Global Struggles

New research points to globalization as a key driver of labor's declining share of national income, particularly in developing countries.

In response to enormous public pressure, lawmakers have rejected appeals by global corporations and voted to protect the country's people and water supply by banning metallic mining.

Shifting power from countries to corporations in trade negotiations hurts both people and the planet. Will the president’s trade agenda put workers’ rights ahead of profit and plunder?

The right wing that conspired openly against an elected president’s mandate insists on a wild capitalism and does not accept that black, poor, and indigenous people, women, homosexuals, and slum...