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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” 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 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