Trump: The Cunning of the Paper Tiger?
Never has so much been written in so little time about the inauguration of a country’s president and his first week in office. This frenzy had been announced for a long time. The media performance of...
View Article‘Occupation: Organizer’: How Anti-Politics Becomes Anti-Democracy
In the run-up to the November 2024 election, many predicted that the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the call to “save democracy” would ultimately ring hollow for the many people for whom...
View Article“War of Plunder”: How Rwanda Has Fueled War in DRC as Western Countries Look...
The long-simmering conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo escalated this week when Rwandan-backed M23 rebels captured at least part of the eastern city of Goma. The fighting between the...
View ArticleUS Foreign Aid Was Always About Furthering US Interests
The announcement by the new Donald Trump administration to suspend foreign aid spending — approximately $68 billion annually — has sent shock waves across the world. This decision will not only affect...
View ArticleTrump’s Doomed Plan for Ukraine
“I’m not looking to hurt Russia,” President Donald Trump recently declared in a statement he posted on his TruthSocial account. “I love the Russian people, and always had a very good relationship with...
View ArticleAs ICE Conducts Made-for-TV Raids, Cities from Chicago to Newark Resist...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ramping up raids across the United States, arresting more than 1,000 people in operations Monday after detaining a similar number on Sunday. Immigrant communities...
View ArticleAmazon’s Retribution in Quebec Should Be a Wake-Up Call for Union Organizers
Just how far will Amazon go to throttle unions? The corporate behemoth, valued at a staggering $2.47 trillion, is notorious for its union-busting. Amazon workers at the massive JFK8 warehouse voted for...
View ArticleIsrael’s Killing of Hind Rajab 1 Year Ago Is a Stain on Our Collective Humanity
Hind Rajab was barely 6 years old when she found herself the sole survivor of a brutal Israeli onslaught that had killed six members of her family in front of her eyes: her uncle, aunt and four...
View ArticlePalestinians Brace for More Violence as Israel Expands Its Offensive on the...
Israel continued its offensive in the occupied West Bank for the seventh day in a row on Tuesday, concentrating on the northern city of Jenin and continuing to expand to other areas. As part of the...
View ArticleIsrael’s ‘Genocide General’ Welcomed In London – And The Media Yawns
There have been two stories deeply revealing – in starkly contrasting ways – of the West’s relationship to Israel’s industrialised, militarised slaughter of the people of Gaza over the past 15 months....
View ArticleIsraeli Atrocities in Lebanon
Yesterday, not only did Israel fail to evacuate its army from Southern Lebanon as stipulated in the ceasefire agreement, Israel also shot over 130 Lebanese civilians attempting to return home in...
View ArticleBertrand Russell: Redefining the Public Intellectual in an Era of Rising...
Within days of his return to office, President Donald Trump unleashed a chilling display of authoritarianism, providing a stark reminder of the specter haunting the United States: the specter of...
View ArticleTechnofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (w/ Yanis Varoufakis)
The year 2008 signaled to many the weak foundations of modern capitalism in the hands of the greedy, untethered financial sector—the “vampire squid” investment banks as journalist Matt Taibbi called...
View ArticleCorporate Union Busting In Plain Sight
Labor activism in the United States has had a remarkable resurgence over the last three years (NLRB 2022; Combs 2023). In the past few years, workers mounted successful organizing campaigns at a wide...
View ArticleLet’s Embrace our Instinct for Collective Action — In Bad Times and Good
When my multigenerational family of six evacuated our home this January, we wondered if the fires visible from our front porch would engulf our house as we fled. Text reports of friends losing homes...
View ArticleDear World: This is What Palestinian Unity Looks Like
Even those of us who have long emphasized the importance of the Palestinian people’s voice, experience, and collective action in Palestinian history must have been shocked by the cultural revolution...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Anti-Union Offensive and How We Stop It
Donald Trump is rolling out a blitz of attacks on workers in hopes of paralyzing organized labor’s energy to fight back. But unions can only survive this onslaught by fighting, not by burying their...
View ArticleDemocracy Is Happening in Serbia
Serbia is boiling with anti-government protests. The protests were initiated by Serbian university students, who are organized in an anarcho-syndicalist manner, where decisions are made at student...
View ArticleIt’s Going To Take Multiple Strategies To Win Under Trump 2.0
In the wake of the 2024 election and Donald Trump’s return to power, we have heard many suggestions for how progressives should regroup and respond. Some activists have argued that we need to prepare...
View ArticleThe Evolving Strategy for Defending Immigrant Workers
The current fight within the Republican Party highlights, once again, that ensuring a steady labor supply for corporations remains Trump’s primary focus. I say “once again” because this mirrors what...
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