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Conscientious objector Hallel Rabin was sentenced to 25 days behind bars for refusing to join the Israeli army over its policies toward the Palestinians. This is Rabin’s third period of incarceration.

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Ten guesses why social justice activism rarely appears in our novels and movies. In the midst of major popular uprising, where are the lists of stories that would draw us into the heads and hearts of activist characters taking on injustices they face

Former senate president Salvatierra told Jacobin how the restored MAS government can undo the damage caused by last year’s coup — and set Bolivia back on the path to social transformation.

Some protesters face stacked charges and threats of deportation; others have been charged with police assault with no reports of injuries

"We're not good enough right now," the New York Democrat says of her party, and unless the material lives of working-class people are improved the nation's dangerous slide to the right will continue.

Politics is about power, and the left will have more under a Biden presidency.

Union households swung dramatically for Trump in 2016. He seems to be losing ground with them in 2020.

This new book, by the head of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, is a timely warning. "Its tone is set early on, with an epigraph from Heinrich Heine," writes reviewer Larman: “Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn human beings."

Massive protests rock the world! Nigeria * Chile * Belarus * Iraq * Indonesia * Poland * Thailand * Israel * Costa Rica * Hungary