The Russian state has forced many antiwar leftists into exile, cutting them off from ordinary Russians. But activists are well aware that change in Russia must come from within, mobilizing ordinary people around their own interests.
The recent release of more Epstein files only provide more evidence about just how close former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein were to each other, despite Barak’s protestations to the contrary.
Poor health outcomes are often treated as an unfortunate by-product of individual bad decisions. This moralizing approach ignores the role poverty plays in determining who gets ill and who can afford to get well.
Socialist New York State Assembly member and nurse Phara Souffrant Forrest on why New York City nurses are right to be on strike demanding safer staffing levels, a modest pay increase, and new safety measures on the job.
After over 500 days of bargaining, the United Auto Workers have reached a first contract with Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee — a major breakthrough for unions in the South that lays the ground for further inroads at other employers across the region.
Tory and Labour governments in Britain have provided every conceivable form of support for Israel’s genocidal project in Gaza. Peter Oborne, an independent-minded conservative journalist, has now provided us with a definitive record of their complicity.
Over the last year, Mongolia has been experiencing a political crisis, with its parliament and president bitterly at odds. The crisis is symptomatic of a state and an economic model that denies the country’s people the benefits of its mineral wealth.
The major credit reporting companies that help determine your ability to obtain a loan, buy a house, or get a job are urging the Trump administration to hide consumer complaints about their potential misdeeds, which can wreck families’ finances.
As socialist New York legislator Claire Valdez runs for Congress, socialist housing organizer Samantha Kattan is running to replace her in the state assembly. We spoke to Kattan about her campaign.
Seventy years ago, C. Wright Mills published The Power Elite, a scathing indictment of corporate executives, state officials, and their academic apologists. His analysis has lost none of its bite as we confront an increasingly degenerate US power elite.
Until quite recently, many Big Tech firms opposed the militarization of AI, but that now seems like ancient history as they move to sign partnerships with arms companies. The prospect of lavish Pentagon funding for AI is too tempting to refuse.
While Donald Trump’s bid to grab control over Greenland from Denmark has been attracting all the headlines, the focus on the Arctic is also making Norway anxious. Its northern territory Svalbard could become another bone of geopolitical contention.
In Minneapolis, years of robust labor and community organizing set the stage for the fierce pushback against federal immigration agents’ aggressive invasion. Their experience may soon be relevant to cities elsewhere in the US facing incursions from ICE.
As a historic nurses’ strike enters its fourth week, New York governor Kathy Hochul has protected hospitals from the strike’s impact by making it easier to hire scabs and doing little to stop executives from dragging out a fight over staffing and safety.
Are you desperate for genre movie escapist fun amid all this hell lately? Who isn’t? Sam Raimi’s Send Help is just what the doctor ordered.
The state of Michigan filed a lawsuit in federal court last week against major oil companies including ExxonMobil and Chevron, accusing them of engaging in a decades-long conspiracy to block the development of clean energy and electric vehicles.
The new Dutch government’s program splurges on the military while cutting the welfare state. With most NATO members committing to similarly high defense spending, working-class Europeans are forced to pay the costs.
Amid aggressive bank lobbying and Donald Trump’s efforts at deregulation, we may be seeing the return of residential-mortgage-backed securities — one of the financial products that led to millions of foreclosures during the Great Recession.
Last week was the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision enshrining the idea that money in politics is not corruption, but constitutionally protected speech. States and cities across the US are battling the rotten legacy of that decision.
Democratic socialist and Minneapolis City Council member Robin Wonsley was reelected and elevated to minority leader just days before ICE escalated its raids. We spoke to her about fighting immigration repression alongside city residents.