Stop racist killings! Act together to end the pandemic! Living wages or income now! A Green New Deal and Medicare for All! Trump must go!

A review of Homestead Steel Mill—the Final Ten Years

One thing seems clear: we are not going back to where we were, to business as usual

f the total number of Sanders delegates goes over the 25 percent threshold required by party rules — a goal that’s within reach — progressives will get appreciable leverage over convention decisions

Why do so many people believe in vast and incredible-sounding conspiracy theories?

Trump’s abdication of leadership is responsible for tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths so far

The protests are a form of white privilege in action as the virus disproportionately infects and kills African Americans and people of color

Interview on COVID-19 politics, the global economy and the environment

“Bernie’s campaign has suspended, but the movement to fight for the Bernie platform must go on”

Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo

I would be lying if I said that I thought electing Biden, or anyone other than Sanders, was a guarantee of a transformation. It wouldn’t be. But it would be a blow against rising fascism in this country, at least, and hopefully much more

Trump has so far spurned this chance to make good on his promise to bring U.S. troops home, even as his lost wars and ill-defined global military occupation expose thousands of troops to the Covid-19 virus

How would a foreign loan help, given that the Reserve Bank could easily boost state finances by direct bond purchases – as indeed already occurred on a small scale in late March when the private sector failed to buy Treasury bills at auction?

Target, Amazon, Instacart Workers Demand Safe Conditions & Pandemic Relief

Why Israel’s Coalition Government is Likely to Survive

Interview on what’s behind Trump’s encouragement of the “anti-lockdown” protests, discusses the right-wing determination to destroy the U.S. Postal Service, and lays out his views on the electoral “lesser of two evils” principle

“Planet of the Humans” does a serious disservice to those seeking to bring a more systemic and forward-looking approach into the climate movement

An Open Letter to DNC Chair Tom Perez

Jeff Gibbs’ and Michael Moore’s movie, Planet of the Humans, must have “made my day” for the executives in the board rooms of Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP and all the other fossil fuel corporations

It is us, the people, and our true authentic voices – the ‘organic intellectuals’, not the celebrity philosophers – who have the right and the moral legitimacy to rise up to reclaim our democracy

Nixon’s unexpected escalation of an already unpopular war in Vietnam triggered a chain of events culminating in the largest student strike in  U.S. history

On Labor, Climate, and the Long Way Forward

Be careful what one asks for

“By replacing the world with a person, fascist politics makes us unable to assess arguments by a common standard. The fascist politician possesses specific techniques to destroy information spaces and break down reality.” Sound familiar?

We must learn from the history of past efforts at systemic change which have floundered because they were male-dominated, monochromatic instead of consciously multi-racial, led too often by white men who too often got wrapped up in ego and power

A political system that is structurally incapable of acting for the common good, even when millions of lives are at stake, is not just failing to solve our problems. It is the problem

In a recent letter a group of old SDSers hoped to engage some young critics of the Democratic Party and Joe Biden.…

Interview on COVID-19, WHO, China, Gaza and Global Capitalism

Citizens should organize and not despair

Spitting as a Weapon in the Hand of Colonial Israel

There have been at least 45 walkouts for coronavirus protection already and there is growing talk of a nationwide strike to force the government to act

Progressives should never stop fighting for policies that truly represent our values. And activists, unlike even the best politicians, can avoid the pitfalls of making diplomatic statements that aren’t true

Democratic governments have already used the virus to crack down on freedoms, while those regimes that were authoritarian to begin with have used the pandemic to grab even more power.

If the labor movement revives, the Sanders movement, which is very significant, he’s achieved great successes, if that can take off, it could be, we once again could get out of the capitalist crises as was done in the ’30s

Let’s insist that the U.S. government call off its airstrikes, artillery and night raids in Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria and West Africa, and support ceasefires in Yemen, Libya and around the world

Interview on the coronavirus pandemic in the context of neoliberal capitalism’s failures, climate change, potential nuclear disaster, and Donald Trump’s authoritarianism

So yesterday afternoon, I had no idea what the onset of Covid-19 would be like. I may still have no idea. Who…

The problem is our electoral system. We don’t have proportional representation, where people vote for their favorite party, as well as, usually, individual candidates, and parties get representation in government based on the percentage of their vote

Neoliberal indoctrination has pampered big business and Wall Street into believing that corporate socialism will always be theirs for the asking

On Faith, Humor and ‘Dutch Candy’

Wise folks now realize The Virus is going to cause countries to wind up moving either hard right with fascistic racism, authoritarianism,…

The worst crime he committed, in the eyes of the establishment, is not the policy he’s proposing; it’s the fact that he was able to inspire popular movements, which had already been developing — Occupy, Black Lives Matter, many others — and turn them into an activist movement

Interview on coronavirus, Assange, propaganda and human rights

Let COVID-19 be that opportunity that will allow all nations, especially in the Middle East, to take a stance against war, hunger and disease, to share their wealth and to extend the hand of solidarity to Africa and our historic allies throughout the world

We will often lose. We will not give up. We must not give up

There are certainly plenty of people whose actions during this pandemic have been despicable. But they are vastly outnumbered by those who, during this difficult time, are performing admirably, some heroically

The late Martin Khor united activists, officials, and thought leaders against trade and climate policies that plundered the Global South. Here’s how his comrades remember him

On faith, humour and ‘Dutch Candy’

Its Face is Cruel and Selfish

There’s no doubt that Bernie Sanders will do all he can to help defeat Donald Trump