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Netanyahu Is Considering a Limited Strike on Iran – That Is Complete Insanity
A few weeks ago, in a public act at the White House, with Benjamin Netanyahu at his side, surprised, Donald Trump – the man whom the prime minister and his followers are convinced they have in their...
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Russia’s Security Concerns Before the War in Ukraine Were Plain to See
Look closely, and it becomes hard to justify. It is increasingly clear that the Biden Administration made a series of policy decisions concerning Ukraine that gave the Kremlin little choice but to...
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Solidarity with Palestine in All Our Organizing
The following is a talk prepared for the “Stop Trump and for Mutual Aid Rally”, put on by Evergreen Resistance, part of 50501, by Peter Bohmer, a member of Palestine Action of South Sound (PASS), on...
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How to Kidnap an Audience
One morning last spring, I was on a Zoom call with my friend Deepa. I could see packing boxes in her living room, so I asked her what was up, and she said, “I’m giving away all my books.” Now, my eyes...
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Safety Is a Practice We Enact Together: Building Solidarity Under Trump 2.0
Since President Donald Trump’s return to office, his administration has issued a series of executive orders escalating the U.S.’s demonization of trans people, migrants, and activists against Israel’s...
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”
In the last century, the story of history’s progress was built on the idea that it would pass through a series of stages of material development. These stages were fixed, predetermined, and similar...
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Tens of Thousands Take to the Streets to Defy Austerity and Authoritarianism
The massive protests against Trump’s xenophobic and authoritarian agenda shows a glimpse of the immense power we have when we take to the streets. This energy must be turned into sustained organization...
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Capitalism, Fascism, and the First American Dictatorship
“Neither blindness nor ignorance corrupts people and governments. They soon realize where the path they have taken is leading them…Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.” –...
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Labor’s Role in the Fight For Turkish Democracy
This is what we’ll do. We won’t work on March 27 and 28. Take sick leave, take a day off, turn off the switch, shut down your computer. Let your absence be felt — make yourself heard!” That was the...
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Trump, the Peace President? More Likely the Proliferation President
Much to my astonishment, some voters thought Donald Trump might be a “peace president.” I never bought it, so won’t outline the case for such magical thinking here, but his major increase already...
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May Day Letter to My Student Deportee
Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025 Dear “Cesar,[1]” This May Day, as I march with my union, the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, I will thank them for their role in making Berkeley Unified a sanctuary...
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French Contradictions: Macron’s Palestine Play – Too Little, Too Late
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vehement opposition to a Palestinian state aligns perfectly with a long-standing Zionist ideology that has consistently viewed the establishment of a...
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How Pope Francis Divinized Palestinian Suffering: the Gaza Pietà
Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936 in Buenos Aires to Italian immigrant parents, is dead at 88 after a prolonged illness. Almost alone of Western leaders, he showed enormous sympathy for...
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If Fear Is the Goal, Then Solidarity Is the Antidote
Many of us are angsting these days about the mounting repression coming from the White House. In my community, many are worried about rumors of possible executive orders targeting climate and other...
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Social Self-Defense Has Begun
In the first hundred days of the Trump regime, actions against his juggernaut have swelled from small local demonstrations to nationwide days of action with millions of participants, initiating a...
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Even For Those With the Money to Pay For Essentials, Cash Is Drying Up in Gaza
Since Israel’s war in Gaza began in October 2023, a severe cash crisis has become one of the most pressing challenges for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Monetary...
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Both the BRICS and Bandung Revivalism Need Tough Critiques – Not Quasi-Cults
How to interpret these inspiring words, by one of the most eloquent, prolific exponents of Global South politics and economic development, Vijay Prashad? The New Bandung Spirit is about Industrial...
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Labor Needs Debate, Not Dissolution
LEPAIO Opposes Dissolution of UAW Caucus, Supports Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD) The Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations (LEPAIO) opposes the efforts to liquidate the...
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Iran and the United States: Nuclear Argy Bargy
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire, Enlightenment author and philosopher (1694-1778) Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the United States and Israel...
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The Global Fascist Project: Crisis, Control, and the Struggle From Below
The starting point for any analysis of the shocking conjuncture of events now rocking the world – trade wars, genocide, fascism – is the unprecedented crisis of global capitalism. There are four...
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