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The Minilateralist Incentive: A Climate Change Conference in Colombia
Published: April 28, 2026 16:02
Not much good comes from war. Qualifying exceptions, however, can be found. The United Nations, tarnished, libelled and mocked for being simultaneously ineffectual and intrusive, was the mediating entity for international relations that grew from the…
The Paradox of Tolerance: When Freedom Becomes a Weapon of Oppression
Published: April 28, 2026 16:01
The paradox of tolerance, a theory that challenges a society’s ability to defend democracy from within, is at the heart of the political turmoil plaguing the United States today. The idea, first articulated by philosopher Karl Popper, suggests that a…
“Us and Them” is Obsolete
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-and-them-is-obsolete/
Published: April 28, 2026 16:01
Competitiveness is one of our primary values. Competition runs the world. It orients success in business, or sports—and above all in war. Adversaries seek the transient glory of military advantage. Yet none of our four biggest challenges, the climate…
The Death of Sanctuary and the Rise of the Sophisticated Lone Wolf
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-death-of-sanctuary-and-the-rise-of-the-sophisticated-lone-wolf/
Published: April 28, 2026 16:01
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner has long been the premier ritual of the American establishment – a glitzy, high-stakes performance of civility between a skeptical press and a powerful presidency. But on Saturday night, that performance was violently…
I Want You to March With Me This May Day
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/i-want-you-to-march-with-me-this-may-day/
Published: April 28, 2026 16:01
This May Day, I’ll be one of the millions who will peacefully take to the streets to denounce the cruelty and corruption of this administration and the oligarchs it serves. I will march because I believe our lives are worth more than dollars and cents.…
New Mexico Becomes the Latest State to End Cooperation With ICE Under New Law
Published: April 28, 2026 16:00
Grassroots coalitions in a growing number of states are working to pass legislation to cut municipal or state ties to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The efforts are gaining momentum as the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda throws…
The Third Party That’s Pushing the Democrats Left
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-third-party-thats-pushing-the-democrats-left/
Published: April 28, 2026 16:00
Most Americans, even many Republican voters, disapprove of the war in Iran and remain unhappy about the high cost of everything from gas to groceries, which is only getting worse as the conflict continues. So it’s not surprising that President Donald…
The Feminization of Poverty: A Socialist Feminist Perspective
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-feminization-of-poverty-a-socialist-feminist-perspective/
Published: April 28, 2026 16:00
When we speak of poverty in political or academic discourse, we often tend to treat it as a neutral phenomenon, as though it falls upon everyone equally and in the same way. Yet a critical class-based lens exposes the falsity of this supposed neutrality,…
Hormuz is the War’s Invoice—and Washington Can’t Pay It
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hormuz-is-the-wars-invoice-and-washington-cant-pay-it/
Published: April 28, 2026 16:00
What Washington Missed? Closing the Strait of Hormuz is not a side detail. It is the main pressure point. Every day the strait stays shut adds a new layer of cost to the global economy; and the shock travels back to the United States fast. This is not only…
‘The Night Guards’: Inside the Grassroots Network Fighting Back Against Israeli Settler Attacks
Published: April 28, 2026 16:00
Under the midnight moon atop the mountain in the town of Sinjil, residents carry flashlights, signaling to the hills across the valley. The beams, along with the lights surrounding a small watch tent, usually used as decoration for Ramadan, serve as an…
Quelling the Polycrisis (Video, Part 3)
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/quelling-the-polycrisis-video-part-3/
Published: April 28, 2026 14:52
Whatever happened to the “polycrisis”? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting crises that aggravated each other and made solutions appear impossible. In the year since the inauguration of Donald…
Has Senator Cruz been Misinformed About Western Sahara or What?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/has-senator-cruz-been-misinformed-about-western-sahara-or-what/
Published: April 27, 2026 17:22
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has announced that he, along with Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Rick Scott R-FL), have introduced a bill targeting what they call the “Iranian Regime’s Polisario Front,” designating that popular North African nationalist movement…
AI Is Raising Nuclear Risks in South Asia
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-is-raising-nuclear-risks-in-south-asia/
Published: April 27, 2026 17:09
In a future crisis between India and Pakistan, the most dangerous moment may not be the first strike but the minutes before it. Artificial intelligence is beginning to compress those minutes. Across modern battlefields, AI-enabled systems are accelerating…
Here’s What to Expect From the First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels
