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The Nicaraguan government’s brutal response to protests over social security cuts has produced a nationwide grassroots mobilization against President Daniel Ortega. The Ortega-Murillo regime faces a crisis of legitimacy, which could open the door to the forces of both democracy and reaction.

The way to war, which will surely prove to be the road to hell, seems open with a Third Gulf War looming on humanity’s horizon. Once again, Iran is the enemy. Again, as in 2003, a president is surrounded by bellicose advisers intent on just such a war and looking for the right excuse to launch it.

The hard-right national security adviser successfully tanked the Iran deal. His next target? The North Korea talks.

New York’s sort-of-third party has won some big victories in the past two decades but its future is uncertain after defying Andrew Cuomo and his labor allies to endorse Cynthia Nixon. This Saturday - May 19 - the Working Families State Convention is in Harlem.

I had been a community organizer all my life; I was one of the top leaders of the Communist Party of the United States, joining as a teenager, staying some years...at a certain point in my life, I knew it was time to leave. I was a supporter of perestroika and glasnost and the party rejected it...

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I came to the opening ceremonies with a delegation of other Palestinian lawyers and activists who wanted to go together to witness, learn from and make connections with our own history of violence, dispossession and erasure. Our Palestinian delegation in Montgomery left with renewed hope that we too

Orange Crush—or the tact team, as they’re called officially—is the Illinois Department of Correction’s (IDOC) most oppressive armed wing.

If elections are wealthy interests versus voters, the counter to the power of Big Money is to increase voters’ financial power.

Puerto Rico is the latest example of "disaster capitalism." The Financial Board is promoting a pension cut for all public employees, sub-minimun wage jobs for workers under 25, and layoffs of teachers and other public employees.