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Responding to spiraling disaster

A veteran civil rights attorney won a landmark redistricting case. He fears such wins could soon vanish.

The old world is dying. Can the new world be born?

States were meant to be “laboratories of democracy.” Instead, they are pioneering new ways to restrict voting and distort representation.

Throughout the United States, racial separation remains a common feature of collective life. The consequences are significant for left political organizing aimed at building a multiracial working-class majority.

This week: left economists cut through the baloney, rumblings of general strike, and a guide to wrecking your party

At the turn of the last century, Ukraine’s labor movement was subject to tsarist domination and divided along linguistic lines. The revolutions of 1917 inspired calls for self-determination and the formation of a common Ukrainian identity.

How movements settle the debate on whether to engage with political parties from the inside or outside will have a profound impact on their effectiveness.

Setting aside the traditional `two-party system' frame, which obscures far more than it reveals, and making use of a `six-party' model instead. The new hypothesis, I suggested, had far more explanatory power regarding the events unfolding before us.