https://znetwork.org/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sat, 09 May 2026 18:33:02 +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/revolutionary-social-change-that-lasts/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/revolutionary-social-change-that-lasts/#respond Sat, 09 May 2026 18:32:26 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297915 “It is not enough to be against Donald Trump and MAGA, or against the control of both major parties in the USA by destructive corporate power, or even to be committed to hard work for the next eight and a half [now 6] months here in the USA to defeat the billionaire-supporting, would-be dictator Donald [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/revolutionary-social-change-that-lasts/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/history-of-u-s-cuba-turmoil-the-possibility-of-a-full-scale-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/history-of-u-s-cuba-turmoil-the-possibility-of-a-full-scale-war/#respond Sat, 09 May 2026 18:21:24 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297911 [This is a transcript of Peter Bohmer’s Economics for Everyone panel discussion, “Stop U.S. Aggression Against Iran and Cuba”, May 7, 2026, in Olympia, Washington, USA.] Personal note: I have studied the Cuban revolution and taught about and been in solidarity with Cuba since the late 1960’s. I have visited five times including living there with my [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/history-of-u-s-cuba-turmoil-the-possibility-of-a-full-scale-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rethinking-social-reproduction/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rethinking-social-reproduction/#respond Sat, 09 May 2026 18:19:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297913 When we talk about social reproduction, we are referring to how daily and medium-term efforts in support for collective life are organized on different, overlapping levels. The feminist economist Amaia Pérez suggests that doing so involves considering, in concrete terms, how we collectively and individually organize the fulfillment of the combination of needs (necesidades) and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rethinking-social-reproduction/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/india-holds-significant-regional-elections-where-the-myth-of-gen-z-continues-to-grow/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/india-holds-significant-regional-elections-where-the-myth-of-gen-z-continues-to-grow/#respond Sat, 09 May 2026 18:16:20 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297909 In India, over 123 million people voted in the four states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal (home to 290 million people) for their state assemblies. These are influential states: two in the south, one in the east, and one in the northeast. The next national parliamentary election is not scheduled until 2029, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/india-holds-significant-regional-elections-where-the-myth-of-gen-z-continues-to-grow/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/criminalizing-childhood-when-the-justice-system-fails-americas-youth/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/criminalizing-childhood-when-the-justice-system-fails-americas-youth/#respond Sat, 09 May 2026 18:12:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297904 Introduction: When “Protection” Becomes Punishment Does your community care about children? This deceptively simple question carries profound moral, social, and civic weight. Across the United States, children are too often treated not as developing citizens deserving care and opportunity, but as problems to be managed. Systems meant to safeguard youth—juvenile justice, labor laws, immigration enforcement, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/criminalizing-childhood-when-the-justice-system-fails-americas-youth/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-most-shocking-election-in-america/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-most-shocking-election-in-america/#respond Sat, 09 May 2026 18:06:28 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1297905 We spent 4 days traveling the entire state of Maine with Graham Platner to find out if he can win. Along the way we sat him down with Republicans and Independents. One voter told us: “We’re so tired of the establishment, and Maine is a very anti-establishment state.” Producer and Editor: Josh Hirschfeld-Kroen Producer and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-most-shocking-election-in-america/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-new-enbridge-pipeline-spurs-opposition-in-central-north-carolina/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-new-enbridge-pipeline-spurs-opposition-in-central-north-carolina/#respond Sat, 09 May 2026 18:00:40 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297902 SILER CITY, N.C.—John Alderman opened the letter, sent by certified mail from an attorney in New Orleans.  