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Eyewitness report from France. Deaf to the angry people’s legitimate grievances, unwilling to deal with them, Macron has given himself no other choice than to legislate new repressive legal restrictions to suppress their continued free expression.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the reopening of the infamous Christmas Island refugee camp in response to legislation allowing asylum seekers on two other island camps the right to travel to Australia for medical treatment.

Trump is wedded to a racist and non-reality-based view of the United States' relationship to the rest of the world. But we also need to pay attention to the geopolitical calculations of the U.S. elite overall to craft an anti-war strategy.

"Charlie on the MTA". They wrote it for a progressive candidate named Walter A. O’Brien, who opposed the latest fare increase.

A well-regarded historian muses on key works that illuminate history and popular struggles.

“I am a lesbian, mother and senior trade union leader" -- TSSA organising director NADINE RAE is the first ever trade union official to be nominated in the British LGBT Awards.

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Dependency and power imbalances brought on by capitalist financial insecurity are the enemies of true romance. Are all your relationship woes rooted in economic anxiety? Absolutely not. But by organizing collectively, we can become more empowered ...

February 1 marked the 59th anniversary of the start of the Greensboro sit-ins, a protest started in 1960 by four college students against racial segregation in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their actions quickly spurred a nationwide movement.