For months now we, like many people around the world, have been horrified and infuriated by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and the U.S. government’s support for it. Many in American society have condemned the Biden administration for its refusal . . .
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We are living in awful, yet hopeful, times. As we go to press, several wars are raging. One of them, Israel’s ferocious assault on Gaza and its systematic, genocidal massacre of Palestinians, is exacting a greater civilian toll than any . . .
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New Politics editors survey the current political landscape and introduces articles in the Summer 2023 issue.
New Politics editors provide an analysis of the political situations today and discuss contents in this issue.
An introduction to New Politics, issue 73.
The editors assess the political conjuncture and prospects for socialism today.
We think readers of New Politics may want to know about (and participate in) the inaugural Historical Materialism East Asia conference (online).
In our last issue we noted that while we were greatly relieved that Trump was gone, we also recognized “any progress under Biden will be the result of militant pressure from mass social movements, including organized labor.”
As we are putting together this issue of New Politics, the United States is experiencing one of the greatest crises in its history. The country has lost more than 300,000 people to the coronavirus pandemic, which continues to run rampant. . . .
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Even though it is only half over, 2020 has already proved to be one of the most tumultuous—and inspiring—years in recent political history. It has been a year of dramatic swings backwards and forwards, with hope giving way to despair, . . .
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We have been slimed. An article by Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal on the recent Socialism 2019 Conference — which appears on their rancid website, The GrayZone, and is apparently being widely circulated — is a scurrilous attack not only . . .
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Former New Politics board member Gertrude Ezorsky died on April 19, 2019, at the age of 92. The New Politics board mourns her passing and offers some links to help us remember her.
Andrew Wengrad and Nanette Funk, “Gertrude Ezorsky,” New Politics . . .
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Anti-Abortion hackers attack progressive web organization
May First/People Link is the organization that hosts the New Politics website. But it is more than a hosting platform: it is a membership-based political community that tries to use the Internet to advance progressive causes. It has now come under attack by rightwing anti-abortion hackers because it hosts the National Network of Abortion Funds. We express our solidarity with May First/People Link and with the National Network of Abortion Funds. Below is the statement sent by May First/People Link to its members on August 4.
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