Mélenchon's party's small bloc in the French Assembly is going all out to oppose Macron's labor "reforms".

These "reforms" are intended, in France as elsewhere, to enable business to pay workers less and send plutocrats more.

English "fishing villages" are turning into theme parks; there are few real fishermen, and the tourist-oriented restaurants don't buy fish from them, so fishermen cannot afford to live there anymore.

This is a world-wide pattern that every place that is interesting or special becomes more and more like a theme park.

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Corbyn inspires activists in Mexico.

A mosque in Berlin that aims to reform Islam will not close even though its founder receives thousands of death threats.

Her relatives in Turkey fear they will be used as hostages, but she courageously refuses to let that defeat her.