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If by “terrorism” one means imposing terror and fear – then what are the commanders in the army and Shin Bet security service doing when they send masked soldiers to raid the homes of Palestinians night after night?

Even If It Is a Hell on Earth

Beginning in 2019, the EPA stopped releasing crucial toxics reports. Even agency staffers have a hard time accessing them

Housing rights advocates and climate emergency activists across the nation are in crisis mode, desperately urging lawmakers to “hold the line”

If you’re afraid, you can’t do anything, workers often explained to me. But with courage, others too will join the fight

New Hampshire’s No Coal No Gas campaign deployed kayaktivists and a garden blockade as part of its latest day of mass action aimed at closing Merrimack Station

More than two dozen press freedom, civil liberties and international human rights groups, and people around the world, are protesting the persecution of Assange

“If Manchin and Sinema can push their will on the entire U.S. Senate and president, then the progressives—almost 100-strong—should damn sure be able to push their will too. They should not move. They got to hold. There’s too much at stake.”

Billionaires & their companies now own politicians — and the Supreme Court set it all up with their poisonous Citizens United decision

The Supreme Court recently held that even ‘mere support given to a terrorist organisation’ will not attract sections of UAPA. How may it then be construed that some have been charged under the draconian law for ‘supporting’ the Pakistan cricket team?

As the rich and comfortable stayed indoors and rode out the worst months of the pandemic on their Peloton bikes, workers around the country shifted into a different gear

Legislating the “right to disconnect” could help prevent wage theft in a virtual environment that has blurred the line between work and home

The Debt Collective, which has focused on other forms of debt, is turning its attention to the crushing financial burden on formerly incarcerated people

Union teachers in Scranton, Pennsylvania, are readying for a strike — threatening to help push Striketober into Strikevember

What’s needed instead is a total radical overhaul of the US tax system

Unexpectedly, democracy is declared to be under threat by those people who resent a democratic government

But now a lot will need to go exactly according to plan, an influential climate model suggests

This summer, India Walton looked likely to become the first Black woman to lead Buffalo, and the first socialist mayor of any major American city in decades. Then the sitting Democratic mayor launched a campaign to defeat her

Biden is risking conflagration in the Middle East that could spiral out of control at the drop of a hat

The compromise is an important first step towards a fair tax system and a more equitable economy

The recent wave of militant labor action has been over workers demanding better pay and working conditions—not opposing Covid vaccine requirements

The safety of the community as a whole requires vaccines and vaccine mandates. But conversations about mandates have stumbled over questions about the power of employers and the rights of workers

Student advocates should “organize and prepare actions now,” months before student loan payments are set to begin again

Which system changes are “on track,” meaning transformation is “occurring at or above the pace required to achieve” global climate goals? According to a new report: None

If Assange is extradited and found guilty of publishing classified material it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting

As Venezuelans head to the polls this November, it’s clear that the United States’ strategy of supporting the unpopular, far-right leader Juan Guaidó has backfired tremendously

Ali calls the case “a political trial” and a “punitive attempt by the British government … to try and punish Julian on behalf of the United States.”

The ultimate objective here is to cement the status quo where the fate of Arab nations remains in the grip of brutal, corrupt and self-aggrandizing rulers, with no tolerance for genuine political plurality and democracy

The Scranton Federation of Teachers, representing more than 800 teachers and paraprofessionals, announced today that it will set up picket lines and go on strike at 12:01 a.m., Nov. 3

“We can’t survive doing the work that we’re asked to do, the way that we’re being asked to do it with the lack of support we’re being asked to do it with”

There’s only one answer to labor scarcity: pay higher wages. Or don’t – and watch neoliberal capitalism crumble

Turning to the U.S., a mere 60 percent of voters regard global warming as an urgent problem for government. It is only the most urgent problem that humans have ever faced

Shared struggles, shared solutions: connecting communities from east London to Ogoniland in search of justice

Why are young people going after financial institutions? Because we know that if we can stop the flow of money, we can stop the flow of oil

We must refuse to turn education into work stations of right-wing ideology and white supremacy

Today, we again face a stark choice between global ecocide – today’s barbarity and democratic eco-socialism as outlined by Hans A. Baer. The choice is ours to make

He has alleged corruption in high places but the prime minister seems least concerned

Reparations May Be One Cure for What Ails Us

Landis Spencer is a socialist running for the civilian board that oversees the Detroit Police Department. His goal: to curb police power and shift public money to poor and working-class residents

The attempt on Raúl Castro’s life is one of many projects by the U.S. government to overthrow the Cuban Revolution, including 638 attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro and the invasion at the Bay of Pigs in 1961

Both tax measures are just smoke and mirrors, intended for public consumption in order to make it appear the Biden administration is going after the super-rich to fund its Build Back Better bill

The challenge ahead is to turn every city and every town in virtually every major country in the world into a stronghold of the global climate movement

It’s “a huge victory for the climate, human rights, and all life on Earth,” said one activist.

The Build Back Better program isn’t just inadequate on climate—it may be a disaster. Here’s what movements are demanding next

Working people in poorly-run, wildly-infected Red states are singing along with Johnny Paycheck

The Biden Administration is proving to be but a soft facade to the same policies enacted by the Trump Administration

Snowden, Varoufakis, Corbyn & Tariq Ali Speak Out Ahead of Extradition Hearing

“I want Amazon to know that the Teamsters are coming for them. We’re coming for them hard.”