: Nicole Colson The latest secrets revealed by WikiLeaks show the terrible legacy of the U.S. war on Iraq--but U.S. political leaders are trying to shoot the messenger.
: Randy Childs A proposed legal settlement to limit teacher layoffs in some heavily minority schools in LA is being exploited by school "reformers" for their own ends.
: Scott McLemee The Jon Stewart rally this weekend is bound to draw young people filled with unhappiness about the world, but its anti-ideological spirit is a dead end.
: Rory Fanning Some 150 tenants packed a meeting of the Chicago Housing Authority board to demand that it keep the Lathrop Homes available to low-income families.
Workers at an ESPN Zone restaurant in Baltimore who lost their jobs when the chain shut most of its doors are fighting back.
: Alan Maass Lots of people disgusted with right-wing fanaticism will cheer on Jon Stewart's "Million Moderate March." But is moderation what we need?
Forget about what we did for two years, and focus on what the Republicans will do--that's the message of the Democratic Party before next month's election.
: Lee Sustar Barack Obama and the Democrats are about to take a pasting not because they were too bold, but because they tailored their policies to Wall Street.
More and more people are feeling the urgent need to challenge the right wing and its bigotry. But that challenge will have to come from below.
Around 50 people came out for an antiwar march and rally at a Democratic fundraiser headlined by President Barack Obama.
: Lance Selfa Racism as we understand it today did not always exist. It came into being as a consequence of the African slave trade and the rise of capitalism.
: Alan Maass Marx's view of the world is built around the centrality of the struggle between exploiter and exploited--ultimately over whether society will go forward or not.
Find out more about daylong conferences on Marxism being held by the International Socialist Organization around the country.
: Michael Ratner The president of the Center for Constitutional Rights on the escalating assault on civil liberties in the wake of the FBI raids on antiwar and socialist activists.
: Eamonn McCann The new Conservative Party government in Britain is taking aim at some of the most vulnerable people in society.
: Sandra Demarcq French workers and students' struggle against raising the retirement age has unleashed a general resistance against Nicolas Sarkozy's policies.
: Charles-André Udry Strikes and demonstrations have spread to every corner of France as conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy pushes his proposal for pension "reform."
: Brian Lenzo After numerous delays and bureaucratic stalling, a fifth aid convoy organized by Viva Palestina has crossed into Gaza.
: Karen Wirsig In France, thousands of workers without legal immigration status are playing a central role in reenergizing the country's left-wing social movements.
: Lee Sustar The rejection of a proposed teachers' contract in Baltimore reflects growing rank-and-file discontent with the failure of unions to confront "school reform."
On the heels of a victory that stopped some evictions in Chicago, activists are calling for an immediate moratorium on all evictions.
: Daphna Thier Despite having neither the means nor intent to commit acts of terrorism before a government agent entered their lives, four New York men face life in jail.
: Carl Finamore Wall Street is thrilled because airlines are making big money--but that doesn't necessarily bode well for passengers or airline workers.
: Ragina Johnson Three-day strikes by UNITE HERE workers at Hilton hotels in Chicago, San Francisco and Honolulu raised the heat on the bosses.
: Mario Cardenas After over a month of occupying a field house at Whittier Elementary School, a group of Chicago mothers believe they are close to winning their demands.
About 500 people rallied for justice for Oscar Grant III at Oakland's City Hall in advance of the sentencing of his murderer.
More than 150 counterprotesters turned out to confront members of the Ku Klux Klan who held an anti-LGBT rally at Augusta State University.
Dozens of residents confronted Mayor Craig Lowe and city commissioners about Gainesville's "meal-limit" ordinance against the homeless and hungry.
: Johnny Mao A Seattle police firearms review board ruled that the deadly shooting of a Native American man by an officer was not justified.
The revolt against Nicolas Sarkozy's pension "reform" has transformed French politics--and it has the potential to do the same across Europe and beyond.
: Mike Marqusee The bankers and stockbrokers are convinced that they're entitled to their wealth and power--and that this wealth and power reflects their superiority.
: Arundhati Roy A renowned writer and activist explains why she faces arrest for exposing the truth about India's occupation of Kashmir.
: Elizabeth Schulte After two decades, Anita Hill's testimony--and the right-wing backlash against her--holds lessons for anyone who takes sexual harassment seriously.
The Liberal Democrats--junior partners to the Tories in Britain's government--are abandoning all their election promises.
: Sandy Boyer Democrats are telling people to vote for Andrew Cuomo to keep Carl Paladino out of the governor's office--but there's a real choice on the ballot.
Would there be any question about NPR's decision if Williams had expressed similar sentiments toward any other religion?
Thousands of people in Harlem are about to lose their green space--to the construction of yet another charter school.
Rochester, N.Y., is a perfect laboratory of imperial decline--once a boomtown, now a city whose corporate fortunes are waning.
This season, a typical NFL game is starting to look like a triage center, with concussions and serious injuries to players piling up.
: Alexander Billet Musicians of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra are on the picket line, fighting for fair wages, but also the future of music.
If Democrats lose ground in this election, they have no one to blame but themselves. We shouldn't support them out of fear of a GOP takeover.
In the interest of building the most effective movement to stop the cuts, it's helpful to assess the lessons learned from organizing that took place last spring.
If we were to really examine the root causes of Chile's mining disaster, we would have to question capitalism itself.
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