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Felicia Langer was a Holocaust survivor, a communist, and one of the first Israeli lawyers to defend Palestinian residents of the occupied territories in the Israeli Supreme Court. She died in Germany last week.

Puerto Rico was already in trouble after suffering a “lost decade” without economic growth after 2005, leading to a default on its public debt and mass migration from the island. That was before Hurricane Maria.

Would the US be better off helping stabilize the Chinese economy, rather than gearing up for a trade war?

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The Communist Manifesto not only foresaw today’s predatory and polarized global capitalism but shows that we have the power to create a better world, says the radical former Greek Finance Minister in his introduction to a reissue of the Manifesto.

In startling victories, Ben Jealous became the Democratic nominee for governor of Maryland and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez upset a powerful sitting congressman in New York by running campaigns that pledged a radical change in our nation's priorities.

Some Presidents of public sector unions respond to Supreme Court's anti-union decision.

The objective of the Court majority, along with their political allies, has always been the destruction of labor unions.

Ed Sadlowski was the leader of Fight Back in Steel, a rank-and-file movement that challenged an entrenched union leadership in the 1970s. Although narrowly defeated, the caucus was a model of grassroots democracy and helped change the USWA.

In this book, Alissa Quart details not only the lowering of the standard of middle class life in the United States, but shows how that decline is also eroding the professions and professional occupations as well.