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Communists plan post-election fightback as Canadians head to the polls

September 20, 2021 By C.J. Atkins

“Things don’t stop when the ballots are counted,” Communist leader Liz Rowley says. “That’s when the struggle picks up again.”

Cleanup of abandoned mines could get boost, relieving rivers

September 20, 2021 By Michael Phillis

Thousands of abandoned coal mines in the U.S. have been polluting rivers and streams for decades, in some cases harming fish and contaminating drinking water. Now efforts to finally clean up the sites could soon get...

Rocky road ahead for new left-leaning Peruvian government

September 20, 2021 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Right-wing opposition forces have viciously attacked Castillo and his Perú Libre party. Defamatory media blasts from Peruvian news sources have been constant. Unfounded accusations of electoral fraud persisted for weeks.

Now on Newsom’s desk: social justice, ethnic studies, worker protections, and payments

September 17, 2021 By Marilyn Bechtel

Some 900 bills improving conditions for the majority in California await the governor’s signature.

So-called Dem ‘moderates’ sabotage Medicare power to bargain drug prices

September 17, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Drug companies relying on Dems they have in their pockets to keep curbs on big pharma out of the reconciliation package.