“The child mortality rate here dropped to 7 percent from 17 percent in five years thanks to Mais Médicos,” said Dr. Dalva. “I told people to think about that before they voted.”
As Honduran teachers and doctors resist the neoliberal restructuring of health and education services, educator/organizer Bayron Rodríguez Pineda explains the roots of the national strike and the rise of popular power 10 years after the coup d’etat.
"I didn't hear Jamie Dimon criticizing socialism when Wall Street begged for the largest federal bailout in American history—some $700 billion from the Treasury and even more from the Fed," Bernie Sanders before speech on Democratic Socialism.
Rural voters hold enormous potential for progressives. When Donald Trump came in 2016, many rural voters were desperate. He promised to bring back factory jobs. He promised to bring back coal-mining jobs. Sure, these were lies. But they were lies.
In late April Linda and Phyllis spent 5 days at a shelter in San Diego assisting families just released from border detention. Both are retired and work supporting detainees and asylum seekers. These notes are from that experience.
Unlike a state of emergency that is called after natural disasters, this is a man-made disaster that is putting people's lives and health in danger.
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If you don’t have worker power behind you, the ideas you uphold — socialist ideas — are not seen as credible.
Meet the public defender who is shaking up the Queens DA race.
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