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Prisoner hunger strikes help to win major victory to end solitary confinementPrisoner hunger strikes help to win major victory to end solitary confinement

Prisoner hunger strikes help to win major victory to end solitary confinement

Oakland, Calif. -- The Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHSSC) held a press conference Sept. 1 to announce that a…

September 4, 2015
Deportations, racism vs. “humane” democracyDeportations, racism vs. “humane” democracy

Deportations, racism vs. “humane” democracy

Jorge Ramos, the nightly news co-anchor on Spanish-language TV station Univisión who was thrown out of Donald Trump’s press conference…

September 3, 2015
Why U.S. ruling class wants an Iran dealWhy U.S. ruling class wants an Iran deal

Why U.S. ruling class wants an Iran deal

Since the 18-month season of bourgeois national elections in the United States has already started, it’s not surprising that an…

September 2, 2015

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 17

From matrilineal clan to patriarchy — Feasting as an instrument for deepening social inequality The dissolution of the matrilineal clan…

September 19, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 5

Promiscuous primates Did Bronislaw Malinowski’s conception of “a primeval and unchanging one-man, one-woman” marriage emerge 5, 6, 7 or 8…

June 24, 2013