Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigJul 26, 2018
As writer Ben Judah argues, the Occupy movement, Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders changed this generation's thinking, and made a come-from-behind win like that of New York's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez possible. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Teodrose Fikre / The Ghion JournalApr 16, 2018
We have become a Potemkin society where tokens are put on the stage to represent equality while the vast majority of Americans are economically enslaved. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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Fangman Michael / TruthdigFeb 13, 2018
Knowledge, organized and available to all motivated voters, can win out. Then we can get our country back. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Paul Street / TruthdigNov 30, 2017
The voting booth is a bust for the kinds of change most Americans want. We must create grass-roots movements that shake the nation to its foundations. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
Paul Street / TruthdigSep 20, 2017
As American activist Joel Kovel wrote six years ago, "The future will be eco-socialist, because without eco-socialism there will be no future." Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )
Paul Street / TruthdigFeb 16, 2017
Progressives need to sharpen their understanding of why blue-collar Americans voted a billionaire into the White House and find a way to connect with them. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigSep 7, 2016
The 2016 election was supposed to be the one in which the interests of the non-elite got a hearing We still have two months to make it happen The 2016 election was supposed to be the one in which the interests of the non-elite got a hearing. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Nadia Prupis / Common DreamsMay 13, 2016
Poorer households saw their income drop from a median of $26,373 in 1999 to $23,811 in 2014, and middle-class incomes fell too, according to new research. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigMay 2, 2016
Seattle’s socialist City Council member, Kshama Sawant, has called on Bernie Sanders to break with the Democratic Party and run as an independent. If he refuses, she says, his supporters must build a third party without him. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
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