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As a rule, when the people are disposed to struggle, the task of socialists is to help them prepare and organize their political campaigns most carefully. (This was motivated by a discussion regarding Karl Kautsky’s political legacy.)

The 2020 Democratic campaign is already shaping up to be a battle of big ideas. But when it comes to reforming our criminal legal system, the conversation hasn’t been as visionary — in fact, it’s been almost exclusively backward looking.

The U.S. has pulled out of a major arms agreement with Russia, and the Trump administration wants to bump the budget for the modernization of nuclear weapons by nearly 9 percent. The nuclear powers should observe the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Reports from the biggest IWD turnout ever.

As measles outbreaks continue across the country, Democrats in the New York state legislature have created a solution to the ever-increasing problem of uninformed parents creating unvaccinated children: Let the kids choose.

Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old climate activist from Sweden, has inspired kids in more than 98 countries to skip school.

“It is brutal,” Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the executive director of UN Women, said of the current environment for women.

Methodist melee; Smearing Omar; Jewish jihad; Hating AOC; Abrams on idpol; Poverty and politics; Chait meets Sunkara

Across Europe, far-right parties and movements have been gathering steam over the past years — anti-fascists have been organizing in response.

That puts 57 percent of the $1.3 trillion discretionary budget into the Pentagon and nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, total funding for all other agencies, is only $543 billion - a nine percent decrease.