A parent leader of the struggle to save one of 54 schools on the chopping block in Chicago talks about what's at stake.

Angelina Jolie's announcement should open up a public discussion about lack of access to life-saving health care.

A leading member of Portugal's Left Bloc discusses the opposition to austerity in Europe and the opportunities for the left.

Concession workers at AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, have voted to strike after three years without a raise.

Students at Middlebury College set up a checkpoint outside a dining hall to draw attention to the issue of Israeli apartheid.

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Like his grandfather, Malcolm Shabazz died far too young and with far too much unfinished work in front of him.

A new book on Chávez's Venezuela casts light on the relationship between the radical president and the struggle from below.

A New York City judge has tossed out manslaughter charges against the NYPD officer who killed Ramarley Graham.

Michael Bloomberg's increasingly strange statements about stop-and-frisk rest on an assertion that cops are there to stop crime.

The resistance to environmental destruction must be connected with the struggle to defend the rights and sovereignty of Native peoples.

Barack Obama's willingness to give ground to Republicans while kicking the Democrats' base in the teeth has come into particularly sharp focus.

Barack Obama has had more than four years to close Guantánamo--but it's taken a hunger strike by prisoners to get even another promise.

Breast cancer is no laughing matter--but that didn't stop the editors of CounterPunch from guffawing about Angelina Jolie.

The site of the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890--land considered sacred by the Lakota tribe--just went up for sale.

When she pointed out sexism at her campus, a University of Connecticut student became the target of abuse.

Youth sports are tragically lacking in the very quality that they are supposed to promote: good sportsmanship. But why?

The president of Day Laborers United explains why he's fed up with the politicians' promises of "immigration reform."

The president's nominee for commerce secretary, Penny Pritzker, is involved in a constellation of ugly bourgeois misdoings.

What happens after bankruptcy? For multimillion-dollar airlines, it means mergers and profiting at workers' expense.

The barbarism of war and the tyranny of Tsarist rule inspired the Russian working class to rebellion in February 1917.

In 1879, a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune sat down with the "cornerstone of modern socialism" for an interview.

This first installment in a series on the Russian Revolution explains the events and factors leading up to the 1917 uprising.

A leader of the Paris Commune of 1871 describes the scenes of workers seizing power and creating a new order.

A fake e-mail sent to the Hampshire College community raised issues about what the American flag means to international students.