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“Paygo’s the biggest scam of the decade, designed to legitimize the fear-mongering over artificial deficits. This is a big win by progressives.”

Will the bumbling efforts of the open societies of the West to come to grips with the virus shattering already-wavering faith in liberal democracy, creating a space for other ideologies to evolve and metastasize?

The higher payments will add to the debt, but so what? The debt mongers will complain about the debt no matter what and there is zero reason to think we’re coming up against any limitations

The nature of gig-work is often quite atomizing, but the coming together of these workers to join in a collective struggle demonstrates that they aren’t going to take it sitting down.

Mary Trump on her uncle’s desperate attempt to escape being a “loser”: It’s a “uniquely terrifying situation”

That is was felt to be necessary, by all signatories, is a shocking reflection of how close even top past military officials believe the nation to be to a potentially violent coup

The following was written for a collection to be entitled Anarquismo contemporáneo y ecología (Contemporary anarchism and ecology) to be published In Chile

The same European leaders who a few years ago marched in Paris shouting “Je suis Charlie” – upholding the inalienable free speech rights of white Europeans to offend Muslims by insulting and ridiculing their Prophet – are now queuing up to outlaw free speech when it is directed against Israel

The critical Senate run-off race is too close to call. But a massive voter mobilization effort may just tip the balance

By genuinely understanding and responding to their community’s needs and filling in the many gaps left open by local, state and federal authorities, mutual aid organizations are making a huge difference in many people’s lives

The choice is yours, Georgians. We are counting on you

The US continues to try to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean

There is work to do—and people who want to work

Interview on activist lessons learned in 2020

The following is a guest statement by Cancel the Rents Boston, a collective of activists and residents organizing to fight against housing displacement exacerbated by COVID-19, anchored in the heart of Roxbury

Among the disquieting dimensions of this strangest of all Christmas holidays has been the lurid spectacle of misplaced empathy by Donald Trump, placating

cronies and criminals who helped him circumvent law and morality

“All the social pathologies of our nation come to the fore during epidemics”

I’m old enough to remember when drone murders were shocking. Heck, I even recall a few people calling them murders

Keir Starmer has set the seal on a drastic shift to the right for the British Labour Party

Over a quarter of US senators and congress members have investments in weapons corporations

“If you want people to do the right thing you have to make it easy, and we’ve made it hard.”

11 examples showing how the IHRA definition poses a threat to free speech and aims to silence Palestinian solidarity

The fact of Facebook has created a situation where the Left often seems to have forgotten how to organize

Let’s make a commitment on this new year’s day that we will do all we can in the coming weeks and months to come out of this pandemic clearly pointed down this hopeful road

In the period since 2010, when Austerity mania took over government policies fuelled by media calls to balance the books, the capital-media alliance has been a winning ticket

Almost a year into the pandemic, supply shortages remain so severe that nurse Kristen Cline reuses her N95 for several shifts while her hospital buckles, patients suffer and folks nearby socialize maskless as if the pandemic were already over

Deaths of four frontline KwaZulu-Natal activists – and latest Durban oil refinery explosion – define 2021 battlegrounds

Kim Moody’s writings on “the Rank and File Strategy” have gained a broad hearing within a variety of socialist groups, such as Democratic Socialists of America and smaller socialist groupings

The victory is the result of five years of mass protest marches by Argentina’s grassroots women’s movement, which began as a Twitter campaign against gender violence

Expecting the US to play a constructive role in achieving a just peace in Palestine does not only reflect indefensible naivety but willful ignorance as well

The US government has the highest military spending in the world, with approximately one-third of the world’s military expenditure

There is hope … we are the hope – we, the people’.

2020 was alarming, unforgettable and traumatic – and not only because of COVID-19. Lethal natural hazards are increasing in frequency under our changing climate, and 2020 is a testament to that

A small increase in long-term exposure to polluted air leads to a large increase in COVID-19 death rates

Black Female Doctors Condemn Racial Disparities in Healthcare

At Current Pace, US Will Take 10 Years to Adequately Vaccinate the Public Against Covid-19, Analysis Warns

Before Neera Tanden can become Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Senators must approve. And before that, they must ask questions. Here are some suggestions for what they should ask

It’s not simply the size of the broken window that undermines standards, according to Wilson and Kelling. It’s the willingness of society to look the other way. If no one is held accountable, norms collapse

Interview on what the district is doing to try and get teachers back in the classroom, how his union and others around California are responding, and why capitalism wants and needs the schools open

Interview on his hopes for the initiative — and why he refuses to be cowed by the attacks he has endured

It is indeed clear that what is left of the Left is not only small, it is very fragmented

Haines’s record on torture and drones alone should be enough for  Senators to reject her nomination.

The importance of the January 5 Senate runoff elections in Georgia cannot be overestimated

How is it that ‘reform’ only means throwing the food-grower open to the cut-throat vagaries of a so-called ‘free-market’ always in the clutches of the corporate?

Unions should be holding more political discussions with their members—and listening closely to their needs

The U.S. media demands inflammatory claims be accepted with no evidence, while hacking behavior routinely engaged in by the U.S. is depicted as aberrational

Left Voice speaks with a caseworker* who works in an inpatient psychiatry unit about the situation that healthcare and essential workers are facing amidst a peak in the pandemic in Florida, now with over half a million cases

We are in an ideological bubble—and one that will burst as surely as the financial kind. Thunberg is that still, small voice of sanity outside the bubble

I think both Trump and Trumpism will remain with us for a long time, both the individual himself and the poisonous currents he has unleashed

Photo by Johnny Silvercloud   Israel used all four years of Trump’s presidency to entrench its systems of occupation and apartheid. Now that Joe Biden has won the U.S. election, the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, likely by Israel with the go-ahead from the U.S. administration, is a desperate attempt to use Trump’s last Read more…