Category: Social protests
Matt Benson analyzes historic and ongoing dispossession of the Mapuche people’s land, and their resistance against the Chilean state.
Alan Wald reviews A Collective History of the International Socialists, praising its in-depth insights while calling for more critical perspectives.
Russia today holds more political prisoners than at any time since the post-Stalin thaw of the 1950s. Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian state has systematically prosecuted antiwar critics on charges ranging from “discrediting the
Husam Mahjoub criticizes international complicity in the ineffective, elite-led peace processes in Sudan, and calls for justice rooted in accountability for perpetrators and material conditions for human dignity.
Democracy thwarted, democracy suspended, democracy gutted: a new political era is dawning in Italy, the United States, and also in France. The piece-by-piece construction of an absolutist governmental sovereignty, which is taking hold by methodically disarming each of the powers that could stand in its way.
Rather than endorsing one or the other elite faction, we must stand for the defense of Ukraine and of its democratic and social values.
Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison over possessing and moving a box of zines—politically expressive pamphlets.
There seems to be nothing at present to stop Trump from terminating the Cuban Communist government.
Iranians face attacks from both US imperialism/Israel and a brutally oppressive regime amid their struggle for democracy and social justice
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.
brian bean recommends the book No Cop City, No Cop World, a collection of essays by activists in the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta.
Most of the convicts were transported for petty property crimes, but a significant minority of them were political dissidents and industrial activists.
Resistance to President Donald Trump is growing, taking the form of massive, peaceful protest marches, small local rebellions against ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Democratic Party election victories, and a gradually changing public opinion. One could even talk about a
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 to monitor ICE and warn neighbors about their whereabouts.
Millions of people in 2,600 cities in all 50 of the United States participated in the second round of “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump’s increasingly authoritarian and inhumane government.
Less than a year after taking office, Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto faced the most militant anti-government protests in years.
In an interview, Gilbert Achcar analyzes the grim state of affairs in the Middle East, in the age of neofascism.
Hopefully this protest was only the beginning of massive protests to help uproot Trump’s authoritarian rule.
CA Gov. Gavin Newsome, a Democrat, said of Trump’s action, “That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tension. This is the wrong mission and will erode public trust.” He said the Trump administration was deranged.
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