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Around the world, right-wing forces are scapegoating migrants for the devastation caused by capitalism and, in countries like South Africa, extreme corruption. …
Israel is aggressively implementing plans to shape Palestine’s future and the broader region, sculpting its vision for the ‘day after’ its genocide…
Across the vast stretches of the Algerian Sahara, we are not lacking land, sunlight, or ancestral knowledge. What we lack is a…
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Date: 14 July 2025 To: Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Trans Hex and SRK – sleyde@srk.co.za Subject: Objection to off-shore Prospecting…
For those of us in and around the trade union movement, Eric Blanc’s new book is an important contribution. He builds on…
For history’s arc to continue forward activists must stop Israel, stop Trump, speak, write, cogitate, organize, and collectively end fascism and then…
Since democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won a decisive victory over Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s June 24th Democratic mayoral primary, leading…
The soneta was born to hold what couldn’t be held. Now it holds up a mirror to empire and says: Look. See…
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On the 12th of July, 2025, a devastating act of Islamophobia unfolded in Piera, Spain. The Piera Mosque, a symbol of the…
In London, UK, last week, on a rare overseas trip, I attended the launch of a new campaign initiated by the Climate…
The global conjuncture we face may appear as mindboggling yet one way to piece together this “big picture” is to take a…
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu geared up for what was intended as a triumphant visit to Washington, commencing on Monday, July…
“And now we ask: How can you eat, sleep, live? How guilty will you feel in your hearts if you do not…
While governments have committed to deliver on Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, inequalities, injustices and deadly divide between the Global North and…
I never imagined I would be forced to evacuate once again—especially not from Al-Mawasi, the area ironically designated as the “humanitarian zone.”…
Critical Mass Imagine a cartoon: Unarmed protesters surround a palace. Inside, the royal mathematician frantically scribbles numbers. Nearby, an unhappy king slumps…
I arrived in Doncaster on one of those sticky, humid Fridays where everything feels like it’s wearing a damp jumper. My journey…
The concert held by Croatian far-right pop singer Marko Perković – Thompson on July 5 at the Zagreb Hippodrome, which gathered approximately…
Digital Surveillance and Control Digital corporations, in collaboration with major powers, actively monitor individuals’ movements through smart devices and various communication tools.…
The Israeli government has just put forward one of the most brazenly genocidal schemes in modern memory—and unless we act immediately, the…
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in occupied Palestine, stands as a testament to the…
Recent funding cuts on health, gender equality and human rights have given a sudden blow to a range of important services for…
After spending months firing federal workers, slashing public services, gutting healthcare, and raising taxes for everyone but the rich, our country just wasted hundreds…
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for…
U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America…
An American president, a convicted felon, welcomed, for the third time this year, an indicted Israeli war criminal to the White House;…
Live streaming event on July 21st How can our movements survive the rise of authoritarian regimes? How shall we respond when our…
Last week the US Congress passed the Trump Tax Cuts. The mainstream media and economists have been mostly reporting the details of…
Set aside for a moment critically important occurrences in the U.S. How do I sensibly communicate with you, or with anyone at all,…
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Campus opposition to the Israeli military assault on Gaza, since the fall of 2023, has been quite triggering for veterans of student…
I’ve noticed over the last couple of years younger progressive/revolutionary organizers using the word, “comrade,” to refer to other organizers. Is this…
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