There is little doubt that Israel will respond to Iran’s launch of three hundred and twenty drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles on its territory with a major attack on Iran, and this for several reasons.
Author: Dan Fischer
Labor Education for All Workers
As the cause of labor has long declared “a new social order is needed.” Labor education will help create the possibility for this new social order—democratic control of our workplaces and communities—to emerge.
Gentrification and Social War
Andrew talks through the organizing reality of confronting housing as both a commodity and a human necessity.
We Need Creative Measures Against the Genocidaires
Use all kinds of peaceful creative measures to embarrass, shame, inconvenience and bother the mass killers.
Yes, it’s a Genocide
The ongoing suffering, displacement, and destruction in Gaza invoke a sense of urgency in labeling the situation for what it is, and for prompt investigation and adjudication, rather than waiting for a tragic culmination.
The Political and Legal Underpinnings of the Palestine-Israel Conflict
The Israeli state has responded by bombing the Gaza Strip, in which Hamas has its headquarters and over 2.3 million civilians have their homes, starving inhabitants of food, water, medicines and fuel. But why did this happen? And what can be done about it?
The Claim that Hamas’ Military Center is Under Gaza’s Biggest Hospital
Barak said, “Every reporter that lives in Gaza or in Israel knows” about the location of this command center. His claim is preposterous.
Statement from the Leadership of Religion and Public Life on the Current Spate of Violence in Palestine/Israel
Start with the rockets fired into Israel by Hamas on October 7, 2023 and not with the illegal occupation of Palestinian land by Israel and the blockade of Gaza since 2007, and you have an entirely different story.
Zionist Volksgemeinschaft
On the völkisch nature of Zionism and its relation to imperialism
In this essay, I attempt to offer a Marxist examination of Zionism and some of its essential features: its völkisch character, its settler colonial character, and its relation to imperialism.
The Struggle to Stop Cop City—By Any Means Necessary
A history of Stop Cop City and the struggle to defend the Atlanta Forest. A must read for anyone interested in getting the whole story.
I’m Sick to Death of Florida’s Racism
Before the Florida Department of Education issued its curriculum directive that slavery in the United States did, after all, produce “personal benefits” for the enslaved in the form of a well-stocked resumé of trades, useful after Emancipation in 1863, the board members might have consulted a seminal document in the literature of the oppressed—Angela Davis’s 1971 essay, “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves.”
Toxic Entanglements
A review of Nicole Fabricant’s Fighting to Breathe
Review of “activist ethnographer” Nicole Fabricant’s book on youth activism and environmental justice in the South Baltimore Peninsula.
Kali Akuno to Get 2023 Peace Award
Kali and his fellow members of Cooperation Jackson are creating a model for how the rest of us might be able to achieve peace on and with Earth.
Review: Socialism in Yiddish
Socialism in Yiddish: The Jewish Labor Bund in Sweden
by Hakkan Blomqvist
Translated by Blomqvist and Glasser
(Stockholm, Sodertons University, 2021)
The Jewish Labor Bund in Stockholm, Sweden, marching with the Swedish Social-Democrats on the First of May 1946
If one knows anything . . .
Book Review Essay: Anti-Authoritarian Internationalism, Then and Now
The consensus from the authors reviewed here is that the anti-fascist and anti-authoritarian causes requires profound socio-economic and political changes at all levels of global society.
Polarization and protest in Ciudad Juárez
Residents and migrants in Ciudad Juárez have ramped up protest in the wake of the fire that killed forty men detained by the National Migration Institute.
Constitutions Are the Problem
An excerpt from We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few. Direct self-organization makes a constitutional system unnecessary while simultaneously dismantling the rule of property.
Disappeared for 10 Years in Syria
Everyone you see in the photo above was kidnapped by Assad forces on March 9-11 in 2013. Exactly 10 years ago. The mother depicted, Rania Alabbasi, was a dentist and Syria’s most famous chess champion. In addition to her . . .
Balance Sheet: Two Years against Cop City
Evaluating Strategies, Refining Tactics
Starting in April 2021, a bold movement set out to defend Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, Georgia, where local politicians and corporate profiteers want to build a police training compound known as Cop City. In the following assessment, participants evaluate the strategic hypotheses that the movement has produced and tested over the past two years and reflect on the risks and possibilities of the next phase of the struggle.
The Jewish Labor Bund’s Medem Sanatorium: 1926-1942
Children at the Medem Sanatorium reading the Bund’s daily newspaper, the Folkstsaytung
Secularism and enlightenment swept through the insular world of East European Jewry, starting in the middle of the 19th century, and ending in the 20th with the . . .
The East Is Not Red
When one surveys the history of American interventionism in other countries—from Brazil to Guatemala, from Cuba to Chile, from Mossadegh’s Iran to Grenada and Nicaragua—and when we contemplate . . .
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