Uranium mining and reservation land

environment

A toxic legacy in Indian Country

The poisonous fruits of uranium mining are a long-lasting injury.

Gloria Romero


economy

A corporate dream come true

The secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership is of, by, and for the multinationals.

Dennis Sanders


lgbt

Contempt for human rights in Russia

Putin and pals find a solution for protests of a new anti-gay law: ban free speech!

Tamara Turner


education

Saving City College of San Francisco

Faculty contract negotiations are now the crucial front in the fight.

Bob Price, PhD


soapbox

A shameless deceit

The Palestine/Israel “peace process” is a sham — and a sham with a long history.

Adrienne Weller


the latest

Updates on stories of interest

The push to free Lynne Stewart, battling cancer and the prison system; bail out Detroit, not the banks; and support for Chelsea Manning.


labor

Labor Weather Report

A glance at how some workers and their unions are faring in the class struggle.

Steve Hoffman


editorial

A nuclear crisis without borders

In Japan, labor and community organizers square off against the nuclear energy industry.


editorial

A win for the Cuban Five

The U.S. State Department is — finally! — ordered to release key documents.


editorial

Send a socialist to city hall

Socialist Alternative candidates shake things up in three U.S. cities.


letters to the editor

Readers offer insights on ...

Environmental coverage, human rights, corporate tax dodgers, Occupy Sandy, and more.

The New Jim Crow

black america

An unfinished revolution

Fifty years after the March on Washington, with fragile civil rights reforms fraying, what’s needed to realize the dream?


Protest in Aleppo

international

No war in Syria!

Anti-sectarian Syrian rebels fight Assad, jihadists, and the threat of foreign intervention.


PRT congress

socialism

Socialist feminism in Costa Rica

A first-person account of the 22nd congress of the Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT). English, Spanish


AFL-CIO logo

labor

AFL-CIO on the ropes

But looking for salvation in all the wrong places.


End Domestic Violence

radical women

Marissa Alexander and Florida “justice”

Support swells for this Black mother of three denied the right to “stand her ground.”


First Spring Thunder, by Hung Liu

review

Summoning Ghosts: an exhibit

Chinese American painter Hung Liu transforms history into haunting art.


Human rights for prisoners

civil liberties

Inmates fight for basic human rights

California’s hunger strike is over, but the struggle to end torture in U.S. prisons continues.