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Ruth Heloise First was an outstanding revolutionary, who through practical experience became focused on developing ideas to drive social action. Biographical tribute by her comrade and friend, Ronnie Kasrils, on the 38th year of her assassination.

The fourth volume in historian Rick Perlstein’s critical series on the rise of the modern GOP’s far right shows Reagan as key in uniting a rank coalition that still epitomizes and explains much of the Republican Party’s sway.

The 2020 platform of the Democratic Party is the most pro-labor it has ever been. But the onus is on us [to make sure that] once we get him elected, we don’t get bought off by coffee at the White House.

Putting Trump’s words aside, his actions have shown a disregard for the health and welfare of military families.

Slavery is the usual argument for reparations. But there’s another reason.

Our strategy debates will continue. But we must have a laser-like focus on getting down to nitty gritty work to defeat Trump and all Trumpists, and the armed neo-nazi white supremacists that he’s empowered

"A lack of funding for emergency relief and the complications created by the coronavirus scourge have now pushed some of the world's neediest populations closer to famine conditions."

Here is a new book that offers a concise but rounded introduction to socialism for our times.

A well-funded Democratic group is wooing former union members whom liberals have long ignored.

Three from Vijay Prashad, international labor challenges G20, mutual aid in Puerto Rico, and more news and analysis from the international left