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An edited and expanded version of remarks by Bill Fletcher, Jr. offered at “A Strategy for Labor, A CUNY Panel Discussion of Honor of Merle Ratner,” December 12, 2024

Neither major party candidate represented a challenge to U.S. complicity in Israel’s horrific war on the people and land of Gaza.

In a new study, we found that legislators who are descendants of slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress without slaveholder ancestry.

Progressive governments in Latin America are not as united today as they were a decade ago. How prepared are they to navigate the onslaught of a second Trump administration?

Genomic sleuthing can determine how many generations have passed since a hybridization event. The oldest human genomes ever sequenced reveal that our Neandertal ancestry came from one “pulse” of interbreeding and pins down the timing.

Legalized Xenophobia Then and Now (1944), Gramsci’s Dialectic of Hope (1929), ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’ (1969), Mass Deportations by the U.S. – in 1919?, CIA Lawlessness Exposed (1974), Will Boeing Ever Come Clean? (2019), Giving Peace a Chance (1914)

Very few countries have experienced similar declines, typically in the wake of wrenching turmoil. Experts called the data, from a new Gallup poll, stunning and worrisome.

Thanks to the maneuverings of the tiny nation of Vanuatu, the entire industrialized world is effectively on trial in The Hague.

With the Israeli army advancing into Syria following Assad's fall, a group promoting settlements in Lebanon is casting its gaze eastward.

The US working class has a long tradition of standing up against immigrant repression. This history is a reservoir of inspiration and strategic thinking — and it can help immigrant workers and communities confront Donald Trump’s promised wave of repr