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Editorial PhilosophyIn the days immediately following the first US presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, countless analyses have appeared. Nearly all…
Jack Clarke (JC): Today, we delve into the fascinating and controversial world of military recruitment through video games. Dr. Matthew Alford, was…
As concerns over the climate crisis grow, banks in the United States have faced increased pressure from shareholders, policymakers, and civil society…
In which Lydia Luxemburg and Bert Dellinger discuss ideas, values, self management, diversity, flexibility, and institutional vision. [Author’s Note: This is the…
The Declaration of Independence (“DOI”) died July 1, 2024. The King lives. God save the King! Yep, the president, or King of…
After NATO’s catastrophic, illegal invasions of Yugoslavia, Libya and Afghanistan, on July 9th NATO plans to invade Washington DC. The good news…
Humanitarian aid should never be politicized though, quite often, the very survival of nations is used as political bargaining chips. Sadly, Gaza…
0.1. Something is happening in the climate justice movement, and we are not being able to talk about it. There is quite…
Almost as appalling as President Biden’s debate performance are the efforts of his loyalists to pretend that what 50 million viewers saw…
On June 30, South Africa’s leader Cyril Ramaphosa announced his new Government of National Unity (GNU), including 31 ministers in his Cabinet.…
My eyes collide head-on with stuffedGraveyards, false gods, I scuffAt pettiness which plays so roughWalk upside-down inside handcuffsKick my legs to crash…
On June 7, Samsung workers in South Korea embarked on their first-ever strike, organized by the Nationwide Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU). This…
“There will be no civil war” in Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on June 18. But he might be wrong. …
What would a realistic presidential debate look like in a nation where 100 million Americans recently sweltered under a massive heat dome…
On the overall balance sheet of industrial actions and strikes in 2023, it has been a rather unusual year for German unions.…
Other than for those gunned, bombed, or starved to death, wartime differs from peacetime mostly psychologically. Injustice and killing accelerate in wartime,…
Over 20 years ago I wrote one of these columns examining the issue of “purism” versus “pragmatism” when it comes to organizing…
I am addressing young people as someone who, because of his age, is not going to fight in the next world war…
New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman lost a primary election Tuesday because of unprecedented spending against him by powerful forces that insist Israel does no…
Over half a century ago, the long hot summer of ‘67 and “Summer of Love” struck twin cornerstones of the American socio-political…
[This article is part of ZNetwork.org‘s series, Activist Diaries.] “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom…
In which Barbara Bethune, Emiliano Feynman, Bill Hampton, Cynthia Parks, Harriet Lennon, and Anton Rocker discuss the initial emergence of the health…
The word Muqawama in Palestinian lexicon does not need elaboration beyond the immediate meaning it generates among ordinary Palestinians. Only recently, and…
In 1958, geochemist Charles David Keeling set up the Mauna Loa Global Monitoring Laboratory in Hawaii, which measured carbon dioxide (CO2). Keeling…
“I curse you!” Fatima Ahmed Qadeeh says. “I curse you hypocrites! You live off the blood of Gaza!” On the surface she’s…
I clearly remember my first day at an UNRWA school in a refugee camp in Gaza. I was five years of age.…
The Great Distraction U.S. oligarchs representing the profanely rich have distracted millions of working people from the root cause of their economic…
In the first week of June 2024, the Palestine office of the World Health Organization (WHO) released figures about the atrocious attacks…
Ever since charter schools were created in the 1990s, there’s been a persistent question1 of whether or not the schools introduce an element of profit-making into…
Before offering my take on the oral history of a Next American Revolution or NAR, a kind of review of it, I…
Zoe Baker’s book Means and Ends is a comprehensive look at the revolutionary class-struggle anarchist movement as it existed and developed in…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is often criticized for failing to produce a vision for the ‘next day’, meaning the day following…
“UE rarely makes endorsements within the two-party system, and we are not endorsing Biden. Instead, our hope for the future lies in…
“When someone shows you who they are,” Maya Angelou said, “believe them the first time.” That should apply to foreign-policy elites who…
In which Cynthia Parks, Bill Hampton, and Andre Goldman discuss post convention vision, structure, and program, and particularly creating chapters. [Author’s Note:…
Although Donald Trump has been eager to garner support from American labor unions for his re- election campaign, there are lots of…
When it comes to paying attention to international news, Americans are notorious for focusing on wars, bad economic news, and not much…
On June 13, Hamas responded to persistent needling by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the U.S. proposal for a pause…
“The essential principle of property … cannot apply to what is not the produce of labour, the raw material of the earth.…
Dear friends (read, disseminate, and act), It is hard to sleep these days especially in besieged bloodied Palestine…the scenes of horrors in…
Rutshuru, Democratic Republic of Congo | There are deadly links between war, the plunder of resources, and climate breakdown. Blood red stains…
“Until now, we haven’t even tried to make big-city school districts work, especially for children of color,” Jhoanna Maldonado said when Our…
On June 8th, 2024, in Hiroshima, Japan, The International People’s Tribunal On The 1945 Atomic Bombings met with the goal of holding the United…
Decolonial discourse gained prominence with the contraction of modern Western colonial powers and the liberation of those parts of the world from…
On June 6, Spain joined South Africa’s case at the United Nations top Court, accusing Israel of genocide. This move followed a decision by…
In recent months, more and more corporate managers in Germany have come forward to warn of the strengthening of the far-right, and…
People gonna rise like the waters, Gonna calm this crisis down,I hear the voice of my great granddaughterSaying keep it in the…
Eight months ago, Israel began a genocidal war against Gaza and the further increase of repression in the West Bank including thousands…
In which Andre Goldman, Bill Hampton, Senator Malcolm King, and Cynthia Parks recall the first RPS convention, some precursors, and its immediate…
Born into a bourgeois family of Portuguese origin, Marília Guimarães was born in 1945 in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil.…
