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Election campaigns are not a sideshow. We use them to make our local base communities stronger, more connected and more aware.

The film recounts the 1819 bloody massacre that left 15 peaceful working-class voting-rights demonstrators dead and hundreds more injured (coined "Peterloo" by journalists who reported the atrocity in contemporary papers as a play on Waterloo.

Jails across the country are replacing in person visits of family members and friends with video calls.

Activists protest war criminal Elliot Abrams' affiliation with Washington DC’s Holocaust Museum in the wake of his appointment as special envoy to Venezuela

Taxes; Voting Rights; Private Insurance vs Medicare For All; Collegiate Survival; Reading vs Racism; Fascist Cops Fired

New York nurses are wrapping up a ratification vote on a historic agreement.

Although matzo balls are not strictly a Passover food, they are almost always on the menu of Passover seders.

Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger strike in Israeli jails after eight days without food.

The rank-and-file strategy isn't enough. We should examine the broad range of working-class organizing strategies and experiences that are today's socialists' collective heritage.

...the U.S. has worked through the U.N. (and its predecessor, the League of Nations) to build a harsh global drug prohibition regime -- grounded in draconian laws, enforced by pervasive policing, and punished with mass incarceration.