The race between Cyril Ramaphosa and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as to who will succeed Jacob Zuma as ANC president remains too close to call. The divisions between the candidates reflect the divisions within the revolutionary alliance that brought an end to South African apartheid.
The tax bill will compound the warfare on human rights that the Trump administration continues to perpetuate with its regressive policies.
“What we’re really seeing is a targeted effort by the GOP to not just attack education, but working-class students’ access to it.”
Trump’s dangerous and provocative move regarding Jerusalem—like so many of his reckless policies both abroad and at home—requires strong, broad-based opposition. It is unfortunate that, at least in this case, there is no real opposition party.
The president on Wednesday will also announce relocating the U.S. Embassy, a move that could undermine peace efforts.
Two new books shed light on the sustained union-busting campaigns that bookended that all-too brief period of labor-management détente. Chad Pearson’s Reform or Repression: Organizing America’s Anti-Union Movement, and Lane Windham's Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970’s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide.
The criminalization of drug use was and still is an easy excuse to surveil and control populations.
All national police will refuse to enforce a curfew after days of deadly violence triggered by allegations of electoral fraud.
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History professor Benjamin Madley has written the first comprehensive investigation of the catastrophe that befell California's Indigenous population from 1846 to 1873: a catastrophe that was entirely man-made. An American Genocide catalogs the killing of tens of thousands of Native people during those years, and proves just how complicit the Californian and United States government were in the slaughter. Order this important book by donating to Truthout today!
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