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A just-released survey of youth (aged 18-24) in 16 Arab countries has found that 66% of them say there is too much religion in public life

With Trump and Bolton at the helm, the international arms control regime is effectively dead. But could that spark a new movement for disarmament?

More than 40,000 people have died in Venezuela since 2017 as a result of U.S. sanctions, according to a new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research

The King was a byword For showering benefactions, Until, under the press  of those Who propped his piratical majesty, His rugged beard began To match his cruel eyes into The instagram of an unsmiling hawk.   Before it was many years old, His rule began to fray. He could be seen to rob the wretches, Read more…

The elite-oriented atmosphere of media aversion to Sanders is in sync with media disregard for the power of community-based activism that could result in a Sanders presidency

We need to overhaul the private, profit-driven ownership models wrecking the climate and the economy

A recent statement made by the outgoing French Ambassador to the US regarding the nature of Israeli apartheid accentuates a larger ailment that has afflicted the European Union foreign policy

Opposition protesters clashed with security forces while government supporters swiftly mobilized to defend the presidential palace

A teacher sets the record straight for his students

Pompeo Threatens ‘Military Action’

Interview on a variety of topics

Media side with Trump cronies rather than common sense in labeling coup a ‘protest’

This is the fourteenth (and longest) essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold

A Union That Strikes, Wins

Why this Revolutionary Network Could Change Anti-Capitalist Politics

Thirty-six percent of tipped workers employed in eateries, nail salons and car washes rely on food stamps, soup kitchens and Medicaid

“Some people argue that although Medicare for All is a great idea, we need to move slowly to get there. But I needed Medicare for All yesterday. Millions of people need it today. The time to pass this law is now.”

A community hydroelectric plant runs counter to the system by which the state grants concessions to companies, which become the sole providers of those services.

The governor’s speech opened by marking his 100th day in office and the need for vocational training in the state to foreground his remarks about unionization

It is a weapon pointed at the living world. We urgently need to develop a new system

The successful struggle to liberate the island from the burdens of militarism also provides a source of hope for people around the world

The panic button needs to be hit to declare climate emergency. We need serious action now; there is no more time to waste

To tackle climate change, we must target the international inequalities at the root of the crisis

Six Ways to Curb America’s Military Machine

On the first day of the strike 14,000 schools and kindergartens out of 20,400 such institutions joined the walkout

A critical look at the performance of the National Constituent Assembly.

Robert Caro is always working. The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner published his first book, “The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York,” 45 years ago and has spent the decades since meticulously chronicling the life and times of Lyndon B. Johnson. The result is four sweeping volumes that total more than 3,000 Read more…

The Bernie Sanders campaign kicked off its massive volunteer program this weekend by holding nearly 5,000 house parties across the country and unveiling a new organizing app that gives campaign supporters a way to share political information

This is the Thirteenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold

In a race to see who can be first to directly challenge abortion rights before the high court, their proxies in state houses across the country gleefully file legislation that can only be described as draconian

Successes and challenges in Eastern Europe’s most promising New Left project

The citizenship question is only one of several ways in which the Trump team has deliberately sought to undermine the functioning of the Census

Reflections on the upcoming Workers’ Day and the struggles of the working class in the current crisis

[Prefatory Note: What follows is an interview on recent developments in Sudan with M.J. Hassani of the Tasmin News Agency in Tehran. The questions focus on the implications of the overthrow of President Omar el-Bashir who had been the harsh autocratic ruler of Sudan for almost 30 years. Of particular interest is whether the mass Read more…

Has This “Service Candidate” Served Other Veterans Well?

Meanwhile the Ganga remains polluted as ever, if not more

Bottom line, however, the 3.2% GDP is no harbinger of a growing economy. Quite the contrary. It is artificial and due to temporary forces that are likely about to change

Fifteen years ago Barbara Ehrenreich interviewed Michael Albert about participatory economics. The exchange largely addressed matters of allocation, participatory planning versus markets, so we rerun it to accompany the series of essays on socialism now appearing on ZNet

Since President Trump succeeded in elevating Brett Kavanaugh — an abortion foe, alleged sexual assailant, and mean drunk to boot — to the Supreme Court, his right-wing lynch mob has launched a laser-focused attack on reproductive freedom

According to a recent survey from the European Investment Bank, 87 percent of Spaniards are worried about climate change, and 70 percent believe that it represents a threat to humanity

Eight years ago Michael Albert wrote an essay addressing the anarchist views of Noam Chomsky

t’s clear that we’ve entered a new level of membership and support, both in the UK and abroad

Teenager who sparked global youth movement hits out at airport expansion and support for fossil fuels

The organization of game workers will allow them to begin resisting the absurd level of exploitation they have been put through, along with the attacks from fascists and white supremacists that have, until now, pushed out the most marginalized among them

A nationally renowned drug rehab program in Texas and Louisiana has sent patients struggling with addiction to work for free for some of the biggest companies in the United States, likely in violation of federal labor law.

Volkswagen has a merit-based bonus system that relies on a complicated set of individual and plant-wide factors to determine each employee’s individual bonus. These factors include attendance, productivity, quality, and safety

This co-op uses the tradition of mutual help that is part of the indigenous culture of the workers themselves

What does it all mean?

Number of abortion-restricting bills that have been introduced in state legislatures this year, with the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights research group, calling their extreme nature “unprecedented” and part of a strategy to get an abortion case before the conservative-dominated U.S. Supreme Court: 370 Date on which a Texas legislative committee held a hearing on Read more…

After 18 years of unchallenged power and success, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suddenly finds himself in the middle of several domestic and foreign crises with no obvious way out