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By removing Dilma, they knowingly empowered actual criminals and gangsters, people whose thieving and mobster behavior make Dilma’s budgetary tricks look like jaywalking

Report on a union conference organized to get ready for a battle next fall

A new documentary reveals how the right-wing attack on the national, grassroots anti-poverty group ACORN was a dress rehearsal for our current toxic political culture

Another day, another person of color killed by police officers, and another day and another prosecutor does not indict. Is this merely a problem of blatant racism or is something else going on?

Employees at Google, Amazon and Microsoft Have Threatened to Walk Off the Job Over the Use of AI

One step toward fighting and overcoming the criminogenic machinery of terminal exclusion and social death endemic to neoliberal fascism is to make education central to a politics that changes the way people think, desire, hope and act

These candidates, whether or not they identify as democratic socialist, are rejecting the neoliberal centrism of the establishment Democratic Party, with its tepid “market-based solutions” to the ecological crisis, as well as Donald Trump’s all-out war on nature

There is a generation who are saying “no more war, we want our lives back”

Clearly the idea is that all war must be glorious regardless of what idiots started it for what nonsensical, sadistic, narcissistic, greedy, cowardly, dishonest reasons

What the immigration authorities seek is to finish you off psychologically

Cynthia Nixon’s has a plank to help survivors of domestic violence who are incarcerated for defending themselves

The rallies, marches, and open bargaining were crucial as “unifying events,” she said, that worked to “get people excited and show the hospital that we’re not messing around.”

Number of U.S. states that elect their supreme courts: 38 Number of states holding supreme court elections this year: 33 Number of this year’s state supreme court elections that will take place in the South: 10* Of the Southern supreme court elections being held this year, number that are partisan contests: 4** Year in which Read more…

There is one thing common to Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, and Imran Khan: they see themselves as world-historical leaders, above and beyond decrepit old systems and habits of thought and governance

Observations from a Week in the Philippines, July 21-27, 2018, and Possible Ramifications

After 20 days walking 435 kilometres, the marchers held a fiery televised meeting with the president, finally being able to present their proposals to the nation

National Constituent Assembly member Julio Escalona suggests that the Admirable Campesino March should inspire Venezuelans from all walks of life to exercise popular power and rescue the revolution

Interview on climate change

How we talk about climate change has the power to shape the discussion and overall perception of this important issue

Their hearts may thus be empty but their stomachs shall be filled. Their hopes may be dead but their bank accounts will be in the black

The director’s award-winning new film is the story of a black detective who went undercover with the KKK. He talks ‘wokeness’, vindication and Trump’s America

Our economies are borrowing far more from the Earth’s ecosystems than they can sustain

In this climate, Lotti’s bold choice to prominently display a photograph of two men kissing, at a mainstream tourist attraction frequented by millions of families and children, is no small gesture

Division in the ranks of the conservative movement is a critical sign that a war with Iran isn’t inevitable

Notes on the Mexican Election

The fact that a single study by a think tank with an anti-tax agenda can so easily frame news coverage on healthcare shows just how powerful the myth of fiscal responsibility can be

Argentina’s women’s soccer team is tired of being sidelined and mistreated. Now they are fighting back, and the Argentine Football Association is taking note

Five Financial Uncertainties of 2018 (So Far)

Management banning shirts and walking away from the table helped explode our social media. We started building support for the informational picket demanding that safe staffing be written into our contract and refusing to take cuts

To effectively prevent violence, we must also tell the stories in which violence ultimately didn’t happen — for it is these stories that give us the guidance to make “never again” a reality

Michael Albert responds to R. Burke again

This is how it stands in my view: participatory economics, or parecon, is a fascinating, tantalizing thought experiment, but I can’t say with any confidence that it is something that can function in actual world

Socialism is having a moment in the sun. It’s a chance to push a bold, transformative vision of what a society for the many rather than the few can look like

GDP pays no attention to inequality. If there is more wealth, but all that wealth is concentrated in a small number of hands while all others suffer declining living standards, then GDP will rise even though working people are worse off

Donald Trump’s all-caps tweet threatening Iran with “CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE” sounds much like his warning last fall that North Korea would be “met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.” Will Trump deliver on his threats against Iran, but not against North Korea? Read more…

Israeli leaders feel that Europe’s move to the far-right is irrevocable and are keen to benefit from the anti-Muslim sentiment that accompanies this shift as much as possible

Something far larger is at work here – a sense not merely of responsibility but of connectedness that transcends the concept of national borders. Because of it, an inhumane policy has been interrupted

The month of August bursts at the seams with histories of Black resistance–from the Haitian Revolution to the Nat Turner Rebellion, the Fugitive Slave Law Convention and the founding of the Underground Railroad…

“Ron Dellums governed from a place of morality and compassion, and his political activism shed light on injustices within our country and all over the world”

Trump is betting his intimidation approach can produce quick results before his tariff war precipitates a currency war and a severe global economic contraction

To deny professional athletes the right to express dissent in a peaceful manner is a disgrace to the Constitution, the opposite of patriotism and shameful moral weakness

Iraq’s trade unions, especially the oil workers, have played a central role in organizing the demonstrations

The time is ripe for civil society to represent the Palestinian people in their struggle against the Israeli apartheid regime

Hellman understood that social institutions like churches and schools were all part of a mosaic that, together, could create prosperity

iI Lula’s candidacy is prevented, a political crisis will become even more acute

The members calling for a no vote say that it falls short in just about every area it covers (or fails to cover)

Humans beings, right now, this generation, for the first time in history, have to ask, “Will human life survive?”

The struggle against sexual harassment belongs in the union because it is part of the broader fight against the increased neoliberalization of academia

Their “Proof” Is Not What They Say

Amazingly, Tamimi used the experience of being jailed, as many colonial subjects in imperial detention cells have–including Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi–to her advantage