This is trouble, Alderman thought. It can’t be good news. In late April Enbridge, a Canadian company, announced its plans to build a new 28-mile natural gas pipeline through Chatham County, from Siler City to Moncure. As contractors survey potential [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-new-enbridge-pipeline-spurs-opposition-in-central-north-carolina/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/vibe-to-heal-america/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/vibe-to-heal-america/#respond Sat, 09 May 2026 17:55:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297899 May Day is for the workers. In some beautiful future, every worker will get May Day off. One day. But not yet. For now, it can also serve as a day when you remember the workers who are still working, and think about how you could make their lives better. On my way from Brooklyn [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/vibe-to-heal-america/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-populism-is-coming-but-not-the-way-progressives-think/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-populism-is-coming-but-not-the-way-progressives-think/#respond Sat, 09 May 2026 17:48:15 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297897 The phrase “AI populism” has started doing the rounds, and as is typically the case when progressives reach for the word “populism,” they have not fully understood its true nature. The dominant framing — most clearly articulated in Jasmine Sun’s recent piece “AI populism’s warning shots” — defines AI populism as the worldview that AI [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-populism-is-coming-but-not-the-way-progressives-think/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-the-rush-to-mine-the-metal-of-the-future-echoes-americas-colonial-past/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-the-rush-to-mine-the-metal-of-the-future-echoes-americas-colonial-past/#respond Sat, 09 May 2026 17:43:56 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297894 This investigation was reported in collaboration between Inside Climate News and Columbia Journalism Investigations. BLACK HILLS, S.D.—Trina Lone Hill wasn’t surprised that mining companies had found lithium in South Dakota’s Black Hills. Gold and uranium had drawn drillers to the Lakota Sioux tribe’s hallowed ground in these western highlands years ago. Now, with this new mineral powering the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-the-rush-to-mine-the-metal-of-the-future-echoes-americas-colonial-past/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/blind-eyes-at-the-united-nations-while-the-us-bombs-for-nonproliferation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/blind-eyes-at-the-united-nations-while-the-us-bombs-for-nonproliferation/#respond Fri, 08 May 2026 19:11:56 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297871 There is deadly irony in the juxtaposition of Trump’s ‘anti-nuclear war’ on Iran, and the ongoing United Nations Review Conference for the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, or NPT RevCon. The decision to initiate a war of aggression against Iran killing thousands of civilians was made (among other public pretexts) in order to prevent Iran’s allegedly intended [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/blind-eyes-at-the-united-nations-while-the-us-bombs-for-nonproliferation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/50-years-of-co-determination-in-germany/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/50-years-of-co-determination-in-germany/#respond Fri, 08 May 2026 19:10:04 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297868 Much of Germany’s labor relations system is governed by the idea of a social partnership between capital and labor – camouflaging the stark asymmetry between both by pretending labor and capital are, somehow, equal “partners” under capitalism. One of the clearest expressions of this hallucination is Germany’s much admired system of co-determination. In recent weeks, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/50-years-of-co-determination-in-germany/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/subjects-of-empire-breaking-the-cycle-of-arab-dependency-on-us-elections/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/subjects-of-empire-breaking-the-cycle-of-arab-dependency-on-us-elections/#respond Fri, 08 May 2026 19:01:36 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297875 Much of the current discourse on the Middle East remains fixated on the US midterm congressional elections this coming November. This vote, in particular, is being framed as a pivotal turning point for everything from the survival of Gaza and Lebanon to the future of Iran and beyond. To a large extent, one can understand [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/subjects-of-empire-breaking-the-cycle-of-arab-dependency-on-us-elections/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-flynn-kabiri-axis-how-bosnia-is-sold-piece-by-piece/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-flynn-kabiri-axis-how-bosnia-is-sold-piece-by-piece/#respond Fri, 08 May 2026 18:58:49 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297870 For an outside reader, Bosnia and Herzegovina is often formally described as a sovereign state. In practice, however, it operates within a uniquely constrained post-war framework established by the Dayton Peace Agreement, under which a powerful international authority—embodied in the Office of the High Representative—retains the ability to impose laws and dismiss elected officials. While [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-flynn-kabiri-axis-how-bosnia-is-sold-piece-by-piece/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/state-department-says-us-is-in-conflict-with-iran-at-the-request-of-israel/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/state-department-says-us-is-in-conflict-with-iran-at-the-request-of-israel/#respond Fri, 08 May 2026 18:55:21 