Interview on the perils of Chicago’s hybrid reopening plan and why “simultaneous instruction” simply doesn’t make sense

Ten years ago, a young street vendor in the town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia sparked a political firestorm that soon engulfed the whole country, before spreading across the entire Arabic-speaking region, in what has been known since 2011 as the ‘Arab Spring’

The unprecedented unity among peasant organizations is not a sudden development. It has been built over several struggles, which have expanded the base of the peasant and snowballed into the massive protests against the new farm laws

With the backroom Brexiteers ousted from Downing Street and Starmer speeding up the purge of the Labour Party, the ruling bloc is back on the offensive.

On the left we therefore shouldn’t passively hope against hope that public officials will serve humane priorities. We should grow our organized, informed, activist power to force the outcomes we desire

From the American Revolution through the Global War on Terror, author Chris Lombardi tells the inspiring stories of people who refused to kill

Just over a year ago, a similar effort was launched in Bolivia, and it actually prevailed. The country’s democratically elected president, Evo Morales, was toppled three weeks after the October 20 vote

If a period of green social democracy emerges in the next five or 10 years, we could see significant progress against global climate change and improvement in the lives of working people, young people and people of color

By paying the rent, the impact you’re having, like it or not, is to undermine the efforts of those who won’t pay, and to undermine the dreams of those who can’t

The Lessons of Two Failed Wars

The global left has suffered an irreparable loss with the passing of Leo Panitch this weekend. He was incredibly warm, inviting, and generous to others. And he remained committed to the end to the cause of socialism and human emancipation

This McConnell $900B proposal is even less a mitigation measure. It’s more a temporary palliative at best, buying 60 days of a partial offset to a coming contraction

“You’re getting a one-time $600 check to survive a pandemic, but hey, at least lobbyists can get their three-martini lunches delivered.”

Sanders took to the floor of the Senate Friday to call for $1,200 emergency checks for every working-class adult and $500 per child

As young people, we will have to live with the effects of inaction from institutions like Princeton for the rest of our lives. And so, we organize

The American people must send a clear message to President-elect Biden that we will not accept torture enablers in his administration

“Rent strikers and people at risk of losing their shelter are doing all they can to stop the violence of evictions and promote a vision of collective and community ownership.”

Notes on the 2020 Election

India’s Hindu fundamentalist government has pushed through a deregulatory agenda for years. Now it has taken on farmers who have nothing left to lose and who are refusing to back down.

Over several days, resistance on several fronts by houseless campers and community members delayed but could not stop this sweep, which activists charge was highly political in nature