No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama.

Fairness is returning to Social Security for millions of retired fire fighters, police officers, teachers, and other public employees.

“Look, they tortured him to make him talk," a French-Israeli soldier is heard saying of a Palestinian detainee in a video posted online in March.

Miami artist Les Gomez-Gonzalez rescinded their participation in local exhibition that required complying with anti-BDS statute

NEW YORK—The death of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, and arrest of Luigi Mangione as a suspect in his killing is prompting anger against the greed-driven health care industry, which already dev...

Elections aren't the only tool that the working class can use to build power. But as the Right continues to dismantle movement gains, we must use every tool available to us.

Joshua Lisec’s work is highly regarded by J.D. Vance, Donald Trump Jr., and Steve Bannon. He thinks democracy is overrated and that law should be used as a tool of political revenge. He spoke to Curre...

Peace forces around the world are on guard, warning against Israeli and U.S. interference in the Syrian people’s right to determine their own future in the wake of the fall of the Bashar al-Assad dict...

Openly promoting decolonization and a social democratic alternative, a historic coalition made record electoral gains.

ALPHARETTA, Ga.—In an indication of progress in a major union organizing drive, the Teamsters are reporting “a major win outside the NLRB election process” by gaining a card-check majority among worke...

Offering a model for resisting authoritarianism, South Korean activists say they will “fight for democracy at any cost.”…

In a first for Whole Foods under Amazon’s ownership, employees at a Philadelphia store have launched a unionization campaign to address mounting workplace issues, including understaffing, low wages, h...

Police raided the home of a George Mason University Students for Justice in Palestine co-president in an FBI-led investigation into graffiti.

Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was passed in 1993, the economies of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico have become increasingly integrated. Workers in all three countries have suffere...

After 170 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.

The senator says in this exclusive interview that challengers to status quo politics can run in Democratic primaries or as independents.

The new centrist push to regain control of the Democratic Party, with corporate money

LONDON—Israel is not only committing genocide in Gaza, says suspended Israeli MP Ofer Cassif, it is “well on the way to becoming a clear, full-blooded fascist land.” Cassif is a brave man.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico could retaliate with tariffs of its own, after President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on Mexican goods if the country doesn’t sto...

Democrats need to dump the consultants and rebuild the party—from the bottom up.

White House–curated stories of performative outrage and feigned helplessness provided cover for an administration arming death on an industrial scale.

Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more. If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push for change

GM says it’s “optimizing” its operations through layoffs and facility closures.

Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing subjects like sociology from core requirements.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is circulating a polling memo arguing that Democrats need to embrace populism to win back working-class voters.

PORTLAND, Ore.—As Portland prepares to seat its most progressive city council ever, the Portland Police Bureau faces an unprecedented shift in civilian oversight and direction.

Union mechanic Dan Osborn’s independent campaign outperformed Kamala Harris by 14 points in Nebraska

The company wants to make new hires wait a year before they receive benefits, and to exclude them from the defined-benefit pension plan. Meanwhile the starting wage has risen only 6.7 percent since 20...

Workers are losing their jobs and professional opportunities for expressing pro-Palestinian sentiment. Others are choosing to self-censor amid a climate of fear.

Workers in Philadelphia say they’re tired of being treated like robots.

Labor under Trump.

Donald Trump's legal team is shifting its defense of the president to an argument that even if he is guilty of everything charged in the articles of impeachment he, and no president for that matter, c...