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Progressive change can seem like one step forward, two steps back, but People's Action leader James Mumm shows how over time power has been steadily, doggedly gained by organizing out from the center -- amongst the marginalized -- and forward.

More than two-thirds said it’s no longer commonplace for hard work to be a path from poverty to wealth, according to a new World Economic Forum poll.

Greece's SYRIZA Takes On Rightists, Palestine Left Regroups, India Reds' Electoral Blues, Crackdown in Zimbabwe, Podemos Splitting, Japan's Feminist Unions, Land Defenders in Canada

In this essay, the author of a new biography of Hobsbawm, the famous Marxist historian, gives us a brief assessment of British Communist writer's life and work.

Venezuela announces decision to cut ties with the United States in response to US government support for coup attempt against Maduro's elected government.

Vice is a picture that distills entire semesters worth of history, geopolitics, psychology, media theory, film studies, and military analysis into a historical comedy-drama that has netted far less attention and box office receipts than it deserved.

What The New Yorker Ads Tell Us; AOC Trumps You-Know-Who; Interactive TV; Your Phone is a Cinch To Find; Natalie Wynn

From the beginning, Caputo-Pearl and the union framed the labor dispute as a fight over the future — even the survival — of traditional public education.

Open Letter to the Leadership of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Support of Dr. Angela Y. Davis and Palestinian Rights.

Handing public assets and services over to the free market has been a boon for corporate America and a disaster for the working class.