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Democrats Learned to Love Class Dealignment

Published: May 5, 2025 15:23

Right on schedule — and as they had done countless times before — pundits of the center left followed up the Democratic Party’s drubbing with autopsy reports, many of which tried to absolve the party of responsibility for its own defeat. Among the most…

From Failing to Prepare to Preparing to Fail?: The Climate Change Committee’s Devastating Verdict on the State of Britain’s Climate Resilience

Published: May 5, 2025 15:15

The recent Climate Change Committee report on the UK government’s lack of preparedness for climate breakdown reveals negligence at a historic scale. The report lays bare years of successive Governments’ failure to prepare the UK for the breakdown that is…

Midwife’s 14-Year Sentence Highlights Attacks on Women’s Autonomy, Global Surge in Unnecessary C-Sections

Published: May 5, 2025 14:59

May 5 is International Day of the Midwife, but Ricardo Jones, a doctor and midwife, is spending it with a 14-year prison sentence for assisting with a home birth in which the baby later died of congenital pneumonia. He says the sentence is the same had he…

Only a Democratic Constitution Can Stop Trumpism

Published: May 4, 2025 11:23

Donald Trump is continuing his assault on many of the rights found in the Constitution, including freedom of speech, due process, and birthright citizenship. Moreover, his administration has appeared willing to defy federal courts that find his actions…

Why April 30th Should Be a National Holiday

Published: May 4, 2025 11:18

Fifty years ago, on April 30, 1975, Vietnam defeated the United States of America.   It’s called “The Vietnam War” — but the Vietnamese call it, more accurately, “The American War.” Because it was the Americans who invaded Vietnam eleven years earlier to…

Incarcerated Workers In California Organize Against Unjust Policies And Degrading Conditions

Published: May 4, 2025 10:57

To address unjust policies and conditions, more than 70 incarcerated workers inside Centinela State Prison collectively decided last fall to “slow down” production for the California Prison Industry Authority (CALPIA). According to workers who spoke to…

Israel, Gaza, and the Starvation Weapon

Published: May 4, 2025 10:45

In early March, as its cease-fire with Hamas began to unravel, Israel again turned to a tactic it had used earlier in the war in Gaza: imposing a total blockade on the territory, including a cutoff of all deliveries of food, medicine, fuel, and…

Is Trump’s “Minerals Deal” a Fossil Fuel Shakedown? Antonia Juhasz on New U.S.-Ukraine Agreement

Published: May 4, 2025 10:33

The Trump administration has signed a deal with Ukraine to give the United States a long-term stake in the country’s oil, gas, coal and mineral resources as part of a joint investment fund with Kyiv. President Trump has sought to frame the agreement as…

How Manosphere Content Placates Disenfranchised Men

Published: May 3, 2025 16:27

The Netflix series Adolescence, which follows the aftermath of a teen boy’s murder of a female classmate, has amassed nearly 100 million views, making it one of the streamer’s biggest hits to date. Viewers have praised the show’s nuanced portrayal of a…

EU President Should Be Tried for Complicity in Israel’s War Crimes, Says Top UN Expert on Palestine

Published: May 3, 2025 16:03

As the International Court of Justice takes its next steps on investigating and prosecuting war crimes in Israel’s war on Gaza, the top expert on Palestine at the United Nations is pushing for even more international accountability. In a wide-ranging…

UAW Reformers Close Caucus, Launch New Organization

Published: May 3, 2025 15:50

Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), the reform caucus in the Auto Workers, voted to dissolve at its quarterly online membership meeting April 27. “It was a heartbreaking decision to come to,” said UAWD founder and chair Scott Houldieson, a 36-year…

Why Capitalism Is Fundamentally Undemocratic

Published: May 3, 2025 15:40

It is common in Western discourse to claim there is a natural connection between capitalism and democracy. Sometimes the two concepts are virtually fused together. I always find this odd because I value democracy, but there is nothing democratic about…

