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It is necessary to put the capital-labor relation back at the center of left politics, says Costas Lapavitsas.

Drawing on her many years working in human rights and public health, poet Mary Ann Castle offers a portrait of a woman whose homelessness is a form of suffering but also an occasion of enlightenment.

DSA’s and Mayor Mamdani’s candidates rocked establishment incumbents backed by unions and political bigwigs. In most cases it wasn’t even close. You don’t always win, but when you do? “People carry that with them for the rest of their lives.”

A lot of coverage has focused on reining in large investors from scooping up homes. But an important provision could help thousands of working-class people buy their first home. The fate of the bill is unclear. (It passed with veto-proof margins...

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison. Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility.

A Chile’s Court sentenced three former DINA officers to 15 years in prison for the 1976 assassination of U.S. citizen Ronnie Moffitt during a transnational operation targeting diplomat Orlando Letelier.

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This fascinating intellectual history of imagined paradises takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin.

While the White House lauds the men and women of the U.S. Merchant Marine, the foundation for the preservation of that industry is being undermined. Workers and their families will be discarded, and an essential U.S. industry will be outsourced.

Tuesday's socialist sweep in New York was built on the organizing power of the Democratic Socialists of America, which has now established itself as the leading political power in the city.