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We are being pushed and we are sliding toward an authoritarian state. We now live in a country where many democratic institutions, including the courts, have been seriously weakened, civil society organizations have been deeply compromised, and our civil liberties

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.

How ICE has been created specifically as a tool of repression beyond any immigration purpose.

Zohran’s victory is a nationwide political earthquake.

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

Mamdani ran on a campaign platform that called for a rent freeze, for free buses, and free childcare, all to be paid for by taxing rich New Yorkers and corporations, and he criticized Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

An interview with one of the editors of a new collection of writings from two key figures in the history of Third Camp Socialism

Hopefully this protest was only the beginning of massive protests to help uproot Trump’s authoritarian rule.

Iranian feminists will speak about how U.S. activists can take a principled stand against the violations of human rights by all the powers involved and defend progressive, life-affirming forces inside Iran, the Middle East region, and the U.S.

A report on the largest protests so far of Trump’s second term.

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.

Since 1987 Jorge has lived in the United States and for more than a dozen years, he has worked for Arise in Chicago as a strategic campaign organizer with immigrant workers.

Despite Rodriguez’s intentions, his actions will set back the pro-Palestine movement

What we need is not nostalgia for the collapsing liberal order, nor Kamala-style “politics of joy” in the face of atrocities like Gaza. Instead, we need what Stefan Kipfer calls “concrete internationalism.”

May Day Trump Protests. Is May Day

What role for African-Americans in the fight against Trump?

Tens of thousands marched in New York City on April 5 as part of the national “Hands Off” demonstration against President Donald Trump. Few unions turned out in New York City, but the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the union of

The catastrophic Los Angeles fires of January 2025 are the inevitable ecological result of a century of unsustainable and artificial capitalist expansion in a geographic location that is simply not endowed by nature to support a large population center.

Trump’s executive orders on trans rights is not just an attack on trans and intersexed individuals, but an attack on human freedom. We must continue to work to theorize and enact the means to make individual self-development possible for everyone.

Stanley Heller examines the U.S. Jewish establishment’s responses to Elon Musk’s Nazi salutes at Trump’s inauguration.