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Open letter to the French people from New Popular Front prime ministerial candidate Lucie Castets and leaders of its component parties.

Even if the movement isn’t rebounding quite yet, green shoots are abounding—and presidential candidates ignore it at their peril.

Most Americans today know that Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968, but few know why he was there. King went to Memphis to support African American garbage workers, striking to gain recognition for their union.

Death for Export (1934), The Die Is Cast (1774), The Shot Not Heard Around the World (1774), Yankee Doodle Shafts Native Americans (1783), Jim Crow Must Go, but ‘Voluntarily’ (1954), Boston Police Strike Out (1919), Give Us Liberty or Death! (1739)

New Orleans-based artist Jean-Marcel St. Jacques drew on centuries of Black spiritual and sustainable practices to create the artwork, which will be displayed at a Woodlawn museum honoring the teen and his mother.

Staff demand wage increases and reversal of pandemic-era cutbacks that impose ‘painful’ working conditions

"They have to learn to respect Mexico's sovereignty," Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said of the U.S. and Canada after their ambassadors weighed in on his controversial proposal.

Israel braced for a general strike after tens of thousands protest the government's failure to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas. Histadrut - one of the country's most powerful unions - announced the one-day strike.

The discussion of climate change, as of every aspect of the planetary crisis, tends to be dominated by the question of capitalism and other economic issues; geopolitics, empire, and questions of power figure in it far less.

Party leaders pay tribute to civil rights icon, but they don’t always practice what he preached. Jackson ran insurgent campaigns in 1984 and 1988, and the only thing that has come close since are the presidential runs of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.