For now, it remains a blessing to work alongside people awake together, even in darkness, working to face burdens with kindness, ready to join with kindred spirits near and far, faces aglow with precious glimmers of a coming day

Pope Francis, from the outset of his Pontificate, has pleasantly surprised militants of people’s movements around the world, in contrast with his two predecessors

Race is a social fiction imposed by the powerful on those they wish to control

On 16 June, Kurdish militiamen, with the support of US airstrikes, captured the town of Tal Abyad in northern Syria, a major crossing point on the Syrian-Turkish border

If Kagame can’t shake off the stench of crimes against humanity, he may find himself becoming another one of the West’s dispensable dictators

The time has not been more ripe for a Marxist regroupment here and globally for at least a quarter century

The latest chapter in the superpower collision is Washington’s strategy of holding low altitude aircraft passes on spots in the South China Sea where China is building military structures over reclaimed land

Whatever the future holds for the Confederate flag, perhaps the US public might also want take a moment to ponder its culture of worshiping that good ol’ Stars and Stripes

As slavery funded and built America, the underlying principle was the devaluation, exploitation, and oppression of Black life

How can we change society so as to run it ourselves, horizontally, based in assemblies using forms of direct democracy?

WISC is an online school for developing and sharing ideas, skills, vision, and strategy within and across progressive constituencies

Isn’t our task not to castigate those who are stepping up to work on the campaign and who don’t have exact norms we might prefer, but to instead be happy about their energy and desire and contribute however we can on behalf of those preferred norms?

Today’s papal encyclical, “Praised Be”, may be the most important religious teaching to be released in decades

Almost every nation around the world is militarizing at a rapid pace, pouring vast sums of money into military training, technologies and weapons

The unprecedented scale of global migration and migrant deaths are deliberate, not coincidental

Global elites have appropriated feminist language to justify brutal exploitation and neoliberal development

As far as the white supremacists are concerned, those murdered in Charleston are not worshiping the same Creator of All Things as are the white supremacists

The flag that Dylann Roof embraced, which many South Carolinians embrace, endorses the violence he committed.

Denmark Vesey is one of the most prominent names in America’s long history of racial terror

Upward gazing can be politically blinding