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On May 2, New York became the first U.S. state to pass a major Green New Deal policy following four years of organizing by the Public Power NY coalition and allies.

Without bail, without charges being framed, without justice!

On May 31, nearly one thousand Amazon workers walked off the job in Seattle to meet at the company headquarters and speak out against a range of company policies.

U.S. politicians from both parties agree: the deficit doesn’t matter. In their bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling, Biden and Republicans are boosting military spending to $886 billion while making it harder for poor people to receive food stamps and welfare.

Under the leadership of noted black site torture overseer Gina Haspel, it has also adopted a tech start-up model via its new “CIA Labs,” which entices would-be innovators with lucrative patent opportunities.

Protests erupted across Germany after  the Dresden regional court in Germany sentenced the anti-fascist activist Lina E. and three others for several alleged militant actions against fascists and for forming a criminal organization.

Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC) offers scholarships to proponents of the world’s most aggressive European settler colonial outpost. It’s a small part of a broader campaign to harass internationalist activism at Canadian universities. 

An innovative form of food distribution has been key for schools and communes.

In May 1979, the Center for Afro-American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles hosted a symposium titled The Political Economy of the Black World. We are publishing, for the first time, Walter Rodney’s thoughtful presentation at this symposium.

Stuart Jordan responds to criticism of his article on ecology and entropy in Solidarity 672

How can we organise a global resistance to the criminal capitalist system and the devastating imperialism that has ravaged entire countries?

CNN has joined the media chorus decrying the death of San Francisco with a one-hour special.

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus had said “You cannot step into the same river twice.”

Wildfires are tearing through the Canadian province of Alberta, the heart of Canada’s lucrative oil and gas industry.

There are many common interests that can bring Russian and Ukrainian soldiers together in fighting for a more just and equal world.

The G7 meeting reveals the gaps between the United States and its allies (Europe and Japan), but these differences of interest and opinion should not be overestimated.

The world is still suffering from the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Inflation, supply chain crises, and shortages of medicines and basic goods continue to affect most of the world’s countries, especially those less developed and besieged by the major powers, such as Cuba, but this is not news.

Craig Murray: “Three British journalists I know personally–Johanna Ross, Vanessa Beeley and Kit Klarenberg–have each in the last two years been detained at immigration for hours on re-entering their own country, and questioned by police under anti-terrorist legislation.”

On December 7, 2022, Southwest Airlines announced that it would reinstate its quarterly dividend payments, which had been legislatively suspended under requirements in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act).

Imperialism and militarism have always disguised and justified themselves as the defense of freedom.