Extreme 30-Year Prison Sentence for Artist Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada in the Prairieland Case (TX) Highlights Federal Attack on Freedom to Dissent
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Extreme 30-Year Prison Sentence for Artist Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada in the Prairieland Case (TX) Highlights Federal Attack on Freedom to Dissent
Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison over possessing and moving a box of zines—politically expressive pamphlets.
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The Test That Cannot Be Passed
Calling something “white socialism” actually weakens the left. It treats the multiracial working class as just a social problem, not as a group that can act politically. It focuses on moral identity rather than on working together. This leads to a kind of politics where the left cares more about staying pure than about winning.…
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Interview with an American Volunteer Fighting in Myanmar’s Civil War
Americans are among those who have volunteered to join Myanmar’s resistance to the military junta that took power in a 2021 coup. In this interview a young volunteer from California shares an account of what drove him to take up arms.
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Stand with Kali Akuno
Kali Akuno—co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and a lifelong movement builder—is facing a serious and urgent health crisis. He needs immediate access to specialized cardiac care that he simply cannot get in Mississippi.
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Peoples’ Unity Against Fascism is slippery in action: A reflection on campism in our midst
To have the unity needed to go beyond discussion and take common action, we’ll have to be clear that states and their defenders cannot be part of our peoples’ unity against fascism.
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Using Worker’ Inquiry to Organize and Fight the Boss
Workers’ inquiries are identifying working-class self-activity in various sectors, understanding the class struggle from the working-class point of view, and allowing workers to develop their own knowledge of who their work is organized in order to identify vital new tactics and strategies that can allow them to push their struggles forward.
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The Global Left and the Kurdish Question: In Solidarity with Whom?
A critique of the Left’s unconditional solidarity with ruling Kurdish parties, and a call for class-based solidarity that sides with the working class for a democratic state that guarantees equal rights for all.
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The Kurdish Question: A Left-Wing Vision
The road to the rights and freedoms of the Kurdish people runs through the rights and freedoms of their Arab, Turkish, Syrian, and Iranian neighbors, in a state that does not question its citizens about their origins, that guarantees them bread and freedom, and that respects their human dignity.
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Should Kurdish freedoms be sacrificed for Syria’s centralisation?
Despite a ceasefire between al-Sharaa’s government & SDF, the president is not providing enough assurances that Syrian Kurds are protected.
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Minneapolis Resists ICE Occupation
These three excerpts provide anonymous accounts from Minneapolis of resistance to ICE’s occupation of the Twin Cities since early December. The first two reports describe protests following ICE agent Jonathan Ross’s murder of Renee Good on January 7th and the shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant on the 14th. The third describes rapid response networks organized…
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Monroe Doctrine Reloaded
Stanley Heller interviews Simón Rodríguez, a Venezuelan socialist and journalist who edits VenezuelanVoices.org.
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We categorically reject the United States’ aggression against Venezuela. Trump out of Venezuela and Latin America!
Trump out of Latin America and the Caribbean!
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A Year in an Israeli Hell
December 27 marks one year after the abduction of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and other medical workers from Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza.
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Jewish Rejection of Zionism
These days, when criticism of Israel is labeled by many as “antisemitism,” it is an effective antidote and enlightening to read a 112- page booklet full of documented and thoroughly researched and well- supported criticism of Israel by a scholar, a professor of history at the University of Montreal, and a devout Jew.
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President Has Six Minutes to Decide on Nuclear War Launch
The movie accurately shows what goes on inside the military’s nuclear war chain of command and among the president and his advisors. Let’s get teachers, their unions, and others in education to talk about it.
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Mexico and Israel’s shared thirst for war
Mexico remains very close to the colonialist state of Israel, with which it is a close collaborator. Israel has an embassy, a trade office, and four honorary consulates in Mexico. It actively promotes Israeli companies, which export the tools for war with the full backing of the Mexican government and army.
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Latin America: The target of Trump’s neocolonial offensive
During its first nine months, the Trump administration has deployed warships and military infrastructure to the Caribbean, blown up small boats accused of drug trafficking, imposed 50% tariffs on Brazilian products, and exerted extreme pressure on the Mexican government.
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María Corina Machado’s Ignoble Peace Prize
Simón Rodríguez discusses the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who dedicated it to US president Donald Trump.
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Awful Court Decision Says Jews and the Israeli Flag are the Same
An appalling decision by federal judge Trevor McFadden was filed on August 4. The idea that Jews are a “race” makes one’s skin crawl.
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Labor’s Partisans: Book Review
“Putting the movement back in the labor movement,” is an expression that you hear regularly at union events. The sentiment speaks to the idea that labor needs to be aspirational, visionary and connected to improving the lives of everyday people through collective action
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Excerpts from At the Edge of Everything: Collected Poems
Throughout George Caffentzis’s poetry runs the desire for a different world and staunch refusal to compromise with the injustices of the past and the present.
