Gezi Platform NYC is an alliance of activists that engage in actions to support public protests in Turkey.
Joe Biden’s CFPB passed rules limiting overdraft and credit card late fees. As the chair of the Senate committee that oversees the agency, Tim Scott wants to reinstate these junk fees — a key priority for his donors in finance.
Although the West has long tolerated forced expulsions when convenient, its postwar framework at least nominally rejected them. Now the US is not just abandoning those norms — it appears to be actively legitimizing ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s assault on federal workers threatens government employees, working conditions throughout the economy, and the viability of crucial services. Federal workers are uniting across agency and union lines to fight back.
Today 4,000 Amazon workers at a North Carolina warehouse will finish voting on a union. Employees say the company “mobilized an army” ahead of the election, siccing local police on organizers and trying to pit black and Hispanic workers against each other.
China has changed under Xi Jinping, with implications for the entire world. But few outsiders understand much about Xi’s ideas or the policies that seem to flow from them.
Donald Trump has championed tariffs as a way to revive American manufacturing. But without a real industrial strategy, Catalyst editor Vivek Chibber argues, they’re little more than a handout to capital.
Germany’s Christian Democrat leader Friedrich Merz has broken a long-established “firewall” isolating the far right. A vote on hardening the borders has given Alternative für Deutschland a leg up just ahead of the federal election.
Once the left of the Australian Labor Party was committed to working-class politics. To avoid collapse, Labor must return to that legacy — but today’s Labor Left is more committed to neoliberalism and serving US foreign policy.
After his tragic death earlier this month, Marxist sociologist Michael Burawoy left behind not only a formidable body of scholarship but also a model of how to pursue a form of sociology informed by and informing efforts for social change.
Progressive ballot measures in California have suffered crushing defeats, even as similar initiatives succeed in red states. These losses show that ballot initiatives can backfire on the Left — and sometimes leave movements worse off than before.
The best parts of the Biden administration’s response to the cost-of-living crisis are already being forgotten.
Many of the major dating apps are owned by one company, Match Group. The corporation is now facing a class-action lawsuit alleging that it is unlawfully misleading app users, violating false advertising and deceptive trade practices laws.
Peter Mandelson, the new British ambassador to Washington, has always been keen to suck up to the wealthy. He should have no problem groveling before the Trump administration on behalf of Keir Starmer’s government.
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DOGE’s slashing and burning has nothing to do with “efficiency” and everything to do with further enriching Elon Musk and his fellow plutocrats.
Donald Trump has announced the new chief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Jonathan McKernan, a former banking regulator who’s pushed to approve bank megamergers that harm consumers and that the CFPB has previously fought to prevent.
With the National Labor Relations Act now in the crosshairs of the Right, organized labor needs to confront an uncomfortable truth: even at its best, this framework has severe limitations. It’s time to explore alternatives.
Don’t mourn the professional-managerial class — organize it.
Like its 20th-century predecessors, today’s far right longs for the purported glories of the ancient world, all while fetishizing modern technology.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died last month, attempted to forge an alliance between neo-fascists, apologists for French colonialism, and neglected working-class communities. Today this coalition threatens the foundations of the Fifth Republic.