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Voting and fighting

The lawyer Raphael Lemkin hoped to use international law to curb abuses of power. But his efforts were curtailed from the start.

Nearly two hundred rank and filers who are developing a movement of workers in the South that can build power to make the anti-union politicians’ fears a reality gathered in Charlotte, NC on May 17 – 19 for the 2024 Southern Worker School.

With the 34 guilty verdicts delivered on Thursday by a New York City jury, Donald J. Trump is now shown to have been plucked by a “seductive priestess,” a Maja named Stormy Daniels.

The finding from The Associated Press adds to the evidence of growing inequality—and helps explain worker dissatisfaction with the economy, as wages fail to rise alongside executive pay, an expert said.

The military protection of Saudi Arabia has been the centrepiece of US power in the region. The US has also committed itself to the protection/support of Israel. America has managed this balancing act without trouble, but it has posed problems.

Armed struggle has failed to stop the ongoing theft of Palestinian land. The destruction and death wrought by Israel in the Gaza Strip calls for a different kind of struggle – one that takes into account its people's right to live

The comedian’s remarks on a podcast join his cheerleading of genocidal violence and jokes about suffering children in Gaza

Sheinbaum, the first woman president of Mexico and North America, has vowed to continue the anti-neoliberal project of the “Fourth Transformation” inaugurated by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, led by the principle of “Mexican Humanism”.

Voyage of the Doomed (1939), Two Roads, Two Endings (1989), A Big Step Toward Ending a Long War (1969), Plain English, or Else! (1954), Pity the Poor War Criminal (1974), Protecting Freedom of Speech (1969), No Law Against Just Hanging Out (1999)