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We can take heart in the knowledge that everyday people have the power to force their elected officials to keep public goods public. Pittsburgh’s Our Water Campaign showed us how, with strategies that other cities can replicate, adapt, and pass on.

In the years following World War II, American and European food scientists hoped to feed the world with common pond scum supplemented with plastics. But it wasn’t just the unpleasant flavor that killed the algae craze.

The inside story of the world’s most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.

In 2014, I designed the Glasgow May Day poster and I have been doing it almost every year since. There is always a new theme linked to local and international, past and present, trade union activism. My body of work forms a historical record itself.

By completely rewiring the network of animal viruses, climate change is creating a new age of infectious dangers.

Will the social necessity for the state "wither away"?

Amazon, Starbucks—and the National Guard? Politicized mission and bad conditions push soldiers to join the Texas State Employees Union

When we think, write, and act alongside movements, we help disrupt the everyday violence of law and imagine more radical transformation.

A new bill tries to claw back authority given to the executive branch on debt cancellation.

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, a partnership between socialists and the United Electrical Workers union, is trying to be at the heart of a new mass labor resurgence. Their success could help millions of workers.