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On Monday, the Los Angeles Unified School District teachers strike for the first time in 30 years. United Teachers of Los Angeles is demanding significantly lower class sizes and proper staffing of schools. LAUSD claims it agrees with most of our demands, but simply can’t afford them. The “we have no money” mantra is so powerful, it’s practically LAUSD’s Read more…

Though the US and its allies are unlikely to win victories against Iran or Bashar al-Assad, by keeping a permanent crisis simmering they ensure many civilians risk everything to flee to Europe

tAn appeal from the mortgage industry has resulted in hundreds of IRS staffers returning to the agency to carry out income verifications for lenders

Imprisoned HDP MP Leyla Güven is in critical condition after 68 days of hunger strike to demand an end to the isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan

Where Are We At? Where Are We Headed?

Tens of thousands of protestors are packing the icy January streets of Belgrade, Kragujevac, Niš and other Serbian cities in demonstrations that began in early December demanding an end to what to they call a dictatorship

I think that we should imagine and understand that the people in the misdemeanor system are not a “they”; they are an “us.” And that insight, to me, is the heart of the most important kind of criminal justice reform

For the first time in the 21stCentury it is possible to envision positive developments in the region as reducing the level of violence and turbulence

A Timeline of Border Fortification

On Jan. 1, 5.5 million women in the Indian state of Kerala (population 35 million) built a 386-mile wall with their bodies

Progressives: you are no longer the ugly stepdaughter of the Democratic Party. You own the joint.
Now’s the time to demand what’s yours, what you want and what’s right

U.S. policy must support those in Guatemala who are struggling to maintain the rule of law, and Congress must demand that Guatemala’s anti-impunity commission be allowed to continue its work

Younger generations deserve to grow up protected from these harmful and deadly substances. The EPA wants to make mercury and air toxics deadlier again. We can’t let that happen

Remember the days, not too far back, Although eons in consequence, When there were coffee houses in town, And we dawdled for interminable hours, Over interminable cups, without A bouncer’s hint that we must leave. In the coldest chill and penury, The warmth of our converse made Everything rich. And, gadgetless, We pined to see Read more…

Has Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Turned It?

Pollution is now the biggest threat to children’s health. So why is it so neglected?

While mainstream French and international media have largely characterized the yellow vests as violent troublemakers, many people throughout France see the movement as a long-needed popular uprising against a deeply unjust political and economic system

Congress refuses to enact legislation containing the nearly $6 billion that Donald Trump is demanding for an unnecessary wall on the southern US border. In response, Trump is considering whether to declare a national emergency, take money Congress has appropriated for other purposes, and divert it to build his wall. But under US law, the Read more…

“We need an awakening of consciousness for everyone to understand how important we are as workers of the land.”

Superintendent Austin Beutner and his allies have made it clear they do not believe that the LA Unified School District in its current incarnation is worth investing in—or even preserving

Shah Faesal’s Move Reflects a Diminishing of the Republic

And the Border Patrol Played a Role

The coverage ends up distorting how we understand global forces, culture, and history

The Party’s Voters Are Becoming Far More Militaristic and Pro-War Than Republicans

A Lot

The student population today is unrecognisable from that of a generation or more ago. And it is central to any socialist project for the future

Scholars Reflect on Dangerous Times

Trade policy under Trump in 2018 is compared with similar US trade offensives under Nixon in the 1970s, targeting Europe, and Reagan in the 1980s targeting Japan

MST will not back off from social struggle

Trump bashing, as smugly gratifying as it might be, only obscures this basic truth and handicaps our thinking about the best way to unite in struggle against a common class enemy

If a new trade union law goes into effect, India will essentially abandon any commitment to workplace democracy

The time has come for a New Peace Deal that repudiates endless war and the threat of nuclear war

Life in the United States of Trump

The grassroots movement behind the Green New Deal offers a ray of hope

The difficulties for the Cuban people are increased by the ongoing United States-led embargo against Cuba

The Social Democrats have collapsed. Die Linke is divided. Will the German left ever be able to contend for power?

We can’t just shrug that war is politically untouchable. Doing so — avoiding all serious discussion of militarism, both its costs and its consequences — leaves the global noose dangling

When cactus breaches a desert breast Its green is far more keen Than spring that comes routinely To a land that is always green.   A flame that mocks a dark environ Is more trenchant and stark Than a thousand lights that grace a hall With no knowledge of the dark.   The success of Read more…

Politicians and pundits alike have roundly criticized Donald Trump for stating he will pull our troops out of Syria and cut US forces in Afghanistan by half. James Mattis immediately resigned as secretary of defense, writing in a letter to Trump, “you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better Read more…

After 45 years of observing and evaluating federal logging, contemplating today’s climate science and considering what’s fair for all of us, I wonder — why are we still logging our woods?

Blatant behavior carries the day… no apologies necessary, no finesse required now

We’ve seen people struggling to breathe clean air and drink fresh water, fresh and clean water, and are not seeing the Democratic Party step up with the level of climate ambition that we actually need

Why Brazil Should Shun the Israeli Model

In February, educators will gather outside a massive detention camp for migrant children and stage a 24-hour “teach in”

This isn’t a task to complete or a line on a to-do list, or even a New Year’s resolution. It’s a way of thinking about life, and what joy and meaning we can derive not just from optimizing it, but living it. Which is another way of saying: It’s life’s actual work

Their main demands include a rise in salary from $500 to $3000 and payment in US dollars rather than in bonds. Teachers and doctors in Zimbabwe receive among the lowest pay in the world for their professions

Perhaps the most compelling argument for serious tax reform is political. The vast accumulation of wealth at the top is matched by inordinate concentrations of political power

You could lose, lose, lose and completely lose. But if you learn from what’s happening and you take lessons, then potentially the pattern of seeming losses prepares you to win

We need to shake up the economic and political systems driving the climate crisis