Published: April 27, 2026 17:01
Delegates from more than 50 countries are gathering in Santa Marta, Colombia, from April 24 to 29 at the first-ever Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. The conference’s stated aim is to “initiate a concrete process through which a coalition…
A New Nuclear Arms Race is Accelerating. There’s Only One Way to Stop It
Published: April 27, 2026 16:54
This week in New York, diplomats from almost every nation will convene for a four-week review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the most comprehensive nuclear arms agreement in the world. The stakes could hardly be higher.…
As Trump Strangles Cuba, How to Support the Cuban Working Class
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/as-trump-strangles-cuba-how-to-support-the-cuban-working-class/
Published: April 27, 2026 16:50
The United States is strangling Cuba. Since February, President Trump has blocked all oil heading to the island, and threatened to impose tariffs on countries that attempt to circumvent the embargo. The move comes in the context of Trump’s attacks on…
Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Makes a Black Neighborhood a Testing Lab for AI Policing
Published: April 27, 2026 16:33
ATLANTA — When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement. For most of his life, Page, who goes by “Scapegoat Jones,” felt safest in the community that Atlanta…
It’s All About the Leaders: Manufacturing Wins in the UAW
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-all-about-the-leaders-manufacturing-wins-in-the-uaw/
Published: April 27, 2026 16:27
The United Auto Workers’ (UAW) recent organizing breakthroughs in auto manufacturing in the South, major nationwide strikes, and decisive contract successes raise questions about what lessons we can and can’t draw from the last few years’ record of wins…
Palestinians in Gaza Want to Rebuild Food Systems. Israel Isn’t Letting Them.
Published: April 27, 2026 16:19
Before the Israeli war began, Gaza’s agricultural sector was known for its abundant production of fruits and vegetables and was often called the “food basket” of the Strip. Despite extensive Israeli restrictions that hindered the sector’s growth —…
Earth Destroying Corporations Flood Oregon Election with Dark Money
Published: April 27, 2026 16:00
Measure 20-373, “The Lane County Watersheds Bill of Rights,” which is on the ballot for the May 19th election in western Oregon, would enshrine “rights of nature” for water and watersheds in Lane County. If their spending is any indicator, corporate…
Reining in the Pentagon
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reining-in-the-pentagon-2/
Published: April 27, 2026 15:49
Right at this moment, we are witnessing an unprecedented shift of resources from domestic investments in the United States to the military-industrial complex (aka the war machine). The only comparable period in our history was the buildup to World War II,…
Trauma-Informed Foreign Policy; Strategic Nonviolence-Informed Domestic Action
Published: April 27, 2026 15:44
NATO overreach It is easy to understand why some “peace” people are criticizing Donald Trump’s frequent threat to pull the US out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. As a peace person, however, I have to agree with Trump’s threat. Pull out! I have…
‘Fighting for a wage rise is also an act of resistance against imperial tutelage’: Interview with Venezuelan Retired Oil Worker’s Leader Denis Ospino
Published: April 27, 2026 14:15
Retired oil worker Denis Ospino was a prominent part of the revolutionary resistance against the 2002–03 management lockout at Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA. She was crucial to restoring and stabilising oil production, playing an active role in…
Trump–Caligula Parallel: A Political Sociology of Corruption and Contradiction
Published: April 26, 2026 16:01
Since Donald Trump entered the White House in 2016, his political behavior has become a recurring subject of debate in political science and sociology. The pattern is by now familiar: open disregard for democratic norms, compulsive self‑aggrandizement,…
Cuba’s Fate Should Not Be in US Hands
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cubas-fate-should-not-be-in-us-hands/
Published: April 26, 2026 16:01
Another Venezuela? Negotiations are ongoing between the US and Cuba as the Trump administration decides whether or not to apply the Venezuela model to Cuba. The US embargo remains in effect, with only one oil tanker—a Russian ship, loaded with 730,000…
Socialism Without Illusions
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/socialism-without-illusions/
Published: April 26, 2026 16:00
Among leftists, the question of why one continues to use the word “socialism” can for most seem almost unnecessary—until one notices how unstable the term has become even within our own ranks. We invoke it constantly, but often as shorthand for very…
Revisiting Permanent Revolution in a Time of Permanent Crisis
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/revisiting-permanent-revolution-in-a-time-of-permanent-crisis/
Published: April 26, 2026 16:00
The 2026 escalation of conflict and atrocity crimes in the Gulf is not simply another geopolitical crisis. It is becoming a systemic global shock, exposing the fragility of an economic order built around energy dependence, concentrated chokepoints,…
After the Ceasefire Illusion: Why Gaza’s “Day After” Still Has No Buyer?
