https://znetwork.org/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:42:46 +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/in-the-third-world-war-a-political-lexicon-for-todays-struggles/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-the-third-world-war-a-political-lexicon-for-todays-struggles/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:23:16 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295287 This is the English translation of the original introduction to our book, Nella Terza guerra mondiale. Un lessico politico per le lotte del presente (DeriveApprodi, 2025). We are now publishing its English translation as a free ebook. Read online the 2026 Preface to the English edition, and download and share the book. In the Third World War: A Political Lexicon [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-the-third-world-war-a-political-lexicon-for-todays-struggles/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense-part-3/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense-part-3/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:20:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295290 It was the summer of 2003. I was employed at the time as the national coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network, working towards, we hoped, a progressive, broad-based alternative to the Dems and Reps. But something happened that summer in Europe which changed my life, leading me to leave that IPPN job a year [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense-part-3/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-economy-is-hurting-americans-and-setting-us-up-for-long-term-collapse/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-economy-is-hurting-americans-and-setting-us-up-for-long-term-collapse/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:12:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295285 President Donald Trump is boasting about the economy one year into his term. He claims that inflation has been defeated, growth is unprecedented, incomes are rising, and his tariffs are generating hundreds of billions for the U.S. economy. This is all hogwash, according to progressive economist Gerald Epstein, a leading global authority on macroeconomic policy [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-economy-is-hurting-americans-and-setting-us-up-for-long-term-collapse/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-iranian-left-the-right-of-self-determination-and-the-question-of-ethnic-particularism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-iranian-left-the-right-of-self-determination-and-the-question-of-ethnic-particularism/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:07:17 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295283 The debate over the “right of nations to self-determination” within segments of the Iranian left is less the result of a concrete analysis of Iran’s social and political structure than a legacy of twentieth-century leftist theoretical traditions, often transferred into the Iranian context without critical reconstruction. In its original historical setting, this concept was a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-iranian-left-the-right-of-self-determination-and-the-question-of-ethnic-particularism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sleazy-afd-germanys-far-right-loots-the-state/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sleazy-afd-germanys-far-right-loots-the-state/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:01:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295280 For weeks, allegations of sleaze, nepotism, and corruption inside the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) have dominated local media in Germany. Nepotism within the AfD has occurred at both state and federal level. The neo-fascist AfD is not known for being a political party free of infighting. Unsurprisingly, what triggered the emergence of widespread nepotism was [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sleazy-afd-germanys-far-right-loots-the-state/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-the-trump-administration-thats-threatening-the-world-not-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-the-trump-administration-thats-threatening-the-world-not-iran/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:56:01 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295278 President Donald Trump’s Pentagon is reportedly preparing a potential military assault on Iran. Washington and Tehran are set to resume Omani-mediated talks on Thursday, but the threat of war is rising nonetheless. This month, the White House and Pentagon have repeatedly met with Israeli leaders who are lobbying against a deal with Iran and are in favor of launching an attack on [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-the-trump-administration-thats-threatening-the-world-not-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-much-of-america-has-been-slow-to-react-to-ice-terrorism/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-much-of-america-has-been-slow-to-react-to-ice-terrorism/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:50:09 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1295275 ICE is terrorizing this country and threatening its long term survival. Yet still, many Americans don’t understand the magnitude of this existential threat and just how precarious the current moment is. Dominick Conidi is a recent graduate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is a contributor at ZNetwork.org. He has organized previously with the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-much-of-america-has-been-slow-to-react-to-ice-terrorism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-are-the-prospects-for-renewing-social-democratic-agency-in-britain/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-are-the-prospects-for-renewing-social-democratic-agency-in-britain/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:02:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295294 A social democratic order is one in which society, through the state, asserts control over the market and subordinates it to the common good.  