People were saying their evening prayers when the IDF attacked the refuge camp at Tel al-Sultan in southern Gaza, where thousands had fled from the Israeli invasion of Rafah. They were told by the ...

In Ciudad del Este, the sunbaked Paraguayan border town along the “Triple Frontera” with Argentina and Brazil, men make a living by stacking cars in an alley. Although the gravel lot is tiny, the men ...

The Autonomous Communal University of Oaxaca (UACO) is a grassroots initiative that aims to change how public education works in Mexico. The idea of launching a communitarian university became reality ...

Everyone seems to know Diane Lewis on The Avenue — and those who don’t stare at her like they want to. She is something of a local activist for the residents of Hartford’s Upper Albany neighborhood, a ...

One person, one vote. The classic essence of democracy. But what if that one person happens to be a fabulously rich? Does that one person actually have just “one” vote? Can we have anything ...

Source: Originally published by Z. Feel free to share widely. The Washington Post’s journalists recently exposed what many already suspected or knew. Donors from society’s richest 1 percent pressured ...

It’s the biggest organizing wave the U.S. labor movement has seen in decades. Graduate workers are unionizing in huge numbers, winning drive after drive with 90 percent support or more. What’s more, ...

You can’t have infinite growth on a finite planet. That should be a commonplace idea. And that inevitably means facing up to the necessity of putting an end to capitalism in favor of an economic ...

From the First Amendment to the European Convention on Human Rights, Assange’s defense relies on freedom of expression. On May 20, a two-judge panel of the High Court of England and Wales handed ...

As Amal Nassar lay in pain on a bed at the Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza, the echoes of explosions and artillery fire could be heard all around her. It was mid-January ...

Even the most optimistic of political analysts did not expect that the International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor would be uttering these words: “I have ...

Three decades ago, on April 27, 1994, a seismic shift reverberated across South Africa. After centuries of white minority rule and legalized racial segregation, Black South Africans stepped into the ...