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The inside story of the world’s most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.

In 2014, I designed the Glasgow May Day poster and I have been doing it almost every year since. There is always a new theme linked to local and international, past and present, trade union activism. My body of work forms a historical record itself.

By completely rewiring the network of animal viruses, climate change is creating a new age of infectious dangers.

Will the social necessity for the state "wither away"?

Amazon, Starbucks—and the National Guard? Politicized mission and bad conditions push soldiers to join the Texas State Employees Union

When we think, write, and act alongside movements, we help disrupt the everyday violence of law and imagine more radical transformation.

A new bill tries to claw back authority given to the executive branch on debt cancellation.

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, a partnership between socialists and the United Electrical Workers union, is trying to be at the heart of a new mass labor resurgence. Their success could help millions of workers.

The new Apple TV+ show’s take on capitalism draws similarities to today’s fight for labor rights.

The recent U.S. deployment of special operations forces to Syria expands a global U.S. battlefield that is at a historic size. This year, special ops have been sent to a record 147 countries—75 percent of the nations on the planet. It’s a 145 percent increase from the days of George W. Bush. And it means that on any given day elite U.S. forces are on the ground in 70 to 90 countries.