https://znetwork.org/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:59:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-start-a-revolution-in-2026/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-start-a-revolution-in-2026/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:03:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293393 This is my most complete piece of work since prison. I’ve just published a three-hour video laying out, in practical detail, how real political change actually happens in the conditions we now face: climate collapse, democratic breakdown, and the rise of authoritarian politics. The full video is linked here, and there’s also a podcast version for those who [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-start-a-revolution-in-2026/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/shackles-in-mentality-and-ocalans-revolution-of-mentality/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/shackles-in-mentality-and-ocalans-revolution-of-mentality/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:03:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293387 ​The radical breakthrough quality of Abdullah Öcalan’s thought stems not only from exceeding the limits of the classical leftist paradigm but from the structural critique he directs toward the entirety of modernity. This critique is aimed at analyzing the integrated system of power that modernity has built around progress, growth, rationality, the nation-state, capitalist economy, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/shackles-in-mentality-and-ocalans-revolution-of-mentality/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/suffering-isnt-a-competition-injustice-anywhere-is-a-threat-to-justice-everywhere/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/suffering-isnt-a-competition-injustice-anywhere-is-a-threat-to-justice-everywhere/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:02:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293407 The start of 2026 arrives less as a new beginning and more as the potent aftershocks of the many earthquakes we endured in 2025. It was a year defined by widening wars, democratic backsliding, the systematic hollowing out of governmental, diplomatic, and humanitarian institutions, tariff-driven economic uncertainty, and the normalization of political violence in the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/suffering-isnt-a-competition-injustice-anywhere-is-a-threat-to-justice-everywhere/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ivan-cepeda-on-the-risk-of-us-meddling-in-colombias-election/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ivan-cepeda-on-the-risk-of-us-meddling-in-colombias-election/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:02:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293385 Iván Cepeda is a senator for the Pacto Histórico, the left-wing alliance that backed Colombian president Gustavo Petro’s election, and its candidate to succeed him as president in the general elections of May and June 2026. A human rights defender, Cepeda has a long political career that has led him, at different times, to be [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ivan-cepeda-on-the-risk-of-us-meddling-in-colombias-election/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/takebacktiktok-from-ellison-let-palestine-live/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/takebacktiktok-from-ellison-let-palestine-live/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:02:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293399 CODEPINK co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans call on TikTokers across the world to flood the platform for Palestine to #TakeBackTikTok from billionaire Larry Ellison, the media mogul soon to control TikTok’s US app. “We don’t have Ellison’s billions, his private Hawaiian island or his cushy ties with Trump, but we do have people power [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/takebacktiktok-from-ellison-let-palestine-live/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/10-reasons-why-ice-is-harassing-native-americans/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/10-reasons-why-ice-is-harassing-native-americans/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293382 ICE and Border Patrol are increasingly detaining Native American citizens, and ignoring or refusing to treat Tribal ID cards as proof of citizenship. Just north of where ICE killed Minneapolis rights monitor Renee Nicole Good, agents have detained tribal citizens in the clearly Native neighborhood around Franklin Avenue, where the American Indian Movement was itself [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/10-reasons-why-ice-is-harassing-native-americans/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-is-colonialism-on-steroids-and-the-template-for-a-renewed-assault-on-latin-america/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-is-colonialism-on-steroids-and-the-template-for-a-renewed-assault-on-latin-america/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293391 The United States did not invent the concept of bombing civilians – that tradition originated with the Luftwaffe of Herman Goering and Erhard Milch that bombed Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The US, however, has built an empire on the foundation of terrorism from the sky. Psychologically and metaphorically, the obliteration of unarmed civilians with [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-is-colonialism-on-steroids-and-the-template-for-a-renewed-assault-on-latin-america/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-ran-katie-wilsons-campaign-heres-what-we-learned/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-ran-katie-wilsons-campaign-heres-what-we-learned/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293378 Zohran Mamdani has energized the US Left and offered a potential