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La existencia social determina la conciencia. Lo que sigue son cuatro razones de Mandel para no ser determinista.

The Arizona Department of Water Resources filed a motion Friday to join in a lawsuit against the federal government’s plan for Colorado River operations over the next 10 years. “Arizona believes the federal government’s new operating framework ignores basic elements of the law of the river and could result in cuts to the state apportionment […]

Employees at Dattner, the firm behind some of New York City’s most distinctive public buildings, from subway stations to sanitation facilities, are organizing with the International Association of Machinists and seeking a card-check neutrality agreement.

"Safeguarding Indigenous defenders is our strongest defense against environmental crime, and they must not be left to fight it alone.”

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Typical bills climb by over $100 a month as data centers demand more energy RICHMOND, VA — Dominion Energy’s newly filed 2026 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) update projects that the utility’s carbon pollution will more than double compared to last year’s plan while customer bills climb steadily for the next two decades. Under the IRP’s […]

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It started as an online joke after a top judge compared jobless young people to cockroaches. It has become the most serious challenge to Narendra Modi’s rule in years.

A decade after Bernie Sanders’s first presidential run, intraleft debates about whether to engage with the Democrats are largely settled. That campaign taught US socialists much about how — and how not — to build a powerful socialist movement.

Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning is a sequel to The Social Network that insists it isn’t one and a political film that insists it has no politics. Audiences have noticed, and they’re staying home.

Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Church was a smash hit among evangelical Christians in the 1990s. It’s about how to build growing, vibrant churches. But it can also be read by socialists today to figure out how to grow our movement.

Labor lawyer Rasmus Hästbacka writes about Sweden’s supposedly strong legal protection for workers. I often find myself in grim negotiations where the employer has already decided to fire workers because they’ve suffered workplace injuries or illnesses – or because they’re union activists or health-and-safety delegates. In such situations, the employer doesn’t care one bit about … Continue reading "Sweden’s Employment Protection Act Is a Joke"

In September, Swedish voters defeated a governing coalition that the far right had propped up. But the Center Party is now blocking a new government because it wants to keep Left Party ministers out of the cabinet.

The protests in schools across France have highlighted “rural deserts” of underfunded services. Massive in scale, the movement is reenergizing the election campaign by bringing social issues of left-behind areas more sharply into focus.

Please use / adapt one of the these two motions for your trade union branch or other organisation. The first is a broader motion that includes affiliation to Ukraine Solidarity Campaign. The second is specifically on current aid fundraising and delivery (which is also covered in the first motion). To let us know you’re putting … Continue reading Ukraine solidarity campaigning, aid, convoy: model motions for union branches

On a misty and breezy morning last fall, Marc Hamric, a North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries veteran, and two other technicians were conducting field work in Turnagain Bay, a remote area near Cedar Island. They had brought their boat ashore, but because the water was so rough, it came loose and floated away. One […]

This story is part of an investigation conducted by an international team of journalists based at The Outlaw Ocean Project. Read the other stories here. In August 2022, dozens of protesters spilled into the streets of Kayar, a fishing town on Senegal’s Atlantic coast, demanding the closure of a nearby fishmeal plant, Touba Protein Marine.  […]

What Labourism was, & what it has become

It’s not unusual for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin to be on the road touting the Trump administration’s agenda, but his travel itinerary in the weeks before the midterm election looks like a trail of political hot spots. On Thursday, Zeldin traveled to an auto repair shop and a construction firm in central Pennsylvania […]

Ankara’s new defense pact with Riyadh risks drawing Turkey into the war in Yemen. The country’s past experience offers a grim reminder of how ordinary Turks pay for such entanglements.

Usually authoritarians target those on the margins before expanding their repression. That Trump and Vance are going after a sitting congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, with politically motivated deportation means they have bigger ambitions.