Something like a social democratic order was created in Britain in the three decades after World War Two.  Organized labor allied with parts of the middle class expressed demands that were [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-are-the-prospects-for-renewing-social-democratic-agency-in-britain/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/maga-is-the-avatar-of-a-fossil-fuel-industry-coup/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/maga-is-the-avatar-of-a-fossil-fuel-industry-coup/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295292 I wrote over a year ago that “doomerism,” or “doomism,” if you prefer, ought to be a precondition for activism. If you believe that the sea won’t soon rise and drown the coastal cities that run the world’s economies, if you believe that deserts won’t swell and swallow up farmlands, if you believe that fascist predatory [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/maga-is-the-avatar-of-a-fossil-fuel-industry-coup/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-federal-immigration-agents-descended-on-minneapolis-residents-deployed-mutual-aid-to-protect-their-neighbors/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-federal-immigration-agents-descended-on-minneapolis-residents-deployed-mutual-aid-to-protect-their-neighbors/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295238 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security deployed 3,000 federal immigration agents to Minneapolis and St. Paul in December 2025, under the name Operation Metro Surge. Previously, there were 190 agents working across five states, including Minnesota. Agents shot three people, killing two — Renee Good and Alex Pretti — during the operation.  In the absence [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-federal-immigration-agents-descended-on-minneapolis-residents-deployed-mutual-aid-to-protect-their-neighbors/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hope-beats-hate-green-party-defeats-reform-and-labour-in-huge-gorton-and-denton-by-election-victory/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hope-beats-hate-green-party-defeats-reform-and-labour-in-huge-gorton-and-denton-by-election-victory/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295271 TODAY In the end it wasn’t even close. Hannah Spencer and the Greens won the Gorton and Denton by-election by a whopping 41% of the vote – pushing Reform and Labour into a distant second and third place. The result followed polling by Byline Times which showed the race to be neck and neck, but [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hope-beats-hate-green-party-defeats-reform-and-labour-in-huge-gorton-and-denton-by-election-victory/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-tools-aim-to-stop-tourism-industrys-complicity-with-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-tools-aim-to-stop-tourism-industrys-complicity-with-genocide/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295264 Two new digital tools have been released for the sole aim of stopping the tourism industry’s complicity with Israeli apartheid and war crimes against Palestinians. The coalition of Palestinian groups calling for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) against Israel began its “No Room for Genocide” campaign in 2025. And now, it has released new tools to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-tools-aim-to-stop-tourism-industrys-complicity-with-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/go-film-the-police/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/go-film-the-police/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295223 One of the reasons for photographing and filming at protests is to document police brutality when it predictably comes. At the end of summer I found myself on the floor surrounded by 15 German police officers. I was presented with an ultimatum, either I would give my phone to the police willingly or they would [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/go-film-the-police/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/factory-occupation-in-italy-laid-off-workers-organise-as-a-cooperative-and-want-to-set-up-their-own-business/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/factory-occupation-in-italy-laid-off-workers-organise-as-a-cooperative-and-want-to-set-up-their-own-business/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295267 In the summer of 2021, the GKN auto parts factory near the Italian city of Florence was closed, and over 400 workers lost their jobs. Since then, some of them have been occupying the building—for over four years now. Their goal is to manufacture solar panels and electric cargo bikes, thereby converting the factory into [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/factory-occupation-in-italy-laid-off-workers-organise-as-a-cooperative-and-want-to-set-up-their-own-business/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-17-year-olds-are-organizing-walkouts-against-ice/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-17-year-olds-are-organizing-walkouts-against-ice/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295242 Across the country, high school students are organizing walkouts, coalitions and days of action to protest ICE and show solidarity with immigrants. On Jan. 28, Jalysa, a 17-year-old student at William C. Overfelt High School in East San Jose, California, led a walkout during sixth period. More than half of the students in her school [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-17-year-olds-are-organizing-walkouts-against-ice/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/cuba-kills-4-exiles-trying-to-infiltrate-island-by-boat-as-u-s-medieval-siege-of-cuba-continues/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/cuba-kills-4-exiles-trying-to-infiltrate-island-by-boat-as-u-s-medieval-siege-of-cuba-continues/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1295217 Cuban exiles on a U.S.