Kim Moody offers a critical analysis of the Democratic Party, captured by wealthy donors and a vehicle for capitalist class interests.
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
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.
Nancy Holmstrom argues that socialist feminists should critique the institution of prostitution in a capitalist society, while supporting sex workers.
Samuel Barney narrates the history of Clinton Correctional Facility, a prison in upstate New York long used to imprison left radicals.
Almost all Shi’a mosques host Basij centers. Basij is the popular arm of the IRGC, directly controlled by “the Supreme Leader.” These Basij centers are the primary reason Iranian protesters have been targeting mosques …Iranian protesters do not need Israeli instigation
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.
Despite a ceasefire between al-Sharaa’s government & SDF, the president is not providing enough assurances that Syrian Kurds are protected.
Regarding the current catastrophic repression of the mass uprising in Iran, an urgent task is to stand collectively against further mass killings by the Islamic Republic, whether on the streets or in prisons. This must be aligned with a collective
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.
A critical examination of Trotsky’s evolving views on revolutionary morality and democracy in revolutionary movements.
The discredit attained by the dominant parties, by the legislature, by the “politicians” and even “politics” itself, defined inaccurately, but viscerally despised by many people, recalls the concept of “organic crisis” advanced by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Authors such
Marking an anniversary of a book’s publication is, appropriately, reserved for books that were widely read when they first appeared many years ago. Books we commemorate with an anniversary are ones that ushered in a new way of thinking and influenced the way society tries to make sense of the world. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community did neither of these things.
Heather Ann Thompson has written a magnificent history of the Attica Prison uprising, the deadliest prison rebellion in U.S. history.
Looking back on nearly 25 years of involvement in the LGBT movement, and 45+ years in the labor movement, I am struck by the way those paths have crossed, intertwined and separated over the long term.
