Place: North America
I do not share the euphoria of so many progressives and socialists at the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City. I came away sobered by it. Many of the left are celebrating Mamdani’s election as signaling
Lois Weiner analyzes worsening attacks on education rooted in increasing big tech control, and calls for a resistance led by militant, democratic teachers’ unions.
Samuel Barney narrates the history of Clinton Correctional Facility, a prison in upstate New York long used to imprison left radicals.
Kim Moody offers a critical analysis of the Democratic Party, captured by wealthy donors and a vehicle for capitalist class interests.
The events in Minneapolis confirm that we now live in the grip, the death grip, of an authoritarian government, but also that there is a powerful, popular resistance. We are in a struggle for justice, for democracy, and for our lives. And that struggle goes on, most intensely in Minneapolis, but also everywhere else in the country. And the end is not in sight.
Lipstadt is a died-in-the-wool Zionist and that’s completely colored and warped her thinking.
Millions of Americans are deeply saddened and increasingly angry about the murder of a mother of three by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and thousands are protesting in hundreds of cities and towns around the country.
An analysis of victim blaming, looking at, among others, Primo Levi, JD Vance, and Richard Wright
IMPERIALIST BULLYING IS rarely so open and brazen. Donald Trump demanded last week that Ukraine accept his surrender plan for Ukraine by Thanksgiving Day, November 27, or lose what little remains of U.S. support for Ukraine, which is the sharing
The six Democrats by making their video have challenged Trump and they have done a great service to our country, to those in the military, and to those at home or abroad who might be victims. This too forms part of the growing, complex resistance movement.
But this year there will be those inside and outside the convention hall challenging TDU’s direction and arguing that it has abandoned its ideal. At the center of the controversy is TDU’s support for Teamster president Sean O’Brien who is allied with President Donald Trump.
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.
An appalling decision by federal judge Trevor McFadden was filed on August 4. The idea that Jews are a “race” makes one’s skin crawl.
A socialist Vermont state senator explains how the left must support Ukraine while also supporting Gaza and opposing militarism.
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.
In this 1953 article, Julius Falk (Jacobson) analyzes contradictions between capitalism and democracy, which lead to repression of civil liberties.
Sam Friedman argues that the Trump regime’s attacks on science is rooted in the capitalist class interest, which is fundamentally threatened by scientific knowledge of climate change.
“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
Alan Wald reviews Andrew Hartman’s latest book Karl Marx in America, a comprehensive history of Marx’s influence in the United States from his times to the present.
Sam Farber argues that arbitariness is a key feature of authoritarianism, and in particular of the Trump regime.
ICE is not just a tool of reactionary immigration policies, but part of a more general instrument of political repression.
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