Ilhan Omar, one of the most left-wing members of Congress, faces a primary challenger, Don Samuels, backed by an unsavory circle of right-wing billionaires and cops. Despite being an enemy of public schools, he’s calling himself a progressive. Ilhan Omar speaking with...
Chicago teachers are known for their militancy. In 2012, the Chicago Teachers Union staged a landmark walkout that clogged the city’s streets and singlehandedly demonstrated the power of the strike. About a century earlier, the Chicago Teachers Federation (CTF) —...
US labor law is designed to prevent railroad strikes like the kind that shook America in the past. But the constant cuts to staffing levels and erosion of conditions for rail workers could produce a national rail walkoff by September. A rail worker walks alongside a...
Most of us don’t want self-driving cars, yet governments are kowtowing to firms like Tesla rather than planning for sustainable means of transport. It’s just one example of how Silicon Valley has hijacked public infrastructure to sell us stuff we don’t need. The Tesla...
South Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arabian Peninsula, gave birth to its most radical government in the 1960s and ’70s. The achievements and failings of Yemeni socialism are a vital case study as Yemen seeks to recover from a catastrophic war. Yemeni...
Ten years ago this month, 34 striking mine workers in South Africa were slaughtered by police on live TV. The Marikana massacre exposed the deep ills of the postapartheid status quo — and the urgent need to build working-class power in the country. Police surround...
On climate issues, the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority is trying to force Americans to accept collective suicide in the name of the Constitution. If we sacrifice the planet to appease unelected judges, posterity will not forgive us. The Roberts Court's West...
Nancy Pelosi is in Taiwan. The trip will accomplish nothing except ratcheting up tensions with one nuclear-armed superpower while the United States is already in a proxy war with another. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi leaves the Legislative Yuan during her visit...
Jeremy Corbyn’s critics are once again furious because he stated an undeniable fact. Corbyn was shamefully denounced as a dangerous antisemite primarily because he supported the democratic rights of the Palestinians. Jeremy Corbyn speaking in London, United Kingdom on...
On TV news, a jingoistic discourse is already developing over the Taiwan crisis — and not just on the right. The result could be another disastrous great-power conflict, this time with China. US House speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during a news conference at the US...
After its poor handling of the Eurozone debt crisis in the 2010s, the European Central Bank has created a mechanism to provide support to bondholders across the bloc, protecting creditors from the consequences of rate hikes. Workers will not be so lucky. The European...
Access to mental health services in Canada is woefully inadequate. To build a thoroughgoing mental health infrastructure, the Left must confront anti-psychiatry advocates and insist that mental illness exists — and that the best care is publicly funded. In Canada,...