Portside

The movie’s got Sly and the Family Stone and B.B. King and Ray Barretto and Gladys Knight & the Pips, in top, electric form. But no jolt compares to what happens in the middle of this thing— footage from the Harlem Cultural Festival.

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Using kitchen table economics is critical for winning workers over to Medicare for All. Working out how much they are paying for health insurance for themselves, makes it clear how much they would save with Medicare for All.

A growing segment of the general population now recognizes the threat of “Amazon capitalism”: what scholars describe as reflecting “the larger global trend of the increasing influence of finance capitalism, neoliberal politics and corporate power."

The human and economic costs of Donald Rumsfeld’s wars are staggering.

Calls for president’s impeachment grow amid claims government sought to profit from Covid jabs

When Angela Davis was arrested after two months on the lam in 1971, Michael Myerson interviewed her and a codefendant in jail — turning him into a prosecution’s witness. He was now in a tough spot: Could he defy the prosecution without going to jail

This is a sensitive portrait of the American civilian who was executed for allegedly passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. There are striking similarities between the poisonous atmosphere of the cold war and that of contemporary politics...

While the Philippines and Palestine might not be obviously linked in popular imaginary, there is a complicated web of relations — threaded through militarism, settler colonialism, empire and racial capitalism — that binds these entities together.

#EndTheException is campaigning for the passage of federal legislation to end prison slavery.