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297876 The State Department said in a statement last week that the US is in conflict with Iran “at the request” of Israel, an acknowledgment of Israel’s role in steering the US into the war, which the US has dubbed “Operation Epic Fury.” The statement was issued by the State Department’s legal adviser, Reed D. Rubinstein, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/state-department-says-us-is-in-conflict-with-iran-at-the-request-of-israel/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alternative-climate-summit-seeks-more-action-on-global-warming/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alternative-climate-summit-seeks-more-action-on-global-warming/#respond Fri, 08 May 2026 18:50:55 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297879 The annual climate summits attended by government officials and fossil fuel representatives have long been a farce. Lots of talking, followed by vows to finally do something meaningful about global warming although doing little of actual substance. The last one, held in Belém, Brazil, was particularly dispiriting with Saudi Arabia leading the petrostates seeking to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alternative-climate-summit-seeks-more-action-on-global-warming/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-poverty-makes-you-sick-the-hidden-cost-of-neglecting-youth-health/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-poverty-makes-you-sick-the-hidden-cost-of-neglecting-youth-health/#respond Fri, 08 May 2026 18:47:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297872 In Peoria, Illinois, children living in federally subsidized housing have been getting sick in the very places meant to shelter them. An investigation by ProPublica documented that apartments at the city’s Taft Homes were plagued by mold, water damage, pest infestations, and peeling paint—conditions that local doctors and health inspectors linked to asthma flare‑ups and chronic respiratory [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-poverty-makes-you-sick-the-hidden-cost-of-neglecting-youth-health/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/may-day-no-oligarchs-no-ice-no-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/may-day-no-oligarchs-no-ice-no-war/#respond Fri, 08 May 2026 15:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297826 Tens of thousands of working people across the United States joined the May Day Strong protests in 3,500 cities demanding “Workers over billionaires,” “No ICE” (immigration police) and “No War.” The movement was organized by dozens of labor unions with millions of members and by other workers organizations, such as immigrant workers’ centers and domestic [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/may-day-no-oligarchs-no-ice-no-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-may-day-farmworkers-and-their-children-defy-poverty-and-deportations/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-may-day-farmworkers-and-their-children-defy-poverty-and-deportations/#respond Fri, 08 May 2026 15:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297840 SANTA MARIA, CALIFORNIA—Juana’s words echo in my mind as I pull off Highway 101 into downtown Santa Maria. Juana is a strawberry picker in a strawberry town. Santa Maria, along with Oxnard to the south and Salinas to the north, is one of three towns on California’s central coast, all in valleys, that produce 80% [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-may-day-farmworkers-and-their-children-defy-poverty-and-deportations/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-new-jim-crow-2/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-new-jim-crow-2/#respond Thu, 07 May 2026 15:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297824 In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision effectively endorsing gerrymanders that disenfranchise Black voters, an outbreak of racism has spread through Southern state legislatures. Tennessee Republicans are pretending Black voters in Memphis don’t exist. Florida Republicans seem to have forgotten that Floridians voted to adopt a constitutional amendment banning both political and racial gerrymanders. And then, there’s Alabama. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-new-jim-crow-2/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-workers-against-the-war-machine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-workers-against-the-war-machine/#respond Thu, 07 May 2026 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297831 Google’s AI workers want to cure cancer, not kill for the US and Israeli military. That’s why they are now trying to unionise for the first time ever, writes an employee at DeepMind. Today, members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) at the London office of Google DeepMind have informed management in a letter that, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-workers-against-the-war-machine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-household-bills-soar-is-it-time-for-a-working-class-climate-agenda/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-household-bills-soar-is-it-time-for-a-working-class-climate-agenda/#respond Thu, 07 May 2026 15:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297836 Group that worked with AOC and Bernie Sanders seeks to counter claim that climate policy is politically toxic. Americans do not care about the climate crisis, only economic issues: that’s the message some wonks have