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Lula’s crime was to be a worker and a popular political leader in an elitist country. The challenge for the left is to rebuild a democratic movement that will put the political system, the media, the judicial system and the state at the service of political freedom.

“We have regular emergencies on the buses,” said John Samuelsen, president of the Transport Workers Union. “Folks have heart attacks on buses, children get lost on buses. Every aspect of life in America, the bus and subway are microcosms of it. A robot’s not going to help."

If you build an entire movie around MacGuffins, the material embodiment of wanting, insufficiency, and lack; if you fill every beat and narrative space with the problem of those MacGuffins, leaving no space for anything else; if you crush every story down to the problem of how it relates to those M

We must focus on building new, radical movements that do not depend on foundation grants, a media platform or the Democratic Party or revolve around the cult of leadership.

Within the CIA, Haspel was known as Bloody Gina because she was willing to take on the task that many knew to be immoral and illegal.

Trump has taken a functioning arms control deal that prevented an Iranian nuclear bomb and turned it into a crisis that can lead to war

Kanye shrugs; Peterson sells in; Campus capers; Court joins the attack on democracy; From ACORN to (poison) oak; Incels vs. equality; Making the case against Cos

Thousands of workers across the University of California system have launched a three-day strike.

Domestic workers and farmworker women join forces to end sexual violence in their industries, leaving no one behind.

Fight for What You Want. Not What You Think You Can Get.