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Currently leading in the polls in a major swing state, democratic socialist Francesca Hong has a good shot at becoming Wisconsin’s next governor — and the first socialist governor in US history. We spoke to her about her campaign.

What a 1968 French Trotskyist document gets right about political development — and what it gets dangerously wrong

New books on denial, green colonialism, wildfires, energy, the far right, global crises and our ties to nature

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by Kim Scipes

This is Robin Andersen's excellent analysis of what's been going on in Gaza, and how the mainstream media has covered it!

The US is currently experiencing its largest ever recorded outbreak of cyclosporiasis. The Trump administration’s attacks on farmworkers and federal workers may be to blame.

Before heading into the early July summer recess, the Michigan Legislature approved a balanced, bipartisan budget for the upcoming 2027 fiscal year. When it comes to water policy, there aren’t many surprises. In many ways, this is a status quo budget — it avoids some of the deep environmental cuts that had been proposed earlier... Read more »

The post What Michigan’s new state budget means for water appeared first on Flow Water Advocates.

The Medics for the People initiative promoted by the Workers’ Party of Belgium provides free primary care. It offers direct aid to the population, not out of charity but as a basis for organizing working-class communities.

Focusing on working people's consumption diverts attention from the real climate criminals

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History belongs to everyone. But if governments continue to defund national galleries, they will ensure ancient artifacts can only be seen in luxury showrooms, displayed on the coffee tables of the wealthy, and worn by celebrities on the red carpet.

Unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, B.C.) –  As the Tilbury LNG expansion public period ends today, over 690 comments have come through the webform, outpacing the previous comment period’s 272 entries. The total number of comments is expected to grow as more are trickling through the BC EAO’s filter. Commenters articulated concerns; including air pollution […]

The Democratic establishment said it was getting rid of the grating, cynical style of wokeness it blamed for its 2024 loss to Donald Trump. Then the Left began winning primaries, and those same Democrats changed their tune.

Critics of socialism frequently charge that it rests on an overly optimistic view of human nature. The truth is that socialists want a system that guards against tendencies to greed and domination.

Donald Trump’s victory arch is so ugly and uninspired, so befitting his cynical, corrupt, tacky presidency, that it might actually offer us an opportunity to seriously consider something more befitting a just and democratic society.

The Right recently lost its mind over the socialist proposal to get rid of the US Senate. But socialists are right to call for the abolition of a deeply undemocratic political institution.

The fossil fuel industry is responsible for the worsening climate impacts you see in the news. Today, we look at one of the most visible, most frightening faces of the climate crisis: wildfires.

The post Fossil Fuels Did This: Wildfires appeared first on 350.

As the Trump administration saddles Americans with new administrative burdens to cut taxes for the rich, the Mamdani administration has made cutting red tape to free up benefits part of its governing agenda for New York.

Moroccan rapper El Mahdi Lyoubi, aka Mehdi Black Wind, was arrested this month on charges of defaming the king. The trumped-up charges reflect the monarchy’s trouble coping with the youth revolt expressed in last year’s GenZ 212 movement.

Reading Ernest Mandel through Unite, the Teamsters and Comisiones Obreras