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How many graduates of Buena Vista Elementary and Lowell High School in San Francisco have become labor book authors? Probably not many–other…
“A year of combat”—this is how Israel’s new Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, described 2025 at a conference organized by the Israeli…
The wide mix of acts of resistance over the past week have made it clear that there is and will be widespread…
This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The Bulletin of the Atomic…
The administrative spectacle now unfolding exceeds all expectations. How should we respond? What is appropriate? I remember Abbie Hoffman and the general…
The return of one million Palestinians from southern Gaza to the north on 27 January felt as if history was choreographing one…
On Friday, November 22nd 2024, a coalition of eight Slovenian non-profit NGOs and the Slovenian movement for the rights of Palestinians filed…
A few years ago, Noam Chomsky warned about the return of fascism in contemporary capitalist societies. He pointed out that 40 years of neoliberal policies—a one-sided…
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit…
Reporting Friday that aides to Elon Musk — the billionaire backer of Republican President Donald Trump who runs the Department of Government Efficiency —…
When my multigenerational family of six evacuated our home this January, we wondered if the fires visible from our front porch would…
Even those of us who have long emphasized the importance of the Palestinian people’s voice, experience, and collective action in Palestinian history…
The year 2008 signaled to many the weak foundations of modern capitalism in the hands of the greedy, untethered financial sector—the “vampire…
The problem with political analysis is that it often lacks historical perspective and is mostly limited to recent events. The current analysis…
Ever since Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine I’ve been thinking about the issue of the right of nations to self-determination. I’ve done…
How many graduates of Buena Vista Elementary and Lowell High School have become labor book authors? Probably not many–other than Eric Blanc,…
In January, I am ordinarily making lemon curd, lemonade, lemon bars, lemon salad dressing and every citrus-infused dish I can think of.…
Trump, Musk, Vance, Kennedy and the rest of our new government’s murderous members now oversee political life in the USA. Things were…
This is a transcribe of a talk given by Peter Bohmer at the People’s March in Olympia, Washington State on January 18,…
“Under racial capitalism, land is treated as nothing more than a natural resource to be extracted, and violence is committed against the…
Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th president of the United States put on display fascism’s 21st-century iteration — a combination of oligarchic power…
In the immediate aftermath of the November 2020 elections, the two of us composed some hypotheses about the political moment. We received…
While running for U.S. Senate in Nebraska, working class candidate Dan Osborn characterized the Senate as “a country club of millionaires that…
The headline in the Times of Israel says it all: “For the First Time, Israel Just Lost a War.” Regardless of the…
Both Netanyahu and Trump have visions of building empires and discarding the remnants of international law and the UN. Will they succeed…
Following every Israeli war on Gaza, numerous narratives emerge. Some claim victory for one side and defeat for the other, while others—knowingly…
Just minutes before leaving office, Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life prison sentence of Leonard Peltier, the elderly American Indian Movement…
In the organizing meetings over the last two months leading up to and at yesterday’s positive March of Resistance in Newark, NJ,…
As Donald Trump assumes the presidency, the world is bracing for shifts in international relations and policy. From Israel’s genocide in Gaza…
A dramatic escape was cited by Israeli media as the reason that Yuval Vagdani, a soldier in the Israeli army, managed to escape justice…
Elon Musk spent more than a quarter billion dollars to back Trump and other MAGA Republican candidates. He did so not simply…
A few days before the end of 2024, the independent magazine +972 reported that “Israeli army forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital compound in Beit…
President-elect Trump said on January 9th that he is planning a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine.…
With some Los Angeles-area landlords jacking up rental listing prices by 50% or more as historic wildfires rage, housing advocates in the…
Early 2025 is already a tough time for those expecting the consolidation of a multipolar alternative to polycrisis-riddled, Western-dominated, neoliberal multilateralism. It…
Over the past three years, a collective of volunteer researchers, lawyers, and commentators created The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, dedicated…
The first official reference to Gaza becoming increasingly uninhabitable was made by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in…
Conflicts across the world’s regions experienced a further surge in 2024, according to data provided by Armed Conflict Locations & Event Data (ACLED)—an independent,…
As the genocide of Palestinians continues, the images and stories coming from Gaza and the West Bank are almost unbearable. Israeli soldiers…
Suddenly, Yoav Gallant, Israel’s notorious Minister of Defense, disappeared into obscurity. The man who served in his country’s military for about 35…
As President Biden greenlights another $8 billion in weapons to Israel in his last days in office and Secretary Blinken gives a…
[The following is a close transcript of the 319th episode of the podcast titled RevolutionZ.] Perhaps you are aware there is a…
With 10 days left to mobilize, it is clear that the People’s March, initiated by the Women’s March, is going to be…
Part 7 of this series contains the following chapters: 9. A Constructive Program for Social Self-Defense10. What Social Self-Defense Is Defending Defending…
When news broke over the weekend that President Biden just approved an $8 billion deal for shipping weapons to Israel, a nameless…
Over the past 14 months, I have received hundreds of messages from family members throughout the Gaza Strip. The nature of the…
Part 6 of this series contains the following chapters: 7. Non-Electoral Opposition8. The Social Strike Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus…
Part 5 of this series contains the following chapter: 6. Electoral Opposition Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a…
AI is already very nearly everywhere. So far, it is no big deal, right? It assembles data, controls this or that machine,…
Review of Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Jason Higgins (University of Massachusetts Press, 2024). Like old soldiers around…
