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“If we go on strike, it’s because the care we are providing our clients is below substandard.” “It’s barebones.”

Let the star this Christmas Turn a lightning rod For the money-changers who, Bereft of grace, Have made of the world A mere market-place— Men whose corroded hearts Have no room for the sheep Who followed you, leaving Home and hearth, in hope to find A new, everlasting birth. They may celebrate the manger, But Read more…

Interview on the fact that being a decent human is increasingly being griped about as “emotional labor” and the tremendous promise of a different kind of work (and leisure) under a Green New Deal

U.S. Military Role in Syria Is Not Actually Ending

As difficult as the cost that must be borne will be, the cost of doing nothing, as the world’s governments, beholden to corporate interests, are currently doing, is much greater

The Green New Deal might just be the “revolutionary reform” we have been looking for. What issue is so universal, so necessary, so morally right, so reasonable, so self-evident that few can deny it?

In what seems a replay of recent German and Italian elections, an openly authoritarian and racist party made major electoral gains in Spain’s most populous province, Andalusia

From backing Yemen War to Whitewashing Khashoggi Murder

The movement brought anger to the streets again across France in defiance of state efforts to divide and disrupt it

Protesters poured into the streets of Budapest by the thousands the past few nights with calls for Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, to “reconsider it!” The policy to be reconsidered is what Hungary’s workers are calling the government’s new “slave law” requiring labor to work up to 400 mandatory hours of overtime (think: every Saturday Read more…

It is an Arctic December, The ice is everywhere; But the heat of hate is colder still, Congealing life into frozen fear.   Trees of old look at their roots And find demonic spades at work; They worry for their next foliage, As hot marauders go berserk   With devouring red in their eyes, And Read more…

The horror of the Yemen War is changing minds at last

Is capitalism on the brink of joining the dustbin of history? And what would a post-capitalist society and a sustainable economy look like? Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the world has experienced historically unprecedented levels of growth, with capitalism raising the standard of living of many nations. At the same time, capitalism has Read more…

Interview on U.S. policy in Central America

If any of these wars can be ended, we need to rapidly build on that success to end more wars, and more wars, and the funding of the preparations for wars

Trump’s decline is a matter of public debate, between and within all political tendencies. Most people are still seeing what they prefer to see

All workers should stand in solidarity with UTLA members in their fight against the dismantling of public education and the privatization of our school district

This Time at Sea

Years of Scott appointments have resulted in a Florida judiciary that is only 6.4 percent black, though 17 percent of the state’s population is black

The Constitution does not prohibit indictment of a sitting president. Will Mueller recognize this reality in his actions going forward?

The White House’s crude deflections on science aren’t simply ignorant — they’re calculated to serve the fossil fuel industry at the entire planet’s expense

Twenty-six states have laws preventing state agencies from contracting with companies or individuals aligned with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement

This is not the happy, triumphant ending that generations of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have hoped and fought for over the years

A review of American Labour’s Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Détente, 1945-1970, by Anthony Carew

“This is a victory for every educator who sees children getting short-changed by privatization and charter operators putting their business models over the needs of our students.”

But What About NAFTA?

The UN and U.S. Senate weigh in, but will their actions be enough to bring peace?

This annual injection of new money not only can be done without creating price inflation; it actually needs to be done to reverse the massive debt bubble now threatening to propel the economy into another Great Recession

Progressives are apt to be enthusiastic about O’Rourke — if they don’t know much about his record

The idea that our tax dollars should not go to corporations that that pay their CEOs hundreds of times what they pay their workers: that’s a popular idea

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of War

Gandhi underscores that Hindutva is a neo-fascist theory which is far removed from Hinduism

Pay-as-you-go is really bad politics in a world where the other party has no respect for any rules whatsoever

We need to stay informed about the encroachment of big business and social media corporations in our private lives and the depths to which the private sector can farm information

The Trump administration is explicitly using humanitarian aid as another weapon to sanction adversaries

Upholding the dignity of border communities and those seeking sanctuary depends on everyone’s bold and courageous actions

Now that a $170 billion foreign debt cliff looms

Globalists Really Are Ruining Your Life

We need to critically analyze some of the shortfalls of the capitalist logic embedded in this plan. We have to push back and improve upon the Green New Deal

Where is the call for the New Peace Deal that would free up hundreds of billions from the overblown military budget to invest in green infrastructure?

Working class life under capitalism has shown that no matter what workers do, how good their work, how restrained their demands, and how much they accept in terms of work pressures, they will always remain vulnerable

The American public is now evenly split between those who want a two-state solution and those who prefer a single state, shared by Israelis and Palestinians, according to a survey published last week by the University of Maryland.

It beggars the imagination to consider why Temple’s Board of Trustees would ignore the abhorrent and overtly racists posts in the account of one professor, while exceeding its mandate in order to rebuke an avowedly anti-racist professor

Anyone who stands by silently while Bahia Amawi is forced out of the profession can legitimately and accurately call themselves many things. “Free speech supporter” is most definitely not one of them

The Internationalist Commune of Rojava express their solidarity with the Gilets Jaunes in France

Oscar Wilde said of middle age: It is that time of life When no matter where you tie The belt, the belly escapes Over or under. Let me say of old age that Should you not have your pills Ready to hand, it is a blunder; And should you be well nonetheless, It is a Read more…

This program meets the needs of—and has the potential to unite—the labor movement, environmentalists, and all those who have been the victims of inequality, discrimination, racism and, now, climate change

At the beginning they were talking only about gas, and now they are talking about social justice, equality

They give us the opportunity to put power in the people’s hands

The US has a surprisingly large amount of public ownership. But in order for it to truly serve the social good, it must be expanded — and democratized