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History shows that the decline of national liberation movements is inevitable. Without undertaking the political work to build progressive alternatives, moving from one political epoch to another can be a movement from the frying pan into the fire.

"When conservative Democrats have repeatedly ripped apart the president's agenda while progressives fight to save it, it's frankly bizarre to watch the media conversation focus on the risks of 'going too far left.'"

The bills to create and fund universal healthcare face opposition from powerful lobbies for doctors and insurance companies

The plight of the Afghan people was crucial for pundits and journalists — as long as they had a war to defend. Now that US troops are gone, Joe Biden's sanctions are causing starvation and suffering — and the media has been astonishingly silent.

In America today, if you poison and kill hundreds of thousands of people so you can take home a multi-million-dollar paycheck, you get to buy a new yacht.

The most promising course of action for human survival might well lie in a mobilization to compel the nuclear nations to accept the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to accept a restrained role in a cooperatively-governed world.

It is a disgraceful legacy that we cannot afford to pass on to future generations.

Swedish social democracy produced one of the most humane societies in history. That wouldn’t have happened without a militant labor movement and a working-class political party.

Three lessons from the 301-day nurses' strike at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester