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They all scream over Ben & Jerry’s not selling ice cream on the West Bank
Ben & Jerry’s decision to halt its operations in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in Jerusalem has pro-Israel editors working overtime.
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Andreas Malm: ‘Because Nothing Else Has Worked’
Property violence kills no one. And yet, to say it again, I’m not today advocating property violence. I am, on the other hand, advocating a discussion of it. – Thomas Neuburger
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Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign
On July 22, U.S. President Joe Biden and his Vice President Kamala Harris released a “fact sheet” on U.S. “measures” against Cuba. The release from the White House said that Cuba was a “top priority for the Biden-Harris administration.”
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Corporate Media joins the anti-vaxxers when it comes to Chinese- and Russian-made vaccines
“It’s striking how similar the techniques [are] that Fox News uses to frighten people about the U.S. vaccination campaign and those that The New York Times, Reuters and others use to scare people about Chinese vaccines.” — Jim Naureckas, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
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Transatlantic slave trade: Legacy of entangled affair between imperialism, racism, slavery
To legitimize slavery and its atrocities, western imperialism birthed racism, idea of superiority of whites over Black people.
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Genocide and Colonialism: Challenging the Canadian State
Public opinion has been shaken by the ‘discovery’ of unmarked graves of children who died in residential schools. The word ‘discovery’ has to be placed in quotation marks because Indigenous communities have been saying for many years that terrible things happened at these places. The time has come to call this what it is–a genocide.
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Beware UN Food Systems Summit trojan horse
In the last dozen years after the 2008 world food price spike, the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has become an inclusive forum for civil society and corporate interests to debate how best to advance food security. Unsurprisingly, CFS has long addressed food systems.
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The demonisation of Mariátegui
During the campaign for the presidency of Peru, the rural teacher and candidate Pedro Castillo, emphasized his identity with the thought of José Carlos Mariátegui.
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Here is why we are boycotting the UN Food Systems Summit
Social movements and scientists are staying out of the UN summit because it represents big agribusiness interests.
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The two big lies of WSJ’s attack on critical race theory
The Wall Street Journal editorial board (7/7/21) recently condemned teachers’ support for anti-racist curricula and professional development.
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People working a minimum wage job can’t afford rent anywhere in the U.S.
Over 40% of Black and Latinx households pay more than 30% of their income on rent, compared with 25% of white households.
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China takes tough approach to tame tutoring schools
The new set of rules aim to better monitor the education market, which has been blamed for increasingly unfair competition among students.
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Climate Change: Why we can’t trust mainstream media
A Q&A on capitalism, media, and climate.
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Nicaragua’s Sandinistas battle ‘diabolical’ U.S. empire and poverty on 42nd anniversary of revolution
The Grayzone reports from Nicaragua on the 42nd anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. Nicaraguans discuss their improved quality of life, President Ortega condemns the dictatorial U.S. “empire that wants to dominate all countries,” and Vice President Murillo declares poverty an imperialist “crime against humanity.”
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What’s actually going on in Cuba?
Don’t believe everything you read on social media.
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People’s lawyer P. A. Sebastian and the Socialist Project
Sebastian, in his writings in The Fight to Win Rights, is direct, and honest, unafraid to state unpalatable facts. Blunt and matter-of-fact, his words seem to be deliberately chosen to appeal to the conscience of people, his mode of expression reflecting his commitment to justice and the truth.
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Lil Nas X launched a Bail Fund project with ‘Industry Baby’ but sure, stay mad at him for being naked in a music video
In addition to implementing mutual aid to fight mass incarceration, Lil Nas X’s ‘controversial’ visuals are inspiring young queer Black boys to be free.
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Sex workers and COVID-19: Resisting the pandemic and criminalization
Georgina Orellano, secretary-general of the Association of Women Sex Workers of Argentina (AMMAR), says that “the pandemic has highlighted the inequality” in society and deepened the problems faced by sex workers. Sex work, which is not recognized in Argentina, has become more precarious, she says.
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Serve the People: The eradication of extreme poverty in China
On 25 February 2021, the Chinese government announced that extreme poverty had been abolished in China, a country of 1.4 billion people. This historic victory is a culmination of a seven-decade-long process that began with the Chinese Revolution of 1949.
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The Colonial Rift
A Review of Hannah Holleman’s ‘Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” Capitalism’.