Genocide: The New Normal
Joe Biden’s parting gift of $8 billion in weapons sales to the apartheid state of Israel acknowledges the gruesome reality of the genocide in Gaza. This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of...
View ArticleIn a Time of Oligarchy, a New People’s (Women’s) March for a Green New Deal
Pick up any US liberal newspaper today and there are reams of columns speculating on the fate of our country. What will happen and how quickly to our country with Trump as president and a cabinet of...
View ArticleCanada’s Unifor Has Won Major Gains on Shifting Terrain
There’s lots happening in Canada’s union movement: new organizing, favorable legal reforms, big wage gains (5 percent per year since 2022), and a historic wave of strikes. In this context, it’s...
View ArticleThe Common Ground Between Labor and Climate Justice Is the Key to a Livable...
A fault line runs between labor and environmental movements, or so we’re told. Labor unions have been criticized for focusing on jobs without considering environmental consequences, with some unions...
View ArticleAmazon Strike by the Numbers
An estimated 600 Amazon workers went on a short strike or participated in pickets from December 19 to Christmas Eve across eight warehouse locations, from Queens to San Francisco. The coordinated...
View ArticleDoctors Against Genocide Hold Global Sick-Out to Highlight Atrocities in Gaza
Doctors and health care providers across the globe are engaging in a day of action, calling in sick and taking part in other demonstrations against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. The “Sick...
View ArticleOver the Weekend, Israeli Assault on Gaza Continued, with more than 73 Killed...
On Saturday, day 456 of its brutal and protracted military onslaught against the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military continued its genocidal bombing campaign in various regions, killing and injuring...
View ArticleThe Hungaryfication of the USA
Regularly, Donald Trump is presented as a fascistic leader. Yet, he has no Italian-style Blackshirts roaming the streets and no Hitler-style SA or SS beating up opponents. Nor are there people rounded...
View ArticleThoughts on Insurrection and Genocide
5 January 2025 I adjusted my eyes. I wanted to know the time. Outside it is as dark as when I went to bed at midnight....
View ArticleA Reality Check on Our ‘Energy Transition’
The much-vaunted “energy transition” that promised a great leap forward from fossil fuels to renewables along with a cornucopia of technologies is now struggling with history and complexity. A few...
View ArticleProgram For Social Self-Defense & What It Is Defending
Part 7 of this series contains the following chapters: 9. A Constructive Program for Social Self-Defense10. What Social Self-Defense Is Defending Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus...
View Article270+ “No to Trump” Actions on January 18
With 10 days left to mobilize, it is clear that the People’s March, initiated by the Women’s March, is going to be a big deal throughout the country. At the People’s March website can be found 270...
View ArticleAssessing the Recent Strike at Amazon
An estimated 600 Amazon workers went on a short strike or participated in pickets from December 19 to Christmas Eve across eight warehouse locations, from Queens to San Francisco. The coordinated...
View ArticleThe Black Book of Communism Is a Shoddy Work of History
Whenever the history of twentieth-century communism is discussed, it will not be long before you find a particular figure cited with absolute certainty. Writing in the Wall Street Journal on the...
View ArticleSilicon Valley’s Embrace of Israeli AI-Driven Warfare and Surveillance
On Dec. 10, Israeli military officials, weapons manufacturers, and American venture capitalists gathered at Tel Aviv University for the first ever DefenseTech Summit. The two day affair featured panels...
View ArticleMeet Mr. Dylan
[The following is a close transcript of the 319th episode of the podcast titled RevolutionZ.] Perhaps you are aware there is a new movie out titled A Complete Unknown. It addresses the first five...
View ArticleGetting Ready to Fight Mass Deportations
In early December 2024, the New Lynn Coalition and the North Shore Haitian Association rallied an event to counter the racist anti-Haitian lies of the New Confederacy, welcome the Haitian community and...
View ArticleIsraeli Forces Admit to Hiding Soldiers in Ambulance in West Bank Raid
The Israeli military has admitted that its soldiers hid in an ambulance in order to infiltrate and raid a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank — a move one UN expert has described as a “flagrant...
View ArticleWhat Will Pro-Palestine Activists Face With Trump in the White House?
As President Biden greenlights another $8 billion in weapons to Israel in his last days in office and Secretary Blinken gives a parting New York Times interview in which he denies that a genocide is...
View ArticleThe Center Cannot Hold, and It Doesn’t Seem to Care
Over the last ten years or so, the idea of a vital and virtuous political center that simply must hold in the face of irresponsible, demagogic populism has become one of the great clichés of Western...
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