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A well-regarded historian muses on key works that illuminate history and popular struggles.

The Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) is Mexico’s most important independent union on the Left. Ten years ago, it was nearly destroyed. Today, its members are rebuilding through a new labor cooperative.

After a significant year for the gun control movement in 2018, momentum for stricter firearms laws in states across the country likely will accelerate this year.

The Republican governor signed a bill curbing Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, months after voters approved the program.

This book, writes reviewer Tebble, "not only gives an account of the different meanings that have been ascribed to liberalism and evoked in its uses." It also "recovers some of those meanings that have been eclipsed, distorted and eroded."

Annunciation House shelter still receives calls each week about new cases of separations in El Paso, legal coordinator said

France: Unions and Yellow Vests, Senfo Tonkam Speaks, Repression in Russia and China, Mexican Electrical Workers, Canadian Class-Warriors, Students Fight On in Albania

In the Lone Star State, a preview of the political battle to come.

Putin hasn’t deviated from Yeltsin, the Soviet past was a great help to the new Russia, and other original points concerning Russia's role in the world.

Between 1930 and 1980, the rate applied on the highest incomes was on average 81 percent, and the rate applied to the highest inherited estates was 74 percent. Clearly this did not destroy American capitalism.