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The post-Hurricane Maria recovery is seized by one overarching question: Who is Puerto Rico for: islanders or wealthy outsiders?

Dozens of farmworkers with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers have entered their last day of a 5-day fast

Stopping Zionist Genocide Against the Palestinians

With a deal reached in the West Virginia teachers strike, there is talk of revived labor activism nationwide

Lucas Koerner is a journalist at Venezuelanalysis based in Caracas, Venezuela. Gregory Wilpert a German-American sociologist who earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Brandeis University in 1994. Between 2000 and 2008 he lived in Venezuela, where he taught at the Central University of Venezuela and then worked as a freelance journalist, writing on Venezuelan politics Read more…

Trump renewed Obama’s sanctions against Venezuela, declaring it an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the US, violating international law in the process

Vincent Emanuele, Open University of the Left, 2-24-2018, Chicago, Illinois, Red State Rebellion In The Age of Trump.

Prisons aren’t “correctional” facilities, because they have no interest in correcting anything; the multibillion-dollar prison industry is interested in profits, and institutional racism keeps the money flowing

On 8 March 2018 women across the world are going on strike. This is a call to action for women in the UK to join the strike. We will refuse to work. We will be on the streets. We will shut things down and disrupt business as usual

Trump’s infrastructure privatization plan is a hat trick that optimistically turns $200 billion into $1.5 trillion, is designed to eliminate the public sector and to bankrupt cities and states

Bernie Sanders responds to Trump’s State of the Union speech

Brazil’s political elite is going after Lula and the Workers Party to stop them from running in this year’s presidential election

In Baltimore and around the world the second anniversary of the Women’s March on Washington prompted calls for unity in resisting the policies of the Trump Administration

Political parties in Spain are struggling to navigate an increasingly polarized political landscape

The bestseller Fire and Fury not only confirms the worst we suspected about the Trump White House, but it also puts the fights within the US ruling elite on display

Israel, with U.S. backing, has caused a “humanitarian disaster” in Gaza, and international human rights groups have failed to uphold justice for its besieged people

Trump’s “America First” Security Strategy is a defensive response to old rivals China and Russia reasserting their position in the world

Is it a currency that is going to replace the dollar or is it a classical commodity speculative financial bubble?

Catalan independence parties won the regional parliamentary vote, defeating the central government’s effort to weaken the movement

Career Politicians Against Radicals

After a massive neo-fascist march in Poland and new reports of neo-Nazi influence in Ukraine, Lev Golinkin says both the US and Russia have troubling ties to Europe’s far-right

In this video Dr. Shir Hever talks about the history and evolution of the Israeli military industrial complex from the 1980s onwards until the modern era. Dr. Shir Hever is an independent economic researcher and journalist. He writes articles and research for various venues and gives lectures in political and academic venues. Hever also reports Read more…

Interview on a new report, “Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis,” which examines the role of Democratic Party loyalists in the party’s 2016 defeat

A version of the legendary song

Interview about the state of economic and business education in universities today

Interview about about the Universal Dividend, it’s differences with the Basic Income, how it will be financed and whether it will burden the working class

In sabotaging the Iran nuclear deal, President Trump is listening to — and following the playbook of — the neocons behind the Iraq war

100 years of fire suppression and human-caused climate change are fueling California’s historic wildfires

Trump’s plans to extend the war he once supported ending are even more worrisome for their lack of transparency

Interview on what needs to happen next

Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on Puerto Rico, but massive debt and a crumbling infrastructure put the island in crisis long before the storm

As Republicans attempt a last-ditch repeal of Obamacare, Democrats have joined them to overwhelmingly pass massive spending on the military and war

Donald Trump’s comments at the UN General Assembly violate international law, and the world should hold him to account

The goal is to ruin you permanently, to make an example of you so that other people don’t take your cue and blow the whistle on waste, fraud, abuse, and illegality

Christian Picciolini describes how he became a neo-Nazi, why he stopped being one, and what he’s doing to help people leave hate groups

We are delighted to bring you Fools Rules from Beldon Haigh and the Mother Of All Bands (Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un).

The new measures can help alleviate some of Venezuela’s economic problems, but do not address the heart of the problem, an inflation-depreciation spiral

Corporate Wing of Democrats Alive and Well

Continuing our focus on independent publishing in India, we talk to Vijay Prashad, the Chief Editor of LeftWord Books. LeftWord is a New Delhi based publishing house that seeks to “reflect the views of the left in India and South Asia”.

Trump’s plan would mean ‘a huge increase in the budget deficit primarily to give tax cuts to the richest people in the country’

The UAW poured huge amounts of resources into the union bid. Understanding why the vote failed so badly is key to organized labor’s future

US sanctions against Venezuela, which VP Pence announced Wednesday, target Venezuelan debt and will make borrowing more expensive, hurting the people Trump claims to help

Windfall for the Military-Industrial Complex​

Creating disorder in the Middle East

Speaking about the urgent need for grassroots movements to oppose war and militarism in the U.S. and around the world

Talk on a variety of topics

Interview on the politics in Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela and across Latin America

Interview on a wide range of topics, from the development of his personal political views to the control of information and media

The CEO of the company that sold and operates the voting machines in Venezuela says that there was a discrepancy of 1 million votes