They Are Making Venezuela’s Economy Scream

Published: May 3, 2025 15:34

No country should go through what Venezuela has been going through since 2017. The FACTS graphic above shows that US-led sanctions (more aptly referred to as Unilateral Coercive Measures, or UCMs) caused Venezuela to lose oil revenue equivalent to 213% of…

Don’t Let Elon Musk Privatize the Postal Service

Published: May 3, 2025 14:54

The Trump Administration has been reviving plans to privatize the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). But many lawmakers don’t like the idea, including some from President Donald Trump’s own party. “We are not going to privatize the Postal Service,” declared U.S.…

Democracy or Plutocracy?

Published: April 18, 2025 16:01

Despite much lofty rhetoric portraying the United States as a democracy (in which the people rule), this nation, in fact, has often resembled a plutocracy (in which the wealthy rule). The confusion owes a great deal to the fact that the United States, at…

The Brazilian Left Has Yet to Find a Successor to Lula

Published: April 18, 2025 16:00

With the third term of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva well beyond its midway point, South America’s largest nation is again suffering from a leadership crisis. The once widely beloved politician’s approval rating has reached the lowest point…

Trump Is Leading the US Into Fascism

Published: April 18, 2025 16:00

Mainstreamcommentators acknowledge that the second Trump administration is authoritarian or right populist, but can’t bring themselves to use the term fascist. Like Harvard’s Steven Levitsky and University of Toronto’s Lucan A. Way in their recent piece in…

Chicago Teachers Win Greener Schools

Published: April 18, 2025 16:00

The Chicago Teachers Union won a tentative agreement in December that, for the first time, addresses climate and environmental justice demands—making healthy green schools a priority in our city. We achieved this breakthrough even while broader contract…

Facing Trump’s America In the Spirit of African American History and Black Civil Rights Movement

Published: April 18, 2025 16:00

Recently, in an executive order, President Trump directed the removal of “improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution. That order was, in essence, an attempt to rewrite history on race and gender.…

How Eco-Localism Differs from Tariff Terrorism

Published: April 18, 2025 16:00

Followers of the Small Is Beautiful school of environmentalism (to which I subscribe) often critique globalization and advocate localism. The controversial new Trump tariffs seem purpose-made to choke off global trade and promote American domestic…

Recovering Our Power

Published: April 18, 2025 16:00

There’s a moment in chapter 12 of Capital where Karl Marx describes a critical phase of glassmaking in a manufacturing workshop. Five workers gather at “the hole” of the furnace, each focused on an individual task that, taken together, will produce a…

Global Battlefields: A No-Holds-Barred Reckoning

Published: April 18, 2025 16:00

Global Battlefields: Memoir of a Legendary Public Intellectual from the Global South, by Walden Bello. (Clarity Press, 2025) For starters, Walden Bello’s memoir takes the reader inside some of the biggest fights against dictatorship, exploitation, and…

Neurodiversity: Challenging Normality in Activism

Published: April 17, 2025 15:58

As a starting point, neurodivergent refers to individuals whose neurocognitive functioning differs from what dominant societal standards define as “normal.” This includes conditions such as autism, ADHD, OCD , dyspraxia and Parkinson’s disease, among…

Day of Action on 150+ Campuses Across US Will Target Trump Attack on Higher Education

Published: April 17, 2025 15:58

“What is at stake is the defense of our fundamental democratic rights and constitutional freedoms,” said one organizer. With universities across the U.S. facing attacks from the Trump administration that “have been compared to the worst of McCarthyism,” as…

Unthinking, Apathy, and Genocide

Published: April 17, 2025 15:58

Late last century I figured out that I needed to work on a job dedicated to making the world a better place. I know not everyone can find such a job if they try. I appreciate all the other useful jobs that millions of people do — if not the useless and…

Global Charade: Israel, Palestine and the ‘Rules-Based Order’

