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UN Votes for Process to Enact Bankruptcy Treaty and Stop Vulture Funds
United States and ten other countries vote against super majority.
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The Money Wall Street is Making Off Rhode Island’s Pension Funds is Also an Issue
“The pension overhaul is now at the center of a primary race for governor that has become one of the most divisive in the country.”
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Solutions to Low Wage Growth, Long-Term Unemployment Rejected by Global Elite
It is vital to understand that high unemployment and low wage growth are solvable problems. But powerful and well placed people believe it is in their interest to keep …
Defeat of Ukraine Army Brings Cease-Fire, but Underlying Political Conflicts Unresolved
The cease-fire in Ukraine is good news, as is the resistance to both war and austerity. But winter is coming and many uncertainties remain.
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The Socialist Alternative to a World of Injustice
For a more fair and equitable world free of the brutality of racism and disasters like climate change and constant war, Danny Katch of the International Socialist Organization makes …
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Twelve Theses on Education’s Future in the Age of Neoliberalism and Terrorism
The profit-driven goals of neoliberal education policies are antithetical to progressive goals to educate productive participants in democratic culture.
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Learning #EverydaySexualViolence: Women Telling Our Stories
Social structures such as racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, capitalism, and imperialism thrive on unmitigated and often state-sanctioned violence. The brutal murder of Michael Brown is but one example.
The Rebirth of the West
Cultures flourish from time to time, just as plants and flowers do
Envisioning Where We Want to Go: An Interview With Evolutionary Reconstructionist Gar Alperovitz
Longtime activist, historian and political-economic theorist Gar Alperovitz conducted an email interview with us on the occasion of the creation of his new website, the Pluralist Commonwealth.
The Wanderer and Her Shadow
That's what the choice has always been: the colonialized mind versus the soul of independence, the known misery versus the challenge of the unknown.