road map to socialists seeking political power. But most candidates don’t have Mamdani’s unique superstar charisma and most American cities aren’t so favorable to the Left. Ultimately, to win power nationwide, we’ll need a diverse set of playbooks. The successful campaign of Seattle’s new [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-ran-katie-wilsons-campaign-heres-what-we-learned/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/holding-water-to-regenerate-landscapes/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/holding-water-to-regenerate-landscapes/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293389 Across arid and semi-arid regions, the same paradox is unfolding. Groundwater levels are falling, droughts are intensifying, and yet cities and rural areas alike are increasingly struck by sudden, destructive floods. From North Africa to the Middle East, from the American Southwest to Central Asia, scarcity and excess now coexist in the same territories. This [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/holding-water-to-regenerate-landscapes/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/justified-and-the-killing-of-renee-nicole-good/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/justified-and-the-killing-of-renee-nicole-good/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293376 One of my kids recommended to me that I watch the program titled Justified. I was prejudiced against it because it appeared to be one of those Clint Eastwood “cops as killers” programs that have so warped American culture into one celebrating violence and war while somehow pretending to preach the gospel of Jesus, though [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/justified-and-the-killing-of-renee-nicole-good/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-palestine-to-minneapolis-ice-and-israel-use-the-same-violent-playbook/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-palestine-to-minneapolis-ice-and-israel-use-the-same-violent-playbook/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:13:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293373 On January 7, ICE agents shot Renee Good three times through her car window as she seemingly tried to drive away from them in Minneapolis. Then, they blocked ambulances from reaching her for fifteen minutes while she bled out in the driver’s seat with her partner beside her. Within hours, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was calling [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-palestine-to-minneapolis-ice-and-israel-use-the-same-violent-playbook/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zohran-mamdani-has-quickly-gotten-down-to-business/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zohran-mamdani-has-quickly-gotten-down-to-business/#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:08:38 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293371 Sworn in as mayor of New York just over one week ago, Zohran Mamdani is wasting no time beginning to govern. In his first week in office, his administration issued twelve executive orders, including two emergency executive orders. The previous administration took several months to hit that number. Many of the administration’s first-week executive orders, which are [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zohran-mamdani-has-quickly-gotten-down-to-business/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/think-you-saw-state-sanctioned-murder-you-failed-medias-rorschach-test/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/think-you-saw-state-sanctioned-murder-you-failed-medias-rorschach-test/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:05:20 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293364 Millions have seen the video, but some reports suggest that you should not believe your eyes that saw ICE agents murder Renee Nicole Good as she attempted to slowly move her car away from them. What you are instructed to believe, according to Donald Trump (USA Today, 1/7/26), and those in media who obey him, is that Good was [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/think-you-saw-state-sanctioned-murder-you-failed-medias-rorschach-test/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/genocide-isnt-a-mistake-which-is-why-the-media-cant-tell-you-the-truth-about-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/genocide-isnt-a-mistake-which-is-why-the-media-cant-tell-you-the-truth-about-gaza/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:55:05 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293361 The Voice of Hind Rajab, a devastating dramatised retelling of Israel’s slow-motion murder of a five-year-old in Gaza, arrives in UK cinemas next week. Please take the opportunity to see it. The vast majority of Americans were denied such an opportunity when it was released there last month. Here’s what happened to the film in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/genocide-isnt-a-mistake-which-is-why-the-media-cant-tell-you-the-truth-about-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-the-empire-threatens-and-the-emperor-has-no-clothes/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-the-empire-threatens-and-the-emperor-has-no-clothes/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:50:20 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293359 Last Saturday (January 3th), a massive US military attack, concentrating the largest naval aggressor force ever assembled in the Americas in the Caribbean, kidnapped Nicolas Maduro and decapitated the country’s government. Since then, Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have multiplied threats. They spoke of a “second attack.” They boasted that “any member [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-the-empire-threatens-and-the-emperor-has-no-clothes/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-protests-engulf-iran-israel-sees-an-opportunity/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-protests-engulf-iran-israel-sees-an-opportunity/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:46:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293357 Antiestablishment demonstrations across Iran escalated this weekend as reports emerged of large-scale violence by protesters and security services alike. Over half of the country’s thirty-one provinces are convulsed in protests, which first erupted on December 28 in the electronics section of Tehran’s central bazaar.  