The U.S. Election in the Context of Imperial Decline
By: Richard SeymourNovember 7, 2024
We can understand the institutionalisation of Trumpism as a response to three or four basic trends, including relative imperial decline, problems of ‘secular stagnation’ in the capitalist core, the rise of Chinese state-capitalism, and the energy crisis.
The original impetus behind writing Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing was the Black Lives Matter movement that exploded across the world after the 2020 police murder of George Floyd.
John Feffer speaks for the Ukrainian war of self-defense against the Russian invasion, as a struggle of an oppressed people against imperialism.
Aristotle Wu discusses the strength and the challenges of the US student movement for Palestine, which organized solidarity encampments for Gaza on many campuses.
Mathew Foresta reports from Gaza solidarity encampments on various university campuses in Los Angeles, which faced threats and attacks from Zionist counter-protestors.
Linda Xheza interviews Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, on the universities’ systemic complicity in imperialism and the significance of anti-imperialist student encampments.
Udi Raz, a Jewish anti-Zionist activist in Berlin, discusses the German state repression of the Palestinian solidarity movement under the pretense of fighting antisemitism.
I fully associate myself with the terms of the letter from the teachers and researchers of your university, in particular with their defense of academic freedom and respect for the formation of critical knowledge.
We, the Student Movement for Palestinian Liberation, demand institutional accountability and immediate divestment from Israel and its genocide of the Palestinian people of Gaza.
In response to peaceful student anti-war protests against genocide, many school administrations have invited police onto campus for violent crackdowns.
We believe that in the current situation, saying “no to warmongering” is a necessary position both to reject the militarist structure of the Islamic Republic and to clearly delineate a stand against war and bloodshed in the region.
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.
Ireland and Ukraine have some important parallels during the years 1916-1923
Statement of the Ukraine Solidarity Network on the Second Anniversary of Russia’s Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine
By: Ukraine Solidarity Network (U.S.)February 20, 2024
Ukraine and Palestine are both cases of imperialism
What are the implications of the current war in Gaza for the future of Palestinian resistance?
Joel Beinin, Emeritus Professor at Stanford, discusses the politics of the Palestinian left and Hamas, and the US policies in Israel/Palestine.
Decarbonization and Decolonization
The Case for an EcoSocialist Green New Deal Regardless of COP28
By: Rafael Bernabe Winter 2024
Puerto Rican socialist Rafael Bernabe calls for a Green New Deal in Puerto Rico, to facilitate its economic and ecological reconstruction.
Leela M. chronicles how Palestinians celebrate martyrdom out of a love of life and a love of people.
An interview with Oksana Dutchak, member of the Commons editorial team
By: Oksana DutchakFebruary 7, 2024
An editor of the leftwing Ukrainian journal Commons discusses the dual enemies of Russian aggression and Ukrainian neoliberalism
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 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?