Published: April 17, 2025 15:57

The post-WW2 ‘international rules-based order’ that supposedly underpins global affairs in the interests of peace, democracy and prosperity has always been largely a charade. But Israel’s continuing Gaza genocide, carried out with seeming impunity and with…

UK Arrest Warrant For Israeli Foreign Minister

Published: April 17, 2025 15:52

Arrest Warrant Sought for Israeli Foreign Minister During Ongoing UK Visit ​An arrest warrant is being urgently sought for a senior member of Israel’s security cabinet, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar during his visit to the UK. The charges focus in…

A Time of Living Dangerously – For Telling the Truth

Published: April 17, 2025 15:50

The West has long cherished political correctness as though it were a core democratic value. This drive to ‘civilise’ public discourse has been especially aimed at illiberal democracies or post-socialist societies that are still expected to become ‘true…

Double Standard About Israel’s Foreign Interference

Published: April 16, 2025 19:52

Benjamin Netanyahu is openly throwing his weight behind Pierre Poilievre. But few are pushing back against this flagrant interference in Canada’s election. On Friday the Israeli prime minister posted, “Canada has always sided with civilization. So should…

Expanding the Possible, From Below

Published: November 12, 2024 18:37

Starting where we’re at Less than one week after a self-proclaimed dictator, climate change denier, and big oil-funded billionaire (among other equally impressive accolades) took the single most powerful political office in the world, it seems like a…

Home Insurance Should Be for Safety, Not Profits

Published: November 12, 2024 17:40

Though the full extent of the havoc wrought by Hurricanes Helene and Milton is still being assessed, by now we’re all clear on one thing: home insurance markets are in crisis, with devastating consequences for people across the United States. While Helene…

The Military-Industrial Complex Is Fueling Climate Catastrophe — Let’s Demand Accountability at COP

Published: November 12, 2024 17:30

The world’s largest institutional emitter, the U.S. military, sits beyond the reach of the metrics meant to hold countries accountable for climate pollution. Exempt from transparency requirements at the COP or within U.N. climate agreements, the military…

Cherokee Nation Citizen Works to Change the Face of Construction, Offer Affordable Housing Solution

Published: November 12, 2024 17:30

I want to change the face of construction. A predominantly male-focused industry, there are plenty of opportunities for women. That’s why I founded Prime Craftsman Homes, a Native-owned company that aims to provide affordable housing solutions,…

The Harsh Reality of Seasonal Labour in Germany

Published: November 12, 2024 17:00

On an asparagus farm in eastern Germany, the large area earmarked for barracks-style housing is divided in two. One half is reserved for European Union citizens, mostly seasonal workers from Romania, while the other half houses non-EU nationals. Their…

Venezuelan Communist Neirlay Andrade: ‘An Authoritarian Regime Is Never the Better Option’

Published: November 12, 2024 17:00

More than three months after Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election, revolutionary and left-wing organisations inside the country continue demanding the National Electoral Council (CNE) publish the election results. According to the CNE, incumbent…

Redefining the Political in Colonial Puerto Rico

Published: November 12, 2024 17:00

The struggle for life is taking new and interesting twists in Puerto Rico. The last few months have seen an escalation in the confrontation between those that want to preserve the status quo and those that wanted to explore alternative roads with the…

Climate Advocacy Groups Say They’re Ready for Trump 2.0

Published: November 12, 2024 17:00

Donald Trump has promised to demolish the country’s domestic and international climate policies at a crucial moment, when climate scientists say the window is closing on the world’s ability to avoid the most dangerous impacts of global warming. But in the…

Post-Election Mass Call: Making Meaning of the Moment

Published: November 11, 2024 17:49

Donald Trump will be returning to the White House. It’s up to us to build the movement that will fight for each other. Join with members of 200+ organizations as we make meaning of the moment, lay out concrete actions, and share thoughts on the path…

How We Can Defend Ourselves in the New Trump Era

Published: November 11, 2024 17:17

Bill Fletcher Jr. is one of the most revered political organizers of the last 40 years. He’s been an activist since his teen years and joined the labor movement after college when he worked as a welder in a shipyard. He has worked for and with numerous…

Alienation or Repression?