put forth in the past year, as the Trump administration has dismantled environmental protections. But the shift away from climate [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-household-bills-soar-is-it-time-for-a-working-class-climate-agenda/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-tricky-path-to-a-left-wing-candidate-in-2028/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-tricky-path-to-a-left-wing-candidate-in-2028/#respond Thu, 07 May 2026 15:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297834 Yesterday, the national co-chairs of the Democratic Socialists of America published a piece in Jacobin headlined, “We Need a Left-Labor Presidential Candidate.” In it, they say they “are calling for a new popular coalition of social movements, labor, and the Left to recruit and run a candidate for president of the United States” in 2028. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-tricky-path-to-a-left-wing-candidate-in-2028/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yanis-varoufakis-europe-entering-a-century-of-humiliation/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yanis-varoufakis-europe-entering-a-century-of-humiliation/#comments Thu, 07 May 2026 15:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1297813 Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, the former Finance Minister of Greece, and the author of numerous bestselling books. Varoufakis discusses why Europe is possibly sliding into a century of humiliation”.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yanis-varoufakis-europe-entering-a-century-of-humiliation/feed/ 3 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-need-a-left-labor-presidential-candidate/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-need-a-left-labor-presidential-candidate/#respond Thu, 07 May 2026 15:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297829 Beating Donald Trump isn’t enough, argue the Democratic Socialists of America’s cochairs. A united left-labor campaign in 2028 could mobilize millions, challenge Democratic Party failure, and put a working-class program on the national stage. Donald Trump’s return to power has brought chaos and real harm to millions of people. It’s no surprise that much of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-need-a-left-labor-presidential-candidate/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/zack-polanski-is-being-smeared/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/zack-polanski-is-being-smeared/#respond Thu, 07 May 2026 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1297816 A duscussion on the treatment of the UK Green Party Leader Zack Polanski by the media.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/zack-polanski-is-being-smeared/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-hate-cuba-especially-its-medical-practices/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-hate-cuba-especially-its-medical-practices/#respond Thu, 07 May 2026 15:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297812 An assault on Cuba needs excuses for hating it. But given that any exchanges between the US and Cuba has been blocked out of the news for decades, it’s a bit difficult for a lot of folks to figure out why they are supposed to hate it and starve the people there. Let’s look through [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-hate-cuba-especially-its-medical-practices/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/i-cant-breathe-can-you/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/i-cant-breathe-can-you/#respond Thu, 07 May 2026 15:47:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297821 I’m old enough to have been politically cognizant, admittedly less so for a couple of the earliest, of thirteen presidents (14 if you count one of them twice).  Through all of those decades and all of those administrations nothing comes close to the way the current regime takes up ALL THE AIR IN THE ROOM!  [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/i-cant-breathe-can-you/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-global-sumud-flotilla-is-a-mission-of-mercy-met-with-cruelty/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-global-sumud-flotilla-is-a-mission-of-mercy-met-with-cruelty/#respond Wed, 06 May 2026 18:04:28 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297799 After a symbolic launch in Barcelona on April 12, the Global Sumud Flotilla set out across the Mediterranean Sea to bring aid to Gaza in what proved to be the largest civilian maritime convoy of its kind: 58 vessels, more than a thousand participants from over a hundred countries. Amnesty called on governments to guarantee [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-global-sumud-flotilla-is-a-mission-of-mercy-met-with-cruelty/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/michigan-profs-only-offense-humanizing-palestinians/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/michigan-profs-only-offense-humanizing-palestinians/#respond Wed, 06 May 2026 18:03:40 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297803 I am a Jewish American-Israeli, and a veteran of the IDF. But according to the University of Michigan administration, I am someone who needs to be protected from the truth.  On May 2, the University did not merely censor this year’s commencement speech. It treated the mention of Palestinian humanity as a radioactive heresy that had [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/michigan-profs-only-offense-humanizing-palestinians/feed/ 0