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Project 2025 Will Decapitate Civilian Oversight of the U.S. Military
The First Amendment guarantees religious freedom and the separation of Church and State, basic tenets of American democracy which conservative think-tank the Heritage Foundation is intent on...
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Labor Day Special Featuring Howard Zinn & Voices of a People’s History of the...
In 1980, historian Howard Zinn published his classic work, A People’s History of the United States. The book would go on to sell over a million copies and change the way many look at history in...
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The Great Crossing: From Competition to “Coöperatism”
A generation ago South Africa looked into twin abysses: becoming a nuclear weapons state, and race war. Looking into the heart of darkness that lay at the bottom of these separate abysses, they chose...
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Starmer’s New Immigration Bill Is Just As Racist As The Rwanda Plan
Over the past few years of increasingly hostile migration policies, many in the migrant, including refugee, charity sector have looked to the dawn of a new government with eager anticipation. Surely, a...
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An Arms Embargo On Israel Is Not A Radical Idea — It’s The Law
Halting military aid to Israel is the bare minimum the U.S. can do to stop the Gaza genocide. An arms embargo is not only supported by 80% of Democratic Party voters, it is demanded by international...
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Israel’s Main Labor Union Calls Strike To Pressure Netanyahu on Hostage Deal
The strike was called after the Israeli military recovered the bodies of six Israeli hostages in Gaza. Israel’s largest labor union, the Histadrut, has called a general strike that will start Monday to...
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Labor Day 2024
On Labor Day this writer has summed up the condition of the American working class over the past year. This national election year it is perhaps useful to review not only the past year but what has...
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US Labor Unions Still Need to Get Serious About Organizing
With union popularity at historic highs and organized labor’s war chests overflowing, now is the time to spend big on strikes and new organizing. So far, unions mostly aren’t doing that. On Tuesday,...
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Gaza, the Climate Emergency and Defeating Trump
For the last 21 years, the primary issue I have focused on is the climate crisis. It’s a no-brainer for me: it is a scientific fact that time is running out to prevent ecosystem and societal unraveling...
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Parallel Realities: Slovenia’s Civil Society Calls On The Government To...
At the moment of writing this article it is still unclear if Israeli politican and war criminal Tzipi Livni will arive on Monday, 2nd of September, to Slovenia to the Bled Strategic Forum to which she...
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Role of the Irish People in the Wider World
In this article I focus mainly on the role and importance of individual people, including Irish people, rather than on states, countries, governments, or international organisations, who are described...
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Navigating The Darkest Timeline
To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about the background and motivations behind writing ‘The Darkest Timeline’? I think it’s fair to say that the idea of the apocalypse, the end times, or...
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On the Frontline of Resistance: The Women of Palestine
During her acceptance speech in August at the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Kamala Harris heaped praise on her mother. She spoke proudly of a childhood full of promise, forged by a...
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The 50-Year-Old “New” Masculinity
Since the presidential campaign shake-up in July, the national conversation about manhood is abuzz with talk of a “new” masculinity, embodied by good, decent men like Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff. What’s...
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Which Labor Union Is the Best: The Bureaucratic Union or the Rank-and-File...
According to the latest statistics, 69 percent of Sweden’s wage earners are unionized. This can be compared with the peak of 86 percent in 1995. Most wage earners are members of the unions within LO,...
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Neoliberal Policies Associated With Reaganomics Actually Started With Carter
Research has long established strong links between neoliberal policies and increasing rates of inequality. Susan George, for instance, argued quite convincingly that increasing inequality stems from...
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The New Popular Front Is Ready to Govern
Last July, you mobilised massively at the polls to refuse the arrival of the extreme right in power and to break with the policies pursued for seven years. We thank you for this. And since then?...
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Individual Liberty and the SC Verdict on PMLA
In a purposefully detailed judgment on the grant of bail to a citizen accused under the draconian Prevention of Money Laundering Act, the Supreme Court last week placed the issue in a context...
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Los Angeles Teachers’ Road to Durable Power, 2014–2016
From the 1990s to the mid-2010s, the dominant forces within the Democratic Party helped create, shape, and drive bipartisan neoliberalism in public education. Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Arne Duncan,...
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Thousands of Palestinian Children in Gaza Are the Principal Victims of...
The Israeli war on Gaza is a war on Palestinian children. This was as true on 7 October as it is today. On 17 August, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a seven-day ceasefire to allow...
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