We must fight the U.S.’s economically brutal manipulation of the global market, says author T.J. Coles.
Progressive Picks
As part of its commitment to providing independent information and resources to its readers, Truthout chooses a “Progressive Pick” every month: an independent book or film that we find thought-provoking and insightful.
Visit our store page to view the entire catalog of available Progressive Picks!
Global free trade hurts working people, but global unions can empower them.
Grassroots feminist activism in the 1970s resisted the inclusion of imprisonment and policing in their struggles.
“All Our Trials” offers a history of feminists who challenged the idea that the state could end gender violence.
Flint Taylor’s “The Torture Machine” is a personal history of the legal battle to expose Chicago’s human rights abuses.
Under Commander Jon Burge, Black men endured torture and violence at the hands of Chicago police.
Cartoonist Nick Thorkelson discusses the life, career and theories of Herbert Marcuse.
In this excerpt, Nick Thorkelson depicts the political upheaval of 1930s Europe and its effect on Herbert Marcuse.
Criminalization of sex work further disempowers some of society’s most vulnerable classes of people.
In this excerpt, we learn where and how sex workers are criminalized.