Anti-corruption politics won’t liberate Guatemala from the military, organized crime, and the wealthy. But only elites’ interests will be served by shutting down the country’s attempts to root that corruption out.
Mandatory reselection isn’t about settling old scores. It’s about opening up politics to ordinary people.
We have to name the crimes against the Rohingyas, Palestinians, and Kashmiris what they are: genocide, apartheid, and colonialism.
The New York Board of Education and teachers unions’ refusal to fight racism in public education was responsible for the 1968 Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis, not Black Power.
Quebec has no shortage of urgent issues: housing, deep cuts to public services, crumbling schools, inequality. But in the province’s forthcoming elections, parties are taking up xenophobia and Islamophobia instead.
Julia Salazar won her New York State Senate race last night. Her campaign, and those that lost, show what the Democratic Party will throw at left candidates — and how we can beat them.
On Sunday, the far right had its best ever result in Sweden. And they’re pushing the rest of the political spectrum to capitulate to their agenda.
US household incomes saw a small uptick in 2017. But for the working class, the larger picture remains largely bleak.
To win their walkouts for better pay and better schools, educators are defying court injunctions and district-organized strikebreaking across Washington state.
Medicare for All is good policy. It’s also very easy to understand.
Desperate for unity, the Democrats have clipped the superdelegates’ wings. It’s another win for the Bernie wing of the party.
Right-wing billionaire Richard DeVos, who died at ninety-two last week, tried to cover up his life’s record — pioneering the cruel pyramid scheme Amway, attacking organized labor, fighting LGBTQ equality — with philanthropy. But he should be remembered as a bigoted con artist.
The New York teachers’ union in the 1960s was stridently anticommunist and embraced an elitist sense of professionalism — producing an obsessive opposition to community involvement and black nationalism and the 1968 Ocean Hill-Brownsville strikes.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the “strike that changed New York,” the Ocean Hill-Brownsville teachers strikes have much to teach us about building a strong anti-racist labor movement made up of both workers and community members.
Working three jobs, renting out their homes: decades of regressive tax cuts have driven the teacher wage penalty to record levels — and are forcing educators to take desperate measures.
One of our contributors, Max Zirngast, has been taken into custody by Turkish police. This is an appalling abridgment of democratic rights.
The violent overthrow of Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973 brought to a brutal close a thousand days of popular participation and radical democratic ferment.
The disappearance of kings and emperors didn’t end domination by powerful individuals — capitalism just transformed it. Julius Caesar has given way to Elon Musk.
Salvador Allende died 46 years ago today in a US-backed coup. Here’s his final address, broadcast over the radio while he was barricaded in the presidential palace.
Barack Obama thinks Medicare for All is a good idea. His support is welcome — but this time, we won’t accept any compromises on a universal, free public health program.