Traders had come out onto the streets in response to a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-protests-engulf-iran-israel-sees-an-opportunity/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-gen-z-movements-around-the-globe-shared-tactics-and-challenges/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-gen-z-movements-around-the-globe-shared-tactics-and-challenges/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:41:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293354 Indonesia. Madagascar. The Philippines. Morocco. Nepal. Tanzania. Peru. Paraguay. Timor-leste. Maldives. Kenya. Countries with little shared history or political context, yet all were engulfed at different moments this year by the same force: street protests led overwhelmingly by Gen Z, those born between 1997 and 2012.  Youth uprisings are not new, but the speed and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-gen-z-movements-around-the-globe-shared-tactics-and-challenges/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-battle-after-another-the-big-contract-fights-coming-in-2026/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-battle-after-another-the-big-contract-fights-coming-in-2026/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:34:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293351 The coming year could keep the strikes rolling through steel mills, state offices, telephone lines, axle plants, baseball diamonds, and hospitals from coast to coast. Union contracts expiring in 2026 could open up major fights by manufacturing, education, entertainment, and government workers. FIBER AND WIRES The contract covering 20,000 Verizon workers in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic expires [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-battle-after-another-the-big-contract-fights-coming-in-2026/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/court-of-session-tomorrow-on-palestine-action/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/court-of-session-tomorrow-on-palestine-action/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:14:08 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293348 In the Western world today, fighting for freedom feels Quixotic, but I shall nevertheless wake early tomorrow to be at the Court of Session in Edinburgh by 9am to fight the proscription in Scotland of Palestine Action. I remain extremely concerned for the lives of the Palestine Action hunger strikers. As I predicted, Starmer’s government [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/court-of-session-tomorrow-on-palestine-action/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-as-a-linchpin-six-reasons-why-netanyahu-is-prolonging-conflict-in-the-middle-east/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-as-a-linchpin-six-reasons-why-netanyahu-is-prolonging-conflict-in-the-middle-east/#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:38:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293342 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has concluded his visit to the United States, returning home after reportedly securing yet another round of political backing from Donald Trump. As with previous encounters, the meeting provided Netanyahu with diplomatic cover and strategic reassurance, reinforcing Israel’s ability to sustain its military posture in Gaza and across the region with limited [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-as-a-linchpin-six-reasons-why-netanyahu-is-prolonging-conflict-in-the-middle-east/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dance-and-music-are-potent-forms-of-cultural-defiance-in-palestine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dance-and-music-are-potent-forms-of-cultural-defiance-in-palestine/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:35:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293331 As Palestinians face unprecedented settler attacks, home demolitions and sweeping crackdowns on community organizing this year, the space for traditional political and cultural expression grows ever more narrow and dangerous. Protests are restricted and punished, civil groups are monitored and even community gatherings risk being labeled a security threat. Palestinian cultural expression is viewed as [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dance-and-music-are-potent-forms-of-cultural-defiance-in-palestine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/billionaires-mouthpiece-searches-for-reasons-to-avoid-taxing-billionaires/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/billionaires-mouthpiece-searches-for-reasons-to-avoid-taxing-billionaires/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:15:57 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293325 The Washington Post, which exists mainly to serve the interests of its mega-billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, unsurprisingly thinks taxing the wealth of billionaires is a bad idea (FAIR.org, 12/11/19). Its recent editorial (1/1/26) warning California not to institute a tax on extreme wealth—headlined “California Will Miss Billionaires When They’re Gone”—illustrates that when you’re telling the boss exactly what [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/billionaires-mouthpiece-searches-for-reasons-to-avoid-taxing-billionaires/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/smashing-international-laws/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/smashing-international-laws/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:08:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293322 