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Only furious masses in the millions, an angry and organized populace, the people, can stop this revanchist juggernaut
We can take a significant step towards a saner society by shouting loudly for Julian Assange to be freed immediately
“We will see more protests, probably broader and angrier, but I do not expect destabilizing or regime-changing protests”
The organizers of the Poor People’s and Low Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls, estimate there are 140 million low-wage and low-wealth Americans that made up 35 percent of the nation’s electorate
Interview on the British media, UK military and intelligence services, Israel, Keir Starmer, Julian Assange and Saudi Arabia
We cannot lose sight of the ultimate goal: a mass movement to establish free abortion on demand as an inalienable right
The five-day workweek is an anachronistic relic of a time when conditions were far different than today
The SCOTUS is about to use it’s ill-gotten power on behalf of the fossil fuel industry to cripple America’s ability to meet the challenge of climate change
Unions have a duty to protect their members from the fossil fuel crisis. But we must all be prepared to go further
The president of far-right National Rally, meanwhile, celebrated a “historic breakthrough” as Le Pen’s xenophobic party won a record 89 seats
Former fighter in the M-19 militia beat populist business tycoon and fellow political outsider Rodolfo Hernández in runoff on Sunday
Unions could do more to stop the ongoing criminalization of immigration that Democrats are doing little to halt
Horrified by the invasion, centrist elites like Dmitri Trenin nonetheless sense the US is using the conflict to destroy their country
The attacks on anti-abortion centers express a necessary militant fury. But the conflation of militance with violence is a mistake
To win on gun violence and abortion, activists must engage in actions of escalation that match the public’s distress
How George Orwell’s Doublethink Became the Way of the World
