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Militant Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Catches On (1960), The 20th Century’s Largest One-Day Demonstration (1930), ‘Bloody Sunday’ (1965), March 8, International Women’s Day

The artwork in this dossier draws from the Red Books Day 2025 Calendar. Each of the twelve contributions, produced in collaboration with the International Union of Left Publishers, is inspired by a red book from a different region of the world.

Rural postal workers don’t just deliver mail. They put out fires, help elderly people who’ve fallen, and ensure veterans receive medication during storms. Trump’s proposed USPS privatization threatens these areas already lacking services.

Two years after the country’s deadliest rail disaster, many are still demanding greater safety and accountability.

Ryan sits down with Rohit Chopra, the former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau now essentially shut down by President Trump. They talk about Zuckerberg, Jamie Dimon, and the landscape of Tech Bros unleashed on America.

The government’s assault on democratic norms can't be separated from its oppression of Palestinians: they are two lobes of the same right-wing brain.

Democratic state attorneys general have been planning their lawsuits for a year.

Astronomers believe that a mysterious, invisible substance fills up the universe. Known as dark matter, they think it is a new kind of particle. But efforts over decades to find this particle have come up short.

Since Trump’s inauguration, Latinos and their allies in LA have organized walkouts and near daily protests against ICE and in support of the undocumented community.

"I believe in fighting for vulnerable people, reproductive rights and climate action. But we won’t have the numbers in office to protect the vulnerable if we don’t fix Democrats’ loss of trust among a lot of working class people."