There is no compelling reason to raise interest rates, now or later
If the Teamsters union is to become more democratic, more powerful, and more politically influential, it will take a massive rank-and-file movement from below
We have the opportunity to build and participate in these social movements, in minor and major ways, while educating ourselves and not isolating ourselves alone or in small cliques
It’s time to perceive and admit that the oppressions we aim to fight in the world are actually systemic within our movements, embedded in the structures of even some of the most progressive organizations
Throughout the 2022 primary season, I want you to explore with me the absolutely bonkers idea of running a progressive, dare I say radical, Lefty McLefterson candidate in a Republican primary in a GOP stronghold district
No Bosses, A New Economy for a Better World is Albert’s most comprehensive presentation of parecon to date – it is both a call to action and a compelling vision to guide practice
The more we contribute to beating the MAGA Faction in this round of voting, the better positioned we are to push further toward the multiracial democracy, transformed economy, and changed relationship with the planet and all the people on it that is so desperately needed
Source: Informed Comment Former chief justice of the Iranian judiciary, Ebrahim Raisi, won the presidential election, as expected, with over 60 percent…
The Swedish trade unions can boast of high membership numbers, but generally lack the primary source of union strength: that many colleagues unite and act together
Source: CovertAction Magazine On April 9th, Ramsey Clark passed away at his home surrounded by his family. Clark was Attorney General of…
In my experience, while most veterans might not say so out loud, privately and in the company of fellow veterans, they’re more than willing to speak critically of the wars and do so regularly
Source: LA Progressive Photo by mikeledray/Shutterstock.com A great leap forward and victory is in sight On Tuesday, June 23, in Los Angeles,…
Segregation has spread beyond central cities
The Puerto Rican people are saying, “Ya Basta!” — “Enough!” They are undaunted. They are marching without trepidation. They want justice now! They will not stop until Rosselló steps down
The greatest beneficiary of America finally investing in reparations won’t be only the low-wealth population that deserves this investment. It will be the moral foundation of our country
[This is the eighteenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge…
Workers in the berry fields of the United States and Mexico have the same transnational employers. Now, farmworker unions in those two nations have begun to work together
Looking at the Root Causes of Migration
Interview on how leveraged buyout of Toys “R” Us hurt tens of thousands of retail workers and how a new campaign is fighting back to demand justice for these employees
A history of the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and what military formulas are being used to control Palestinian lives
A pacified Syria is key to the economic integration of Eurasia through energy and transportation connections
A look at how the California Senate passed the “Healthy California” plan and the coming battle to make it into law
Text and Video: Castro and the Cuban revolution…in history.
A key achievement of the Ayotzinapa movement after two years has been the deepened awareness by the Mexican population of the government’s corruption and ineptness
Sixty miles south of the Arizona border, the devastation from a toxic spill has led to an epochal battle between a transnational mining conglomerate and an alliance of miners and farmers
They denounce the transfer of public money from the rich to the poor. They are intensely relaxed about the transfer of public money from the poor to the rich
America’s Forgotten Vietnamese Victims
Classism is a form of social discrimination that has its roots in rigged economics
Interview with an influential voice and a central figure in the anti-nuclear movement since the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi of March 11, 2011
The statistics about global inequality desperately need someone who can explain them in terms that can anger, mobilise and inspire people. If Corbyn can do this, it would mark an important shift in English politics
Patrick Cockburn was invited by Jeremy Corbyn to brief MPs on the facts about today’s Common’s vote on air strikes in Syria. This is his briefing
Is it more evil to contaminate the water supply, to bomb a place with depleted uranium, to cut off the supply of medicines, to say that half a million children dying from economic sanctions is a “hard price”, but “worth it”
Today there are close to 60 million war refugees
In the face of these divisions and frustrations, what if anything might be done to revive and continue Syriza’s struggle against neoliberalism?
The St. Louis-area campaign highlights the networks of powerful individuals who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo
Every state west of the Rockies has been facing a water shortage of one kind or another in recent years
Building on the deepening bond between the Palestinian and Black liberation struggles, Palestinian civil society organizations issued a declaration of support for those struggling against racial injustice in Baltimore
The Germans need not trust the Greeks, but should listen to them, says Yanis Varoufakis
Just a year after its founding, it’s the country’s leading party
US citizens continue to hold disproportionately skeptical views of science
It’s really important for Americans to recognize the brutality inherently connected with shooting, bombing, drone-striking and rocketing human beings
The United Nations Human Rights Council announced a commission of inquiry into alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza
A self-confident, vocal protest culture has begun to grow in Morocco since the Arab Spring protests in 2011
Arbitrary violence is nothing new. The apparently systematic use of sexual assault against women protestors is new
US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement 3 years on
Queda cada vez más claro que la era de las revoluciones no ha terminado. Se ve igualmente claro que el movimiento revolucionario…
This past March 15-16, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was dispatched on a highly-publicized visit to post-Mubarak Egypt. During her two-day visit,…
Norman G. Finkelstein is a man of contradictions. He is the Brooklyn-born son of concentration camp survivors who has enraged American Jews…
bell hooks (née Gloria Watkins), scholar-in-residence at The New School, is among the leading public intellectuals of her generation. Her writings cover…
This is the chapter four of Occupy Vision, which is the second volume of the three volume set titled Fanfare for the Future. In…