Published: April 26, 2026 16:00
The international community remains fixated on a phantom: Gaza’s “Day After.” While Washington, Cairo, and Doha debate elaborate governance frameworks and the “Board of Peace,” these plans share a fatal flaw—they lack a viable “buyer” on the ground. This…
NYC Councilmember Chi Ossé Calls for End to “Deed Theft” After Arrest at Eviction Protest in Brooklyn
Published: April 26, 2026 16:00
Four people were arrested on Wednesday in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn after gathering in support of Carmella Charrington, a homeowner fighting eviction from her longtime family home. Charrington and local housing advocates say the sale…
Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Protecting Colombia’s Magdalena River From Fracking
Published: April 26, 2026 16:00
As a child growing up along the banks of Colombia’s Magdalena River, Yuvelis Morales Blanco learned to read the water. “Dark spots on the river meant that we were not going to eat,” she recalled. One of those slicks—oil spills from the country’s powerful…
As Opposition Grows, Oklahoma Organizers Share How They Halted an ICE Warehouse
Published: April 26, 2026 16:00
The recent move from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to convert empty or surplus warehouses into large-scale ICE detention centers has produced a new terrain of struggle in the fight against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A notable…
Has the Strait of Hormuz Emerged as Iran’s Most Powerful Form of Deterrence?
Published: April 26, 2026 16:00
One of the US and Israel’s justifications for launching the war on Iran was to ensure the regime in Tehran could never possess nuclear weapons, the ultimate deterrent against external attack. But the main lesson that has been taken from the war, according…
Progressive NGOs Will Enable Trump: A Warning—And A Way Out
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/progressive-ngos-will-enable-trump-a-warning-and-a-way-out/
Published: April 25, 2026 15:58
For over forty years, I have worked inside what critics call the “NGO-industrial complex.” In 1982, as a Vietnam combat veteran, I quit teaching organizational psychology at MIT’s Sloan School of Management to work full-time for peace and justice. Since…
As May Day Approaches, What About the Working Class?—or, 21st Century Common Sense, Part 9 (of 10)
Published: April 25, 2026 15:58
For many socialists and revolutionaries for a long time, the “working class” has been seen as THE revolutionary group. Karl Marx in the 1840s was among the first to identify the working class as a key sector, particularly the industrial working class which…
To Solve Homelessness, Fix the Economy
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/to-solve-homelessness-fix-the-economy/
Published: April 25, 2026 15:57
A dangerous right-wing solution to homelessness is to hide the unhoused in out-of-sight detention camps. A 2024 Treasury Department report articulated the leading cause of homelessness in the United States: “For the past two decades, rents and house prices…
Three Tragedies, Three Alternatives
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/three-tragedies-three-alternatives/
Published: April 25, 2026 15:57
Recently, three events unfolded in the state of California: a foreclosure that led to the shooting death of a sheriff and the shooter; a Molotov cocktail was thrown at Sam Altman’s house; and a disgruntled worker torched a Kimberly-Clark warehouse. In each…
Pedagogy in Dark Times
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pedagogy-in-dark-times/
Published: April 25, 2026 15:55
Introduction: At a moment when democracy itself is under assault, the crisis of higher education can no longer be understood in narrow institutional terms. It must be read as part of a broader transformation in which universities are being restructured to…
How Organizers Are Building the Infrastructure Behind May Day
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-organizers-are-building-the-infrastructure-behind-may-day/
Published: April 25, 2026 15:55
Behind massive May Day rallies is a sustained organizing effort going door to door and workplace to workplace, meeting our communities where they are. On May 1, workers, students, and families across this country will march, rally, and take action together…
Decent Societies Must Recognize the Value of Care Work
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/decent-societies-must-recognize-the-value-of-care-work/
Published: April 25, 2026 15:53
Capitalism only cares about profits, so it is not surprising that care work is undervalued in capitalist societies. Yet care work is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the US economy, while “adults spend, on average, about as much time in unpaid work…
Boris Kagarlitsky On Hungary’s Election
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/boris-kagarlitsky-on-hungarys-election/
Published: April 25, 2026 15:50
First published at The Nation. Introduction by Suzi Weissman Boris Kagarlitsky, Russia’s most prominent leftist intellectual and Marxist critic of both Western imperialism and Putin’s domestic authoritarianism, is two years and two months into a five-year…
The World’s First Conference to End Fossil Fuels Must Address Militarism, Too
Published: April 25, 2026 15:46
