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Today's Poor People's Campaign seeks to develop local leadership, including strong representation of the millions of poor people — black, brown, and white — to create a multi-racial, multi-gendered, intergenerational movement to heal the racial and economic divides tearing America apart.

What is needed is a broad-based coalitional effort to combat not only street violence, school violence and sexual violence but also state violence.

“Since their invention, online forums for advertisements and community-building have been essential to sex worker survival,” says Liz Afton, a counselor at the Sex Workers Project, an initiative of New York City’s Urban Justice Center (UJC).

In March, the New York Parole Board granted parole for Herman Bell. A judge in New York has suspended the release of Bell.

America’s security depends on defeating oligarchy abroad and at home.

Women’s general strike; MLK and hip-hop; Supporting the kids; Teachers hit the bricks; Labour’s scandal up close

The problem is that employers continue to engage in pay disparities without real accountability.

The country-based framing of the international accounts serves to obscure the very resilient and virulent foundations of U.S. power, based in the private corporate sector. Corporate ownership and/or control of trade, income and financial flows have become increasingly internationalised, ...

Puerto Rico’s left is rebuilding in the wake of two disasters: Hurricane María and a neoliberal onslaught.

The Nakba is not a just a memory, it is an ongoing reality. We can accept that we all must eventually die; in Gaza, the tragedy is that we don’t get to live.