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Larry Pratt, a former Virginia state legislator, suggested that local armed militias should be formed to help in the war on drugs. His models were the civil defense patrols in Guatemala and the Alsa Masa vigilantes in the Philippines

Militant anti-racist activity coincided with the pandemic due to the realization that these expressions of structural racism – disparate vulnerability to death from the virus, disparate vulnerability to death from police violence -- were linked.

The modernisation of China’s exchange-rate system could deal the currency a painful blow.

The union’s loss in Bessemer shows the urgent need for both labor law reform and organizing at a mass scale.

The prize-winning writer shares her thoughts on India, nationalism, literature and politics.

The union’s loss in Bessemer shows the urgent need for both labor law reform and organizing at a mass scale.

“The thing about the universe,” writes poet Dan Albergotti, “is that it seems infinite, but really it’s only a ceaseless series of extinctions.”

Legislation that expands collective bargaining by enabling workers to choose union representation and strengthens union rights is critically important to restoring wage growth and wage equality.

In a wide-ranging talk, the 92-year-old rebel with many causes discusses the role of activists, intellectuals and Joe Biden in America.

A new formulation entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam could change how the world fights the pandemic.