All of a Sudden, Housing Is on the Agenda
Despite years of a deep crisis across the United States, affordable housing has never been a major issue on the national agenda. That’s changing.
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The Junior Partner of Tory Austerity
The Lib Dems want the UK election to be solely about Brexit, because they don’t want you to remember that their record in government was one of deadly austerity and heightened inequality.
Momentum Activists Are Trying to Make Jeremy Corbyn Prime Minister
The grassroots group Momentum was an instrumental campaigning force for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party during the 2017 election. Now the group is bigger and stronger, and preparing for victory next month.
Metro DC Bus Drivers Are Striking Against Privatization
Workers at the privatized Cinder Bed Road bus garage near Washington, DC are on strike as part of a broader labor upsurge in the nation’s capital. They’re fighting for better wages and benefits for themselves — and for better public services for all of us.
Why Are Pundits Fawning Over Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare-for-All Financing Proposal?
Somehow, the least progressive Medicare-for-All funding proposal I have ever seen is being championed by many in the media as our best and only choice.
The Politics of Destabilizing AMLO
In attacking President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration over a recent botched raid on the Sinaloa Cartel, the Mexican right is cynically using a crisis of its own making in an attempt to destabilize AMLO, taking Mexico's people as hostages.
Why Does “Busytown” Love Bernie?
Kids love Richard Scarry’s Busytown books because they put the workers they recognize from daily life at the core of the story. And those same workers are donating in droves to Bernie Sanders.
Why the Corporate Media Won’t Call It a Coup
The corporate media stands united in opposition against leftists in Latin America. That’s why it refuses to state the obvious: Bolivian president Evo Morales was deposed over the weekend in a violent coup.
The Lib Dems Couldn’t Be More Cynical
Just like Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party, Jo Swinson and the Lib Dems don’t want to solve the Brexit crisis. They want an endless cycle of grievance and polarization to try to stay relevant.
A Few Tips on How to Understand Latin American Coups
From ousting of Árbenz to Allende and now Morales, Latin America has seen a lot of right-wing coups. Here's historian Greg Grandin with some tips on how to understand what you're seeing in Bolivia today.
¡Compañero Víctor Jara Presente!
Chile’s massive, ongoing uprising is drawing its anthems from the songs and artists of the Allende years — particularly Víctor Jara, the legendary folk singer and martyr killed in the 1973 coup.
I’m Not Running for Myself, I’m Running for My Class
I’m running as the Labour candidate in Warrington North, because I want to undo the damage done by Tory austerity and win a government that fights for working people.