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Celebrating Links Across Species
He’s a funny little chap: a sharp dresser with a sleek grey jacket, a white waistcoat, red shorts, and a small grey crest for a hat. With his shiny black eyes and stubby black beak, he’s quite the...
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May Day May Have Been Obliterated from US History, But It’s Legacy Continues
May 1st is International Workers’ Day and was established as such in celebration of the struggle for the introduction of the eight-hour workday and in memory of Chicago’s Haymarket Affair, which took...
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Why Doesn’t the World Make Sense Anymore? An Interview With Jerry Harris
Much of the Left would like to act as if nothing fundamental has changed in the way that capitalism has been operating over the last fifty years. Yes, some will acknowledge, the collapse of the USSR...
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Can You Hear, Do You See?
Mr. or Ms. President of any and every college. The facts over there, in Gaza, are on display to see. The facts over there are bellowing visibly and even bragging openly their intent lest anyone meant...
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Why Does the US Government Support And Fund Israel?
Environmentalists have learned the investigative rule to “follow the money”. At the core of important environmental issues, it is NOT good vs bad guys, nor cultural wokeness vs anti-wokeness, nor smart...
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The Israel-US Game Plan For Gaza is Staring Us in The Face
One does not need to be a fortune-teller to understand that the Israel-US game plan for Gaza runs something like this: 1. In public, Biden appears “tough” on Netanyahu, urging him not to “invade” Rafah...
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Eco-Collapse Hasn’t Happened Yet, But You Can See It Coming
Something must be up. Otherwise, why would scientists keep sending us those scary warnings? There has been a steady stream of them in the past few years, including “World Scientists’ Warning of a...
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In Relay Race to Organize the South, Volkswagen Workers Pass the Baton to...
Michael Göbel, president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, stepped down from his post yesterday, according to a video message that workers were shown. Göbel had groused in an April...
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“We Don’t Want to Trade in the Blood of Palestinians”: Voices of Students &...
Nearly 300 peaceful protesters were arrested over the weekend as student-led Gaza solidarity encampments across U.S. university and college campuses face an intensifying crackdown. Democracy Now! spoke...
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Freedom Under Capitalism Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Oshawa is a small Canadian city on the shoreline of Lake Ontario. It was also the hometown of the late left-wing Canadian politician Ed Broadbent, who would go on to become the national chairman of the...
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The Curious Case of the Freedom Flotilla
The departure of the spectacular “Freedom Flotilla” to Gaza carrying 5,500 tonnes of aid has been postponed (again), because the flag state of the major vessels, Guinea Bissau, has withdrawn their...
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May Day 2024: There’s No Democracy Without Trade Unions
This year, in what has been dubbed a historical ‘super election year’, around four billion people will vote in more than 40 countries. But, if we look at the state of democracy around the world, and...
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The True Shocking Driver of Crime in America
In the midst of all of his trials, in a moment pregnant with irony, Donald Trump recently claimed that if he was reelected he would seize direct control of Washington, DC because, he said, crime there...
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How the Constitution Fails to Protect the Environment
The absence of clear and broad constitutional authority to protect the environment limits the scope of federal environmental law. Even a healthy U.S. democracy would struggle to respond effectively to...
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Activist Risk Taking, Then and Now
April 30 is a day I remember because it is my mom’s birthday. She died in 2005. But it’s also a day I remember because, on that day in 1971, while serving what turned out to be an 1l-month sentence in...
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May Day May Have Been Obliterated from US History, But Its Legacy Continues
May 1st is International Workers’ Day and was established as such in celebration of the struggle for the introduction of the eight-hour workday and in memory of Chicago’s Haymarket Affair, which took...
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City University of New York Workers Announce Wildcat Sickout After NYPD...
CUNY workers announced a wildcat sickout after NYPD raided City College’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment. It’s the first known job action in the PSC union’s 52-year history. In the evening of Tuesday,...
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American Intifada for Gaza: What Should We Expect?
The mass protests at dozens of US universities cannot be reduced to a stifling and misleading conversation about antisemitism. Thousands of American students across the country are not protesting,...
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“People Could Have Died”: Police Raid UCLA Gaza Protest, Waited as Pro-Israel...
We get an update from the University of California, Los Angeles, where police in riot gear began dismantling a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday, using flashbang grenades, rubber bullets and...
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“Workers Have Power”: Thousands Rally in NYC for May Day, Call for Solidarity...
Workers around the world rallied Wednesday to mark May Day, with many calling on the labor movement to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. In New York, Democracy Now! spoke to demonstrators...
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