Z Friends & Staff Posts
Activists aggressively confront current injustices. Shouldn’t we also advocate revolutionary changes and develop revolutionary vision to inform our acts?
Major interview for German periodical Utopie: āThere will be no successful movement to escape capitalism until there is widespread agreement that there is superior life beyond capitalismā
“Once I picked up a bullhorn, I became a target, and that just showed me how powerful the womanās, and black womanās, voice isā
Interview on why there was no need for a nuclear deal.
My disagreement with the way we handled the negotiations after the referendum is essential. And yet, my main goal is to protect the unity of SYRIZA, to support A.Tsipras, and to stand behind E.Takalotos
Franceās Le Pen is exploiting the anti-EU, anti-German and anti-capitalist feelings coursing through the continent
How surveillance helps a violent state
US regional policies have not changed in the least, and it is up to the region itself to confront the US militaristic and conflict-driven policies
The last time the United States and Cuba had diplomatic ties, President Dwight Eisenhower was in office
When the harsh reality of the results of this newly found austerity dawns upon society, who in the political scene is going to represent them then?
Anarchism has a whole lot going for it and could well become the main 21st century source of movement inspiration and wisdom in the effort to make our world a much better place
The masters of Europe are defending their agenda of redistributing wealth and power upward
Corruption of the global environment and compulsively frantic destruction of irreplaceable resources is an equally sure, if more delayed, manner of imposing chaos and death on a mass scale
Either a life with dignity or death with honor
Never before has the European Union made a decision that undermines so fundamentally the project of European Integration
Why not a new referendum?
This is not inevitable, a done deal, if we wake up from the long, postmodern coma and reject the myths and deceptions of those who claim to represent us, and fight
The full transcript of the former Greek Finance Minister’s first interview since resigning
One day, Hail Syriza. Next day, Phooey on Syriza. Perhaps more time is required to judge, not to mention more information
As inside look at the negotiations and results….
As politicians congratulate themselves for taking down the Confederate Flag in South Carolina, the real task of dismantling racism falls to activists
A Critique of the July 10th, 2015 Austerity Proposal for Greece from Syriza; There is an Alternative
The Greek proposal is similar to what the European Union proposed last week and that Greek voters overwhelmingly voted no to last Sunday
Based on months of negotiation, my conviction is that the German finance minister wants Greece to be pushed out of the single currency to put the fear of God into the French and have them accept his model of a disciplinarian eurozone
One key aspect of a strategy for a truly mass third party, a mass political alternative, a mass peopleās alliance, is the necessity of a significant chunk of the left wing of the Democratic Party breaking from the corporatist/ corporate-influenced wing
Harald Schumann On The Trail – Talking to Yanis Varoufakis
This is far from being a ācrisis in Islamā, but a political struggle that will, ultimately, define the future of the region for many generations to come
From declining worker protections to violent labor trafficking and ethnic cleansing
Fear trumps hope. But not this time
Multimillion-dollar ad campaigns aim to influence Congressional votes
The Global Minotaur of neoliberal capitalism centred on Wall Street held the world to ransom from 1971 to 2008. Now Europeās surplus countries are trying to prop up its corpse
Todayās referendum delivered a resounding call for a mutually beneficial agreement between Greece and our European partners
It is when ordinary people, leading ordinary lives, join together to make a statement that change happens
Review of An Indigenous Peoplesā History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
It would be fair to assume that Gershon Baskinās recent article in the Jerusalem Post is not a mere intellectual exercise aimed at finding ācreativeā solutions to the Israeli occupation of Palestine
Interview on Europeās “savage response” to the pushback against austerity demands
Sanders has been able to deliver an alternative message to more people than has been the case in many years.
For now, it remains a blessing to work alongside people awake together, even in darkness, working to face burdens with kindness, ready to join with kindred spirits near and far, faces aglow with precious glimmers of a coming day
A look at the prejudice currently in the Dominican Republic, the history of segregation in public spaces, and a special comment on the Charleston shooting.
We rejected the institutionsā 25th June proposals because of a variety of powerful reasons
If Kagame can’t shake off the stench of crimes against humanity, he may find himself becoming another one of the West’s dispensable dictators
The time has not been more ripe for a Marxist regroupment here and globally for at least a quarter century
Sterling was one of the CIAās few African-American case officers, and he became the first to file a racial discrimination lawsuit against the agency
The latest chapter in the superpower collision is Washingtonās strategy of holding low altitude aircraft passes on spots in the South China Sea where China is building military structures over reclaimed land
Just as the civil rights movement seized on the horror of the Alabama church bombing to galvanize change, so must we ensure that the Charleston terrorist attack is the last of its kind
Isn’t our task not to castigate those who are stepping up to work on the campaign and who don’t have exact norms we might prefer, but to instead be happy about their energy and desire and contribute however we can on behalf of those preferred norms?
The pressing question our Irish friends must answer is this: is it more likely that the euro zone will become a better union to belong to if Greece is thrown to the wolves, despite the type of proposals tabled at Thursdayās eurogroup meeting?
As far as the white supremacists are concerned, those murdered in Charleston are not worshiping the same Creator of All Things as are the white supremacists
After so much disinformation on my presentation at the Eurogroup of the Greek governmentās position, the only response is to post the precise words uttered within. Read them and judge for yourselves
The Assange case amplifies many truths, and one is the growing, global totalitarianism of Washington, regardless of who is elected president
Upward gazing can be politically blinding



