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Racism, Antisemitism, ideas of “outside agitators” are the right’s most effective tools for delegitimizing the message and messengers of social justice. If protest can be blamed on those outside, both the message and the messenger are untrustworthy.

Brazil Election: Landless Workers, Chomsky Meets Lula, French Left Leader, El Salvador Left vs Right, Transforming the UK, South Asia Women's Movements, Weekly Protest in Austria

This is the third report in National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities and implications of the transatlantic slave trade.

Contrary to what is often believed, the wage-earning classes are not united but fragmented. In competition with each other, can they be controlled. It is only with the help of the state and in fighting for state power that solidarity can be created.

For Jill Lepore, the United States has always been a nation caught between its sunny ideals and its darker realities.

In a new speech, “Building a Global Democratic Movement to Counter Authoritarianism,” Sanders spells out that we must develop a global movement against unaccountable state and corporate power, which are mutually reinforcing.

While primaries are difficult to predict, today’s polls are not just failing, they seem to be doing so in a way that makes progressive candidates of color appear to have less support than they do.

Unions representing sheet metal workers, flight attendants and public service employees took steps Tuesday to support the 2,700 Marriott hotel workers in Hawaii who were on their second day of a strike for higher wages and better benefits.

Far Right Courts; Indigenous Climate Defense; Rightwing Think Tanks; Kochs Under of the Radar; Blacklist; Cruelty is the Point

Kavanaugh bears a pattern of anti-worker adjudication—a stance that inordinately harms women.