organizing and scaled disruptive direct action

“The Green New Deal is a plan that could solve so many of Texas’s problems and the problems across the country, and Republicans have absolutely nothing to offer except for more deregulation, more privatization, more austerity.”

Working-class libertarian socialist who took direct action against the ‘warfare state’

The Texas debacle is a preview of what is to come if the free-marketeers have their way while the climate changes