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The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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The fascist, immigrant-bashing party has shed boots for suits and toned down its rhetoric to emerge as Europe’s most dangerous political force.
Is Yanis Varoufakis, the academic turned neophyte politician, entirely comfortable with his new star status?
For close to a year, Syriza — a coalition of former socialists, ex-communists, Maoists, Trotskyists and Greens — has seen its popularity soar on the back of vehement opposition to the austerity policies Greece has been forced to implement.
The Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis, who caused an uproar by publishing the so-called "Lagarde list" of 2,000 suspected tax evaders from his country who hold bank accounts in Switzerland, is on trial in Athens on charges of infringing privacy laws.
Demonstrators poured into Athens' central Syntagma Square on Tuesday as unions, protesting controversial plans to slash 25,000 public sector jobs, brought the country to a standstill in a fourth general strike this year.
A Hamas-style distribution campaign of food and clothes for the needy has topped the fascist party's outreach program – and increasingly added to its appeal.
Greece was brought to a grinding halt by its second general strike in less than a month, as thousands protested Thursday in a mass outpouring of fury over austerity policies that have plunged ever growing numbers into poverty and fear.
A general strike brought the country to a halt on Wednesday as hundreds of thousands of anti-austerity protesters took to the streets in the first mass confrontation with Athens's three-month-old coalition government.
The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
Corporations are not "too big to fail" and, when they commit crimes, they are not "too big to jail." As David Whyte writes in his new book, "Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us," the moment is now to rein in out-of-control corporate power.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
Corporations are not "too big to fail" and, when they commit crimes, they are not "too big to jail." As David Whyte writes in his new book, "Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us," the moment is now to rein in out-of-control corporate power.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.