-registered speedboat attempted to enter Cuba undetected, but were confronted by border patrol in Cuban waters on Wednesday. According to the Cuban Interior Ministry, the Cuban nationals on the speedboat fired on the border agents who then returned fire — killing four and injuring six of the men. This comes as [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/cuba-kills-4-exiles-trying-to-infiltrate-island-by-boat-as-u-s-medieval-siege-of-cuba-continues/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-parents-eye-view-of-an-educators-strike/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-parents-eye-view-of-an-educators-strike/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295229 On Thursday, February 12, the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF), representing 6,500 teachers, paraeducators, counselors, nurses, and school psychologists, declared victory after a four-day strike, the first one in 47 years. After 11 months of bargaining, the union not only won important economic demands, including wage increases and fully funded health care. It also won demands [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-parents-eye-view-of-an-educators-strike/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-other-lizard-people-why-the-epstein-files-are-shattering-global-theory/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-other-lizard-people-why-the-epstein-files-are-shattering-global-theory/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295232 When British author David Icke wrote his seminal work, The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World, published in 1999, he was not speaking metaphorically. When he detailed the “reptilian genetic streams” of “elite” families—human-reptile hybrids allegedly engineering global events—he meant it literally. To Icke, the world is not run by mere men, but by [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-other-lizard-people-why-the-epstein-files-are-shattering-global-theory/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/i-had-no-alternative-bob-vylan-on-the-genocide-in-gaza-and-the-role-of-the-artist/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/i-had-no-alternative-bob-vylan-on-the-genocide-in-gaza-and-the-role-of-the-artist/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295243 At a pro-Palestine rally in Paris last September, Bobby of the London punk duo Bob Vylan delivered the following speech on the role of artists in confronting what he described as the genocide in Gaza; he has granted The Palestine Chronicle explicit permission to republish it here. The text below reflects only minor edits for [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/i-had-no-alternative-bob-vylan-on-the-genocide-in-gaza-and-the-role-of-the-artist/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-own-gaza-now-inside-an-israeli-interrogation-room-at-the-rafah-border-crossing/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-own-gaza-now-inside-an-israeli-interrogation-room-at-the-rafah-border-crossing/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295235 Palestinians returning to Gaza from Egypt report being beaten, tortured, and humiliated by Israeli border agents and pressured to collaborate with Israel as informants. Palestinians returning to Gaza through the Rafah border crossing report systematic harassment, beatings, torture, and being told to leave Gaza with their families by Israeli border agents. Returnees who spoke to Mondoweiss described [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-own-gaza-now-inside-an-israeli-interrogation-room-at-the-rafah-border-crossing/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-defeat-maga-tyranny-chapter-9-conclusion-endgames-the-power-is-in-our-solidarity/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-defeat-maga-tyranny-chapter-9-conclusion-endgames-the-power-is-in-our-solidarity/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1295220 As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under siege, and dissent is increasingly met with repression in the streets. In this moment, questions of power — who has it, how it is exercised, and how it can be withdrawn — are [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-defeat-maga-tyranny-chapter-9-conclusion-endgames-the-power-is-in-our-solidarity/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/ordinary-people-want-peace-can-citizen-diplomacy-build-a-safer-future-for-everyone/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/ordinary-people-want-peace-can-citizen-diplomacy-build-a-safer-future-for-everyone/#respond Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1295195 “There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” George Bernard Shaw A thought provoking discussion with Jan Oberg of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Studies, who posts regularly on Substack and on their website https://transnational.live/ We [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/ordinary-people-want-peace-can-citizen-diplomacy-build-a-safer-future-for-everyone/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reforms-plans-to-import-trumps-authoritarian-project-2025-blueprint-to-the-uk/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reforms-plans-to-import-trumps-authoritarian-project-2025-blueprint-to-the-uk/#respond Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295192 