Fossil fuels and militarism are part of the same architecture of power. To combat climate change, governments must be willing to challenge both. We cannot separate fossil fuels from the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on Iran. The volatility surrounding the…
Exposing the University of Michigan’s Violence Against Chinese Scholars
Published: April 25, 2026 15:45
On Friday night, CODEPINK and the local University of Michigan community gathered to hold a vigil in honor of UM researcher Dr. Danhao Wan on the one-month anniversary of his death. According to reports, Dr. Wang died after jumping from an upper floor of…
New Flotilla Shows Palestinians in Gaza That the World Has Not Abandoned Us
Published: April 24, 2026 15:59
When word of an upcoming maritime flotilla coming from countries thousands of kilometers away first began circulating, Palestinians were in the heart of this war, in one of its harshest moments, with famine silently tearing through Gaza — heavier even than…
As Many as 3,000 Events Anticipated for National May Day Mobilization as Workers, Educators, and Communities Demand “Workers Over Billionaires”
Published: April 24, 2026 15:59
On May 1st, workers, students, and families across the United States will refuse business as usual in the next national mobilization planned after No Kings. As many as 3,000 events are anticipated across all 50 states, building on more than 1,300 May Day…
Anti-Imperialism in an Age of Rising Fascism
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/anti-imperialism-in-an-age-of-rising-fascism/
Published: April 24, 2026 15:56
CADTM publishes the speech delivered by Sushovan Dhar from CADTM India at the 5th Plenary Session of the Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Conference held in Porto Alegre. The intervention addressed the growing convergence between imperialism and far-right…
Yanis Varoufakis AMA
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yanis-varoufakis-ama/
Published: April 24, 2026 15:55
Your chance to put Yanis Varoufakis on the spot. Politics, economics, philosophy — or something completely unexpected. Nothing is off the table. Join us live as Yanis answers questions submitted by you. Hosted by Mehran Khalili.
The Bigot says He’s Sorry
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-bigot-says-hes-sorry/
Published: April 24, 2026 15:53
Tucker Carlson told the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee that Trump is “a wonderful person. I know him well. By the way, the funniest person I’ve ever met in my life, actually. You can’t be funny without perspective or without empathy,…
Lunar Exploitation and Colonial Escapism: The Artemis II Mission
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/lunar-exploitation-and-colonial-escapism-the-artemis-ii-mission/
Published: April 24, 2026 15:49
The Earth is in a fine mess, but human beings sealed in laboratories full of energy and vigour, attached to screens, and running tests about conditions in space, have another reason to cheer. Between April 1 and April 11, the Artemis II undertook a flyby…
What Does it Mean to Work Under Algorithmic Eyes?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-does-it-mean-to-work-under-algorithmic-eyes/
Published: April 24, 2026 15:48
AI surveillance and algorithmic management threaten worker autonomy and dignity. It’s time for a rethinking of rights. Part of “AI and the Future of the American Worker,” a series on how artificial intelligence is impacting labor, power, and the meaning of…
There is no Justice Without Veganism
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/there-is-no-justice-without-veganism/
Published: April 24, 2026 15:45
I have been a vegan for a number of years, but have kept it low key. I am surrounded by meat eaters and “vegetarians” and have been too self-conscious to proselytize, but that is not to my credit. Moral silence should never be conflated with politeness. As…
Solidarity with Gaza Makes Headway at Sea
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/solidarity-with-gaza-makes-headway-at-sea/
Published: April 24, 2026 03:49
Several vessels from the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is heading to Gaza to break the blockade, managed on Monday to divert the course of the mega-cargo ship MSC Maya, one of the “ships of death” carrying key materials for the manufacture of heavy…
An Inspiring Story
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/an-inspiring-story/
Published: April 23, 2026 15:58
In 2018, at the height of the economic crisis in Venezuela through crippling sanctions, Kellogg’s announced the overnight closure of their Maracay factory with hundreds of redundancies – and massive knock-on effects in the local community. The workers…
Palantir and the New Order
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palantir-and-the-new-order/
Published: April 23, 2026 15:57
A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s tech lords need a new ideology to legitimise their…
The Opposite Of Corporate Power Is People Power
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-opposite-of-corporate-power-is-people-power/
Published: April 23, 2026 15:54
This interview has been edited for length and clarity. OPENING SOLANA RICE Hello and welcome. I’m Solana Rice, co-founder and co-executive director of Liberation in a Generation, a national movement support organization that builds the power of people of…
