Europe Shouldn’t Rely Upon the RSF Militia on Immigration
In April 2023, a war broke out in Sudan between the Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces. The impact has been devastating. Thousands were killed in addition to massive destruction in...
View ArticleThe Misleading Controversy Over an Olympic Women’s Boxing Match, Briefly...
An Olympic women’s boxing match — and misinformation about one of the athletes involved — is now being used by conservatives to promote their anti-trans agenda. On Thursday, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif...
View ArticleA New Ireland: Socialist, Internationalist and Free
On Saturday 3 August 2024, I attended an anti-racist rally outside Belfast City Hall. Across the police line, howling fascist yahoos flew Union Jacks, Israel flags and the Irish Tricolour. This...
View ArticleYoung People Brought Down Bangladesh’s Repressive Leader. Will They Now Be...
“Inni, we are independent!” my 26-year-old cousin chanted from Shahbagh, a neighbourhood in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, as millions joined a major protest march on Monday to the country’s Parliament...
View ArticleThe Energy Has Changed. The Underlying Politics Have Not.
The Joe Biden-to-Kamala Harris handoff has produced a dramatic shift in mood among all opponents of MAGA’s white Christian Nationalist agenda. The gloom about prospects for defeating authoritarianism...
View ArticleInternational Campaign Targets Tanker Supplying Israeli War Planes with Texas...
An oil tanker scheduled to carry 300,000 barrels of military-grade jet fuel to Israel has been prevented from docking in Spain and Gibraltar following pressure from activists. The oil is expected to be...
View ArticleJames Baldwin: Wake the Children Sleeping
Amidst surging racism in what he ruefully called our “glittering republic,” we mark the 100th birthday of James Baldwin, the incandescent writer, orator, and “disturber of the peace” fiercely committed...
View ArticleFossil Free Media Launches Nationwide “Make Polluters Pay” Billboard Campaign
Fossil Free Media is launching a nationwide billboard campaign for their Make Polluters Pay campaign starting the week of August 5th. The campaign, in partnership with the Sunrise Movement, will...
View ArticleFrance Insoumise Faces an Enigmatic Path Forward
France Insoumise, created in January 2016 to serve as a vehicle for Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s presidential campaign, is today a force with seventy-one members of the National Assembly and annual public...
View ArticleDemocrats Should Run on a Progressive Economic Agenda. Americans Are Ready
One of the most extraordinary aspects of our corporate-dominated American political system is the degree to which the needs of working-class people, the majority of our population, are systematically...
View ArticleNext American Revolution #12: Self-Definition
In which Patti Cohen, Malcom King, Lydia Luxemburg, Bill Hampton, and Barbara Bethune discuss RPS second convention and shadow government. [Author’s Note: This is the twelfth excerpt from a work titled...
View ArticleHow Will Israel’s Recent Assassinations Affect War in Gaza?
A move by Israeli police units to enter the Sde Teiman army base to investigate ten reservists on suspicion of torturing a Palestinian prisoner sparked fury among those on Israel’s far right last week....
View ArticleLet’s Think About How to Build a More Peaceful World
Although the current U.S. presidential campaign has focused almost entirely on domestic issues, Americans live on a planet engulfed in horrific wars, an escalating arms race, and repeated threats of...
View ArticleTop Israeli Official: “Morally Justified” to Starve 2 Million to Death in Gaza
A top Israeli official suggested on Monday that he believes it is “morally justified” for Israel to wipe out Gaza’s population through famine and starvation, in chilling statements that pro-Palestine...
View ArticleThe AI-Robot Worker
The real fear on humanoid killer robots and slaughter-bots isn’t the killing of people literally but that they will kill millions of jobs. However, instead of killing – and this is throughout the...
View ArticleUS Tech Giants Are Storing Data for Israeli Military as It Destroys Gaza
The Israeli military is using cloud storage and artificial intelligence services provided by U.S. tech titans for “direct participation and collaboration” in what many critics around the world call...
View ArticleWorld-Ending Maneuvers?
The Pentagon is in the midst of a massive $2 trillion multiyear plan to build a new generation of nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, and submarines. A large chunk of that funding will go to major nuclear...
View ArticleGoogle Is a Monopoly: Judge Rules Against Tech Giant in Landmark Antitrust Case
In the biggest antitrust case in decades, a federal judge ruled Monday that Google illegally maintains a monopoly over the online search industry, using its market dominance to shut out competitors and...
View ArticleNeoliberal Bureaucracy: Making the Left Look Bad
No one prints the syllabus for a college class anymore. They’re multi-page tomes, too long to print, and they’re usually posted online. A modern syllabus is essentially a legal document, full of...
View ArticleThe U.S. Has Dozens of Secret Bases Across the Middle East. They Keep Getting...
U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria have come under repeated attack in recent weeks, including a rocket attack on al-Asad Air Base in Iraq on Monday that reportedly injured five U.S. military personnel and...
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