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The crisis of education in the United States presents not only a danger to American democracy, but also the ideological and structural foundations for the emergence of a fascist state. Florida's Ron DeSantis view of education as propaganda factories

Reader Comments: Upcoming Supreme Court Decisions; 2022 Elections; Joe Manchin and Our Senate Problem; GOP, Democracy and Fascism; Abortion; U.S. History, Working Class and Class War; Paying Tribute to Howard Zinn; more ....

‘The main political responsibility of the Left is to identify, assemble, animate, and unite the social forces capable of accomplishing the primary breakthrough required at each moment.’

Reader Comments: Hearings Big Night, When Are Charges?; Latin America's Next Left; African American Solidarity Archives; Rosenberg Sons File New FOIA Request; Publisher Seeks Donations to Send Books & Pamphlets to Newly-Unionized Baristas; more

The picture that emerged from yesterday's hearing is not dramatically different from what we've learned before — an unhinged man willing to do anything to maintain power, even at the cost of lives, law, and our democracy.

Reader Comments: Hearings and Republican Witnesses Show that Trump Planned Armed Coup; Supreme Court Rules Based on Lies, and Religion; Librarians and Books Under Attack; Starbucks Union Grows; Socialism 2022 Conference Labor Day weekend; more ....

Reader Comments: Trump Complicity; Supreme Court Coup; Four facts to remember on the 4th of July; Salt of the Earth - Only Film Blacklisted; Resources; Announcements;

Reader Comments: Supreme Court Dobbs Abortion Decision and the Present Danger; How the World Sees Us - in Cartoons; Debunking 5 Top Inflation Myths; more....

Mark Meadows, Donald Trump's final chief of staff supported the reckless pursuit of the “rigged election” fever dream which Trump personally began laying the groundwork for months before the election had even taken place, and still refuses to disavow