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Onetime child symbol of the U.S. blockade Elián González elected to Cuba’s congress
July 12, 2023Elián González has the same big, expressive eyes he did 23 years ago when an international custody battle transformed him into the face of relations between Cuba and the United States.
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Facts, lies, and the uninsured: Making sense of Medicare for All
March 09, 2020It would be a stretch to take anything the White House has to say about health and human services seriously.
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Left-wing “Sinn Féin” wins historic victory in Ireland
February 10, 2020Sinn Féin, the left-wing republican party founded in 1905 and famed for its affiliation with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), has seen its popularity steamroll across the island in this weekend’s national elections.
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“Respect for Graduate Student Workers Act” introduced in House and Senate
January 27, 2020Often forced to juggle multiple jobs as well as their own education, graduate student workers find themselves heavily indebted, underpaid, and uninsured. Now, they're fighting back.
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The Green New Deal and China’s Green Revolution
January 10, 2020Given the stakes, it is not an overstatement to consider there has never been a more important task for working people here and around the globe.
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Winning the Green New Deal on the road toward socialism
December 13, 2019Working people cannot avoid participating in the political struggle for the Green New Deal because the survival of our species depends on quick and unprecedented action.
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Profit problem: If they can’t kill it, capitalists will co-opt Green New Deal
December 11, 2019The profit motive and its champions in Congress are looking for ways to kill the Green New Deal, or, barring that, to make money from it.
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Green public housing: Sanders-AOC proposal targets social and ecological needs
December 02, 2019Market forces in housing have been encouraged by political leaders to run roughshod over the needs of working-class America.
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Big pharma’s new opium war: Exporting the addiction crisis to China
November 22, 2019Millions of working-class American lives have been ruined by addiction to opioids. But in China, big pharmaceutical conglomerates are just getting started.
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‘The Putney Debates’: Let the good of the people be the supreme law
August 27, 2019It was clear from the beginning of the English Civil Wars that some revolutionaries—on both sides of the pond—had even more radical ideas than championing Parliament’s authority over the monarchy.
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