How to Fight the Trump Regime’s Use of Fear and Intimidation
The major weapon of the Trump-Vance-Musk regime is fear that causes people to be intimidated into silence and submission. The regime is using fear — of being deported, job loss, loss of federal...
View ArticleFirst They Came for Columbia
Like many autocrats before him, Donald Trump has launched what could be a devastating attack on universities. Over the last week, the Trump administration has cancelled $400 million in grants and...
View ArticleBeyond Western Hegemony: A Call for Middle Eastern Media Autonomy
The website of a certain pan-Arab media organization seems fixated on translating, commenting, or briefing its audience on everything that US and Israeli officials say about the Middle East. Every...
View ArticleStung by People Power Protests, Elon Musk Targets My Group and a Close Friend
A week ago Saturday Co-President Elon Musk took to his X platform to call out several groups staging protests against his Tesla dealerships for Musk’s Trump Administration role in slashing vital...
View Article‘Even Silence Is Viewed As Dissent’: An Interview Russian Trade Unionist...
Pavel Kudyukin is co-chair of the University Solidarity trade union and a member of the Council of the Confederation of Labour of Russia (KTR). He also served as Russia’ deputy minister of labour...
View ArticleIs Europe Arming or Disarming Itself?
All normality induces and tolerates a certain type of extremism. Beyond a certain limit, either extremism is neutralized or extremism establishes a new normal. Normalcy in the US is compliance with the...
View ArticleReform and/or Revolution
Resistance to Trumpest Fascism grows. Discussions, phone calls and emails, meetings, rallies, marches, and soon occupations and encampments. Desires, demands, confrontations, and disobedience. As all...
View ArticleInside the Campaign to Win Universal Healthcare in Washington State
Over 600,000 Washingtonians remain uninsured; countless others are underinsured, burdened by rising medical debt. Families are too often forced to choose between paying bills and seeking essential...
View ArticleFor Revolutionaries, the Period Must Be Defined By the International Fight...
The defining characteristic of mass politics in the present period is the stunning and terrifying growth of the international far right. Since socialist strategy must adjust itself to the character of...
View ArticleIsraeli Blockade Leaves 1 Million Children in Gaza Without Basic Necessities...
After a four-day mission to the West Bank and Gaza, a top official for the United Nations’ children’s welfare agency on Sunday described the effects that Israel’s blockade on all humanitarian aid into...
View ArticleNoor & Mahmoud: Young Hearts Be Free Tonight, Time is on Your Side
Friends, I would like to tell you a little story about a young woman. Her parents were from Syria and, like so many others before them and from all over the world, they came to America to start a...
View ArticleLet Workers Lead
Eric Blanc’s argument in We Are the Union is that only “worker-to-worker” organizing can create union drives that are big enough and cheap enough to save the labor movement. It’s already happening, we...
View ArticleTrump’s Backpedaling Shows He’s Not Invincible
In the opening two months of his presidency, Donald Trump has unleashed a historic assault aimed at destroying public services, punishing vulnerable communities and dismantling any semblance of...
View ArticleIsrael Resumes Indiscriminate Attacks Against Gaza, Killing Over 400 People
The U.S.-backed Israeli government resumed its intense genocidal attacks on Gaza early Tuesday morning, unleashing a massive wave of indiscriminate military strikes across the Strip and killing more...
View ArticleTrump’s Attacks Are Designed to Exhaust Us. Here’s How We Fight Back.
Exhaustion is a strategy. What looks like collective fatigue is actually the consequence of a carefully engineered mechanism designed to rob us of our power — our power to resist, to imagine, to...
View ArticleWhy “Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace” Advocates Cling to Genocide Denial
Israel’s renewed assault on Gaza comes several months after both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports concluding without equivocation that Israel was engaged in genocide. But...
View ArticleNegotiations with Putin: Are We Falling into the Appeasement Trap Again?
While the US has initiated preliminary negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, there are again warnings in Europe and the US that this could lead into the appeasement trap once again — as it did when...
View ArticlePalestinian Rights Are Human Rights
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight. Bob Marley, Jamaican composer and Reggae pioneer Human rights are rooted in the ancient ideas of civility,...
View ArticleGive Light, and the People Will Fight
In February 2025 in Lynn, Massachusetts, ICE grabbed an 18-year-old high school junior from Nicaragua and put her in a cell in Maine, hours away from her family. She had been involved in a minor...
View ArticleIsrael Lied About Murdered Children to Justify Murdering Children
Israel resumed its genocidal campaign of annihilation in Gaza early Tuesday morning, killing hundreds in a matter of hours, including many children. As of this writing, the death toll from this assault...
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