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Recent socialist electoral campaigns have been essential to the rebirth of the US left. Now the Left needs to commit to rebuilding the labor movement from the bottom up.

Series like 'Squid Game', 'Succession' and 'Dopesick' show the view from the bottom and very top of the economic ladder, and remind us there's a great distance between the two

The threat to the survival of our democracy is clear: a would-be dictator and a cultist political party. A truly multiracial, inclusive, radical democratic movement that has a vision beyond capitalism is key.

‘He told our stories,’ actor Edward James Olmos says of the Chicago writer of corridos some called the ‘Chicano Woody Guthrie.’

Unlike most of the other struggles of this era, this strike rested on the firm backbone of the women of the mining families and communities who continued the fight when the men were beaten and jailed and the strike near defeat.

It’s never a good look when Americans must rely on Russian hackers to see who’s influencing our Supreme Court.

The insurmountable contrasts between their visions help explain Russia’s stunted development and hint at its destructive future.

Jamshid Ahmadi talks to Left MP Sevim Dagdelen about the disastrous showing for the party in the German federal elections in September and what lessons can be drawn.

In 1970, tens of thousands of people in East Los Angeles marched for equality, identifying themselves as “Chicano.” Today, the Chicano Moratorium continues as young and old learn from one another.

The book version of the famed (and reviled) magazine issue is much longer, easier to read, and changed in canny ways that will help it endure.