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We, the undersigned former Iranian political prisoners, activists, writers, artists, intellectuals, academic scholars, researchers, and members of civil society within Iran and in exile, stand resolutely in support of the open letter published in The Guardian on 20 August 2026,

The problem with the critics is not that they insist on the imbalance of power. The imbalance is real. The problem begins when the imbalance is used to give the Iranian state political priority over Iranian society. . . Once

Nuclear power is a dangerous diversion from sustainable mitigation of climate ruin.

Iranians do not owe anyone a choice between their killers. Neither do Palestinians, Syrians, Kurds, Afghans, or Ukrainians.

Faced with war and escalating domestic instability, the Iranian government has pursued military responses, engagement in diplomacy, and intensifying repression at home.

Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary
By: Mitchell Abidor
Pluto Press, 2025
 
Victor Serge died almost penniless in the back of a taxicab in Mexico City in 1947. He was not yet revered as one of the world’s greatest writers, but he had known some

Of course, as an author who wrote a book that a reader misunderstood, I apologize to readers of the book and of Sernatinger’s review, and to Andrew himself, for any confusion I have caused.

If organized labor in the U.S. could go from historic membership lows in the 1920s to an early 1950s peak union density of nearly one-third of all private sector workers, maybe that great leap forward could be repeated again, sometime in the future?

Future events taking place in Cuba offer the DSA an opportunity to break with its support for the Cuban Communist States and to actually support the Cuban people…

Marieme Hélie-Lucas as a young woman.
We learned of Marieme Hélie-Lucas’s death on August 9, 2026. Her passing marks the loss of an extraordinary feminist intellectual, organizer, and political activist whose influence extended across continents and generations. For those of us

The roots of the coming conflict between Trump and the forces of democracy.

Eighty-one years ago this week, on August 6 and August 9, United States dropped two atomic bombs  on Japan, the first on Hiroshima and the second on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 200,000 human beings and poisoning and sickening many others.