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Israel’s Relations With the UN Hit a New Low With UNRWA Ban
Israel’s relationship with the United Nations has historically been strained, but over the past year, tensions have reached new levels. On October 28, the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) passed a law...
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Trump Would Be an “Extinction-Level Event” For the Planet, Turbocharging...
UC Berkeley scholars warn that “With plans to expand the production of fossil fuels, curtail environmental regulations, dismantle key climate monitoring agencies and even undermine the Endangered...
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Disaffected Voters May Want to Consider What Decades of Right-Wing Minority...
It is widely believed, including by experts, that this presidential election could be one of the most important in U.S. history. And polling data still marks it as too close to call. Various groups of...
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Die Linke Can’t Just Rely on Middle-Class Progressives
A new study explains an uncomfortable truth for Germany’s Die Linke: the left-wing party’s base is today highly educated and middle-income. While the party’s new leadership promises to rebuild...
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Who Owns America’s Debt? – Bob Pollin Pt. 2/2
In part 2, Bob Pollin, economist and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), lays out policies to increase workers’ wages and bargaining power and bring down the price of food...
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Inflation Control and Curbing Workers’ Power in the Neoliberal Era – Bob...
Following the inflationary period of the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation is largely down and currently at 2.1% in the U.S. Bob Pollin, economist, and Co-Director at the Political Economy Research...
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A Black Woman Tory Leader? Sure, As Long As She’s Batshit Right-Wing
Kemi Badenoch exemplifies the decades-long tradition in the UK of ‘pulling up the ladder’, practiced by class-ascendant immigrants on the right of the political spectrum Kemi Badenoch is the death’s...
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Whoever Wins, the Labor Movement Must Break Free From the Two Capitalist Parties
On the first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC), the party’s attempts to appeal to organized labor were on full display. The presidents of AFSCME, SEIU, LiUNA, IBEW, CWA, and the...
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America at the End of Its Tether
With every tick, the election clock feels like dread closing in on Americans. A recent Forbes Health survey shows that over 60% of participants consider their mental health to be under siege, grappling...
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Outside Spending On 2024 Elections Shatters Records, Fueled By Billion-Dollar...
Outside spending on 2024 federal elections has hit a record $4.5 billion, with more than half of that spending coming from groups that do not fully disclose the source of their funding. Independent...
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7 States Vote to Protect Abortion Rights in Busy Year for Ballot Initiatives
While Democratic candidates suffered major losses in this year’s U.S. elections, elsewhere on the ballot voters supported liberal positions. In the wake of tightening federal and state restrictions on...
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Growing Pains: Climate Change and the Socialist Transformation
Both degrowth and ecomodernism share a commitment to democratic planning, but their competing narratives have been distorted by an over-reliance on speculative empirics and the allure of conflicting...
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How to Stop Fascism
One word. Proximity. Let me explain. In a now largely forgotten book published in 1989 called Modernity and the Holocaust, Polish-Jewish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman examined the overwhelming evidence...
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Time to Hit the Streets
The day before the big election I said to my wife that, if Trump ended up winning, it was important that a very broad, massive coalition to oppose him had been created by Kamala Harris and her...
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Turmoil At The ICC As Fears Rise Over Israel And The U.S. Interference
On May 20, 2024, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, submitted a request to the ICC for warrants to arrest Israeli leaders Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant for war...
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Venezuela: Court Rejects Appeal By Left-Wing Opposition To Publish...
More than two months after the passing of a 30-day legal deadline, Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) has still not published the full results of the July 28 presidential election. Despite...
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Democrats Demobilized Their Base. A Movement Is Now...
Donald Trump’s performance in the 2024 election surpassed expectations, with the candidate winning the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia and picking up larger shares...
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It’s Time To Stop Buying Into Tooth-Fairy Politics. No One’s Bringing Salvation
Kamala Harris didn’t lose because she’s a woman or because she’s black. She lost because, if your political and media system – rigged by donors – limits the choice to two hardline neoliberal...
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Underlying The Democrats’ Defeat: A Different View
“I will say this,” one House Democrat said. “The Democratic Party has a major working-class voter issue. It started a decade ago as a working-class White issue. It’s now gotten even worse and spread...
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Grassroots Organizing Wisdom Will Be Crucial With a Fascist in the White House
We’ve been here before. This is not 2016, when Donald J. Trump’s surge to victory shocked much of the nation. We know how Trump operates and can better anticipate what he might do when he takes office...
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It’s Not Just About the President
As the dust settles over election day, it’s worth reflecting that it’s not only the election results that have been at stake, but the future of the presidency and its powers. Over the course of the...
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Criminalizing UNRWA: How Israel is Delegitimizing the United Nations
On October 28, the Israeli Knesset passed a second reading of two bills that effectively ban the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) from carrying out “any activity” in Israel and...
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Bernie Would Have Won
Intro from Ryan Grim: Here’s a warning and an admonition written in January 2019 by author and organizer Jonathan Smucker: “If the Dem Party establishment succeeds in beating down the fresh leadership...
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Trump’s Victory and Elite Power Over the Democratic Party
A pair of quotes, separated by eight years, spotlight a chronic political mentality at the top of the Democratic Party: “The path to victory in a state like Michigan, Harris campaign officials are...
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The Answer to Trump’s Victory Is Radical Action
I learned that Donald Trump would be president of the United States of America in 2016 while attending a memorial service for my friend, Clark Fitzgerald, who had died in a car accident on his way to...
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10 Ways To Be Prepared And Grounded Now That Trump Has Won
It’s important we squarely face Trump’s victory and what there is to do about it. Trump has already signaled the kind of president he will be: revengeful, uncontrolled and unburdened by past norms and...
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US Ambassador Warned Of ‘Consequences’ For Enacting Occupied Territories Bill
A senior US diplomat warned tánaiste Micheál Martin’s office and the taoiseach of “consequences” if government enacted the Occupied Territories Bill – 90 minutes before Martin issued a statement...
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Israeli Forces Declare Plan for Ethnic Cleansing of Northernmost Part of Gaza
Israeli forces reportedly announced a plan this week for the total ethnic cleansing of a section of northern Gaza they have designated as a target, declaring, without evidence, that any Palestinians...
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up...
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Noam Chomsky On The Responsibility To Act Against Fascism
Tomorrow is Election Day, the close of the most consequential election of our lifetimes. Get out and vote, if you haven’t already, and if you’re looking to help others do the same, there are still...
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