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Nearly three decades after the fall of Suharto, human rights organizations describe Indonesia as a state undergoing democratic backsliding, accompanied by pressure on protesters and journalists and by an expanding military role in civilian affairs.

A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society behaves this way that society is doomed,” one said

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Counter-tariffs and greater EI supports are a start, but workers need something more comprehensive.

As Trump-GOP healthcare cuts devastate millions, Yale experts have found that Medicare for All would save the US over $1 trillion and more than 114,000 lives per year.

The Canadian aluminum industry hasn’t bilked the United States. America needs aluminum to keep its auto plants running and to keep food and drink prices down, and Canada is just better at making it.

Ruqayya Rabe’i was three months pregnant when a mob of Israelis invaded the village where she lives. She spoke with Jacobin about her lost pregnancy and how settler violence seeks to destroy the basis of Palestinian life.

New details from a whistleblower provide new cause for alarm. Will the courts intervene in time?

Nearly 600 workers at Denver Public Library will be represented by a collective bargaining unit after employees voted overwhelmingly in favor of forming Denver’s first union under newly afforded labor rights.

This new collection of essays, articles, and radio scripts should help bring renewed attention to this too-little-known modernist left wing poet and writer.