Clinton is showing her solidarity with the nemesis of the Sanders campaign — Wall Street

Dozens of undocumented women being held with their children at the Berks County Residential Center in Pennsylvania are on a hunger strike

Interview on ISIS, NATO and Russia

There are no illusions this time, like there were with Obama. So let’s get started building a new anti-war movement, one that is diverse, intergenerational, and closely linked with other key struggles

Ideally “Our Revolution” would emerge from well organized neighborhoods and workplaces proposing wonderful structure and program

For Israel, Palestinian factionalism is a central piece in its strategy to divide and rule. Sadly, many Palestinians are playing along, and by doing so are jeopardizing their own salvation

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Never did we talk about Marxism or socialism nor left or right. We presented ourselves as the Bolivarian movement

Steve Shalom and Michael Albert use a Q/A format to explore current issues of the U.S. election, Sanders, Clinton, Trump, and movements

Beyond the fleeting praise for Bernie, your message to his delegates in Philadelphia wasn’t hard to discern: my corporate centrist way or the highway

The Philippines won a huge legal victory against China on a long-running territorial dispute. But Manila’s alliance with Washington may make it all for nothing

101 days to the election. Let’s defeat Trump, deal a big setback to Trumpism and lay the basis for a people’s movement that cannot be denied going forward.

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Noam Chomsky in conversation with Jonathan Freedland

Wanting opportunities and a chance at a real life, they knew this was just a temporary stopover in their long-term plans

Interview on the Democratic Party

The biographies of icons frequently fall into one of two categories. On the one hand they may be laudatory, in some cases…

Answering Swanson’s case against “lesser evil” voting.

CodePink’s Medea Benjamin disrupted Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention by holding up a banner reading “Build bridges, not…

For many western commentators and politicians it is much easier – let alone safer – to discuss ISIS within impractical contexts, for example, Islam, than to take moral responsibility

Interview on China, Okinawa, and U.S. policy in Asia

From a talk given at the foreign ministry lecture hall in Caracas, Venezuela, July 18, 2016

Revisiting some of the great radical traditions of the 19th and 20th centuries — namely, anarchism and communism

A review of A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State, by Meredith Tax

Does the internet help to form new social associations?

Gates specialises in top-down technicist quick-fixes – ‘silver bullets’ – which often backfire on the economic shooting range of extreme corporate influence and neoliberal policies

Ramstein, Germany, is the hub for America’s global drone war, from North Africa to South Asia

There is an unmistakable sense of being permanently exiled that is shared by many Palestinians, regardless of their political backgrounds

I thank those who took time to reply to the essay I offered, “We Need a United Left.” I hope it is…

What I find missing from Michael Albert’s commentary is an acknowledgement and a validation of the moral outrage felt by many people,…

Lives of innocent people caught up in these brutal wars do not matter provided the safety and property of the people outside, and of the people sent in to quell disorder, are rigorously protected

Hyped emotions, and political opportunism aside, the Israel-Turkey normalization deal, signed on June 27 is unfavorable for Palestinians – and for Gazans, in particular.

I have serious problems with the current direction of the national Green Party, but first some personal history. In 2000 I joined…

Most working people have never encountered a capitalist. Not once. But, they routinely encounter doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers, and others who have highly empowering jobs

Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half.…

Resurrecting Occupy and Breathing Life into Shared Program by Taking it to the Streets

It is possible, desirable, and even essential for progressives as a whole group to simultaneously work to ensure that Trump loses and the left grows

Regarding the debate on whether and how to participate in the US presidential election, I think Michael, Vincent, and Bill outline the…

The first thing that struck me about Michael Albert’s commentary was its call for a principled and humble debate within the Left…

Responding to Albert’s We Need A United Left

We can be very optimistic. Things like this have happened before and they’ve been overcome

The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy

The continuously assertive military posturing of NATO undermines and conflicts with the mission and development of instruments for international negotiation and constructive cooperation

The only short-term solution is a radical tightening of exchange controls against corporations and wealthy individuals

A talk on freedom and democracy

I believe we now mainly need suggestions for ways Sanders and all progressives can together help defeat Trump while simultaneously continuing to build a powerful, informed opposition prepared to fight after the election

“Stay connected. We’re building a new world.”                        -RoseAnn DeMoro, Executive Director, National Nurses Union These were literally the last words spoken from…

Interview on the crisis in today’s democracies, the apparent end of Pax Americana, the historical significance of Castro’s Cuba, the deadly threat of nuclear weapons, the means of exploitation under today’s capitalism, and the shape and form of a society free of oppression and exploitation

Ordinary people everywhere should do all that we can to demand that all international disputes be resolved by non-military means

Among the elements of the weak form of democracy enshrined in the constitution, presidential elections continue to pose a dilemma for the left