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News and analysis about and from movements and parties around the world

Within the labor movement, all of the bright ideas and strategic insights in the world won’t amount to much if the democratic rights of union members themselves aren’t respected, restored, and expanded.

Reviewer Bachtell on this "multi-layered working-class suspense thriller," the second novel by this widely respected working class movement leader, activist, and thinker.

If rehabilitation is the point of our justice system, government agencies shouldn’t punish people who’ve paid their debt, and who are trying to do the right thing.

Racial disparities even starker than at the height of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s “stop and frisk” era.

A legally binding prohibition on nuclear tests is a fundamental step in our quest for a world free of nuclear weapons," said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.

The Native American boarding school system — a decades-long effort to assimilate Indigenous people before they ever reached adulthood — robbed children of their culture, family bonds and sometimes their lives.

An animated documentary film based on a true story, the film follows Aurora Mardiganian’s life during and just after the Armenian genocide.

What to make of the GOP debate, human rights for Juggalos, and more culture clash

A decision last Friday makes union organizing possible again.