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Fear on campus

Since 2017, 21 states have passed 41 laws enhancing penalties and fines for common protest-related crimes—part of a wave of nearly 300 anti-protest bills introduced nationwide.

The fight against the militarized police training center dubbed “Cop City” is one of the great struggles of our time.

The demand: democracy. The response: advancing fascist movements and state repression.

Poet Langston Hughes was invited to speak at Occidental College on this day in 1948, then uninvited when red-baiters released a report calling him a “subversive.” His story shows how the postwar Red Scare targeted radicals, particularly black leftists.

The new head of the Party of the European Left discusses democracy as a strategic goal

Given the Russian government’s brutal repression of dissent, the level of Russian resistance to the Putin regime’s war on Ukraine is quite remarkable.

Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University student, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists