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Now I’m just back from a visit, my first in several years, seeing and talking with old friends of various views, left, right, and center.
This is not just any election campaign: it features low-budget TikTok videos, recycled soap opera actors—almost all of them from the 1990s—and a political narrative that offers no redemption but promises dire consequences.
But here it is, August again. I will turn 81 in a few days and so will my age-mate the atomic bomb. You and I will continue, as we know, to live in the shadow of the bomb until we create a movement to rid ourselves of it.
Afghan refugees,a population of 4-5 million who have lived,worked &raised families in Iran for decades,are being deported en
“Putting the movement back in the labor movement,” is an expression that you hear regularly at union events. The sentiment speaks to the idea that labor needs to be aspirational, visionary and connected to improving the lives of everyday people through collective action
Throughout George Caffentzis’s poetry runs the desire for a different world and staunch refusal to compromise with the injustices of the past and the present.
The bombs fell in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City around 2 a.m. on July 14, killing more than two dozen people. The IDF hasn’t answered why it bombed the Arafat home or barred rescue workers.
Regardless of the backgrounds and reasons behind Israel and the United States’ military aggression against Iran, it is clear that this invasion has imposed a new “state of war” on the Middle East. The fragile ceasefire established after the “12-day war” cannot conceal the gravity and severity of this imposed situation.
A living, relevant left must learn to listen to the voice of the oppressed wherever it speaks—not only when it matches familiar Western narratives. It needs to offer a true emancipatory vision and not just slogans.
How ICE has been created specifically as a tool of repression beyond any immigration purpose.
The embrace of his campaign by a broad NYC Left is inextricable from the substantive social, economic, and political struggles being waged within (and beyond) New York City
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