The Campaign to Unionize Amazon Gains Momentum
A unionization drive at Amazon was never going to be easy — the Teamsters acknowledged enough when they voted in 2021 to make organizing the e-commerce behemoth a top priority. Not only do over 1...
View ArticleBiden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran
On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), Hezbollah and Hamas. There are conflicting reports...
View ArticleWords Kill – Why Israel Gets Away with Murder in Gaza and Lebanon
The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during the intense and deadly bombardment of September 20 in south Lebanon is that the Lebanese are hiding long-range missile...
View Article“What Should I Do With This Pain?”
With the first anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel approaching, the death toll in Gaza climbing to more than 41,500, and Israel inflicting ever more extreme violence on the West Bank...
View ArticleInvestigating War Crimes in Gaza
This feature length investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves...
View ArticleEmployee Ownership Advocates Make Policy Gains in Massachusetts
What does it take to build robust public support for a solidarity economy? How can workers become owners in the economy? Worker ownership is an important tool for enabling ordinary people to build a...
View ArticleCorporate Entitlement Towards The Global South: Filing Claims Against...
Human rights defenders gather at an encampment to demand justice for Honduran land defender Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated in 2016. Photo: peacebrigades.org.uk Recently, during a period of just 18...
View ArticleMonarchs, a Dragonfly and Defending Life on Earth
About a month ago I was watering plants in our family garden when a dragonfly landed on a plant just a few feet away from me. I watched it for a bit, expecting it to fly away, but when it didn’t I...
View ArticleStudent Protests and the Corporatisation and Militarisation of Higher Education
The long-simmering crisis over Israel’s genocide of Palestinians has reached a breaking point. Campus protests in solidarity with Gaza have erupted across North America, spanning at least 45 US states,...
View ArticleUnrealisable Justice: Julian Assange in Strasbourg
It was good to hear that voice again. A voice of provoking interest that pitter patters, feline across a parquet, followed by the usual devastating conclusion. Julian Assange’s last public address was...
View ArticleThe End of Coal Power in The UK
Smoke filled the sky across the industrial parts of the UK, as coal powered the industrial revolution. First coal brought prosperity and progress, but over decades the smoke stacks have been identified...
View ArticleDockers Around The World Stand In Steadfast Solidarity With International...
As theInternational Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) begins strike action on the USA’s East Coast, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) joins the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) in...
View ArticleWhitewashing Imperialism: the Western ‘Left’ and Venezuela
Every time Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution is faced with renewed threats to its survival, a stratum of US-based intellectuals is always ready with ‘left’ critiques that deliberately obscure the...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn: Israel’s Impunity Endangers Us All
The West’s failure to bring Israel to justice for its genocide in Gaza has emboldened it to attack Lebanon — and brought the region to the brink of all-out war. We finally arrived in Gaza at around...
View ArticleUS Labor Has a Responsibility to Stop Israel
In an interview, United Electrical Workers president Carl Rosen talks about the union’s call to halt US military support to Israel and why it’s important that the labor movement speak up against US...
View ArticleHow Mass Protest Created A Breakthrough On The Climate Crisis In The Netherlands
Creating a trigger event and a moment of the whirlwind — a period in which social movements capture the political spotlight in a country in a major way and shift the terms of public debate — is a rare...
View ArticleTrump, The Purge, Black Nazis and the Language of Apocalyptic Lies and Violence
At a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Trump invoked a chilling convergence of law, order, and violence—a cornerstone of what can only be described as his politics of disposability. By referencing...
View ArticleInside the State Department’s Weapons Pipeline to Israel
In late January, as the death toll in Gaza climbed to 25,000 and droves of Palestinians fled their razed cities in search of safety, Israel’s military asked for 3,000 more bombs from the American...
View ArticleFinally Free, Assange Receives a Measure of Justice From the Council of Europe
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Europe’s foremost human rights body, overwhelmingly adopted a resolution on October 2 formally declaring WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a...
View ArticleWorking-Class Men Are Not Okay
Sometimes I think about the fifty-year-old man living in my mom’s garage. Todd is an affable giant, his red beard and long hair giving him the air of a medieval Viking. But his life is far from a fairy...
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