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From Portside.org, another sign of labor's resurgence.

Emily Woo Yamasaki and Nga Bui of Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party speak on today's anti-racist upsurge and their work in the NYC Campaign for an Elected Civilian Review Board.

Nine fundamental demands on what to teach and fight for in the wake of this pandemic.

MEChA activist Christina López gave up on politics during Clinton's presidency. But, after getting involved with FSP and Radical Women, she “finally understood why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.”

Reopen or not? With fans or not? Owners care about the money. Players and their unions care about their health and about fighting racism, in sports and society.

Whose survival depends on this 85-year-old benefit? Why should it be expanded? And how? The answers are not complicated.

A fine, eyewitness story about Yakima Valley workers, led by mostly women, who fought six companies, state agencies and the virus. And won – with democratic, multi-racial and multi -generational dedication.

This riveting miniseries streaming on Hulu tells the history of the 1970s battle for women’s equal rights, characterizes the politics of both sides, and teaches important lessons for finishing the fight.

During record joblessness, pandemic crisis and suppression of voting rights, why Federal bailouts for airlines and cruise lines, but not for the multiracial, strongly unionized Postal Service?

First-hand account of how and why rank-and-file unionists kicked the Seattle police guild out of the Martin Luther King County Labor council.

"Planet" boldly exposes that corporations profit from green campaigns and discusses real problems. But eco-socialist ideas are missing.

Purported left-leaning president AMLO has put millions of workers and indigenous people in Covid danger and impoverishment. Mexico’s militant working class needs world allies.

An update on Seattle mayor redbaiting attack on the only socialist on the Seattle City Council. Readers weigh in on not prosecuting Black lives protesters, prisoner rights, campaign reform, and suspending the use of money.

The relationship between devastating nature and wiping out animals and people is no mystery. Why not name capitalism the culprit, and tax agribusiness, mining and oil companies to pay for solutions?

Don’t count on the capitalist Democratic Party. More important than winning in November is building a strong, radical, and organized grassroots movement of the have-nots.

The multi-trillion-dollar stimulus bailout was “for family businesses,” said Trump & Co. Actually, it was an equal opportunity feeding frenzy among D.C. insiders from both parties.

Three important wins strengthen the movement against ruinous fossil-fuel pipelines.

Steadfast indigenous resistance and a decade of militant organizing by BDS has hugely heightened world support for Palestinian rights. Israel’s July 1 annexation was therefore halted, for now.