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Donald Trump Would Be Weaker the Second Time Around
Donald Trump is not the most articulate interpreter of the American past. While many US presidents have been keen to locate themselves in a certain American political tradition, Trump has generally...
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Israel Has Taken Human Shields To A Whole New Criminal Level
The use of human shields in war is not a new phenomenon. Militaries have forced civilians to serve as human shields for centuries. Yet, despite this long and dubious history, Israel has managed to...
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How to Practice Democracy When There Isn’t Any
In his new book, People, Power, Change — Organizing for Democratic Renewal, Marshall Ganz draws from personal experience as a labor and political organizer to lay out a vision for returning power to...
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The West’s Support For Israel’s Genocide Is Destroying The World As We Know It
The horrifying images from Gaza last week of fire consuming a Palestinian teenager confined to his hospital bed with an intravenous drip may come to define Israel’s genocide, as completely as earlier...
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Punishing the Democrats: Is This the Best Way to Oppose a Genocidal War?
Some people on the left make the following argument: we need to vote for a third party in this election, even or especially in swing states, as a way to punish the Democrats for their support for the...
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A Planned Economy with No Central Planning Authority
In Democratic Economic Planning, Robin Hahnel says that his “most important contribution is” having “explained concretely how to reconcile comprehensive democratic planning” with worker autonomy and...
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Voting for Killers?!
You happen to live in Michigan or Wisconsin and perhaps even have a family member, friend, or loved one recently murdered by an American bomb or bullet delivered by the IDF in pursuit of ethnic...
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Kashmir Votes to Challenge Modi’s Grip
Previously arrested several times for “anti-India” activities, twenty-three-year-old Ikhlas Amin Bhat, a resident of Anantnag, campaigned for an independent candidate in Kashmir’s first legislative...
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US Veterans Applauds Israeli Soldiers Who Refuse to Murder in Gaza
The US organization Veterans For Peace has issued a statement in support of Israeli soldiers who are refusing to fight in Gaza. “You are doing the right thing,” the veterans group writes, while...
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Machinists Reject Proposal, Strike On
“It wasn’t enough for our members,” said Jon Holden, President of IAM District 751 announcing Wednesday evening that Machinists voted to reject the latest contract proposal and continue to strike...
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Israel’s Attacks on Clinics and Hospitals In Gaza Are War Crimes and Crimes...
Earlier this month the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory issued a report demanding that Israel, in the words of Commission Chair Navi Pillar,...
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Coalition Building in MAGA Times
Over the years since I became a progressive activist and organizer in 1968 I’ve been part of an awful lot of coalitions on an awful lot of issues: the Vietnam war, impeaching Nixon, Puerto Rican...
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Trump and Life Under Dictatorship
On Saturday, September 7, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump predicted that his plan to deport 15 to 20 million people currently living in the United States would be “bloody.” He also...
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Why Union Workers Support the Kamala Harris Health Care Plan
Russell McCarthy takes two forms of insulin, along with various other medications, to help control the diabetes that’s plagued him for decades. As he worked to lower his blood sugar levels, the prices...
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Will Justice Department Actually Rein In Elon Musk’s Blatant Vote-Buying Scheme?
On Wednesday afternoon, the Department of Justice (DOJ) warned Elon Musk that he might be in violation of federal laws as regards his extraordinary recent interventions into the election process. The...
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Fellow Letter Carriers, Stand Together and Vote No on Sellout Contract!
City letter carriers finally got to see the headlines of the tentative agreement Letter Carriers (NALC) President Brian Renfroe has negotiated—after more than 500 days of working without a contract and...
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Maduro Before BRICS+: “We believe That a New World Has Already Been Born”
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro gave a speech at the plenary sessions in the BRICS+/Outreach format on Thursday, where he stressed the need to “re-found the United Nations system”. “Every time a...
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New Scientific Report Confirms World Leaders Failing to Meet Climate Goals
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released its annual emissions gap report today. According to this latest analysis, global heat-trapping emissions have yet to peak, and the world is on...
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Activist Diary #6: First Aid Drop to Western North Carolina
Hurricane Helene killed at least 230 people across six states in the southeastern United States. Western North Carolina was especially devastated, with 95 people reported killed at the time of this...
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Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Progressive Democrats and Community...
As Democrats and leaders in the Palestinian, Arab, Muslim and Progressive communities in Arizona, we the undersigned make the following statement, published on 10/24/2024: Add your name HERE This past...
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