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Why aren’t insurance companies aggressively fighting climate change, and minimizing catastrophes? Look at their balance sheets.

The advance paves the way, they say, for the long-sought creation of practical, inexpensive, carbon-free power plants that could make a major contribution to limiting the effects of global climate change.

In the 1970s, her art was so influential that Angela Davis credited it with launching the Black women’s movement. At 95, Saar is still creating work - and it is as arresting as ever

A lifelong communist, revolutionary poet and Black feminist organizer, Claudia Jones lived her many lives in the service of collective liberation.

S.B. 8 sets its sights on anyone who “aids and abets,” so as to isolate the most vulnerable seeking an abortion. S.B. 1 similarly creates criminal consequences for those seeking to offer help to confused, non-English-speaking, or disabled voters.

In Chile, as in the US, marches against poverty, the striving for racial equity, the call to address the ravages of climate desolation, the demand that funds be spent on people not war are aimed at the neo-liberal order first enacted by Pinochet.

The big questions are now: can the Left become a street and shop level fighter in coming struggles? Can it maintain its positions against armaments and military interference around the globe?

In the auto industry, where most UAW members work, many are frustrated with years of concessionary contracts that have allowed automakers to build a two-tier workforce, with the number of temporary and lower-paid workers ballooning.

Poet-Teacher Susan Gubernat brings the life—and passion --of Emma Goldman into the 21st Century.

From healthcare to Hollywood, workers are demanding higher wages, fighting cuts and seeking better safety and conditions.