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People raise signs against data center A massive AI data center transforms rural Utah into a national flashpoint

A growing movement in Utah is challenging the “Stratos Project,” a city-sized AI data center backed by TV personality Kevin O’Leary, over concerns about democratic oversight, water use, and environmental collapse.

Young woman poses in mirror Rap and radical consciousness: Milwaukee’s Blicky B

Blicky B is a politically conscious rap artist in Wisconsin. Her music explores themes like poverty, capitalism, and the Palestinian liberation struggle.

Socialist Zohran Mamdani set to win mayor’s office in world’s richest city

Zohran Mamdani’s opponent, disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo, has received the political and financial backing of right-wing billionaires

Elbit Adani 900 hermes Indian companies complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians

Hajira Puthige of the Centre for Financial Accountability in New Delhi wrote a report called “Profit and Genocide: Indian Investments in Israel”, which details the complicity of the Indian billionaire class and their corporations.

Socialist Zohran Mamdani triumphs over New York’s billionaire class

Democratic Socialists of America member runs on platform centering around affordability – including freezing rent increases, creating city-run grocery stores, and free city buses

On May Day, organized labor issues clarion call to unite against the Trump administration

Thousands take to the streets across the US for May Day in cities such as Atlanta, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston

“We are not corporate slaves”: Indian tech workers fight for dignity

Asserting that “A Healthy Work-Life Balance is Every Employee’s Right,” almost 700 tech workers protested in India’s IT hub Bangalore on March 9, demanding the enforcement of labor laws, regulation of work hours, and codification of “Right to Disconnect”.

One month of Trump: War on workers at home and abroad

In just one month of Trump’s presidency, him and his cabinet, dominated by billionaires have launched a series of attacks on the rights of the working class and institutions

Thousands take to the streets across the US to mark “counter-inauguration” on first day of Trump presidency

Mobilizations took place in over 80 cities on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to honor MLK’s legacy of struggle and mount movement against Trump

Over 80 US cities to hold protests on Trump’s inauguration day

Demonstrators mobilizing in over 40 US states to launch movement pledging to oppose “ultra-right, billionaire agenda”

US social programs under threat with Trump’s promised government cuts

US President-elect Donald Trump is 55 days from taking office, and his administration is shaping up to reflect an agenda that would benefit the billionaire class

The rich get richer while global poverty deepens in “decade of division”

Wealth accumulation by the rich has risen to the point that the world could see its first trillionaire within a decade. Meanwhile, it will take more than 200 years to end global poverty, a report by Oxfam International has found.