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Amid the bleak political landscape of Clinton’s America, a 1996 summit of union organizers and intellectuals proved a surprise success. It also showed the weakness of left ideas without a strong labor movement.

If Democrats allow corporate-aligned “centrists” to downsize the budget plan, abandoning FDR's legacy, they will lose not just the battle but the war.

"It's almost as if Facebook's monopolistic mission to either own, copy, or destroy any competing platform has incredibly destructive effects on free society and democracy," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Long takes on Iran and Haiti, and the drive for popular democracy in Africa

This book studies how the Communist Party worked in post World War II Detroit, writes reviewer Johnson, "to effectuate social, economic, and political change in the city in this period."

A long-time DSA member and former local-union president, Tambor writes about how his socialist worldview played a role in more than thirty years of union work.

The top constraint on global climate talks is still parochial American politics.

The GOP used the debt ceiling to force spending cuts in 2011. It can’t be allowed again.

At last weekend’s Teamsters for a Democratic Union convention, nearly 400 rank-and-file Teamsters convened to discuss taking power in their union and organizing Amazon.

After Rodriguez ordered Che be shot, his hands were chopped off and shipped to Langley, but not before he stole the Rolex from Che’s corpse that was meant for the son of one of his compatriots in Bolivia