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In contrast to the stereotype of the union worker as a white man in a hard hat, today’s labor movement skews black, brown and female.

There's a larger issue involved in Planned Parenthood's effort to lower Sanger's profile. Where should we draw the line with regard to our progressive icons who said or did things in their day that we now find unacceptable?

"By 2030 we will be on our way to a global economy that provides a good life for all on a living planet," states the Declaration of the 2020's. "Or we will be on an irreversible path to global misery through ecological collapse."

Fifty years ago today, on May Day 1971, thousands of antiwar protesters descended on Washington, DC, to protest the Vietnam War. The ensuing three days of disruptive actions directly confronted the Nixon administration — and resulted in the largest

If we require our progressive and radical heroes to be saints we won't have many people left to admire.

"Everyone expects progressives to lose in 2022," Sanders' team said, "but if we fight early, we're going to shock them all."

The first thing you need to know is that while Republicans always claim that raising taxes on the rich will destroy jobs, they have never yet been right.

García Márquez was a pilgrim of the world. His passion to know the truth, that age-old fetish of journalists, led him to travel and engage with the reality of the different people that he met.

Which Side Are You On? Ani Difranco on Mountain Stage. How Rich Countries Are Making the Pandemic Last Longer. Bernie Sanders on Senators Who Spread 'The Big Lie'. The Present | Movie. Jamaal Bowman Delivers Progressive Response to Biden Address.

Reader Comments: Same Boat; Military Spending Still Huge Problem; History Behind "Strange Fruit"; Puerto Rican Studies; Palestinian Solidarity; Labor and the Movements for Peace and Social Justice; lots of Zoom events; more....