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France’s Greens, Socialists, and Communists have joined a coalition supporting Jean-Luc Mélenchon for prime minister. He has proven that a transformative program is the best way to inspire millions — and to deny Emmanuel Macron a majority in parliament.

Strippers fight for a union, and AIPAC goes whole hog

In most metro zip codes, majority of Black local renters don’t earn enough to afford median rents, National Equity Atlas found

"We can no longer stand by while our judges and justices take advantage of our system to build wealth and power at the expense of our country's most marginalized," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

A hearing featuring Amazon Labor Union’s Christian Smalls looked at whether the government should continue to use companies as contractors after they engage in union-busting.

Nukes, we are told, would have deterred him (Putin), and so, we should cast our lot — even more than at present — with nuclear weapons so as to deter would-be aggressors. History argues otherwise, namely, that nuclear weapons do not prevent wars.

The decades of efforts by people on all continents to ease tensions between the three greatest powers, to work for a friendlier, ecologically improving world of peace has been set back for years, perhaps for decades. We need an anti-fascist, anti-militarist voice for people’s rights.

We will never achieve a world without war by nonresistance to imperialist intervention. If the left does not take the correct stance on this war, it will discredit and marginalize itself. And we will have to work for a long time to overcome the consequences of this nonsense.

The Republican governors of Florida and Tennessee have both recently signed bills outlawing the system.

One police instructor who has taught 560 officers in recent years has joined one extremist group and supported other far-right movements. Others have echoed QAnon and other fringe conspiracy theories on social media, a Reuters examination found.