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An Autopsy of Opaque Persecution in a Democracy
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-autopsy-of-opaque-persecution-in-a-democracy/
Published: May 7, 2025 17:59
Since at least classical antiquity, the differences between dictatorship and democracy have been clear, unequivocal, and as evident as the difference between water and oil. In theory. In practice, the differences, especially today, are much more complex.…
The Global Fascist Project: Crisis, Control, and the Struggle From Below
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-global-fascist-project-crisis-control-and-the-struggle-from-below/
Published: April 23, 2025 16:56
The starting point for any analysis of the shocking conjuncture of events now rocking the world – trade wars, genocide, fascism – is the unprecedented crisis of global capitalism. There are four interwoven dimensions: 1) economic involving…
What Time Is This?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-time-is-this/
Published: April 4, 2025 13:43
The easy answer to this question would be to say that we are in a time of transition. After all, all eras are times of transition between one reality and a different one. But there are transitions and transitions. There are transitions in which the…
Peoples’ Platform Europe 2025: Looking Back
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/peoples-platform-europe-2025-looking-back/
Published: March 26, 2025 11:54
The Peoples’ Platform Europe took place in Vienna from February 14-16, 2025. Under the motto “Reclaim the Initiative”, it brought activists from across Europe into strategic exchange with the aim of working to build a just, free, ecological and peaceful…
Reclaiming the Narrative: Why Palestinians Must Own the Means of Content Production
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reclaiming-the-narrative-why-palestinians-must-own-the-means-of-content-production/
Published: March 24, 2025 14:02
My journey into the realm of people’s history began during my teenage years when I first read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. This initial exposure sparked my curiosity about how history is constructed, and it led me to delve deeper…
The Dark Enlightenment: the Tech Oligarch Ideology Driving DOGE’s Destruction
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-dark-enlightenment-the-tech-oligarch-ideology-driving-doges-destruction/
Published: March 24, 2025 13:49
The future of American democracy isn’t being dismantled by accident; it’s being systematically replaced to prepare the way for something entirely new. A radical ideology known as the Dark Enlightenment is fueling a billionaire-led movement to gut our…
Reviewing The Dialectics of Ecology
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reviewing-the-dialectics-of-ecology/
Published: March 14, 2025 15:36
Can you feel it? There is a palpable dread that the ruling class, which owns financial and industrial capital, will continue to invest in destroying the Earth System. One example is the half-dozen biggest American banks: Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman…
From Gaza to Syria: The Unyielding Reality of Israeli Settler Colonialism
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-gaza-to-syria-the-unyielding-reality-of-israeli-settler-colonialism/
Published: March 10, 2025 16:55
The conversation on settler colonialism must not be limited to academic discussion. It is a political reality, clearly demonstrated in the everyday behavior of Israel. Israel is not merely an expansionist regime historically; it remains actively so today.…
Woke, Identitarianism and the Extreme-Right
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/woke-identitarianism-and-the-extreme-right/
Published: March 10, 2025 16:28
In the year marking the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II, we are witnessing a new surge of hate speech, both in the domestic politics of nation-states and in international policies. Liberal democracies, in a state of collapse, are shaped by…
No, The United States is Not a “Beacon of Democracy”
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-the-united-states-is-not-a-beacon-of-democracy/
Published: March 10, 2025 16:19
On March 4, Bernie Sanders published a statement saying “For 250 years, the United States has supported democracy”, expressing his concern that the Trump administration has taken an authoritarian turn that violates a centuries-long tradition of US…
The Possible Between Two Impossibilities
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Published: March 5, 2025 18:39
Not everything that apparently has no beginning or end is infinite. For example, a circle, which is a confined space-time. It is precisely in a circle that contemporary societies live due to the globalization of capitalism and the revolution in information…
Class and/or Identity?!
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/class-and-or-identity/
Published: February 19, 2025 18:50
As resistance to fascism grows, and it is growing—how could it not—activists will face many choices. One that has often been quite contentious will re-arise. How should we decide whether to be mainly class-oriented or mainly identity-oriented? This is not…