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After surviving the worst of the pandemic, the city now faces budget cuts that seem to promise even more disruption. The average rent of a Manhattan apartment is now reaching $5,249 a month, an increase of nearly 20 percent over the previous year.

In an attempt to salvage Israel's Jewish state rule, Israeli president Isaac Herzog presented an alternative to the Netanyahu government's planned judicial overhaul, which Netanyahu rejected outright.

The most important bank in Silicon Valley has failed, triggering economic uncertainty nationwide. To blame: tough-talking tech dudes, a reckless Congress, contradictory monetary policy, and even Barney Frank.

Reports on mass workers action in France, Italy and UK, and a hard look at the politics of climate rescue

Comrade Sisters centers photographs and personal accounts of the women who made up over two-thirds of the party.

Organized labor was on the verge of scoring landmark political victories Tuesday as the Michigan Senate voted to repeal the 2012 right-to-work law that made union membership optional at unionized workplaces and re-establish a prevailing wage standard for state projects.

Democrats usually waste their electoral majorities. So it’s shocking when the party uses its power to actually pass progressive and pro-worker legislation, as it just did in Michigan — including repealing the state’s right-to-work law.

A city-appointed reparations committee is also considering guaranteed annual incomes, wiping out personal debt and tax burdens, and homes for just $1 a family.

In this book Bettina Aptheker looks deeply into the radical commitment and contributions of many gay and lesbian members of the Communist Party (CP and CPUSA). The book provides an opening salvo to a wider discussion of how, or even if, the Left has responded to the “new forces and new passions” present in the LGBTQ liberation movement, and whether this has affected the concept of social transformation.

The groups charge BLM with failing to consider the project’s impacts on lands used for subsistence by Alaska Natives and argue the Fish and Wildlife Service failed to properly consider Willow’s potential impacts on endangered species such as polar bears.