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
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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
Medicare for All in One State
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…
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