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News and analyses from and about social movements, political parties and unifying activists

A new book argues that Whitman’s celebration of fellow feeling could unite America today.

For all her influence as an activist, intellectual, and writer, Angela Davis has not always been taken as seriously as her peers. Why not?

A community organization created a web tool that simply reminds people of their court dates. The impact is profound.

For those who say negotiations are impossible, we have only to look at the talks that took place during the first month after the Russian invasion, when Russia and Ukraine tentatively agreed to a fifteen-point peace plan in talks mediated by Turkey.

Tolkien fans see red over casting choices, and more hot flashes from babble-on media

What the U.S. labor movement can learn from European workers who are organizing against “algorithmic management.”

Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev, who died last week, was a tragic figure. He tried to build a humane socialism on the rotten foundations of authoritarianism. Today, without the albatross of Stalinism, we can fight for an entirely different kind of socialism.

The MLBPA distributed the authorization cards in large part to demonstrate minor leaguers could clear that bar, and they are said to have done so easily.

He took part in the Jan. 6 Insurrection