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The Brazilian Left Has Yet to Find a Successor to Lula
With the third term of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva well beyond its midway point, South America’s largest nation is again suffering from a leadership crisis. The once widely beloved...
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Recovering Our Power
There’s a moment in chapter 12 of Capital where Karl Marx describes a critical phase of glassmaking in a manufacturing workshop. Five workers gather at “the hole” of the furnace, each focused on an...
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Trump Is Leading the US Into Fascism
Mainstreamcommentators acknowledge that the second Trump administration is authoritarian or right populist, but can’t bring themselves to use the term fascist. Like Harvard’s Steven Levitsky and...
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Facing Trump’s America In the Spirit of African American History and Black...
Recently, in an executive order, President Trump directed the removal of “improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution. That order was, in essence, an attempt to...
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Global Battlefields: A No-Holds-Barred Reckoning
Global Battlefields: Memoir of a Legendary Public Intellectual from the Global South, by Walden Bello. (Clarity Press, 2025) For starters, Walden Bello’s memoir takes the reader inside some of the...
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Chicago Teachers Win Greener Schools
The Chicago Teachers Union won a tentative agreement in December that, for the first time, addresses climate and environmental justice demands—making healthy green schools a priority in our city. We...
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How Eco-Localism Differs from Tariff Terrorism
Followers of the Small Is Beautiful school of environmentalism (to which I subscribe) often critique globalization and advocate localism. The controversial new Trump tariffs seem purpose-made to choke...
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Democracy or Plutocracy?
Despite much lofty rhetoric portraying the United States as a democracy (in which the people rule), this nation, in fact, has often resembled a plutocracy (in which the wealthy rule). The confusion...
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UN Expert: Israel Has “Decimated” Gaza Health System, Leaving “Zero” Options
Israel’s assault on Gaza health facilities and workers has completely “decimated” the health care system and has left Palestinians with “zero” options for care, a UN expert has warned. Earlier this...
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Small Island States Are Leading the Fight Against Climate Change
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face some of the most severe threats from climate change. Dispersed across the world’s oceans, these nations are among the first to confront rising sea levels,...
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Gaza Faces Increasingly Bleak Reality One Month After Israel Ended Ceasefire
Although Donald Trump is thoroughly unpredictable on many issues, his support for Israel’s government remains firm for now, allowing Binyamin Netanyahu to continue with the devastating war in Gaza....
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Beneath the Surface: Is the Trump-Netanyahu ‘Unthinkable’ About to Erupt?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington was no ordinary trip. The consensus among Israeli analysts, barring a few remaining loyalists, is that Netanyahu was not invited...
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Capitalism, Global Warming & 1.5 Degrees
The world is on the highway to climate hell that will make Dante’s Inferno, Ingmar Bergman’s Seventh Seal, and the movie Come and See look like a candy store. This very same world seems to have...
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Omissions, Caveats And False Balance: How Media Is Failing Palestinians, The...
“Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.” This is a line from an article penned by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabea...
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Wiz Acquisition Puts Israeli Intelligence In Charge Of Your Google Data
Google recently announced it would acquire Israeli-American cloud security firm Wiz for $32 billion. The price tag — 65 times Wiz’s annual revenue — has raised eyebrows and further solidified the close...
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I’m A Jewish Israeli In The US Standing Up For Palestine. By Trump’s Logic,...
I’ve called the Gaza war a genocide and spoken in favor of sanctions on Israel. I was also in the IDF. I ask the FBI: should you arrest me? To Kash Patel, director of the Federal Bureau of...
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Trump, Tariffs and Trade
There is a giant problem that commentators are ignoring. The United States’ trade deficit is of incredible proportions and is only sustainable because the dollar is the world’s reserve currency – a...
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The European Left Alliance: New Project, Old Problems?
One could be forgiven for having missed the creation of the European Left Alliance (ELA) late last year. Comprised of six parties (La France Insoumise, Podemos, the Portuguese Left Bloc, the Finnish...
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Unions, Not Just Factories, Will Make America Great
Factory jobs are not inherently good jobs. Even if Donald Trump’s trade policies bring factories back to the United States, workers need unions to make those jobs well-paying and safe — and Trump has...
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Our Economy, Our Country, Our Union
Transcript Transcript originally from Jacobin available here There’s a lot of uncertainty about what this moment holds for the working class. We’re in the middle of two massive transformations. One is...
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