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This is a period when on certain issues, massive, non-violent direct action is in order, as the demonstration in Seattle shows.

Struggling for decades to find its voice, the Iraqi Communist Party is helping shape the battle for the nation's soul

Our government’s and corporate media’s failure to capture the true extent of unemployment creates a distorted narrative about work that feeds bewilderment and self-recrimination.

...the Trump administration has been seeking to expand mining on public lands and further loosen environmental rules under the banner of weaning the United States off importing minerals deemed “critical” to national security.

Five days after a bill ending private prisons in the state was signed into law, the Trump administration found a way to get around it.

We could easily fund health care for all by ending military boondoggles and fruitless wars. Here’s how.

The times are testing whether democracy and the rule of law, which are under the most ferocious, and sustained assault, will survive. We ask readers for their support once a year. If you like what we do, this is the time to support Portside.

Mobilization and strike against pension reform are expected to be massive

In 1910, East Texas saw one of America’s deadliest post-Reconstruction racial purges. One survivor’s descendants have waged an uphill battle for generations to unearth that violent past.

Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about Thanksgiving and his book “Our History Is the Future.” He is a co-founder of the indigenous resistance group The Red Nation and a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe.