https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:13:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-palestine-to-minneapolis-ice-and-israel-use-the-same-violent-playbook/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-palestine-to-minneapolis-ice-and-israel-use-the-same-violent-playbook/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:13:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293373 On January 7, ICE agents shot Renee Good three times through her car window as she seemingly tried to drive away from them in Minneapolis. Then, they blocked ambulances from reaching her for fifteen minutes while she bled out in the driver’s seat with her partner beside her. Within hours, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was calling [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-palestine-to-minneapolis-ice-and-israel-use-the-same-violent-playbook/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zohran-mamdani-has-quickly-gotten-down-to-business/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zohran-mamdani-has-quickly-gotten-down-to-business/#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:08:38 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293371 Sworn in as mayor of New York just over one week ago, Zohran Mamdani is wasting no time beginning to govern. In his first week in office, his administration issued twelve executive orders, including two emergency executive orders. The previous administration took several months to hit that number. Many of the administration’s first-week executive orders, which are [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zohran-mamdani-has-quickly-gotten-down-to-business/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/think-you-saw-state-sanctioned-murder-you-failed-medias-rorschach-test/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/think-you-saw-state-sanctioned-murder-you-failed-medias-rorschach-test/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:05:20 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293364 Millions have seen the video, but some reports suggest that you should not believe your eyes that saw ICE agents murder Renee Nicole Good as she attempted to slowly move her car away from them. What you are instructed to believe, according to Donald Trump (USA Today, 1/7/26), and those in media who obey him, is that Good was [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/think-you-saw-state-sanctioned-murder-you-failed-medias-rorschach-test/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/genocide-isnt-a-mistake-which-is-why-the-media-cant-tell-you-the-truth-about-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/genocide-isnt-a-mistake-which-is-why-the-media-cant-tell-you-the-truth-about-gaza/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:55:05 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293361 The Voice of Hind Rajab, a devastating dramatised retelling of Israel’s slow-motion murder of a five-year-old in Gaza, arrives in UK cinemas next week. Please take the opportunity to see it. The vast majority of Americans were denied such an opportunity when it was released there last month. Here’s what happened to the film in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/genocide-isnt-a-mistake-which-is-why-the-media-cant-tell-you-the-truth-about-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-the-empire-threatens-and-the-emperor-has-no-clothes/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-the-empire-threatens-and-the-emperor-has-no-clothes/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:50:20 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293359 Last Saturday (January 3th), a massive US military attack, concentrating the largest naval aggressor force ever assembled in the Americas in the Caribbean, kidnapped Nicolas Maduro and decapitated the country’s government. Since then, Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have multiplied threats. They spoke of a “second attack.” They boasted that “any member [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-the-empire-threatens-and-the-emperor-has-no-clothes/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-protests-engulf-iran-israel-sees-an-opportunity/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-protests-engulf-iran-israel-sees-an-opportunity/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:46:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293357 Antiestablishment demonstrations across Iran escalated this weekend as reports emerged of large-scale violence by protesters and security services alike. Over half of the country’s thirty-one provinces are convulsed in protests, which first erupted on December 28 in the electronics section of Tehran’s central bazaar.  Traders had come out onto the streets in response to a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-protests-engulf-iran-israel-sees-an-opportunity/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-gen-z-movements-around-the-globe-shared-tactics-and-challenges/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-gen-z-movements-around-the-globe-shared-tactics-and-challenges/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:41:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293354 Indonesia. Madagascar. The Philippines. Morocco. Nepal. Tanzania. Peru. Paraguay. Timor-leste. Maldives. Kenya. Countries with little shared history or political context, yet all were engulfed at different moments this year by the same force: street protests led overwhelmingly by Gen Z, those born between 1997 and 2012.  Youth uprisings are not new, but the speed and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-gen-z-movements-around-the-globe-shared-tactics-and-challenges/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-battle-after-another-the-big-contract-fights-coming-in-2026/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-battle-after-another-the-big-contract-fights-coming-in-2026/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:34:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293351 The coming year could keep the strikes rolling through steel mills, state offices, telephone lines, axle plants, baseball diamonds, and hospitals from coast to coast. Union contracts expiring in 2026 could open up major fights by manufacturing, education, entertainment, and government workers. FIBER AND WIRES The contract covering 20,000 Verizon workers in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic expires [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-battle-after-another-the-big-contract-fights-coming-in-2026/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/court-of-session-tomorrow-on-palestine-action/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/court-of-session-tomorrow-on-palestine-action/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:14:08 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293348 In the Western world today, fighting for freedom feels Quixotic, but I shall nevertheless wake early tomorrow to be at the Court of Session in Edinburgh by 9am to fight the proscription in Scotland of Palestine Action. I remain extremely concerned for the lives of the Palestine Action hunger strikers. As I predicted, Starmer’s government [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/court-of-session-tomorrow-on-palestine-action/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-as-a-linchpin-six-reasons-why-netanyahu-is-prolonging-conflict-in-the-middle-east/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-as-a-linchpin-six-reasons-why-netanyahu-is-prolonging-conflict-in-the-middle-east/#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:38:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293342 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has concluded his visit to the United States, returning home after reportedly securing yet another round of political backing from Donald Trump. As with previous encounters, the meeting provided Netanyahu with diplomatic cover and strategic reassurance, reinforcing Israel’s ability to sustain its military posture in Gaza and across the region with limited [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-as-a-linchpin-six-reasons-why-netanyahu-is-prolonging-conflict-in-the-middle-east/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dance-and-music-are-potent-forms-of-cultural-defiance-in-palestine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dance-and-music-are-potent-forms-of-cultural-defiance-in-palestine/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:35:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293331 As Palestinians face unprecedented settler attacks, home demolitions and sweeping crackdowns on community organizing this year, the space for traditional political and cultural expression grows ever more narrow and dangerous. Protests are restricted and punished, civil groups are monitored and even community gatherings risk being labeled a security threat. Palestinian cultural expression is viewed as [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dance-and-music-are-potent-forms-of-cultural-defiance-in-palestine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/billionaires-mouthpiece-searches-for-reasons-to-avoid-taxing-billionaires/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/billionaires-mouthpiece-searches-for-reasons-to-avoid-taxing-billionaires/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:15:57 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293325 The Washington Post, which exists mainly to serve the interests of its mega-billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, unsurprisingly thinks taxing the wealth of billionaires is a bad idea (FAIR.org, 12/11/19). Its recent editorial (1/1/26) warning California not to institute a tax on extreme wealth—headlined “California Will Miss Billionaires When They’re Gone”—illustrates that when you’re telling the boss exactly what [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/billionaires-mouthpiece-searches-for-reasons-to-avoid-taxing-billionaires/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/smashing-international-laws/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/smashing-international-laws/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:08:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293322 In the early hours of Jan. 3, the United States sent its military forces into Venezuela to kidnap President Nicolás Maduro Moros and Cilia Flores, a deputy in the National Assembly, bombing civilian and military sites across Caracas. The United States indicted both Maduro and Flores, who are married, with “narco-terrorism” and related charges and is holding them in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/smashing-international-laws/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/goebbelss-ghost-and-millers-dream-of-a-unified-reich/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/goebbelss-ghost-and-millers-dream-of-a-unified-reich/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:55:11 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293319 White House adviser Stephen Miller seems torn from the darkest archive of the 1930s. His ideological fever, spittle-laced tirades, compulsive lying, and theatrical rage are not excesses but instruments: performative rituals through which cruelty is normalized and racism is taught. What he stages is not only a ruthless infatuation with power and updated fascist politics but [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/goebbelss-ghost-and-millers-dream-of-a-unified-reich/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-firewall-of-separation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-firewall-of-separation/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:51:32 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293317 It is a belief held by most people in society that the internet is a novel danger. That it is a threat to freedom and democracy unparalleled in the history of our species. It is often asked, “How do you stop the internet being used as a vector for radicalisation, hate-mongering, incitement to violence?” The [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-firewall-of-separation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/plunging-into-the-abyss/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/plunging-into-the-abyss/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:47:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293314 For most of us, Friday, February 6, 2026, is likely to feel no different than Thursday, February 5th. It will be a work or school day for many of us. It might involve shopping for the weekend or an evening get-together with friends, or any of the other mundane tasks of life. But from a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/plunging-into-the-abyss/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-you-an-immigrant-or-a-colonial-settler/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-you-an-immigrant-or-a-colonial-settler/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:41:56 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293312 There is a simple but urgent issue to be dealt with as we grow dangerously close to another world war.  I do not believe I am exaggerating and many who know more than I, think the same with excellent credentials.  And I understand we do not want to think about it.  This is called “denialism,” and natural attitude, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-you-an-immigrant-or-a-colonial-settler/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-next-frontier-of-climate-accountability-making-big-food-pay-its-ecological-bill/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-next-frontier-of-climate-accountability-making-big-food-pay-its-ecological-bill/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:38:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293309 The “polluter pays” principle is a cornerstone of environmental regulation. It raises billions of dollars each year and has been fundamental in pushing energy companies to pursue cleaner, more cost-effective energy sources. But when it was first formalized in 1972 by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), it faced resistance. Energy companies argued [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-next-frontier-of-climate-accountability-making-big-food-pay-its-ecological-bill/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-out-for-good-coalition-announces-nationwide-weekend-of-action/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-out-for-good-coalition-announces-nationwide-weekend-of-action/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:36:52 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293306 A broad national coalition, including Indivisible, MoveOn Civic Action, the American Civil Liberties Union, Public Citizen, Voto Latino, United We Dream, 50501, the Disappeared in America Campaign of the Not Above the Law coalition, and partner organizations across the country, is calling for a coordinated ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action on Saturday, January 10, and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-out-for-good-coalition-announces-nationwide-weekend-of-action/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/honoring-the-many-responses-to-renee-nicole-goods-murder/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/honoring-the-many-responses-to-renee-nicole-goods-murder/#respond Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:40:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293303 I was leading the afternoon session in a room