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European and US companies continued to sell pesticides abroad years after they were banned at home. Our reporter traveled to Kenya to learn how farmers are paying the price for these chemical products with their health — and how they’re fighting back.

Francesca Hong, the democratic socialist candidate for governor in Wisconsin, discusses organizing beyond Madison and Milwaukee, confronting the Democratic establishment, and rebuilding working-class power.

A hostile caricature depicts Friedrich Engels as an arch-determinist who presented human beings as the puppets of economic forces. In fact, his historical writings were subtle and sophisticated, showing how human agency can change the course of history.

The idea of public-service broadcasting is still worth defending in a media culture increasingly dominated by the superwealthy. Unfortunately, the BBC has failed to defend that idea while bending over backward to appease those who want to destroy it.

30,000 signatures, 60 protests, 19 countries. Learn how our latest campaign is closing in on Big Oil.

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Metro DC DSA fully condemns the open rally of hundreds of Patriot Front white supremacists who marched in Washington, DC on the weekend of July 4th. We call on all Americans to oppose the military occupation and second-class citizenship of the District of Columbia that allows this state of affairs.

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Today the South Carolina Environmental Law Project (SCELP) notified the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), that it must publicly release three critical documents.

The post Plaintiffs Demand Release of Critical Documents and Extension of Public Comment Period on Expanded Plutonium Bomb Core Production appeared first on Tri Valley CAREs.

This report documents how dramatically the region's landscape has shifted in just one year: escalating U.S. military intervention, incoming hardline governments across all three countries, and a "war on narco-terrorism."

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Dating apps and sex-segregated online communities are intensifying resentment between the genders, while left-wing theorists increasingly adopt family abolition as a rallying cry. Is there a way out of our heteropessimistic moment?

Mainstream economics cannot accept the concept of contradiction that is foundational for Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism. David Harvey explains why we need the Marxist perspective if we want to make sense of capital’s latest mutations in the age of AI.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Flow Water Advocates is proud to announce the release of the Great Lakes Passport, a free educational guide that invites Michiganders and visitors alike to explore the Great Lakes while learning about the rights, history, and legal protections that safeguard these shared waters. Designed for families, educators, outdoor enthusiasts, and all... Read more »

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An acid attack on the Indonesian human rights activist Andrie Yunus fits into a wider pattern of creeping authoritarianism under President Prabowo Subianto. Democratic gains since the fall of the Suharto dictatorship are being systematically eroded.

While most unions played it safe in New York’s recent elections, UAW Region 9A and its director, Brandon Mancilla, took big swings in supporting progressive and socialist insurgent candidates like Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier — and won.

In response to the Democratic Socialists of America’s big electoral wins, some are eager to write it off as a movement of elite professionals. These criticisms miss a lot about both DSA and the changing working class.

The European social question then and now, and the trap the left keeps walking into

The European social question then and now, and the trap the left keeps walking into

The Firestone rubber plantation in Liberia is the largest contiguous rubber plantation in the world. In a model for labor struggles around the globe, thousands of workers there have overcome Firestone’s efforts at union busting via subcontracting.

Millions of workers in the United States are Spanish speakers. Socialists who can’t talk to them can’t organize them.

Neoliberalism’s defining feature was always the insulation of capital from democratic control. Trumpism’s break with free trade has changed the rhetoric. But the underlying economic order remains intact.

From Preston Sturges and the Coen brothers to Martin Scorsese and John Ford, the Criterion Channel’s “Odysseys” series traces the enduring appeal of Homer’s epic in American cinema.