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Pre-order here! Liberation Media and the Party for Socialism and Liberation are proud to announce a new book that is currently available for pre-order: Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States. What would it look like to build a socialist society in the United States? To end imperialist war,…

Jerome Powell. Photo: TWSJ By Isaac Cohen* At the press conference held in Washington on September 21, after the central bank’s last meeting, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell confirmed the objective remains to bring inflation down to 2 percent and “keep at it until the job is done.” This requires…

Photo: courtesy of Democracy Now! Giorgia Meloni Claims Victory, Allied with Right-Wing Parties Across Europe. Italy’s first far-right leader since Benito Mussolini, Giorgia Meloni, has declared victory. Her Brothers of Italy party is allied with Spain’s far-right Vox party, Poland’s ruling nationalist Law and Justice party and the Sweden Democrats…

Democrats in the House of Representatives today passed a police funding bill aimed at further distancing themselves from the movement against racist brutality that burst onto the scene in 2020. While many Democratic Party politicians cynically attempted to position themselves as supporters of the movement when it first emerged, now…

File photo: FRB By Isaac Cohen* At the start today of the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting, there is consensus that another increase of 0.75 percent in the federal funds interest rate will be announced tomorrow, at the meeting’s end. The best evidence in support of this conclusion can…

Photo: UN General Assembly hall. Credit — Patrick Gruban The speech today by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the opening of this year’s UN General Assembly starkly reflected a world in crisis. “Let’s have no illusions,” Guterres said, “We are in rough seas. A winter of global discontent is…

Photo: Hurricane Fiona over the Caribbean. Credit — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Powerful winds and huge rainfall is ravaging Puerto Rico as Hurricane Fiona passes over the island. Rescue efforts are ongoing, and residents fear that the storm has left widespread injury and deaths in its wake. While hurricanes…

Popular march on September 15, 2022. Photo credit: Popular Resistance and Rebellion Bloc, El Salvador President Bukele Trashes Constitution, Announces Bid for Reelection following Mass Marches Against Human Rights Abuses and Civil Rights Violations On September 15, El Salvador’s Independence Day, President Nayib Bukele announced his intention to run for president…

Abortion rights movement. Photo: PSL Today caps a week in which elite politicians from both parties shamelessly used abortion rights as a political football to secure short-term gain at the expense of women’s equality. From the Senate to the White House to the campaign trail, the bought-and-paid-for representatives of the…

Photo: Nurse taking part in the vote to authorize today’s strike. Credit — Minnesota Nurses Association 15,000 nurses are on strike across 16 hospitals in Minnesota. The action, which will last for three days, is the largest strike by nurses in the private sector to ever take place in the United…