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A new study shows that socialist plans to take over the privately owned power utility in New York’s Hudson Valley would lower rates for users and improve its long-term health. Public ownership of power companies is better for everyone but the rich.

With the arrival of our first trillionaire fast approaching, America’s democracy is hanging by a thread.

For decades, the most powerful state actors facilitating and protecting narcotics trafficking have not been Washington’s adversaries but Washington itself.

Between October 2023 through November 2025, the California Agriculture Labor Relations Board has certified the United Farm Workers to represent hundreds of workers statewide, according to state records.

Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?

This world feels fragile like a bomb right now, one misstep could detonate, and yet it makes me think of one of my favorite revolutionary cliches, too: be careful with one another so you can be dangerous together.

In a self-congratulatory document published to mark the two-year anniversary of its October 7 attack, Hamas doesn't explain how the armed struggle that it says is necessary has never stopped colonialist Israel

The working class is in the fight of our lives. The unity between Trump and the billionaires exploiting us isn’t even hidden anymore. It will take a lot of organizing and ironclad working-class unity to match these forces, but the fight is on.

Black Power Grows in a Tent City (1965), Lead Pollution Is Profitable, So Shut Up! (1996), ‘Two, Three, Many Vietnams’ (1966), No Responders Left Behind (2006), Protecting Kahoʻolawe from Bombs (1976)

From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history