Much of Germany’s labor relations system is governed by the idea of a social partnership between capital and labor – camouflaging the…
Much of the current discourse on the Middle East remains fixated on the US midterm congressional elections this coming November. This vote,…
For an outside reader, Bosnia and Herzegovina is often formally described as a sovereign state. In practice, however, it operates within a…
In Peoria, Illinois, children living in federally subsidized housing have been getting sick in the very places meant to shelter them. An investigation…
I’m old enough to have been politically cognizant, admittedly less so for a couple of the earliest, of thirteen presidents (14 if…
Canada is set to host the headquarters of the proposed Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB), a new multinational institution designed to…
Modern nutrition science has continued to see food through numbers. Calories, macronutrients, ingredient lists, and percent daily values have become the primary language…
The Moment of Bifurcation In the scientific field, the term “bifurcation” was first used by Henri Poincaré, but in the second half…
We activists much less radicals much less revolutionaries face many difficulties. I don’t mean the pain and suffering imposed by grotesque social…
Last month, Omer Bartov–currently holding the title of Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University–published the book Israel: What…
As a progressive who watches too much television, when I see a Democratic candidate dominating the TV air war with ubiquitous campaign…
For some years, I’ve been interested in the Marxist concepts of base and superstructure — specifically what they suggest is necessary to…
One of the most repellent forms of that old-new popular thinking—now once again spreading with mounting intensity across Western societies since the…
The United States is a nation of extraordinary wealth and extraordinary contradiction. Tens of millions of Americans live in material insecurity, while…
The General Strike was “the greatest effort the British workers had ever made,” wrote the historian and economist G.D.H. Cole. One hundred…
The US Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v Callais is the latest and probably most decisive blow to the Voting Rights Act…
We, the undersigned organisations, stand in solidarity with Singaporean abolitionist activist Kokila Annamalai Parvathi, criminally charged on 23 April 2026 for defying…
While the labour movement often seems at its lowest ebb, what Marx identified as capitalism’s main internal contradiction – the overaccumulation of…
Words are not neutral instruments; they carry value, power, and history. What is today called “terrorism” in dominant discourse is, in many…
Vietnam left a deeper mark on the United States than most Americans want to fully acknowledge. Part of the proof is found…
One of the rituals repeated annually is the criticism of Germany’s government by workers and trade unions during the Labour Day rallies…
Over 40 local climate activists shut down rush-hour traffic leading to the Capitol to condemn the American Petroleum Institute (API) and American…
In the evening of Wednesday, April 29, 2026, Israeli naval forces attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) to Gaza. An unknown number of Israeli…
Despite growing backlash against women’s rights and feminist movements globally, it gives hope to see that world’s largest gathering on gender equality…
Beginning the day with digital news consumption often subjects individuals to a barrage of negative information—including environmental crises, political volatility, and health…
The European Union is the “chief of all cowards,” Amnesty International declared in a searing statement issued on April 21. The condemnation…
A few days ago, the Supreme Court severely limited a key provision (Section 2) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which “broadly outlawed…
In the 1960s and 70s, conservative leaders of the AFL-CIO and many national unions viewed militant activists in the civil rights, anti-war,…
Trump’s social media threat to atomize an entire civilization on April 7, 2026 – reaffirmed by Vance later that day in a…
America and Israel’s aggression in Iran is the latest reminder that violent, expansionist powers will never cease in their desires for warfare…
At a Tuesday press conference and mass call, labor leaders, educators, healthcare workers, and community organizers announced coordinated May Day actions on…
More than four months after Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin announced that he was breaking his promise to release its autopsy report on the 2024…
What do we (anti-Zionist) Jews talk about when we talk about Zionism? In my youth, I was induced, and there was not…
At the recently held “TradFest” in Zagreb—where, in the long-established manner of Croatian nationalism, ideas are first declared necessary and only afterwards…
Two Saturdays before the Kentucky Derby draws 150,000 well-heeled men and women to America’s most famous horse race, five times as large…
What: National Press Briefing Ahead of May Day Strong EventsWhere: Register via zoom hereWhen: Wednesday, April 29, 2026; 3:00pm ET / 2:00pm CT…
The paradox of tolerance, a theory that challenges a society’s ability to defend democracy from within, is at the heart of the…
Competitiveness is one of our primary values. Competition runs the world. It orients success in business, or sports—and above all in war.…
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner has long been the premier ritual of the American establishment – a glitzy, high-stakes performance of civility…
When we speak of poverty in political or academic discourse, we often tend to treat it as a neutral phenomenon, as though…
Whatever happened to the “polycrisis”? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting…
Measure 20-373, “The Lane County Watersheds Bill of Rights,” which is on the ballot for the May 19th election in western Oregon,…
NATO overreach It is easy to understand why some “peace” people are criticizing Donald Trump’s frequent threat to pull the US out…
Since Donald Trump entered the White House in 2016, his political behavior has become a recurring subject of debate in political science…
Another Venezuela? Negotiations are ongoing between the US and Cuba as the Trump administration decides whether or not to apply the Venezuela…
Among leftists, the question of why one continues to use the word “socialism” can for most seem almost unnecessary—until one notices how…
The 2026 escalation of conflict and atrocity crimes in the Gulf is not simply another geopolitical crisis. It is becoming a systemic…
For over forty years, I have worked inside what critics call the “NGO-industrial complex.” In 1982, as a Vietnam combat veteran, I…
For many socialists and revolutionaries for a long time, the “working class” has been seen as THE revolutionary group. Karl Marx in…
Recently, three events unfolded in the state of California: a foreclosure that led to the shooting death of a sheriff and the…
