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The resilience of the youth protest movement can only be understood as the result of the solidarity it enjoys among a majority of people in the country. January 5, 2009 Previously published by the ...

Edgar Esquivel, a UPS worker and member of Teamsters Local 952 in Southern California, looks at the upcoming Teamsters presidential election. AS THE Teamsters old-guard leadership splinters and their ...

THE ISSUE of race and racism emerged openly at the heart of U.S. politics in the Democratic presidential campaign in January. But as any serious student of U.S. history knows, racism is always beneath ...

Nancy MacLean tells the story of the Populist movement of the 1890s--when it briefly challenged the hold of white supremacy in the U.S. South. IT WAS an event without precedent in the South. On a few ...

Some 1.3 million South African public-sector workers have suspended their strike after nearly three weeks in a battle that saw the some of the largest police attacks on labor since the fall of ...

Since its national conference in January, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Britain, the country's largest revolutionary organization, has been shaken by the most severe crisis in its history, ...

FORTY YEARS ago this month, the world was shocked by the images of violence that flashed across television screens--but not from the jungles of Vietnam or the plazas of a Latin American country ruled ...

THE REVOLUTION in Tunisia that began on December 18 went from being almost completely ignored in the British newspapers to being a sensational story of bloodbaths, gang violence, Israeli worries about ...

Richard Putz considers what could replace an institution that claims to "serve and protect," but which really maintains "law and order" in an unequal society. ONCE AGAIN, the police have proven ...

Bill Mullen looks at the legacy of Ralph Ellison, author of the landmark Invisible Man. Since its publication, it has been a standard on American literature syllabi, and has never gone out of print.

Leonard Peltier, one of the longest-serving political prisoners in the U.S., will go before a parole board July 28 for his first full hearing in 15 years, with activists across the U.S. and around the ...