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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....

Veteran labor organizer Fernando Gapasin is interviewed by Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Bill Gallegos. "I dedicated myself to ending racism and building worker power by building democratic working-class organizations from the bottom up."

Senate Democrats have the power to end the filibuster and thereby allow the For the People Act to become law. It’s time for Democrats to unite on this, without hesitation.

We need to rebuild our nation with a new foundation. A foundation rooted in love, and care, and equality. We need to seize this moment. It's on us, as Democrats and progressives, to meet the gravity of the moment. And history will judge our actions.