Z Friends & Staff Posts
We have long argued that the Israeli war and genocide in Gaza must catalyze a change in the overall political discourse on…
Following decades of ongoing mineral extraction, environmental plunder, and the subsidization of the fossil fuel industry, the second Trump administration’s aggressive pro-drilling…
The National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) embodies an ethos of “solidarity, not charity,” in both fire relief and immigrant rights. When…
I think that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been misinformed. I don’t disagree with their shutting down…
In Washington, D.C., there’s now a ritual formula for labor gatherings outside a government office to protest the latest depredations of the…
Is today’s moment that different from all prior moments? Haven’t we endured extreme subterfuge forever? “Defense Department”? “Serve the people”? “Health and…
The results of Germany’s February 23 election have cemented a chilling trend that has increasingly characterized European politics in the 21st century:…
The Capitol’s phone lines have been overwhelmed this month, and some Democrats are complaining about the deluge of calls from voters who implore them…
During his first month in office, President Donald Trump has signed a plethora of executive orders that have proclaimed a dramatic expansion…
Former President Donald Trump continues to assert that the Palestinian people will be forcibly expelled from the Gaza Strip, with neighboring countries…
Since Donald Trump’s second term began on Jan. 20, 2025, his administration has aggressively launched a deluge of multipronged attacks on immigrants,…
Palestinians and Israelis agree that the Gaza resistance was the main reason behind Israel’s forced decision to accept a ceasefire and begin its gradual…
In this video, Yanis Varoufakis lays bare what’s really at stake in Germany’s upcoming election: Germany votes this Sunday—but don’t be fooled.…
As resistance to fascism grows, and it is growing—how could it not—activists will face many choices. One that has often been quite…
The caged bird sings with a fearful trillOf things unknown but longed for stillAnd his tune is heard on the distant hill…
Let’s be clear: the forced displacement of Palestinians is not a new idea. US President Donald Trump’s latest proposal to take “long-term…
Surviving the Washington vs Pretoria diplomatic storm – which is increasingly beyond the protagonists on each side to manage given the lack…
As the annual high-level Munich Security Conference gets underway, the Russia-Ukraine war is dominating the agenda, and we speak to two guests…
The organizers of the pro-democracy actions last week on February 5, all around the country in all 50 states, have issued a…
As we approach the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a monumental shift is taking place that might just lead…
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 —…
Even those of us who have long emphasized the importance of the Palestinian people’s voice, experience, and collective action in Palestinian history…
When my multigenerational family of six evacuated our home this January, we wondered if the fires visible from our front porch would…
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…
