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Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has a plan to create a new financial system that would fund climate spending. She put forward the Bridgetown Agenda would suspend IMF debt payments for the poorest countries.

To effectively contend with racist, authoritarian forces, our work must be as powerful as possible. Maurice Mitchell unpacks problems our organizations and movements face, identifies underlying causes and core problems, proposes concrete solutions.

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The historian and activist dedicated his life to showing how, and helping, working people not only imagine but build a better world. Working with his partner Alice (Niles) Lynd, he relentlessly sought out new sources of combat and inspiration.

Paul Schrade, 1924 - 2022, devoted his life to building an America and a California that enjoyed broadly shared prosperity and racial egalitarianism. It’s that for which he should be remembered.

The energy company’s Nigerian subsidiary must pay out over a 2008 case, Court of Appeal in The Hague rules.

Many in the labor movement had pushed for Robb’s removal; they cheered. Employers, not so much. But who is Robb and why does it matter?

Last April, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that barred water shutoffs. At least 1.6 million California households, or one in eight, have water debt, and they could face shutoffs when Newsom ends the state of emergency.

Spurred by the success of the Tunisian Revolution, which resulted in the ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on January 14, 2011, the Cairo uprising shook the country, and then the region and the world. And the Arab Spring was born.

50 years ago, the struggle against urban renewal led a group of working class Puerto Ricans on Manhattan’s West Side to form a revolutionary socialist movement, combining community activism, Third World solidarity, and Puerto Rican independence.