Far from defending British independence, Reform and its by-election candidate Matt Goodwin are taking blueprints – and cash – from a global network of American hardliners. “It’s not enough actually to win an election; you also need to completely rewire the system.” Those are the words of Matt Goodwin – Reform UK’s parliamentary candidate in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reforms-plans-to-import-trumps-authoritarian-project-2025-blueprint-to-the-uk/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/even-when-there-is-the-worst-kind-of-repression-its-laying-the-seeds-for-opposition/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/even-when-there-is-the-worst-kind-of-repression-its-laying-the-seeds-for-opposition/#respond Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:55:45 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295199 Hi again, Hossam. Since the last time we spoke, you’ve become a doctor. That’s true. I finished my dissertation, and now it will be published by Verso. I’m really honoured to have a book with them that will come out this May. Maybe you can explain what the dissertation and book are about. It’s based [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/even-when-there-is-the-worst-kind-of-repression-its-laying-the-seeds-for-opposition/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-cruelty-is-strangling-cuba-its-oil-reserves-could-be-empty-by-march/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-cruelty-is-strangling-cuba-its-oil-reserves-could-be-empty-by-march/#respond Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295188 The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s threatened tariffs on countries that send oil to Cuba, but the crisis persists. In accordance with Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s long-standing vendetta against Cuba, Donald Trump issued an executive order on January 29 aimed at tightening the U.S. noose around Cuba’s neck. Trump’s order preposterously declared Cuba “an unusual and extraordinary threat,” [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-cruelty-is-strangling-cuba-its-oil-reserves-could-be-empty-by-march/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/remembering-susan-george-a-shining-light-of-alter-globalization/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/remembering-susan-george-a-shining-light-of-alter-globalization/#respond Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295211 The late Susan George was a pillar in unraveling the obscure mechanisms of economic domination through so-called “free trade.” Susan George passed away in Paris on February 14 at the age of 91. Born in the U.S. and naturalized as a French citizen, Susan was one of the most important figures in denouncing capitalism over [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/remembering-susan-george-a-shining-light-of-alter-globalization/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/argentinas-general-strike-against-12-hour-workday/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/argentinas-general-strike-against-12-hour-workday/#respond Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295208 While organized workers seek to repeal the controversial reform, it advances in Congress. It still needs to be ratified by the Senate. Workers claim that it eliminates many of their rights. In the early morning hours of February 20, the Argentine Chamber of Deputies approved a controversial labor reform proposed by Javier Milei’s ultraliberal government [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/argentinas-general-strike-against-12-hour-workday/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/they-havent-even-started-spending-yet/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/they-havent-even-started-spending-yet/#respond Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295203 Politics is a good investment. For businesses, interest groups, and wealthy individuals, spending on politics offers one of the more attractive potential returns on investment you can find anywhere. For a one million dollar donation today, you can get the most powerful politician in the world to threaten your competitors or get the federal government [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/they-havent-even-started-spending-yet/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-will-win-the-tariff-war/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-will-win-the-tariff-war/#respond Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1294923 In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau pull back the curtain to reveal the shifting tectonic plates of the global economy, arguing that the world’s fixation on Donald Trump’s tariffs and Supreme Court rulings is a dangerous distraction from a much more profound transformation – namely a new form of power [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-will-win-the-tariff-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-mamdani-abolish-police-or-simply-make-them-obsolete/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-mamdani-abolish-police-or-simply-make-them-obsolete/#respond Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295183 What sets Mamdani apart from other progressive mayors who promised to be tough on police is a democratic socialist vision of a society that meets people’s needs. As part of his proposed city budget for 2026, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani just canceled the NYPD’s plan to hire 5,000 more police officers, undoing a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-mamdani-abolish-police-or-simply-make-them-obsolete/feed/ 0