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In 1926, New Jersey textile workers went on a massive strike, organized and supported by the Communist Party. The strike ultimately failed, but it showed the central role Communists could play in American class struggle.

Last week, virtually every news outlet in the global North ignored a landmark meeting where leaders of low-income countries articulated their positions prior to the make-or-break United Nations COP26 climate summit in November.

"Do you have any idea what this is?" That’s a question Lisa Sanders thinks doctors should be asking their patients more often.

Cuba and Haiti: A Tale of Two Countries

The descendants of the victims of Namibia’s genocide have vowed to continue their quest for direct reparation, after disowning the settlement struck between their government and Germany.

Melvin Van Peebles and Perry Henzell made seminal 70s films – now their kids have recovered their fathers’ would-be classics,

The essence of neoliberalism is to promote classical capitalism and remove the State from its role as regulator and controller, and create a huge increase in income and wealth inequality.

Leftists need a new (old) pitch to lead America’s cities.

A new constitution could therefore open the doors for a radical transformation of Chilean society.

Nothing pushes the panic button faster than the sound of a police siren coming up behind you, as New York-based poet Esther Cohen reports.