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What is needed is a broad-based coalitional effort to combat not only street violence, school violence and sexual violence but also state violence.

“Since their invention, online forums for advertisements and community-building have been essential to sex worker survival,” says Liz Afton, a counselor at the Sex Workers Project, an initiative of New York City’s Urban Justice Center (UJC).

In March, the New York Parole Board granted parole for Herman Bell. A judge in New York has suspended the release of Bell.

America’s security depends on defeating oligarchy abroad and at home.

Women’s general strike; MLK and hip-hop; Supporting the kids; Teachers hit the bricks; Labour’s scandal up close

The problem is that employers continue to engage in pay disparities without real accountability.

The country-based framing of the international accounts serves to obscure the very resilient and virulent foundations of U.S. power, based in the private corporate sector. Corporate ownership and/or control of trade, income and financial flows have become increasingly internationalised, ...

Puerto Rico’s left is rebuilding in the wake of two disasters: Hurricane María and a neoliberal onslaught.

The Nakba is not a just a memory, it is an ongoing reality. We can accept that we all must eventually die; in Gaza, the tragedy is that we don’t get to live.

The new Opportunity Zone program created by last year's tax bill, it offers investors tax breaks in exchange for investing in high-poverty communities. Depending on how the funds operate, the program could end up serving as a tax subsidy for gentrification.