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For the first time in recent memory workers in multiple Chicago hotels have walked off the job at the same time, and it appears to have taken management by surprise.

Why we desperately need real intersectional feminism. Nadasen asks us to reject a narrow, superficial understanding of race or gender, she suggests that intersectionality at its core is a politics of liberation that we can—that we must—all embrace.

The latest win for the insurgent progressive movement within the Democratic Party is in a New York State Senate district. Julia Salazar is headed to the State Senate after toppling a long-serving incumbent in her Brooklyn district.

Indigenous Andean Women, Lula Renounces, Modi's Crackdown, Swedish Election, Nazis on the Street; Basra Uprising

Aufstehen -- a new left movement in Germany is designed to counter growing support for right-wing nationalist parties from segments of the working-class. The question is: will it unite a popular movement or be a source of new divisions?

Rising inequality and Social Democratic acquiescence to neo-liberal market policies has led to a surge of support for the anti-immigrant nationalist-populist right.

The author of this book, writes reviewer Quish, "makes a powerful case for a 'socialist constitutionalism' that deserves a place in contemporary debates on the Left."

You can just imagine the tweets, denials and equivocating that would follow a murder committed by Trump on Fifth Avenue, can’t you?

Nike and Kaep; Confederacy North; Wages of #MeToo; SCOTUS bait and switch; Chapo Chaps; Requiem for The Voice

Farenheit 11/9's strongest sections cede the floor to the progressive activists and insurgent political figures whom he paints as the country’s best, and perhaps last, hope for salvation.