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A new union federation in South Africa is being formed through the leadership of unions and individuals expelled from Cosatu with the aim of organizing the unorganized -- Cosatu denounced the move as divisive and as leading away from the struggle for jobs and against monopoly capital.

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Tess Asplund, 42, stood in the way of the right-wing extremists and silently raised her fist - this brave woman photographer steps out in front of a 300-strong Nazi march in central Sweden. The image of her peaceful protest and stand against racism has gone viral in Scandinavia. This activist is deemed a hero in Sweden for 'iconic' defiant gesture in front of a fascist march.

Americans have largely forgotten the anti-Communist sentiment from decades past. Anti-communism has been a powerful force for over 150 years. American communism has always been racialized. When Jim Crow laws banned interracial organization, the Communist Party was the only group that dared to flout the rule. Socialists and Communists in the South in the 1930s fought both economic and racial inequality - an important lessor for today's developing socialist movement.

Sanctions and boycott are the most non-violent, legitimate means there are (Israel constantly preaches to the world to use them against its enemies) and have been proven effective. We have no choice but to recognize that boycott, divestment and sanctions is the only game in town, the last hope for change. This is the only means to stop Israel from persisting in its crimes.

Bernie Sanders will go to Philadelphia with more pledged delegates than any insurgent in modern history. Here's what he could do with them. Donald Trump is more dangerous than ever. Hillary Clinton is perhaps the worst possible Democratic candidate who could ever run against Donald Trump. Trump just conceivably could beat her in the general election. Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, would give Donald Trump fits in a head-to-head match up. Let me break it down.

It is going to take all of us -- inside the Democratic Party progressives and outside the Party activists -- to build a movement able to turn the tide away from the pro-Wall Street, pro-greed, anti-progressive destruction of our government.

Sanders has been already been counted out in the mainstream media. But young voters, liberals flooded into the polling booths and swept Sanders to victory. Picking up a net of five delegates, Sanders may not be winning his struggle against the delegate math, as the mainstream media keeps reminding us, but he is winning the political debate.

On the 60th anniversary of the publication of the groundbreaking novel Giovanni’s Room, America seems to be in the throes of a Baldwin revival.

Louisiana prisoner freed after 40yrs of unconstitutional life sentence in “Alcatraz of the South."