Published: November 11, 2024 16:33

§1. We are told that certain tactics by the European climate justice movement “alienate” the public. For all practical purposes, this discourse could be a pseudo-argument by the “opinion-making” elites who want to see their comfort untouched and can be…

No Justice, No Peace in Mozambique

Published: November 11, 2024 16:21

On October 9, Mozambicans cast their ballots in the general election. After widespread fraud during last year’s municipal vote, many believed that the outcome was a foregone conclusion. The ruling party would rig the results, the opposition would…

What Rough Beast?

Published: November 11, 2024 16:16

President Joe Biden has now joined the ranks of Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush as a president whose Middle East policy crashed and burned spectacularly. Unlike Carter, who was stymied by the Iranian hostage crisis, or Bush, who faced a popular Iraqi…

Tesla = Trump

Published: November 11, 2024 16:04

Last night, we visited Tesla’s European HQ in Amsterdam to tell the story of how one of the world’s richest people bought the ‘digital town square’, then used it to peddle disinformation and help push Donald Trump to victory. There are many reasons why…

What a Trump Presidency Means for Climate Action

Published: November 11, 2024 15:57

WTF – What Trump Fucks.* Beside his extensive sexual assault of women, Trump’s political agenda involves violently assaulting the planet, climate legislation, industry regulations, state-led climate agendas and international negotiations. And that was just…

The World According to Trump – The Chris Hedges Report

Published: November 10, 2024 16:20

Joining host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report is Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. With his extensive insights and expertise into the Middle East and American…

How Did I “Predict” That Trump, Despite His Repulsive Persona and Politics, Would Prevail?

Published: November 10, 2024 15:24

Nearly a month before the November 5 elections, I anticipated that Donald Trump would win and wrote about it in a couple of articles. My “prediction” created some controversy, especially since the polls showed Harris and Trump in a dead heat.  Not…

Billionaires Own US Climate Policy

Published: November 10, 2024 15:20

Billions of dollars will buy almost anything anybody wants, and on November 5th billions of dollars bought the world’s leading anti-climate-change political administration, aka: the Trump Administration, which is anti-almost-everything, except for a free…

A New Wave of Movements Against Trumpism Is Coming

Published: November 10, 2024 15:04

For many of us, the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s decisive electoral victory has been a time of deep despair and mourning. There has been plenty of commentary trying to make sense of Trump’s win and the factors that led to it. But no analysis…

Apocalypse Now?

Published: May 23, 2024 16:46

Eyes open. Look around. Ears attuned. Listen up. Something is happening here, there, and everywhere. Ignore it, avoid it, deny it , whine or weep over it and it will keep happening. Fight it and envision and seek better, and we can stop it. You know it,…

To Win Big, Labor Has to Lose More

Published: May 23, 2024 15:57

There’s no sugarcoating it: Mercedes workers’ loss last week was a punch in the gut. Hopefully we can soon get some sober assessments from worker leaders and staff organizers about what — if anything — they’d try to do differently next time around. But…

THE HOLLOW MYTHS OF A ‘MAVERICK’ EMPIRE

Published: May 23, 2024 15:52

As the US geopolitical project stumbles, and the idea of ‘benevolent statecraft’ is revealed as a sham, so too its ideological apparatus starts to wane. Hollywood, for years a supporter of the imperial project though the production of myths seems to have…

War Cuts the Heart Out of Humankind

Published: May 23, 2024 15:52

In the apartment of my friends in Baghdad (Iraq), they tell me about how each of them had been impacted by the ugliness of the 2003 U.S.-imposed illegal war on their country. Yusuf and Anisa are both members of the Federation of Journalists of Iraq and…

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