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The committee’s vote comes a year after advocates pushed lawmakers to declare L.A. a sanctuary city amid concern that Trump would make good on his campaign promise to aggressively deport immigrants in the country illegally and build a border wall.

Jonathan Rosenblum lives in Seattle, Washington, and is a member of UAW 1981/National Writers Union. He is the author of Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement (Beacon Press, 2017). More about him can be found at jonathanrosenblum.org. The interview was counducted by Yuri Lobunov, editor-in-chief of socialistalternative.ru, where this interview was published in Russian.

Class conflict isn’t something we choose to engage in. It’s just how capitalism works.

"Oral history we call it: I want his past, he hopes/ for my future." So poet/historian Peter Neil Carroll traces the story of a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who fought the good fight, stuck to his principles to the end.

To many progressives and Berniecrats in particular the superdelegates stand apart and exist for one purpose: to take the nomination away from voters.

The push toward a one-state model with full civil rights for all living in it will likely garner further momentum now.

Some thoughts on Al Franken's departure.

Republicans’ hold on Congress and statehouses could be more vulnerable than once thought.