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The dignity of the Greek people in the face of blackmail and injustice will send a message of hope and pride to all of Europe

Pope Francis, from the outset of his Pontificate, has pleasantly surprised militants of people’s movements around the world, in contrast with his two predecessors

Wealthy, powerful heads of state and other bosses high up in the Bavarian Alps, and the vigorous protests from opposing crowds kept out of earshot downhill, largely stole media thunder

These collected essays successfully contextualize the issues confronting the movements, parties, and governments of Latin America’s radical left

The main crisis of human rights is not about perceptions, but about its complicity with domination

Poverty, Drugs, Afghanistan, Iraq, Terror, or How to Make War on Everything

This country never committed itself to a conversation about the legacy of slavery

Bernie Sanders has called for a “political revolution.” But the New Politics movement shows the challenges of accomplishing that within the Democratic Party

After nearly two years of student organizing, Columbia University divested from the private prison industry this week

Unlike voters in Greece, Spain or Ireland, the Portuguese are not turning to left-wing parties – even the moderate mainstream left is failing to turn Portugal’s hardships to its advantage

We rejected the institutions’ 25th June proposals because of a variety of powerful reasons

Greece referendum

What Syriza represents is an attempt to return to a Social Democracy of a previous day and age. And that’s just not acceptable in the new, global neoliberal world system

Fusing gentrification, technology, tourism and anti-terrorism, the Barcelona model of urban redevelopment has sparked an upsurge of popular resistance

Washington continues to interfere in the internal politics of Honduras six years after the coup

Euphoria over same-sex marriage legalisation was tinged by memories of past injustice and warnings of future political battles

The economic damage Israel is doing to itself by continuing its regime of occupation, apartheid, siege and massacres of Palestinians may be mounting faster than previously thought

There appears to be a link between suicide and guilt for having killed, or failing to prevent death or injury

The institutional policies based on stereotypes that assume black criminality are not rooted in older forms of discrimination but can be traced to the 1990s

Race is a social fiction imposed by the powerful on those they wish to control

If in the wake of the latest UN commission, the international community does not take practical steps against war criminals, then there is no further reason for commissions

The 6-3 decision in King v. Burwell upheld a key part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which offered tax subsidies to states to establish their own health care exchanges

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announces that a referendum will be held on the Troika bailout deal

California’s healthcare unions are being reorganized. Again

Only an intensification of the struggle from below and the reinvigoration of a project of the commons can save Greece — and turn it, once again, into a beacon of democracy

On 16 June, Kurdish militiamen, with the support of US airstrikes, captured the town of Tal Abyad in northern Syria, a major crossing point on the Syrian-Turkish border

If Kagame can’t shake off the stench of crimes against humanity, he may find himself becoming another one of the West’s dispensable dictators

Liberation Theology entails the transformation of the human being towards unity and harmony with Earth and all other human beings

Our Refugee World

New early-state polling in New Hampshire and Iowa shows populist message is gaining on Clinton’s name recognition

Food Empowerment Project seeks to encourage people to look at their food choices as a force for social change

The Kurds of Kobane remained surrounded on all sides by adversaries

The veil cast over this institutional deficit of an empowered European Parliament based on a European-wide system of political parties has not yet been really shredded

The time has not been more ripe for a Marxist regroupment here and globally for at least a quarter century

When at First You Don’t Succeed, Fail, Fail Again

Sterling was one of the CIA’s few African-American case officers, and he became the first to file a racial discrimination lawsuit against the agency

Instead of acceding to the troika’s devastating demands, Syriza should free the country from the trap of the common currency – if the Greek people agree

The latest chapter in the superpower collision is Washington’s strategy of holding low altitude aircraft passes on spots in the South China Sea where China is building military structures over reclaimed land

It’s time for women across the world to unite to forge a global pro-choice movement

The think tank New America issued a report today documenting “the lethal terrorist incidents in the United States since 9/11.” It found that a total of 26 Americans have been killed by “deadly jihadist attacks” in the last 14 years, while almost double that number — 48 — have been killed by “deadly right wing attacks.” Read more…

Please join the movement to save worker education at CUNY

The fever pitch of panic resulting from the anonymous “gang” threat and “the purge” narrative is what ultimately led to curfews and a severe dampening of the largely lawful and peaceful protests in the wake of Freddie Gray’s funeral

Grassroots labor initiative urges Democratic primary support for Sanders by AFL-CIO and national unions

Slavery was the cause of the war, white supremacy was the cornerstone of Confederate society

As with the Scottish referendum, electoral defeat can be transformed into political success. A new movement is rising

This is not a protest movement about the actions of a racist gunman, but the renewal of the long struggle for racial justice and equality

The intelligence about the ‘possible military dimensions’ of Iran’s nuclear program is of questionable provenance and most of it is more than a dozen years old

Despite the severe dangers to Pakistan posed by climate change, opinion polls show that only about a quarter of Pakistanis view the issue as a powerful threat

The resistance of top US military officials to deepening US military involvement in the war against ISIS came in the wake of a major policy debate within the Obama administration

Institutionalized racism in Canada is perpetuating the crisis of murdered and missing Indigenous women