Michelle Wu's candidacy for Mayor, building on years of work by a variety of grassroots organizations, is cohering the kind of multi-racial coalition that could change the political landscape at both the city and state levels.
La Via Campesina’s manifesto, political education in Africa, and mass action in Italy, South Korea and Puerto Rico
We are one, maybe two, elections away from a constitutional crisis. The future of our democracy rests on whether those committed to free and fair elections will prepare to defend that democracy.
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Indigenous peoples in action on five continents! And more news and analysis from all over
Can you spot the gerrymandered districts?
Labor unrest, European elections, signs of a people's war in Myanmar, and a left perspective on vaxxing
The key takeaway from the election is that workers saved our democracy—workers did the essential door-to-door canvassing and everyday working voters turned out. With their votes comes a mandate for change to help working and low-wealth people.
Democrats don’t lose elections because of rising prices. They lose when they cut spending and raise interest rates, sacrificing other goals at the altar of price stability.
Between 2012 and 2020, the white-Black turnout gap grew between 9.2 and 20.9 percentage points across five of the six states originally covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
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