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Abolition of the carceral state is a fundamental political goal for the Left today: specifically, abolishing the carceral state’s logic and institutions. . Abolition is both a goal and a discourse: it informs the strategies we adopt, as well as the framework we use to critique the carceral state and describe alternatives.

Amid protesting in St. Louis over the acquittal of a white police officer accused of murdering a black man after a car chase, a youth football team decided to take a knee during a pregame rendition of the national anthem. The team's coach said that the decision was made by the eight-year-olds following "a good teaching moment" about what was happening in the nearby city, and why.

"I know you guys are going to find this hard to believe. But a few months ago, after my son had open heart surgery . a senator named Bill Cassidy from Louisiana was on my show, and he wasn't very honest," Kimmel said, kicking things off. Here's a transcript of most of Kimmel's remarks, which got heated, especially toward Cassidy - and he had a few choice words for people who will criticize him for politicizing his son's health problems.

Learning from the past, Brazil's landless rural workers continue their struggle for democracy and justice.

In Belgium, in the Congo, as much as in the slave South of the United States, there remain too many monuments to exploiters, not enough of resistors.

Missouri stayed the execution of Marcellus Williams, but why was he sentenced to die in the first place?

Leaving a tip isn't only payment for services, it is a mark of social and economic superiority -- which is why workers in the US resisted the system in the 19th century.

This new book is an in-depth look at how the 1964 Civil Rights Act impacted the world of women and work.

A new study reveals that more, and more diverse, US college students voted in 2016. What are the implications for future elections?

TEAMSTERS JOINT Council 16, representing 120,000 Teamsters in 27 locals across the five boroughs of New York City, as well as Long Island, the Hudson Valley and Puerto Rico, has declared itself a "sanctuary union."