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How the American system can, and often does, protect tyrannical and overbearing minorities, like the architects of Jim Crow.

A summit in Israel, at a decisive moment, highlighted the tensions that have rendered the nation an outlier among democratic states.

And set an example for other right-wing leaders

Communities, not corporations, should own our most vital health care assets.

The “Truth Hurts” singer searches for new backup dancers in the uplifting Prime Video competition series.

A post-Covid jobs recovery has strengthened workers’ hand – companies posting record profits don’t need government to slow the economy

To good effect, he argues that a revolution is gained only by practice: “we have to practice socialism…have to go about building it in practice,” a practice that changes the socialists themselves, through the relation of community and solidarity .

Amazon workers in Staten Island have achieved the most important labor victory in the United States since the 1930s. Here’s an inside account of how they did it.

To celebrate Martin Luther King day we are reposting article first published in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of MLK on the 4th of April 1968. The article re-publishes Dr King’s speech at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1964

Employment precarisation and environmental degradation are far from incompatible, they both result from the capitalist imperative to economise while producing evermore commodities.