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From a pro-democratic perspective, civil society and new media organisations are surging in the aftermath of the Orban regime.
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Exposed: Canadian Oil and Gas Workers, Many Unions, Now Oppose Keystone XL Pipeline
Amidst the ongoing jobs-vs-environment debate over the Keystone XL pipeline, one voice is noticeably absent: the bitumen workers in Canada who are largely against long-term tar sands extraction and the building of the pipeline.
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Exposed: How Murdoch, Bill Gates and Big Corporations are Data Mining our Schools
The state is using its monopoly on education to benefit certain corporations—and students' personal information will be stored by News Corp.
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Killings and Repression Spark Revolt in Brooklyn
The March 9 killing of 16-year-old Kimani Gray in Brooklyn has unleashed a torrent of outrage about police brutality and racism in New York City.
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Shuttered: How America is Selling Out its Schools
Public schools across America are being liquidated by the dozens, with 54 announced recently in Chicago, 23 in Philadelphia and 22 in New York.
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Two Years On, Will the Lessons of Fukushima Go Unheeded?
Seventy percent of Japan's population wants a nuclear-free future but the government is ignoring their demands, even as experts give cleanup operations at Fukushima a centuries-long timetable.
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Fracking Industry Propaganda Battles Science in Obama's New Energy Pick
President Obama's appointment of Dr. Ernest Moniz to head the U.S. Energy Department is a literal payoff to the hydrofracking industry, which has funneled millions into Moniz's Energy Initiative research at MIT.
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New York's Victory Against Big Gas: Frackers, Get Packing
A major battle in America's frack war came to a head in New York this week as opponents of drilling mobilized by the thousands to successfully maintain a 2010 moratorium on hydraulic fracturing.
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New York City's Bus Strike At Critical Juncture
Employee Protection Provisions are at the heart of the bus strikers' dispute roiling New York City, where 24-hour pickets set up by the Amalgamated Transit Union surrounded bus depots from the Bronx to Staten Island.
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Can the Occupy Movement and Organized Labor Strengthen Ties in 2013?
With its emphasis on direct democracy, spontaneity and flexibility of tactics – unbounded by union hierarchies or legal impediments such as the Taft-Hartley Act – Occupy has infused the labor movement with a fresh dose of radicalism.
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At Doha Climate Conference, Arab Spring or Silent Spring?
At the latest failed UN climate negotiations, held in Qatar, youth delegates walked out in protest joining indigenous tribes, trade unionists and students rallying for a just and sustainable economy.
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The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
The tragic shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is just the latest example of ICE having a fundamental disrespect for human life — further proving why the agency should be stripped of funding and shut down, and its rank-and-file agents and leadership prosecuted.
While the U.S., EU and their allies are enabling Rojava—the strongest force against Islamic State— to fall, it is vital for internationalists to continue to support this beacon of democracy and liberation.
June 23, 2026 may be remembered as the beginning of the end of the Democratic Party establishment.
The current wave of food recalls is a direct byproduct of President Donald Trump’s administration deliberately removing the safeguards put in place aimed at protecting American consumers more than a century ago.
From a pro-democratic perspective, civil society and new media organisations are surging in the aftermath of the Orban regime.
We can still celebrate success while simultaneously putting a cap on net worth.
The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.
June 23, 2026 may be remembered as the beginning of the end of the Democratic Party establishment.
Posted 2 months 1 day ago
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.
Posted 1 month 1 week ago
The tragic shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is just the latest example of ICE having a fundamental disrespect for human life — further proving why the agency should be stripped of funding and shut down, and its rank-and-file agents and leadership prosecuted.
Posted 1 month 3 weeks ago
While the U.S., EU and their allies are enabling Rojava—the strongest force against Islamic State— to fall, it is vital for internationalists to continue to support this beacon of democracy and liberation.
Posted 2 months 1 day ago
The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
Posted 1 month 1 week ago
We can still celebrate success while simultaneously putting a cap on net worth.
