There’s Another Side to the Opioid Crisis
Taking pain medication away from patients who desperately need it is no way to fight opioid abuse.
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Gezi Platform NYC is an alliance of activists that engage in actions to support public protests in Turkey.
How UIC Grad Workers Fought the Neoliberal University Model — And Won
University of Illinois-Chicago graduate workers recently went on strike over high student fees, poverty wages, and the corporate higher education model. After nearly three weeks, they won.
Sex Workers’ Rights Are Workers’ Rights
Sex workers don’t need saving. They need what every other worker needs: the power to dictate the terms of their labor.
May Day, Bloody May Day
On Berlin’s May Day 1929, the latent hostility between Social Democrats and Communists finally spilled over into bloodshed. A day meant to demonstrate workers’ unity instead showed tragic divisions in the face of rising Nazism.
Happy May Day! Workers of the World Are Uniting
Here’s something to celebrate this May Day: History may well look back at our era as the moment the working class finally got back on its feet.
Spain Under Strain
After their triumph on Sunday, Spain’s Socialists are pondering a coalition with the neoliberal Ciudadanos. Yet with nationalist parties on the rise, a government of the center will be anything but stable.
Crushing Franco’s Heirs
The Spanish Socialist Party swept to victory in this Sunday’s general election. Yet the risk of a liberal-centrist government shows the need to do more than just mobilize progressives against the far right.
Hey Kids, Join the Tories!
A centrist think-tank wagers there are 3 million young voters who could be convinced to join the Conservative Party with just a few image tweaks. Unfortunately for them, that’s delusional.
What to Make of Warren’s Policy Blitz
Elizabeth Warren may have smart policies. But Bernie Sanders has mass politics.
“If You Struggle, You Can Win”
Rutgers faculty just won a historic contract by threatening to strike. That confidence came from years of organizing and fighting the corporate university.
What Black Life Actually Looks Like
For too long, the Left has organized based on caricatures of black political life. If it wants to win, it needs to start recognizing the role of class in black America.
The Independent Group Is a Vapid Exercise in Futility
Britain’s hapless Independent Group, the centrist party spearheaded by anti-Corbyn rebels, shows that politics without purpose leads straight to disaster.
Remembering the American Workplace’s Victims
Today, on Workers Memorial Day, we should remember that thousands die on the job every year — deaths made all the more tragic because they could have been prevented by bosses who valued workers’ lives.
Podemos’s Green New Deal
Disputes over Spain’s national borders have dominated the campaign for today’s election. But Podemos’s radical environmental program against the billionaire class can save the entire planet.
The Future of Podemos Is at Stake Today
Polling for today’s general election forecasts heavy losses for Podemos. With Spanish politics polarized around the threat from the far right, Pablo Iglesias’s anti-austerity agenda is struggling to make itself heard.
The Worrying Rise of Spain’s Far Right
In today’s general election, Spain’s far right Vox party is set to enter Congress for the first time. And it’s already building alliances with the mainstream center-right.
A Hundred Years of Solidarity
If we want to fight capitalism, the US left has to figure out how to confront US empire. Generations of internationalist struggles in Latin America can help us do just that.
What Bernie Sanders and His Supporters Can Learn from Salvador Allende
As Bernie Sanders’s campaign gets underway, questions of how socialists should relate to voters and the state have become more pressing. Few historical figures provide more insight on this front than democratic socialist Salvador Allende’s government in Chile.
Inside the Khmer Rouge’s Killing Fields
Amid the devastation of war, Pol Pot’s genocidal regime came to power and led to the death of over a million Cambodians. Its roots didn’t lie in its “utopianism,” but in imperialist war and authoritarianism.
A Communist Mayor in Chile Explains How to Govern Locally From the Left
Even under right-wing governments, local leftist leaders can have a massive impact. Daniel Jadue describes the “people’s pharmacy,” cheap eye-care and glasses, public housing, left approaches to community safety, and much more instituted during his time as the Communist mayor of Recoleta, one of the thirty-seven municipalities that make up Greater Santiago, Chile.