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  • Nearly 500 people rallied against the death penalty in Texas as the issue of wrongful convictions and state killing of innocent people has come center stage.

  • There must be millions who managed to forget about Tony Blair for the last two years, and now this dreadful man might be ruling us again?

  • About 150 workers and activists rallied October 28 in solidarity with workers in several Indianapolis hotels fighting for union recognition.

  • Candidates of a rank-and-file reform group in the Chicago Teachers Union won a vote for trustees of the teachers' pension fund.

  • Tens of thousands of veterans are struggling to stay in school because of a bureaucratic snafu involving GI Bill education benefits.

  • New owners have shut down the Stella D'oro cookie factory in the Bronx where workers won an 11-month strike, but efforts to get full severance continue.

  • Two labor and community activists in Mexico describe the fight for justice at an auto parts factory in the northern maquila zone.

  • Despite the loss of thousands of teachers' jobs, the California Teachers Association has failed to put resources into organizing for action.

  • The UK refuses to assert a women's right to choose in Northern Ireland, while advocating safer and more accessible abortions in far-flung places.

  • With a new international climate summit coming in December, the Obama White House is supporting legislation that will lock in catastrophe.

  • The pharmaceutical industry is already highly profitable, but this year, it's licking its lips at the prospect of producing vaccines for the swine flu.

  • What sets Glee apart is that it understands high school is an alienating experience for countless kids, where gender and sexual norms are vigorously policed.

  • Socialism is a system in which people democratically come together to determine how to structure our society so everyone can reach their real potential.

  • Socialists can say more about the ties between people and animals, and can improve our dialogue with those who see animal cruelty as a motivating issue.

  • Animals are an oppressed group whose oppression is intertwined with capitalism. And they deserve our recognition of their rights.

  • Animal oppression demeans us | End the needless killing of animals | Having humility toward nature | More theory on animal rights | The worth of animals

  • A study on female 'happiness' is being used to fuel claims--once again--that the women's movement of the 1960s and '70s made life worse for women.

  • The American Bankers Association got an angry reception in Chicago from workers, homeowners and activists fed up with bailouts for banks.

  • Ordinary Hondurans are breaking through the information blockade that has paralyzed the country since the coup that toppled President Manuel Zelaya.

  • Many soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken to blogging, posting photographs and uploading videos, all related to their experience of the wars.