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Far from treating the border crisis as a humanitarian issue, the Biden administration has continued to expel the vast majority of adult migrants.

Pre-hiring personality screening and ongoing employer monitoring explicitly weed out workers likely to agitate for a union

Unwillingly or unwittingly, Germany’s institutions to fight right-wing terrorism set up during the 1920s has established a dangerous precedent

The Progressive International observation delegation returns to Ecuador to observe the most important elections in a generation

All we’re asking is for the same rights and protections other workers enjoy

Review of Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil by Glenn Greenwald

Gibson Dunn’s extreme tactics against environmental attorney Steven Donziger spark a backlash

The Palestinians have an opportunity to demand from those who wish to represent them to lay down their positions and their visions on the future of Palestine

Enact a $15 minimum wage and restore collective bargaining. Workers will pocket more and spend more, and the economy will rise

The Biden administration lifted sanctions against the International Criminal Court. It’s not enough

‘Above all, we have to ask ourselves what have we achieved?’

The factors that drive displacement are often complex, but welcoming refugees isn’t

With living standards in decline, the appeal of those who blame Blacks, women, gays and immigrants of color will continue unless a concerted effort is made to organize among white workers

The US exaggerates the degree to which Iran is out of compliance with the JCPOA. It hasn’t militarized its civilian nuclear enrichment program in any way

The National Labor Relations Board has found that Amazon illegally fired two employees who spoke out about the company’s climate impact and labor practices during the pandemic.

It will take a miracle to avoid catastrophic climate change and nuclear war, but it’s still possible we can create such a miracle

“I think we need a grassroots movement that makes it clear to Joe Manchin and everybody else in the United States Senate, including Republicans, that the progressive agenda is what the American people want.”

As it stands, the key to the future of Fatah is now held by a Palestinian prisoner, Marwan Barghouti, who has been kept by Israel, largely in solitary confinement, since 2002

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The measures include a ban on evictions, a special “stay at home” benefit for two million private-sector workers, and a one-time benefit for 15 million people

The French president has imposed a national lockdown, but he still won’t own up to his mistakes and broken promises

“The scale of the problem and the size of the bill is incongruent.”

The approach by the University of Melbourne is a template of savagery.  In September last year, some 200 professors who sit on the academic board issued a warning at the imminent loss of 450 jobs

If the Biden proposal is the best that can be passed this year, then it should be supported and passed, but with a clear understanding that it is a beginning, not an end

Internal NYPD documents shed new light on the Strategic Response Group, or SRG, the heavily militarized police unit behind the crackdown on George Floyd protesters

“We say you don’t fight racism with racism — we’re gonna fight racism with solidarity.”

How Extreme Is the U.S. Military?

“The dollars from the police budget are going to provide the services and operate the hotels”

When nonviolence classes are standard in our K-12 schools—not just in specialized programs in prohibitively expensive colleges and universities—the US will become a much safer and more humane place to live

Time to Ramp Up the Pressure on Biden

Cybersecurity threats are emerging as one of the most serious challenges of the 21st century. The U.S. and its NATO allies have turned down every attempt within the UN framework for banning cyberweapons

Last Tuesday saw the biggest strike that Amazon has ever experienced in Europe, with thousands of workers participating

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A look at two new books, Everything Must Change: The World After COVID-19 and Rediscovering Earth: Ten Dialogues on the Future of Nature

When time and place be out of sorts, Go make your time and place

It is naïve and dangerous to rely on the “invisible hand” of the market either for economic transformation or for a solution to the problem of climate change

our society would rather spend money to violently clamp down on protesters who are protecting an unhoused community than fund long-term solutions to the housing crisis

Disparaging, suppressing or forgetting the horrors of history has become a valued and legitimating form of political and symbolic capital, especially among the Republican Party and conservative media

A major UK urban center takes on the most ambitious of goals: a fairer future for all

Interview with Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, coeditor of The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy

For too long we have allowed the narrative to be dictated by the myth of our separateness and dominance over the earth and all that lives here

A year in, the British Labour leader is giving the Tories an easy ride while investing his energy in an all-out war on the party’s left

Kim Stanley Robinson’s subversive new Novel Rejects Doomism and Imagines a Hopeful Solution to the Climate Emergency

We look at the urgent push to ensure equal access to COVID-19 vaccines for all nations, rich and poor, and growing calls for Big Pharma to waive their patent rights, as COVID-19 cases soar

As Chauvin’s trial continues, we must remember that this is not simply the story of one “rogue cop.” It is a window into the anti-Black violence perpetrated routinely by police in this country, as part of a brutal and racist system

A broad coalition of groups is calling for a week of action April 5-9 to press for passage of the For the People Act, S.1 – federal legislation that would counter the GOP’s push for harsh state-level voter suppression bills

Georgia Republicans have now proven themselves to be the big chickens. They cannot win a fair fight so they are investing in every strategy they can to limit access to the democratic franchise of voting

April will be a month of struggle, memory, and resistance

All eyes are on Alabama at this moment as it becomes the epicenter of labor struggle in the United States

ailures in prosecuting the businessmen who profited from the Nazi war machine show just how far postwar Europe and America were willing to go in the Cold War quest to protect capitalism