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Above all Now, Workers’ Unions are the Way Forward
My father was a family doctor in the mid-twentieth century whose main political issue was socialized medicine, which he preached against to his “large, poor family,” as he liked to describe us. Dad...
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Refuse, Resist, Contest: Block & Build For the Trump 2.0 Era
As we head into a second and much more perilous Trump presidency, we are all grappling with huge questions about what just happened, what it means, and what the Left must do to meet this moment. As a...
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From Globalization Euphoria To The Crisis Of Humanity Or Transnationalization...
War, Global Capitalism and Resistance: Selected Writings by William I. Robinson, London: Resistance Books, 152 pages. Introduction William I. Robinson’s War, Global Capitalism, and Resistance is a...
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Catastrophe In Palestine
The world has focused its attention on the humanitarian pause and exchange of prisoners in Gaza that began on 19 January. Meanwhile, Israel has trained its immense military power and insanity on the...
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Gaza Protest: How Starmer And The Met Have Joined Forces To Quash All Dissent
The decision by the Metropolitan Police to interview “under caution” former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and leftwing MP John McDonnell for attending a peaceful protest in London against Israel’s mass...
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As Extreme Weather Batters Communities, New York Climate Activists Show A...
On the evening of Dec. 10, 12 self-identified elder climate activists sat around the Christmas tree in the New York State Capitol, in Albany, singing carols as they waited to be arrested. The...
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Trump Laid Groundwork for “Muslim Ban 2.0.” Here’s How Organizers Are Bracing.
In the early hours of New Year’s Day, an individual in New Orleans killed 15 people and wounded dozens of others on the city’s famed Bourbon Street. When reports emerged that the alleged attacker was a...
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‘All Natural’ Is Not a Viable Health Strategy
RFK Jr.’s hearing for Health and Human Secretary of the United States is soon. A recent poll showed that 40% of Americans view him positively. Despite the myriad fringe beliefs he has espoused, such as...
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Trump Lifts Settler Sanctions, West-Bank Violence Explodes
On his first day in office, Donald Trump lifted all sanctions previously placed on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, a political move that coincided with a series of violent attacks by Israeli...
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A New Military Strategy of French Neocolonialism in Africa: Reorganizing...
In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French military intervention—announced, “We have decided on the coordinated and...
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Andreas Malm and Armed Struggle: the Case of Palestine
Review of The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth by Andreas Malm (Verso, 2025) Andreas Malm–the author of the work under review–is currently a professor of human ecology at Lund...
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Media Hype Set Up Tren de Aragua to Serve as Trump’s New Bogeyman
A CNN headline (6/10/24) last June menacingly warned readers about the United States’s latest dial-a-bogeyman, guaranteed to further whip up anti-immigrant vitriol in the country and justify ever more...
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Trump And The Threat Of Domestic Militarization
During his first week in office, Donald Trump pushed forward his aim of remaking the US government in his image at breakneck speed. On inauguration day he signed 46 proclamations, memoranda and...
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New Realities of Israel/Palestine in the Trump Era: Settler Colonial...
[Prefatory Note: This post modifies and updates an interview with Mohammad Ali Haqshenas, a journalist with the International Quran News Agency, published under its auspices on January 22, 2025. It is...
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Garbage Rises Until We Dump It
Trump, Musk, Vance, Kennedy and the rest of our new government’s murderous members now oversee political life in the USA. Things were already horrific and have been for ages. But now the worst garbage...
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I’ve Covered Climate Disasters for Decades. Now I Live on the Front Lines.
In January, I am ordinarily making lemon curd, lemonade, lemon bars, lemon salad dressing and every citrus-infused dish I can think of. It is the time of year when my decades-old dwarf lemon tree is...
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“We Are The Union”: SF Native Touts Worker-to-Worker Organizing As Key to...
How many graduates of Buena Vista Elementary and Lowell High School have become labor book authors? Probably not many–other than Eric Blanc, whose mother taught in the San Francisco school system (and...
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William Robinson: ‘Trump can’t represent the interests of workers and capital...
The following is the English translation of an interview that the Greek newspaper Epohi conducted with William I. Robinson and published on January 25, 2025: In large part Trumpism is a far-right,...
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Uganda: The Overlooked Threat of Micro Plastics in Agricultural Soils
Unlike other East African countries, Uganda has failed to enforce the bans on single-use plastic bags. They continue to be produced and circulated at an alarming scale. Plastic bags, locally known as...
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