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A Global Dr. Frankenstein at Work

In 1999, Barbara Ehrenreich charged the feminist movement with advancing only “educated, middle-class women.” Her critique is more pertinent than ever

Nurses with the NNU held a national day of action to demand better protections for healthcare workers and the public

The Trump administration is now more or less forcibly occupying Iraq against the will of its elected representatives, and is waging a low intensity war on a section of the Iraqi military with which the US is supposed to be allied

The proposal to cut the payroll contribution rate would either undermine Social Security’s financing or employ general revenue, both of which would set the stage for future demands to cut Social Security. And it likely would not be temporary

Reading the news, you’d think that everything is closed, that everyone is sick or scared. The reality where I live, in Turin, is more confusing

The goal of these measures is to win the war against the coronavirus, empower the people and the working classes, strengthen their rights, weight the financial effort on those who have the most, lead and provide a political solution to popular anger and protest and cut off right-wing populist demagoguery.

An open letter to the Trade Union movement from Labour Transformed

There’s no denying that labor unions are far less powerful than they used to be

— While Staff Stay Home

DSA National Statement on COVID-2019

Nuclear weapons are big business, and so long as “deterrence” dominates discussion, companies that invest in them will always thrive

How I would trade this cloistered comfort for A peopled time and space, Where existence is an immersion In a crowded embrace; Where voices banish solipsisms Of thingy abundance; Where shared pains and simple joys Define a transcendence; Where multiple safety locks do not Keep strangers from the door, Or rituals of privacy forbid Rich Read more…

We are a coalition of feminists contending with both our differences and our commonality in age, race, class, religion, labor, and sexual orientation. We meet at the intersection of our fluid identities. Though our experiences are different, we share a vision of a feminist future.

COVID-19 is finally the monster at the door. Researchers are working night and day to characterize the outbreak but they are faced with three huge challenges

Team Trump threatened to ban ICC judges and prosecutors from the U.S. and warned it would impose economic sanctions on the Court if it launched an investigation

The argument for a turn inward begins with the reality that all organizing is ultimately local or domestic

Sanders faces a decision about whether to continue his increasingly uphill fight for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination

Ideas that were discussed concerned the initiative to make a network of sanctuary cities, to develop a world movement against fascism and to emphasize the need for convergence between the movements

The most vulnerable among us do not have the option to comply with suggestions to stay home from work or work remotely

Wanting to Cut Social Security, Along with Everything Else, Is Still Wanting to Cut Social Security

If our aim is to protect human and environmental health, restoring the status quo is not good enough. Thankfully, there is an alternative

Interview about the dangers of Covid-19, the responsibility of agribusiness and sustainable solutions to combat infectious diseases

Source: Tedglick.com The last 11 days have been rough for the Bernie Sanders campaign and all his supporters. Yesterday’s voting was a third disappointing election day in a row. As of right now, it’s looking good for Biden. Right on cue, Jim Clyburn, James Carville and who knows who else has called and will be Read more…

On the eve of the Michigan primary, which Biden won handily on Tuesday, Sunrise Movement members took part in a viral TikTok meme, pleading “Democrats! Please don’t make me vote for Joe Biden!”

Thank you all very much for being here. Let me begin by reiterating what I have said from Day 1 of this campaign, and that is that Donald Trump is the most dangerous president in the modern history of our country and he must be defeated. Tragically, we have a president today who is a Read more…

The Bernie 2020 Campaign Represents a Fight That Must Continue

Progressives need to need to enunciate and fight for a plan to deal with the potential pandemic. Leaving solutions up to those who have made the situation worse makes no sense

The “Davos Class” will respond with more inequality and less democracy. But a path has opened for the opposite way out – provided the Left is willing to reinvent itself

“In Mexico it’s like we’re in a state of war; we’re in a humanitarian crisis because of the quantity of women that have disappeared or been killed.”

Trump’s victory reinvigorated the religious right and arch conservatives of every stripe, including white nationalists

Unfortunately, because this is the corporate-controlled, understaffed, underexperienced news media we’re talking about, much of that coverage has been incomplete, misleading or sometimes just plain wrong

The PA Does Israel’s Dirty Work in the West Bank

A new model known as ‘deep canvassing’ is being tested in the swing areas of Pennsylvania. Here’s an inside look

When WFP endorsed Warren in the fall, they held a ranked-choice vote of its national committee and online voters. Mitchell said it was clear from the beginning that there was strong support within the group for both Warren and Sanders

Bernie releases his tax returns while Trump hides them and gets a major tax cut for his family through Congress.

The judge ruled that the potential environmental and public health impacts of the pipeline – including the risk of climate change – had made civil disobedience legally necessary

Source: The Intercept The 2020 election is the first presidential race with climate at its center. Throughout the Democratic primary, the potential loss of good construction and fossil fuel industry jobs has helped prevent moderate Democratic candidates, including frontrunner Joe Biden, from taking policy positions that would aggressively confront the fossil fuel industry and the Read more…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s latest gamble in Syria’s civil war appears to have come up snake eyes

The action aims to denounce the policies of the Bolsonaro government in relation to the economy, land, and agriculture

Will the financial asset markets deflation soon spill over to the credit system (especially corporate bonds) and accelerate the decline of real economies worldwide in turn?

More and more voters are no longer willing to accept a political status quo that makes doing “everything else” contingent on upholding the dominant economic order

The year 2019 is the 43rd consecutive year, since 1977, with both land and ocean temperatures above the global 20th century average

In the longer-term, humanity needs to ask pointed questions about the wave of pandemics that have swept the world in the last twenty years

Average working class folks cannot afford to voluntary quarantine themselves. Or to stay home from work for any reason. Even if they have symptoms. They will continue going to work. They have to, in order to economically survive

The fight against global warming has entered a new phase. What strategies will help us halt catastrophe?

Two progressive members of Congress are trying to prevent a World War I-era secrecy law from being used to investigate and prosecute journalists for publishing classified information

A democratic revolution within Labour must be matched by building participatory economic alternatives at a local grassroots level

Why is there even a debate on whether any Coronavirus Vaccine Should be Free?

Big Tech has become notorious for its hoarding of its users’ personal data, collected with great breadth and down to minute details