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Abolishing Democracy in Europe
On 4 October I spoke to a meeting of the United European Left group of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Arriving a bit early, I sat through a presentation by a Moldovan judge,...
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The Big Union Contract Fights Coming in 2025
In some of the most exciting fights of 2024, strikers shut down ports on the East Coast and backed up plane orders on the West. The coming year is full of expiring contracts that could keep the strike...
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It’s Not Just Denied Claims. Insurance Firms Are Hiring Middlemen to Deny Meds.
Amid an outpouring of frustration with for-profit health insurance sparked by the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December 4, much of the media coverage has focused on the...
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South Korea: Yoon’s Impeachment Is A Win For People’s Power
Wave after wave of protesters arrived by foot on Seoul’s Yeouido Island shortly after noon on December 14, with subway trains again forced to bypass the local station to avoid overcrowding. As with the...
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Congress Revives Cold War Tactics With New Anti-Communism School Curriculum
Congress has just passed a new bill that will see the U.S. spend huge sums of money redesigning much of the public school system around the ideology of anti-communism. The “Crucial Communism Teaching...
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From The US To Uganda, How Climate Activism Has Been Criminalised in 2024
Back in early August, I reported on the arrest of two climate activists outside the New York headquarters of Citibank, one of the world’s largest fossil fuel financiers and target of a campaign known...
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Violence in Healthcare: Profit over Care
Following the murder of United Healthcare’s CEO, social media has been flooded with outrage, mostly directed against insurance companies that deny care. On social media, I have seen reports from...
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Rising Desertification Shows We Can’t Keep Farming With Fossil Fuels
Three-quarters of Earth’s land has become drier since 1990. Droughts come and go – more often and more extreme with the incessant rise of greenhouse gas emissions over the last three decades – but...
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Emmanuel Macron Tries, Fails, and Tries the Same Thing Again
Emmanuel Macron wants to try again. By tapping François Bayrou as prime minister on Friday, France’s president hopes to retain power via a shaky governing coalition between the Macronists and the...
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Our Margin of Effort: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
The bulk of US progressives and radicals went into the 2024 presidential race clear-eyed about how catastrophic a second Trump term could be. Organizations ranging from the Working Families Party to...
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A Working-Class History of Fighting Deportations
The history of working-class organizing in the United States is full of examples of immigrant resistance to mass deportation, sweeps, and other tactics. Time and again, immigrant worker activity has...
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Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World
On February 8, 2024, Earth reached a new milestone. The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service reported that mean temperature in the previous 12 months had been more than 1.5 degrees...
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In Syria, a War of Two Lines: Either ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ or ‘Men, State,...
The hostility of Turkey and its gangs against women reveals the two-line war in Syria. People’s leader Abdullah Ocalan, predicted for the 21st century: “Either Socialism or Barbarism”. We can interpret...
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Ibaaku’s Space Race
It is the end of the year, when the usual best-of lists come out. A number of musicians have released stellar recordings during the past 12 months—Mdou Moctar’s Funeral for Justice (Matador) and...
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How Community Solar Can Liberate You From Fossil Fuels
Energy is the lifeblood of opportunity and economic development and a pillar of human civilization in the 21st century. Even the most remote communities in rural America were welcomed into the...
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A Florida Statute is Censoring Anti-Zionist Artists
In late September, during the last stages of preparing for an exhibition, Miami artist Les Gomez-Gonzalez received notice that they had to sign a vendor registration form in order to participate in...
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When Pregnancy Makes You a Target
Adrienne Rodriguez held her head high as she walked to the front of the courtroom. On her right, her friends and relatives filled the three wooden pews in the back of the room. To her left, the rows on...
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‘Time is water’: A Cross-Border Indigenous Alliance Works to Save the Amazon
YURIMAGUAS, Alto Amazonas, Peru — Our boat sets sail early in the morning. The plan is to travel down the Huallaga River, reach the Marañón, then sail north along the Santiago River towards the border...
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The International Court of Justice Takes On Climate Change
The nation of Vanuatu consists of eighty-three islands arrayed in the shape of a shaggy “Y” in the South Pacific. Some of the islands are deserted; some have glorious white beaches, and some active...
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Jesus and Our Tasks in 2025 and Beyond
“Jesus recognized fully that out of the heart are the issues of life and that no external force, however great and overwhelming, can at long last destroy a people if it does not first win the victory...
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