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Peace and Social Progress in Vietnam
April 30, 2025, marks 50 years since what most US media call “the fall of Saigon”—and what progressives call the victory for peace and social progress in Vietnam. Many US movement elders came into...
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Over 200 Higher Education Institutions Pledge to Resist Trump Attacks
Hundreds of colleges, universities and scholarly societies in the U.S. have pledged to resist the Trump administration’s “unprecedented” all-out attacks on higher education as the president targets...
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Faculty Rally Nationwide for Free Speech, Free Tuition, and to Free Detained...
Faculty-student pairs set up “anti-fascist office hours” at three locations on the Northwestern University campus. Faculty, students, and staff created anti-fascist art at the University of Hawaii....
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On ‘Moral Panic’ and the Courage to Speak: The West’s Silence on Gaza
The Palestinians do not have the luxury for Western moral panic to have its say or impact. Not caving in to this panic is one small but important step in building a global Palestine network that is...
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On the Free Speech Rights of Noncitizens
The Trump administration has revoked the visas of more than 1,000 foreign university students since January 2025. Many of the individual cases that have made headlines center on foreign-born university...
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Diplomacy or Deception? Trump’s North Korea Strategy
At a glimpse, the 7-foot cylindrical silhouette of the MK-82, a 500-lbs bomb manufactured by General Dynamics, could be mistaken for a human being falling from the sky. With an 89 kg explosive payload,...
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Close the US Military Bases in Asia
President Donald Trump is again loudly complaining that the US military bases in Asia are too costly for the US to bear. As part of the new round of tariff negotiations with Japan and Korea, Trump is...
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Three Promising Innovations in Worker Organizing Beyond the NLRB
Union density has been in sharp decline since the 1970s and recently reached a low at 9.9 percent in 2024. Despite a recent uptick in union elections and increased enthusiasm for the labor movement...
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Asim Munir, You Got that Wrong
The dastardly targeted killings of Hindu tourists in Pahalgam in pursuance of the “two-nation theory” as recently recalled by the Pakistan army chief Asim Munir, must be read as a misbegotten attempt...
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The European Union on the Crossroads: Tariffs from Friends, Trade from...
The ninety-day customs truce ‘graciously’ granted by Trump is rapidly expiring, placing European economies in a serious dilemma. A looming 20% tariff hangs like the Sword of Damocles over an economic...
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We Denounce Fake Freedom
We have been collectively mourning UnFreedom Day since 2006. This year we will be holding rallies and protests in three provinces to show the world that we are not free and to build the unity and power...
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FIFA’s Sideline: Why the World Football Body isn’t Punishing Israel
Despite compelling evidence of violations against Palestinian sports, FIFA’s prolonged inaction and delayed decisions suggest a reluctance to hold Israel accountable. A Palestinian Football Association...
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Israel Stalls and the International Court of Justice Complies
One year ago, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel had fifteen months to prepare their defense (“counter memorial”) against the charges of genocide filed by South Africa. They were told...
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Not Just Unions; Strike-Ready Unions.
I wrote a piece for In These Times this week called “Unions Without Strikes,” which was prompted by something very big and very ominous that has been on my mind: the fact that there have been no...
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Washington State Workers Take the Fight to the Governor
Hundreds of Washington state workers streamed into the capitol building in Olympia on April 9 demanding, “No cuts! No furloughs! Tax, tax the rich!” Our booming chants echoed through the rotunda,...
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The Politics of Cleansing
All across the United States, people are rising up–refusing to be complicit in the slow-motion annihilation of democracy. They march against a regime that strips away public goods, criminalizes...
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The Crackdown on Campuses Is a Crackdown on Unions
As the Trump administration escalates its crackdown on campus dissent, unionized graduate students are increasingly caught in the crosshairs. Some, who are foreign students, have had their visas...
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Close Military Bases, Not Embassies
The Trump clowns are planning to close U.S. embassies in Africa. Good riddance, right? Wrong. They still plan to work on “coordinated counterterrorism operations” and “strategic extraction and trade of...
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Smotrich Speeds Up Land Theft In West Bank
The Israeli government is accelerating facts on the ground to annex the occupied West Bank. Israel’s far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich dubbed 2025 the “year of sovereignty in Judea and...
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Macklemore Discusses Palestine, Mahmoud Khalil And The Call To Activism.
Speech excerpt of Macklemore at the ‘Free Mahmoud Khalil, Free Palestine!’ event in New York City. This event was in support of Mahmoud Khalil, Palestine, and civil liberties. Featuring Khalil’s legal...
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