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Christine Emeran, an advocate for free expression talks about the push to ban books, especially those about racism, sexuality and gender.

Unions and worker co-ops have different strengths and strategies for achieving worker justice. We need more of each, and more collaboration between the two. A new toolkit gives tips and highlights seven case studies of collaborations.

US politics have become hyperpolarized along partisan lines. But they don’t have to be. Millions of Americans worry more about paying the rent or medical bills than what’s on cable news. They can be won over by a working-class economic agenda.

African American food culture is one of many aspects of African American identity that represents an unbroken line from Africa to present-day America.

These laws require educators to lie to students through omission, euphemism, and sanitized accounts of the past and present. Wherever possible, educators should challenge them and, if necessary, defy them.

Cities must empower historically marginalized communities to shape how public funds are spent.

Security can only be achieved if it is universal. US efforts to contain Russia and maintain leadership over Europe are not working. The world has become multi-polar and Nord Stream 2 is a fulcrum at the centre of the current crisis.

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Narratives about race, gender and inequality are being banned around the US – but sales are rising as the frenzy appears to have the opposite effect

Here are 10 of his most revealing statements -- biting, visionary, combative -- and all about the human and inhuman conditions on Earth.