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A deep, translucent dive into Marx's capacity to take Hegel's comservatizing worldviews and turn them into elements of revolutionary theory and practice.

Policy makers can start thinking now about how to prepare for the reopening of businesses and the rehiring of workers. Care must be taken to ensure that older workers, displaced due to COVID-19, can reenter the workforce.

An author in Rome describes what to expect based on her experiences of lockdown

"Why would we want a return to normalcy? We need a vision for the future, not a return to the past."

Bestowing dignity on the overlooked and marginalized was a common theme throughout Prine's career; he became known for detailed vignettes about ordinary people that illustrated larger truths about society.

“While this campaign is coming to an end, our movement is not,” Mr. Sanders said in a video address on Wednesday.

During the Spanish Flu in 1919 four million workers struck, one-fifth of the workforce, a proportion never since equaled.

The great English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850), writes reviewer Johnston, based his groundbreaking style on the "radical claim that apparently trivial things and people, the rhythms of ordinary life, were the stuff of true poetry."

On the agenda: new internationalism, and ending the war with nature. News and analysis from and about the left worldwide.