Rethinking the 1965 Revolution in the Dominican Republic 

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  • Rethinking the 1965 Revolution in the Dominican Republic 

    Rethinking the 1965 Revolution in the Dominican Republic 

    The revolution and this anti-imperialist resistance revealed the potential of solidarity between Haitians and Dominicans who to this day share an island that was divided two-hundred and fifty years ago by the European imperialist powers. 

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  • Review: Colonizing Kashmir

    Review: Colonizing Kashmir

    This is an excellent book by historian Hafsa Kanjwal about the colonization of Kashmir that the Indian State has carried out since gaining independence from the British Empire and undergoing the tragedy of Partition.

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  • Abolition for Affordability

    Abolition for Affordability

    That people cannot afford their lives is the designed outcome of an economic system that hoards resources for billionaires, exploiting workers to insulate the overwhelmingly white ruling class.

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  • Israel, Apartheid and the Death Penalty, Codifying War on Palestinian Life

    Israel, Apartheid and the Death Penalty, Codifying War on Palestinian Life

    The Israeli death penalty law issued on March 30, 2026 is a brutal and racist law, a codified tool of ethnic cleansing, a war crime, and a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.

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  • Anti-Regime and Anti-War Statement

    Anti-Regime and Anti-War Statement

    We, a group of Baluch abroad, while opposing this reactionary war and emphasizing the necessity of overthrowing the Islamic Republic, declare our solidarity with Iran’s progressive forces.

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  • Build, Expand, Liberate!

    Build, Expand, Liberate!

    The Islamic regime is a theocratic modern capitalist state that dominates the lives of Iranians through a military corporation, the IRGC. It came to power through a violent counter-revolution where autonomous networks of worker councils were systematically targeted.

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  • Stop the US-Israel War on Iran

    Stop the US-Israel War on Iran

    On Zoom, Tues. June 24 at 7 pm Eastern. Speakers: Yassamine Mather, Michael Karadjis, and Evan Siegel.

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  • Pan Africanism under elite capture

    Pan Africanism under elite capture

    In The Wretched of the Earth, anticolonial theorist Frantz Fanon warned that Africa’s postcolonial bourgeoisie would co-opt the symbols of Black liberation to advance their own narrow agendas, ultimately failing to break both the psychological and material chains of colonialism.

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  • “What Happened in Ukraine” by Sam Friedman

    New Politics readers will be interested in this ZNet article “What Happened in Ukraine” by Sam Friedman, an HIV/AIDS researcher who spent time in Ukraine for many years before the recent upheavals in the country.

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  • Homer and War

    The following is a response to an article trying to enlist the poet Homer on the side of hawks by the Boston Globe’s resident neocon right winger Jeff Jacoby. This letter was not published.  

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  • “Mandela: Was he pushed or did he jump?,” by Patrick Bond

    Patrick Bond’s piece “Mandela: Was he pushed or did he jump?,” posted At Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, graphically describes the catastrophic transition from South African apartheid to today’s neoliberalism – a sobering cautionary tale for all fighting for radical democratic change today – in Greece, in the U.S., in the Middle East, and…

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  • Statement from the Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists on the Massacre in Cairo

    The bloody dissolution of the sit-ins in Al-Nahda Square and Raba'a al-Adawiyya is nothing but a massacre—prepared in advance. It aims to liquidate the Muslim Brotherhood. But, it is also part of a plan to liquidate the Egyptian Revolution and restore the military-police state of the Mubarak regime.

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  • The Victims of "Welfare Reform"

         The following letter from me was published in the Boston Globe on June 26, 2013.June 18, 2013The Boston GlobeTo the Editor:

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  • Havaar on the 2013 Iranian Presidential Elections

          Havaar: Iranian Initiative Against War, Sanctions and State Repression is a grassroots group of Iranians, Iranian-Americans and allies who have joined together to categorically oppose any military action and the U.S.-led sanctions against Iran. They stand in solidarity with the Iranian people’s struggle against war and sanctions and against state repression; all of these…

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  • Whatever happened to welfare?

         The ghost of Reagan’s welfare queen still hovers over conservatives. She is black. She is a large part of Mitt Romney’s 47 percent of moochers, and the “takers” that conservatives talk so much about.     Most people don’t talk about welfare or know much about it, but conservatives, who also don’t know much about it, use it…

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  • The Rosa Choir, South Africa

         Our correspondent and contributor in South Africa, Andre Marais, sent us the link to this recording of the Rosa Choir, a diverse group that sings in traditional songs in Afrikaans, Xhosa and English. 

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  • Letter of Support and Solidarity to Greek Transport Workers

    The following open letter was issued yesterday.January 26, 2013 Letter of Support and Solidarity to Greek Transport Workers     We have read about your strike against threatened pay cuts and the Greek government’s emergency decree and use of riot police to force you back to work. We are horrified by the attempt to toss your contracts aside;…

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  • NY Times Obituary for Michael Wreszin, New Politics contributor

    In a surprisingly warm and positive obituary, the New York Times noted the death of Michael Wreszin in August of this year. The obit says of Wrezin’s writings, “His subjects were cosmopolitan, humanist thinkers who saw a growing militarism in American political culture but whose scrupulous habits of mind could make them misfits in the…

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  • Educating welfare mothers

    [This is an expanded version of a letter sent to the New York Times and not printed.]

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  • Overlooking Outsourcing

             I have read many analyses of the failure to recall Gov. Walker in Wisconsin, and I am astonished that not one even mentions American industries either outsourcing or just folding their tents because they are unable to compete with foreign companies. Steel is an example of the latter: many steel workers…

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  • Blaming the public employee

             It has become fashionable, especially among conservatives, to portray public employees as lazy and inefficient, as compared to private sector workers who are touted as hard working, efficient, and cost effective. In this invective, all public sector workers are lumped together— teachers, police, firemen, welfare workers, Social Security workers, etc.

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