Democrats Are Going to War to Stop Them

Despite provincial labor laws preventing unions from striking over political issues, 11 locals representing 7,500 workers formally voted to go on strike for a day

Chile’s new generations have become politicized in fragmented protests, marked by cathartic moments of social explosion and the collapse of some pillars that were supposed to be unmovable. The protests sparked by metro fare hikes are the latest chapter exploring the limits of what’s possible.

A fast-growing movement led by people with Type 1 diabetes is calling for bold solutions to the exorbitant cost of insulin — and they’re having an impact

Here’s an idea for media outlets and NGOs concerned about the appeal of Russian public relations efforts: start doing your jobs by holding your own authoritarian politicians and politicized police forces to account

They have no leadership, no recognisable faces of integrity. And – the greatest tragedy of all – they don’t seem to be interested in finding any

The 1.5 million Lebanese Sunnis, Shias and Christians who have for weeks been walking side by side, holding hands and raging against the system are not merely protesting. They’re building a society that works for them

Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal arrested months after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence

Interview on what the Working Families Party will being doing between now and election day, and the path toward structural change

The Republican “insurgency,” has gone far off the traditional rails under Trump, undermining democracy and posing an extraordinary threat to the persistence of organized human life on earth

The presidential election in Argentina pitted the people against neoliberalism and the people won. What happens next will have a tremendous impact all over Latin America and serve as a blueprint for assorted Global South struggles

Interview on Turkey’s attack, Rojava’s direct democracy, and the international reaction

The party’s plan for tackling the climate crisis is unmatched in its scale and ambition. But there is no room for complacency

Interview on a variety of topics

Transitioning utilities to public ownership could help lay the groundwork for a renewable, just future

What those in the targeted “movement” say they are seeking is simply an end to police violence, as well as greater justice and government accountability

Interview on the protests in Chile

In my last couple years of university teaching before retiring, I repeated two catch phrases as often as possible—“reasonable people can disagree” and “if two things are both true, then both are relevant.”

Right now there is a movement of workers across the country who are taking back their power at a scale we have not seen in recent memory”

Young activists are leading global struggles over climate change and civil rights. There’s no reason why they shouldn’t have a say in who runs their government