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And set an example for other right-wing leaders

A summit in Israel, at a decisive moment, highlighted the tensions that have rendered the nation an outlier among democratic states.

How the American system can, and often does, protect tyrannical and overbearing minorities, like the architects of Jim Crow.

For decades anthropologists exploited Indigenous peoples in the name of science. Now they are reckoning with that history

“Never has it been clearer that the U.S. Supreme Court majority will do anything it can to advance Republican interests, rather than the law, the Constitution and the will of the people"

Employment precarisation and environmental degradation are far from incompatible, they both result from the capitalist imperative to economise while producing evermore commodities.

To celebrate Martin Luther King day we are reposting article first published in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of MLK on the 4th of April 1968. The article re-publishes Dr King’s speech at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1964

To good effect, he argues that a revolution is gained only by practice: “we have to practice socialism…have to go about building it in practice,” a practice that changes the socialists themselves, through the relation of community and solidarity .

Excerpts from Judge David Carter's ruling that Donald Trump is 'likely' guilty of conspiring to obstruct Congress: "If Dr. Eastman and President Trump’s plan had worked, it would have permanently ended the peaceful transition of power."

An idea informing Davis’ discussion was what she cited as Antonio Gramsci’s adage of possessing “pessimism of the intellect” and “optimism of the will” when advocating for social justice and building cultural movements.