In the early hours of Jan. 3, the United States sent its military forces into Venezuela to kidnap President Nicolás Maduro Moros and Cilia Flores, a deputy in the National Assembly, bombing civilian and military sites across Caracas. The United States indicted both Maduro and Flores, who are married, with “narco-terrorism” and related charges and is holding them in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/smashing-international-laws/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/goebbelss-ghost-and-millers-dream-of-a-unified-reich/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/goebbelss-ghost-and-millers-dream-of-a-unified-reich/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:55:11 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293319 White House adviser Stephen Miller seems torn from the darkest archive of the 1930s. His ideological fever, spittle-laced tirades, compulsive lying, and theatrical rage are not excesses but instruments: performative rituals through which cruelty is normalized and racism is taught. What he stages is not only a ruthless infatuation with power and updated fascist politics but [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/goebbelss-ghost-and-millers-dream-of-a-unified-reich/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-firewall-of-separation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-firewall-of-separation/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:51:32 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293317 It is a belief held by most people in society that the internet is a novel danger. That it is a threat to freedom and democracy unparalleled in the history of our species. It is often asked, “How do you stop the internet being used as a vector for radicalisation, hate-mongering, incitement to violence?” The [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-firewall-of-separation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/plunging-into-the-abyss/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/plunging-into-the-abyss/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:47:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293314 For most of us, Friday, February 6, 2026, is likely to feel no different than Thursday, February 5th. It will be a work or school day for many of us. It might involve shopping for the weekend or an evening get-together with friends, or any of the other mundane tasks of life. But from a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/plunging-into-the-abyss/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-you-an-immigrant-or-a-colonial-settler/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-you-an-immigrant-or-a-colonial-settler/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:41:56 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293312 There is a simple but urgent issue to be dealt with as we grow dangerously close to another world war.  I do not believe I am exaggerating and many who know more than I, think the same with excellent credentials.  And I understand we do not want to think about it.  This is called “denialism,” and natural attitude, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-you-an-immigrant-or-a-colonial-settler/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-next-frontier-of-climate-accountability-making-big-food-pay-its-ecological-bill/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-next-frontier-of-climate-accountability-making-big-food-pay-its-ecological-bill/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:38:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293309 The “polluter pays” principle is a cornerstone of environmental regulation. It raises billions of dollars each year and has been fundamental in pushing energy companies to pursue cleaner, more cost-effective energy sources. But when it was first formalized in 1972 by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), it faced resistance. Energy companies argued [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-next-frontier-of-climate-accountability-making-big-food-pay-its-ecological-bill/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-out-for-good-coalition-announces-nationwide-weekend-of-action/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-out-for-good-coalition-announces-nationwide-weekend-of-action/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:36:52 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293306 A broad national coalition, including Indivisible, MoveOn Civic Action, the American Civil Liberties Union, Public Citizen, Voto Latino, United We Dream, 50501, the Disappeared in America Campaign of the Not Above the Law coalition, and partner organizations across the country, is calling for a coordinated ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action on Saturday, January 10, and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-out-for-good-coalition-announces-nationwide-weekend-of-action/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/honoring-the-many-responses-to-renee-nicole-goods-murder/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/honoring-the-many-responses-to-renee-nicole-goods-murder/#respond Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:40:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293303 I was leading the afternoon session in a room of Black clergy. I had been planning to announce happier news that our pressure on Avelo forced them out of the deportation business. But this breaking overshadowed it. I told them that an ICE observer in Minneapolis had been shot. They gasped. Somehow, the gasp was the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/honoring-the-many-responses-to-renee-nicole-goods-murder/feed/ 0