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The War's Unlikely General By the time Johnson--who became president after Kennedy's assassination in November 1963--made his declaration of war against poverty in 1964, African American protests ...

AS I stood among the 5,000 people in Burlington, Vermont's waterfront park while Bernie Sanders launched his Democratic presidential primary bid late last month, it was odd to hear the repeated ...

Socialist Worker looks at the results of the midterms — and what they tell us about reaction and resistance in a polarized country.

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Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló's plan for charter schools shows how his government is dancing to the tune of education policies sung in Washington.

The editors of Jacobin and Socialist Worker discuss the impact of the Sanders campaign and what it means for the efforts of socialists in the U.S.

Washington stood by while a genocide took place What's behind the horror in Sudan? September 17, 2004 | Page 5 LAST WEEK, the Bush administration was forced to admit that a genocide is taking ...

IN 2013, a 53-year-old trans woman named Fatima Woods was stabbed in her home in Rochester, New York. She ran down the block to a gas station looking for help, where she collapsed due to blood ...

GARVEY, BORN in Jamaica in 1887, went to London in 1912. In his two years there, he met up with a number of nationalists--followers of Sun Yat-sen of China, and others--and heard such slogans as ...

Pat Tillman was an NFL star who turned down a multimillion-dollar contract to join the U.S. military. In 2004, he died in Afghanistan by friendly fire, a fact that the U.S. government deliberately ...