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How can films and television create honest dystopian worlds if they ignore the racial strictures that make these narratives possible in the first place?

To advance anti-racism on the macro scale, we need to collectively engage in popular struggle, rooted in a left platform that is relevant and intuitive for poor and working people. There should be an immediate creation of a hopeful, broad-based mission that is winnable, which will serve to expand the resistance movement and create an organized majority to kill pernicious nationalism, masquerading as populism.

Franklin’s lifelong quest was spreading scientific knowledge to regular people.

Labor organizer Ella Reeve Bloor died on this day in 1951. Her life stands as a signpost for all radicals.

Amos Lawrence Backed Abolitionist Pioneers in the Town That Bears His Name

From 2008 to 2016, GOP officials expanded early voting stations in Republican dominated Hamilton County, IndyStar's analysis found, and decreased them in the state's biggest Democratic hotbed, Marion County. The results were immediate.

John Lanchester reviews three books on social media with a focus on Facebook, the colossal social networking corporation that now has two billion active monthly users. And, as Facebook has grown its users’ reliance on it has also grown. Facebook is an advertising company, but it is also a surveillance business that knows far, far more about its users than the most intrusive government has ever known about its citizens. John Lanchester is “scared of Facebook.”

The NLRB has found these forced arbitration agreements interfere with workers’ right to engage in concerted activity for their mutual aid and protection, in violation of the NLRA.

Chris Williamson is frustrated by the Blairites joining the Tories to use Venezuela for a proxy war on Corbyn

The alt-right rally was a coming-out party for resurgent white racist movement in America.