Social Self-Defense in the First Trump Regime
Part 3 of this series contains the following chapter: 4. Social Self-Defense in the First Trump Regime Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a report from the Labor Network...
View ArticleIn Which Language Do Palestinian Women Live?
Etaf Rum’s story begins in the 1990s in the hilly countryside of Birzeit – flocked by olive trees and mulberry bushes, the hometown of the Hadids. We follow the life of Isra Hadid, a young...
View ArticleWhy Do Some Leftists Support the Brutality of the Syrian Regime?
As a Palestinian-Syrian, I’m not exaggerating when I say that last Sunday [Dec 15, 2024] was one of the happiest days of my life. It marked the fall of the Assad family regime — a system rooted in...
View ArticleUS Has Given Israel $22 Billion in Military Aid Since October 2023
Since October 7, 2023, the US has provided Israel with more than $22 billion in military aid, Israel Hayom reported Wednesday, citing data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute...
View ArticleHow Trump Nominees Could Make Project 2025 a Reality
Republican President-elect Donald Trump spent the closing months of his campaign trying to distance himself from a blueprint for his second term known as Project 2025. Then, in the days after his...
View ArticleVictories For Trans People In 2024
The year 2024 was exceptionally challenging for transgender people. Members of the community have grappled with a surge of legislation affecting every facet of their lives, ranging from bathroom access...
View ArticleIndia’s Free Library Movement Counters Caste Discrimination and Authoritarianism
Outside the Khirki branch of Delhi’s Community Library Project, a signboard details the day’s programs, including scheduled story times and art activities. Children bounce and buzz as they wait in line...
View ArticleThe Term ‘Antisemitism’ is Being Weaponised and Stripped of Meaning – and...
When the international criminal court issued arrest warrants for Israeli officials in November, the response from the country’s government was all too familiar. The prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,...
View ArticleHow a Community Collaborative in Arkansas Is Pioneering Solutions to...
Redlining, exclusionary zoning, and predatory lending schemes have put prospective Black homeowners at a severe disadvantage. As the Ballard Center for Social Impact points out, the gap in...
View ArticleGreg Yudin: ‘The challenge facing the left in Russia is that there is no...
The following is an edited transcript of the speech and responses to questions given by Greg Yudin on the “The situation for the left in Russia today” panel at the “Boris Kagarlitsky and the challenges...
View ArticleIsrael’s Downward Spiral
Israel is riding high after carrying out the most audacious campaign of military conquest of any nation since the 1940s. Following the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, Israel has begun an open-ended occupation...
View ArticleElon Musk to Host X Event Promoting Neo-Nazi AfD Party Ahead of German Elections
Mega-billionaire Elon Musk, owner of the social media site X, plans to hold an online audio discussion on the platform with the leader of a far right German party, amplifying the party’s fascist and...
View ArticleUNRWA Preparing to Shutter Gaza, West Bank Operations Over Israeli Laws
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, a crucial source of food, water, medicine, and more for Palestinians, is preparing to shut down its offices in the...
View ArticleWashington’s (not so) Strong Man in Seoul is Defying Arrest
On January 3, three days after a South Korean court issued an arrest warrant for suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of leading an insurrection and abusing authority, investigators from the...
View ArticleNations Are Exiting a Secretive System That Protects Corporations. One...
In January 2000, thousands of Bolivians flooded into the streets of the city of Cochabamba. The region’s water services had just been privatized and sold to an American-led consortium, which hiked...
View ArticleNew Year’s Attacks by Green Beret & Army Veteran: Does U.S. Militarism Abroad...
We look at what we know about two deadly incidents that unfolded in the United States on New Year’s Day: a truck attack in New Orleans in which a driver killed at least 14 people before being shot dead...
View Article“We Have to Act”: Taxpayers Suing Congressmembers for Funding Genocide Speak Out
On December 19, more than 500 federal taxpayers from 10 northern California counties filed an unprecedented class-action lawsuit against their congressional representatives. Seth Donnelly et. al. v....
View ArticleTears of Our Children
A study came out in December that made me cry. Titled Needs Study: Impact of War in Gaza on Children with Vulnerabilities and Families, it was conducted by the Community Training Centre for Crisis...
View ArticleHow Congolese Climate Activists Stopped a ‘Carbon Bomb,’ For Now
“I was very angry. I was astonished. Everything I saw was stolen,” said François Kamate, an environmental activist from the Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC. He was describing how it felt to enter...
View ArticleStrategy for Social Self-Defense
Part 4 of this series contains the following chapter: 5. Strategy for Social Self-Defense Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a report from the Labor Network for...
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