The Quiet Rollout Of Cop Cities Across The US Meets A Growing Resistance
As Cop Cities spread to nearly every state, grassroots activists are pushing back by forming coalitions that press for investment in communities over militarized policing. On June 11, a week after a...
View ArticleShawn Fain On Class Struggle, Union Wins, And The Road Ahead For UAW
In a conversation with PTB General Secretary Peter Mertens, UAW President Shawn Fain addresses the challenges of organizing the working class and the fight for workers’ rights At ManiFiesta 2024, Shawn...
View ArticleWhy Did A British Jewish Newspaper Publish Fake Israeli Intelligence?
On Sept. 4, Benjamin Netanyahu called a press conference for foreign media in order to explain his stubborn insistence on keeping Israeli forces in Gaza’s Philadelphi Corridor, even at the expense of a...
View Article‘Real Scandal’: Ex-French PM Decries West’s Media Bias, Silence On Gaza Carnage
Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has decried France and the West over their inaction on the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. In rare remarks by a former French premier,...
View ArticleThe Political Economy of Saving the Planet – Bob Pollin
The issue of banning (or not banning) fracking has been at the forefront of the 2024 presidential debates between former President Trump and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. Fracking, a technique that...
View ArticleYoung People Will Save the World, Because We’re the Last Generation That Can
The past 20 years have been critical in the fight for bold and sustainable climate solutions. The next five years will be even more vital — and young people like me are fighting hard to make sure our...
View ArticleBoeing Machinists Strike
Third-shift workers walked out of Boeing’s giant factories at Renton and Everett, Washington, as their contract expired early Friday morning, blasting music and airhorns, shooting off fireworks, and...
View ArticleNo One Seems to Have an Answer to Germany’s Far Right
For ten years, Thuringia was the only state in Germany with a president from left-wing party Die Linke. That was until September 1, when it fell to just fourth place in elections to the state...
View ArticleICC Prosecutor Says World Leaders ‘Threatened’ Him Over Israel Arrest Warrants
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) says world leaders pressured him not to apply for arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and defense minister on allegations of...
View ArticleIsraeli Racism Shouldn’t Get a Pass in America
In 2013, Justine Sacco, an executive at a New York public relations firm, sent a tweet in which she joked about AIDS among Black Africans. “Going to Africa,” her tweet said, “Hope I don’t get AIDS....
View ArticleHarris Can’t Embrace Billionaires if She Wants to Win
The vast majority of Americans believe that the United States economy is unfairly rigged to benefit the rich. In the past few weeks, the Democratic nominee for president, Kamala Harris, has proven that...
View Article“On Thin Ice”: Western Nations Crack Down on Climate Activists with Arrests &...
As the climate crisis continues to accelerate, wealthy governments in the West are clamping down on climate protest. According to a new report from Climate Rights International, demonstrators around...
View ArticleHow The War On Gaza Exposed Israeli And Western Fascism
Nearly a year into the world’s first live-streamed genocide – which began in Gaza, and is rapidly expanding into the occupied West Bank – the establishment western media still avoid using the term...
View ArticlePolice Want to Repress Palestine Solidarity — We Must Not Do Their Work for Them
This past spring, in response to escalated campus protests in solidarity with Palestine, President Joe Biden proclaimed: “Dissent is essential to democracy, but dissent must never lead to disorder.”...
View Article‘Appalling Figures’: At Least Three Environmental Defenders Killed Per Week...
Eduardo Mendúa, a member of the Indigenous A’i Cofán peoples, resisted the expansion of oil operations in Ecuador’s Cofán territory. On February 26, 2023, Mendúa, 40, was in his garden when two hooded...
View ArticleBoeing Machinists Are on Strike
Third-shift workers walked out of Boeing’s giant factories at Renton and Everett, Washington, as their contract expired early Friday morning, blasting music and air horns, shooting off fireworks, and...
View ArticleIn Mississippi, a Group of Black Women Is Reimagining Voter Turnout
This article is part of U.S. Democracy Day, a nationwide collaborative on September 15, the International Day of Democracy, in which news organizations cover how democracy works and the threats it...
View ArticleThe Revolutionary Fire in the People Starts with a Song
Mallu Swarajyam (1931–2022) was born with an appropriate name. From deep within the mass movement against British colonialism that was initiated by India’s peasants and workers, and then shaped by M....
View Article‘Hitlerian’: Trump Vows to Deport Haitians Legally in Ohio to Venezuela
U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his attack on the Haitian immigrant community of Springfield, Ohio on Friday when he promised to begin his mass deportation plan there if elected president. “We...
View ArticleYoung Climate Activists Are Fueling Hope and Winning Change
The past 20 years have been critical in the fight for bold and sustainable climate solutions. The next five years will be even more vital—and young people like me are fighting hard to make sure our...
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