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But a Huge Loss for Workers and the Environment

The vision of British Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell

One of the most significant political prisoners of the current period is kept in isolation so that the “soft coup” in Brazil can proceed on course, with likely consequences that will be severe for Brazilian society

Reports that U.S. officials and Venezuelan commanders had conversations about regime change in Venezuela point to the latest instance in a series of covert attempts at destabilising that country

Unemployment now stands at close to 70 per cent and the economy is contracting at an ever faster rate

Instead of seeing the inter-Korean talks as a prelude to the “more important” discussions on nuclear weapons, the United States should see the denuclearization negotiations as supporting Korean efforts to end war on the peninsula

Trump’s Phony Trade War Confirmed

Blowback From U.S. Policy in the Greater Middle East

While it is true that we need political democracy, it is just as true that we need economic democracy

Gender equality is a partisan issue: Most Republican women are just as sexist as Republican men

We need to get embarrassing about climate breakdown

Judge Brett Kavanaugh learned a lesson from his weak appearance on Fox News last week. Testifying at the September 27 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on sexual assault allegations leveled against him by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh became belligerent and aggressive. Displaying outrage at the process, he portrayed himself as the victim and painted a Read more…

It’s time to call #TimesUp on anyone standing solo against power

The U.S. isn’t the only country where women are lining up to burn down the (frat) house

Labour needs to develop a socialist strategy that goes beyond a single election manifesto. A look at the challenge of state transformation

In many ways, we’re still stuck in a labor relations situation that hasn’t changed much over the last 100 years.

The Deficit Hawks Did Enormous Harm to Our Kids

Their determination outstrips the devastation. Savaged by the August floods, facing a looming drought, the women of Kudumbashree’s pathbreaking group farms are rebuilding, using solidarity as a strategy

But the rest of his speech is a serious threat to world order and peace

These challenges to traditional economic order are fermenting social instability and one reaction to it has been a rise in violent political confrontations

Trump’s Supreme Court pick follows a familiar pattern of bad boys who grow up to do bad things

As United States President Donald Trump slowly descends into madness in front of the entire world, he seems determined to destroy Iran in the process

The exaggeration of ‘the Iranian threat’ by the Trump administration this week at the UN General Assembly in New York was very like what was being said by Bush and Blair about Iraq fifteen years ago

When it comes to places like Iran or Venezuela, the principle of state sovereignty is not respected at all

What the resistance to the refinery has is collective people power

As borders change, they pose new challenges for migrant movements — yet those same movements also continue to radically transform the borders they oppose

Despite war famously being the means of Americans learning geography, few can even identify Afghanistan on a map. What else have we failed to learn?

“I wouldn’t cross a union picket line and I can’t cross this one”

The debunking of Trump claims before the UN about US GDP, US unemployment, and US wages in what follows shows how the crude and the clever often coincide

The US government’s decision to slash funds provided to the United Nations agency that cares for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, is part of a new American-Israeli strategy aimed at redefining the rules of the game altogether

The story was a very big bubble that people like Bernanke, Paulson and Geithner completely missed. It burst, and we paid an enormous price for it

The Adolts in the Room (and No, That Is Not a Typo!)

The Iranian perspective

The labor movement once built thousands of low-cost co-op apartments for working class New Yorkers. It could do so again

Interview on the Trump presidency; the defeat of the U.S. in Afghanistan; what he believes is a just position on Syria’s civil war; and the agenda of Vladimir Putin and Russia and why a life of resisting and fighting is worth it

Our leading weapons dealers have developed a business model that feeds on war, terrorism, chaos, political instability, and human rights violations

Make the Rules, Break the Rules and Prosper

ICC, International Law, and Iran

A look at Yves Engler’s new book, Left, Right: Marching to the Beat of Imperial Canada’s Foreign Policy

Empowering local communities

Over a century after the original Scramble for Africa, European leaders are today imposing new forms of colonialism on the continent in the shape of militarized border controls

Every day for more than 400 years, working people have been devising new ways to defend themselves against indignity, deprivation and injustice

There Is Nothing Natural About Puerto Rico’s Disaster

Neoliberal power is distinctive because it seeks absolute power, and can achieve that end only through global domination

Photos by David Bacon. Women make up almost one-third of all agricultural laborers, but the presidents and most top leaders of the United Farm Workers have invariably been men. Dolores Huerta, the union’s fiery co-founder, faced down growers and negotiated many of the union’s contracts. She became secretary-treasurer, but not president. Does it make a Read more…

Parent and community engagement has been a priority since Union Power took office. Community groups helped develop the union’s contract demands and have even presented during bargaining sessions.

The increasing meshing of corporate and US government control over the means of communication is particularly worrying

The financial kindling is there. All it now takes is a spark to set it off. The next financial crisis is coming. The last decade, 2008-18, is eerily similar to the periods 1921-1929 and 1996-2007

The battle to stop the spread of extractive industries pits indigenous and peasant communities against powerful business interests, backed up by politicians who encourage the foreign investments that convert millennial ways of life into cash—for them

So What Do We Do About It?