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Statewide education funding is the barrier to the kind of schools we want, ones with small class sizes and more support and resources for students. We won’t achieve this kind of transformational change without an intervention at the state level. 

Does Trump’s goal appear to be, to paraphrase Ron DeSantis, to “Make America Russia?”

"It will always be profit over people and planet for polluters," said one campaigner. "Shell simply cannot be trusted—with either their own meager targets or our futures."

A first-of-its-kind study from Jacobin, YouGov, and the Center for Working-Class Politics finds that economic populism can help progressives win more working-class voters.

A radical communion of painting and writing, Art on the Frontline reckons with the leftist political potential of Black visual and expressive culture.

Successful union campaigns in the south could raise wages, reduce poverty, and spread democracy in the former Confederacy.

The demand: democracy. The response: advancing fascist movements and state repression.

“Ninety years ago, FDR [President Franklin Delano Roosevelt] established the New York Power Authority to create power for the people. Today we reclaim that power, by the passage of The Build Public Renewables Act

The bill would have prohibited both public and private sector employees from being required to either join a union or pay union dues as a condition of their employment.