of Black clergy. I had been planning to announce happier news that our pressure on Avelo forced them out of the deportation business. But this breaking overshadowed it. I told them that an ICE observer in Minneapolis had been shot. They gasped. Somehow, the gasp was the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/honoring-the-many-responses-to-renee-nicole-goods-murder/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/chronicle-of-a-foretold-coup-the-attack-on-venezuela-and-the-narco-terrorism-fairy-tale/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/chronicle-of-a-foretold-coup-the-attack-on-venezuela-and-the-narco-terrorism-fairy-tale/#respond Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:34:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293299 Current developments in Venezuela may appear to be unfathomable—until one recalls the long history of imperialist interference in Latin America and the Caribbean. The events of the first week of January constitute an escalation of a long-standing campaign to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution and resume control on the country with the largest known oil reserves in the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/chronicle-of-a-foretold-coup-the-attack-on-venezuela-and-the-narco-terrorism-fairy-tale/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-employers-invest-in-our-kids/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-employers-invest-in-our-kids/#respond Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:26:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293297 The Trump administration has suspended over $10 billion of federal childcare funds for five Democratic-led states over alleged fraud. So what if childcare in the United States is already outrageously expensive, much higher than in other developed countries? But why is it that childcare costs in the US are so high? Socialist and feminist economist [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-employers-invest-in-our-kids/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/five-things-steward-training-gets-wrong/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/five-things-steward-training-gets-wrong/#respond Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:21:02 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293294 Recently I did some training with a group of newly elected officers and business agents. We used their International’s steward training manual, but I felt it missed the mark on several issues. When I reviewed manuals from other unions, these mistakes kept coming up: 1. Representing two members who get in a fight One new [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/five-things-steward-training-gets-wrong/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hugo-chavez-predicted-this/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hugo-chavez-predicted-this/#respond Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:16:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293292 On January 3rd, the United States invaded and bombed Venezuela and abducted President Maduro and First Lady Flores. This violent act of imperialist aggression by the Trump regime is a continuation of over two decades of hybrid warfare aimed at suppressing the Bolivarian Revolution. Over the past months, the US has been escalating aggression against [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hugo-chavez-predicted-this/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-implications-of-mass-politics/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-implications-of-mass-politics/#respond Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:12:12 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293290 “Can We Meet the Moment?” The question posed by Tom Goodkind in his analysis of the 2025 DSA Convention spurred debate and discussion on the left. To sharpen our collective thinking, The New Liberator has published a series of responses, rejoinders, and hot takes. Here, Kolya Ludwig weighs in with his take on the theoretical questions at [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-implications-of-mass-politics/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-deepening-labor-crisis-and-myanmar-election/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-deepening-labor-crisis-and-myanmar-election/#respond Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:07:37 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293288 Workers in Yangon’s industrial zones are enduring severe, long-term economic losses driven by a stark disparity between basic salaries and the actual cost of living. Although the minimum daily wage was legally increased to MMK 7,800 (equivalent to US$ 1.95 with market exchange rate) for an eight-hour workday effective 1 October 2025, this is often [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-deepening-labor-crisis-and-myanmar-election/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whos-really-running-venezuela/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whos-really-running-venezuela/#respond Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:54:38 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293280 As the Senate voted to advance a War Powers Resolution on Venezuela on January 8th, Republican Senator Susan Collins declared that she did not agree with “a sustained engagement “running” Venezuela.”  The world was mystified when President Trump first said that the United States would “run” Venezuela. He has since made it clear that he [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whos-really-running-venezuela/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-core-meaning-of-the-climate-emergency-for-movement-organizers/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-core-meaning-of-the-climate-emergency-for-movement-organizers/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:48:56 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293278 There is one crucial argument that the climate justice movement carried with it. For a brief period of time, it seemed like it was integrated into the general knowledge of social movements. It wasn’t. The argument is about the meaning of climate emergency. It is not an argument about public discourse or even about policy. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-core-meaning-of-the-climate-emergency-for-movement-organizers/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-kent-state/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-kent-state/#respond Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:31:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293275 Yesterday [January 7] an American citizen in Minneapolis was gunned down by her own government. Think about that for a moment.  The 37-year-old woman, Renee Nicole Good, was unarmed, trying to turn her car around from the armed and masked agents. Yet the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fired three shots into this innocent victim’s [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-kent-state/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/want-to-stop-ice-go-after-its-corporate-collaborators/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/want-to-stop-ice-go-after-its-corporate-collaborators/#respond Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293283 Renee Nicole Good’s murder by an ICE agent in Minneapolis has left millions of Americans wondering how we can stop ICE from terrorizing our communities any further. There are many well-known ICE-fighting tactics that we can and should use, like protests, know-your-rights trainings, and neighborhood watches. But two recent victories show a promising, relatively underutilized path forward—one [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/want-to-stop-ice-go-after-its-corporate-collaborators/feed/ 0