Portside

“Dismantle structures and systems designed and shaped by enslavement, colonialism and successive racially discriminatory policies and systems.”

This is the second in a series of columns looking at Left strategy today. Key to Strategy #1 focused on the first component of Sun Tzu’s dictum that to prevail in battle it is necessary to “know the enemy and know yourself.”

“We have a system that places far too high a burden on families paying for the high price of care, and for providers to operate on very, very thin margins, so they can keep their doors open and meet the needs of families.”

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development can provide $10 million to tenant organizers each year, but the funding has largely gone unspent since the early 2000s. Will that change with a new administration and newly approved HUD secretary?

Could there be a “hidden reality” that’s completely predictable, understandable, and deterministic underlying what we see?

It's hard to say a story is a blistering indictment of privilege without making it seem medicinal, which The White Lotus is not.

Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kansas, have been on strike since Monday over low pay and forced overtime.

In the early twentieth century, teachers were prohibited from keeping their jobs after getting pregnant. Socialist feminists organized to successfully change that.

Sixty years ago, a pathbreaking jazz album from Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln, and Oscar Brown, Jr., fused politics and art in the fight for Black liberation. Today many Black artists—women at the forefront—are taking similar strides.

A lot of questions remain about Congress' path forward to repeal military authorizations that empowered presidents to put boots on the ground and conduct airstrikes. Here's what we know.