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“People who truly believe in justice and equality, and peace and socialism, should not actually really care whether their contributions are individually noted,” Angela Davis asserted at a tribute to her friend and mentor, Charlene Mitchell, in 2009.

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Facing certain impeachment, on May 17 Ecuador's deeply unpopular rightwing president Guillermo Lasso pulled the plug and dissolved the National Assembly, calling for new elections.

A legal campaign against universities and think tanks seeks to undermine the fight against false claims about elections, vaccines and other hot political topics.- aimed against those that study the spread of disinformation.

Ecological crisis, rural deindustrialization, and real estate speculation have created conditions in which the far right thrives. Combatting the rising right and surging wildfires will take a progressive green industrial policy,

Teamsters have overwhelmingly voted to strike July 31. The vote doesn’t mean that a walkout is inevitable. The vote is a signal UPS management ignores at its peril. Most important, which side of the scale the Biden administration places its thumb.

Europe’s left movements and parties are facing tougher challenges

After seven months, the workers of Storm King Art Center, in New York’s Hudson Valley, have successfully organized.

The former Berkeley mayor's record of accomplishments from civil rights activism to groundbreaking political initiatives to far-sighted community economic development programs to global solidarity and elder statesman leadership could fill volumes.

Most unhoused people are from in state and desire to find housing, while Black and older people are disproportionately affected