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Amidst violence and COVID-19 restrictions, Black women in Brazil are mobilizing to win seats in the November 15th municipal elections and open the gateway to electoral power. Brazil ranks 132nd out of 192 countries in women’s representation.

John Reed was confronted with the choice between popular and profitable hypocrisy in the capitalist journals, and disreputable truth in the revolutionary press. He chose the truth.

Decades-long funding cuts for pandemic preparedness hamper coordinated distribution and equitable access. We must reimagine how to make life-saving vaccines available to everyone.

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) issued the following statement on November 7, following the election of Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris to the offices of president and vice president of the United States.

Fear of the dark, how people felt on the eve of the presidential election, 2020.

What so many of today's most underpaid and essential workers have in common is simply that they are women. Are we willing to re-examine the assumptions embedded in what we have been told are “free markets” for labor?

Trump’s charge that Zinn makes students feel “ashamed” of their history is false. Zinn offers dramatic accounts of Americans resisting oppression, promoting not shame but pride in this ongoing and unfinished struggle for social justice.

It simply doesn’t make a lot of sense to entrust leadership to a country with a severe personality disorder.

On Nov. 3, voters in many states and cities approved a variety of inequality-related proposals, from taxing the wealthy to increasing the minimum wage and tenant protections.

"The president seeks an unconstitutional 'restriction on the right to vote'... He is violating his duty to defend the Constitution."