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  • New climate legislation relies on free-market solutions to preserve the environment, but the only thing it will preserve are corporate profits.

  • The military officers and right-wing forces who ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya have longstanding ties to the U.S. government.

  • Delegates at the UNITE HERE convention in Chicago plan to counter SEIU raids with greater union democracy and membership involvement.

  • An off-duty Chicago police officer whose senseless assault on a 5-foot-3, 115-pound woman was caught on security tape won't serve a day in jail.

  • A lively picket in Chicago June 27 marked the expiration of another union agreement at AT&T, with 130,000 union members now working without a contract.

  • Striking union workers at Bell Helicopter and their supporters are walking the picket line in Fort Worth.

  • Is a radical change possible in Iran? Answering that question requires a look at Iranian history, politics and society beyond the disputed June 12 election.

  • Today is the day when a new fiscal year begins in Illinois--and the state government's "doomsday budget" could become a reality.

  • Two leading civil rights and immigrant rights activists have been charged with felonies in separate cases, and face possible prison time.

  • SocialistWorker.org is asking our readers to help us send a reporter to Gaza in order to continue to get the word out about life under siege.

  • Beginning at age of 11 with the Jackson 5, Michael Jackson's decades-long career played an important role in transforming the shape of music.

  • Liberal democrats and antiwar groups were exposed by their recent silence on the supplemental war funding bill.

  • I am running for the 10th District in California because the Democratic and Republican parties have shown themselves unwilling to address the issues that matter.