Solution-delusions
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/solution-delusions/
Published: April 23, 2026 15:51
So, it’s more than ten years since the celebrated 2015 Paris Climate Agreement – and humanity remains totally unprepared for the cataclysmic consequences of accelerating climate change. In truth, our efforts to respond meaningfully have gone backwards.…
The Real Story Tying Starmer And Mandelson Is Being Buried By A Conspiracy Of Silence
Published: April 23, 2026 15:50
The system is rigged – and the political and media class rigging it are not about to draw our attention to the ugly reality of what they have been up to over the past decade Few believe British prime minister Keir Starmer when he says he learnt only…
The Antigone Moment: Denouncing the Inhumanity of EU and US Sanctions
Published: April 23, 2026 15:50
Antigone is a timeless Greek tragedy by Sophocles (497-406 BC), a drama of abuse of power and moral pushback. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, defies the arbitrary decrees of King Creon and asserts the superiority of divine law over royal caprices. Creon…
When Progress Misleads: The Hidden Baseline Problem in Public-Interest Advocacy
Published: April 23, 2026 15:48
Claims of success in animal welfare, climate policy, and corporate sustainability often rely on narrow metrics that obscure whether real-world harms are actually declining. Earlier this year, a little-noticed institutional complaint was filed against the…
Argentina’s New Wave of Mobilisation
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/argentinas-new-wave-of-mobilisation/
Published: April 23, 2026 15:48
Fifty years after the 1976 military coup, Argentina has witnessed massive mobilisations, particularly on March 24 this year, which brought together youth, workers, and social movements in one of the most significant political moments in recent years. These…
The Explicit Manifesto of Digital Fascism: Palantir and the Alliance of Monopoly Capital with the Far Right
Published: April 22, 2026 17:55
The manifesto published by Palantir Technologies is neither a technical document nor an economic vision. It is an explicit political document announcing a new phase in the trajectory of digital capitalism, a phase in which it has abandoned its claim to…
11,000 Missiles, $2 Billion a Day, One Ceasefire No Power Could Avoid
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/11000-missiles-2-billion-a-day-one-ceasefire-no-power-could-avoid/
Published: April 22, 2026 17:54
A pause in war is rarely peace. It is something more fragile, more deceptive—like the brief stillness between crashing waves, when the sea seems to settle, yet the force beneath remains unresolved. The United States’ sudden decision to extend its ceasefire…
Protest Is Not Terrorism, No Matter What the DOJ Tries to Tell You
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/protest-is-not-terrorism-no-matter-what-the-doj-tries-to-tell-you/
Published: April 22, 2026 17:50
I recently helped organize a talk by Dr. Tom Alter, who was fired from his job at Texas State University in the Fall of 2025, supposedly for a statement he made as a private citizen at an online socialism conference earlier that year. The firing was…
In the West Bank, Sexualised Violence Drives Palestinian Displacement
Published: April 22, 2026 17:49
Israeli settlers are subjecting Palestinians to sexualised violence and other forms of gender-based abuse within a broader coercive environment that forces displacement across the West Bank, according to a new report by the West Bank Protection Consortium.…
How Rhode Island’s Labor Movement Made Its Weight Felt in Politics
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-rhode-islands-labor-movement-made-its-weight-felt-in-politics/
Published: April 22, 2026 17:49
Over the last decade Rhode Island has been a hotbed of progressive, pro-worker legislation. But it wasn’t always this way. It took years of proactive organizing by the labor movement on legislative and electoral campaigns. This “blue” New England state was…
Israel’s War Obsession and the Urgency of Palestinian Leverage
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-war-obsession-and-the-urgency-of-palestinian-leverage/
Published: April 22, 2026 17:48
It is tempting to argue that Israel’s new military doctrine is predicated on perpetual war—but the reality is more complex. Not that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would object to such an arrangement. On the contrary, his relentless drive for…
Israel Is (Still) Killing Aid Workers in Gaza
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-still-killing-aid-workers-in-gaza/
Published: April 22, 2026 17:48
Majdi Aslan, 54, was driving a truck for the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) on April 6 when the Israeli army killed him in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. Aslan was the main driver in a WHO convoy that was transporting injured Palestinian patients…
Jasenovac on the Serbian Political Market – The Anatomy of a Moral Collapse
Published: April 22, 2026 17:45
There are moments in public discourse that do not surprise by their content—because they belong to well-established ideological patterns of the darker post-Yugoslav era—but still manage to shock by the coldness with which they are delivered, as if they…