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Layoffs are scary. They are also rampant. Over the last 25 years, somewhere in the range of 1.5 to 2 million people lost their jobs in a typical month as a result of being laid off or fired.

Palestinians have delivered testimony after testimony about the Israeli-backed and U.S.-run “death traps” masquerading as aid sites. But no one listened until Haaretz published direct testimony from the perpetrators.

Tariffs raise the prices of imported goods in the domestic market relative to money wages, which is what makes possible, at least in part, the replacement of such imports by domestically-produced goods. Tariffs do not of course lead to all imports being eliminated, but some clearly are.

The move came hours after Zionist far-right influencer Laura Loomer raged online against the arrival of severely wounded children in U.S. hospitals.

Today marks the beginning of Fidel Castro’s centenary—a hundred years since the birth of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution.

This isn’t sad, it’s enraging. And it deserves a response of unmitigated forceful aggression.

President Donald Trump has now put troops on the District of Columbia’s streets in both of his terms. This time around, the Washington Post is less alarmed.

Between the null vote promoted by Evo Morales and the dispersion of the progressive camp, the right wing is poised to reopen the neoliberal path that the MAS had closed for twenty years.

As the Trump administration escalates its anti-radical crackdowns, past moments of repression offer a preview of what’s to come.

Some unpalatable takeouts from the killing fields of Gaza.

Imagine you get a letter from your manager a week before you are set to teach classes, removing you from teaching duties but saying you’ll get paid anyway.

Since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1998 Washington has waged a relentless war against the Bolivarian revolution.

The recent mass demonstrations held in Israel against the heinous plans of the Netanyahu Government to takeover Gaza remind us that societies aren’t monolithic entities; they contain conflicting forces within them.

Burkina Faso has been trapped in neocolonial underdevelopment for nearly all of its post-independence history–can the new government of Ibrahim Traoré follow in Thomas Sankara’s footsteps and change course?

In a wide-ranging interview with Tribune, Jeremy Corbyn discusses his hopes for the new Left party, the potential for coalition building, and his determination to overcome sectarianism on the way to forging a truly democratic form of modern socialism.

Two human rights practitioners used to have hope that Israel could be reformed, but no longer. “Today it is one solid mass of distilled evil,” writes human rights lawyer Michael Sfard.

Donald Trump’s takeover of the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department is not merely a result of his racist and authoritarian tendencies, nor is it new. It is part and parcel of a history of militarized policing against Black people and a bipartisan consensus promoting racist crime panics, which are often conducted with the help of the Black misleadership class.

There are two reasons for the U.S. tariffs imposed on India: first, India’s refusal to open its agricultural market to U.S. imports; second, India’s refusal to stop purchasing oil from Russia.

This is a time when we need more openness, not less. A policy that would ban Antonio Gramsci should not be approved.

The U.S. Departments of Justice and State announced the increased bounty—from $25 million to $50 million—for information leading to Maduro’s arrest.