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Over the last few years, housing activism has boomed—a trend that transcends the issue of rent control through its focus on halting gentrification and protecting low-income people of color from displacement.

The robbery is nearly complete.

David Harvey seeks to renew our reading of Marx's Capital in the wake of capitalism's current multifaceted crisis.

The situation in Zimbabwe is one of a dissatisfied ruling elite using their monopoly on violence to manipulate and control society. This will not change the fundamentally oppressive, and inegalitarian structures of that society.

By seizing control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and placing an ideological extremist in charge, US President Donald Trump has brought to the fore the deepest flaws in his administration’s founding myth. The gutting that now awaits the agency will visibly harm many of the ordinary people Trump promised to defend.

Workers at the artisanal shop in the Flatiron District of New York City voted last week to join Teamsters Local 553 — joining some 4,000 other Teamster members in an array of industries from trucking to dairy production.

We often talk about emotional labor in our personal lives. But what about at work?

We often talk about emotional labor in our personal lives. But what about at work?

A note from the Media Bits and Bytes crew: The FCC will end net neutrality unless millions act to save it. We urge you to join and promote protests at Verizon stores on December 7, and share the video below far and wide.

A history of the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip examines what military formulas are used to control Palestinian lives.