Alabama House Passes Bill That Could Be Used to Criminalize Librarians
The Alabama House of Representatives voted 72-28 on Thursday in favor of a bill that would apply the state’s criminal obscenity laws to public libraries, public school libraries, and the people who...
View ArticleRemembering the Portuguese Revolution
On 25 April 1974 the junior officers of the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) released a radio communique: ‘The Portuguese armed forces appeal to residents of the city of Lisbon to remain in their homes and...
View ArticleUSAID: Israel Has Already Imposed Unavoidable, Exponential Famine on Gaza...
Prominent foreign policy journalist Colum Lynch has an exclusive at the Devex site, which is devoted to economic development news and has a special relationship to the US Agency for International...
View ArticleCampus Activism for Gaza Ignites
Students at more than 40 universities and colleges in the United States and around the world have lit a fire under the Palestine solidarity movement by setting up encampments on their campuses. They...
View ArticleWhy I Wrote the Song, “I’m A Better Anarchist Than You”
While I spend most of my waking hours banging my head against a wall, figuratively speaking, occasionally I get reflective. I’ve noticed that reflection can occasionally be useful in helping us figure...
View ArticleBeat the Bold Marauder — Ceasefire Summer, Education Summer, Freedom Summer,...
The events now happening on campuses are profoundly uplifting, ethically inspiring, and strategically wise. As I write, thirty-eight U.S. College campuses have encampments, with one in France and two...
View ArticleThe Climate Youth Movement’s Earth Day Message to Biden
Last weekend, we flooded our streets and campuses with our voices and votes. Tens of thousands of young people along with the Sunrise Movement, Fridays for Future U.S., and Reclaim Earth Day, in more...
View ArticleWhy People of Ecuador Were Right to Keep the Corporate Courts Out
The people of Ecuador have given a resounding NO to the return of secretive, foreign corporate courts suing the Ecuadorian state for democratic decisions. In a referendum held last week, Ecuador voted...
View ArticleWhat If Labor Owned Its Workplaces?
Jacobin’s David Moscrop recently talked with Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives senior economist and public finance policy analyst Alex Hemingway about his new cowritten report, Expanding...
View ArticleWhere Militant Unionists Come to Plan
The 3-to-1 victory of the United Automobile Workers in a National Labor Relations Board election at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga factory last Friday has been the big news on the labor front. For the first...
View ArticleAfter 200 Days of Carnage, US and UN Suddenly Shocked at Israeli Mass Graves...
Israel turned Gaza’s hospitals into execution fields and the international community only called for humanitarian pauses. Now that mass graves have been discovered, the international community is...
View ArticleHow Extremists Became the New Face of Israel
Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an actual share in the country’s political...
View ArticleAI Chatbots: Hype Meets Reality
Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere. Companies use powerful AI chatbots on their webpages or phone systems to handle customer questions. Newsrooms and magazines use them to write...
View ArticleTo Curb Climate Pollution, We Must Address the Elephant in the Room:...
In cities and in rural areas, in red states and blue states, most residents want cleaner and more connected communities. Public transit—including trains, buses, and dial-a-ride services—and accessible...
View ArticleZionist Conspiracism Shares Self-Fulfilling Prophecies With Kindergarten...
In looking at conflict in history, we can only tend towards the conclusion that many political leaders, wielding great power as wholly owned subsidiaries of an even greater one, struggle with concepts...
View ArticleAlice Walker: A Voice of Love, Revolution, and Resilience
Born in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, into a farming family of eight children, Alice Walker experienced racial segregation in the South of the United States from an early age. In her teens, aware of the...
View ArticleCan Responsible Journalism and Investor Capitalism Co-Exist?
Gannett Newspapers Severs Its Relationship With Associated Press To Please Its Shareholders Gannett Newspapers is the largest publisher of newspapers in the United States with millions of readers and...
View ArticleWhy Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Voting to Unionize Is A Huge Victory for The...
Tennessee Volkswagen workers achieved a historic victory on April 19 by overwhelmingly voting to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) labor union. This victory marked the first time since 1941 that a...
View ArticleThe Palestinian Resistance Isn’t a Monolith
Since October 7, any critical evaluation of Hamas’s military operation — its method, rationality, and targets, or its role in ending the Israeli occupation — has been hard to voice within the Left....
View ArticleIf This is 1968 Over Again, More Popular Upheaval Is On The Way
Mass graves, the criminalization of dissent, systematic slaughter glorified as self-defense, resisting students making history. Yes, the current nightmare does seem reminiscent of 1968, the year...
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