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  • jobsanger: June 2014

    New report shows working-class Americans live 7 years fewer than rich

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on March 7, 2025 by Eloise Goldsmith (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Apr 30, 2025)

    “The massive income and wealth inequality that exists in America today is not just an economic issue, it is literally a matter of life and death,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

  • AN ACTIVIST HOLDS UP A SIGN AT A MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL MEETING ON OCTOBER 25 PROTESTING THE COUNCIL’S CONSIDERATION TO ADOPT THE IHRA DEFINITION OF ANTISEMITISM. (PHOTO: MARYLAND 2 PALESTINE/TWITTER)

    How the creation of the ‘New Antisemitism’ was used to shield Israel and attack the Left

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on April 28, 2025 by Sean Malloy (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Apr 30, 2025)

    Challenges to Zionism in the late 1960s and 1970s sparked an effort to redefine antisemitism focused on defending Israel while attacking the political Left. This resulted in the IHRA definition and the assault on Palestine activism we see today.

  • Picture: Public Domain

    The Great Gatsby 100 years later

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on April 28, 2025 by Richard Bradbury (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Apr 30, 2025)

    The relevance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous work today on its centennial.

  • Celebrating Portugal's Carnation Revolution of 1974

    The Carnation Revolution of Portugal Today: The New Challenge from the Far-Right

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on April 21, 2025 by Raquel Varela (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Apr 30, 2025)

    In an unmistakable style in the form of a provocative lecture in Lisbon in 2024, at the age of 84 Father Martins Júnior asked: “50 years later, what irony! There are 50 fascists, one for each year, in Parliament. How is this possible?”

  • People holding signs in support of activists detained under the Trump Administration, Manhattan, April 2025

    What the doxxing of student activists means for the First Amendment

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on April 24, 2025 by Aaron Fernando (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Apr 30, 2025)

    Is ICE following the lead of rightwing websites to suppress pro-Palestinian speech and activism?

  • Front page of Melbourne’s Age, 30 April 1975 CREDIT: The Age archives

    Vietnam: A victory never to be forgotten

    Originally published: Red Flag on April 23, 2025 by Allen Myers (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Apr 29, 2025)

    It’s a historic anniversary that the U.S. ruling class and its allies around the world wish we would forget.

  • ACTIVISTS AT AN ANTI-HAITIAN RALLY CALLED BY THE ANCIENT DOMINICAN ORDER (AOD) FLY THE ISRAELI FLAG MOMENTS BEFORE VIOLENCE ERUPTS, ON MARCH 30, 2025. (PHOTO: CARMEN PARSONS)

    Inside the pro-Israel Dominican ultra-right that’s pushing for ethnic cleansing against Haitian immigrants

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on April 23, 2025 by Simón Rodríguez (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Apr 29, 2025)

    On March 30, a lynch mob led by neo-Nazi paramilitaries flew the Israel flag as it demanded Haitian workers be expelled from the Dominican Republic. The episode reveals the disturbing connections between the Dominican right-wing and Israel.

  • Israel Openly Declares Starvation as a Weapon, Media Still Hesitate to Blame

    As Israel openly declares starvation as a weapon, media still hesitate to blame it for famine

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 25, 2025 by Belén Fernández (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Apr 29, 2025)

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on March 2 that “Israel has decided to stop letting goods and supplies into Gaza,” where the ongoing Israeli genocide, with the loyal backing of the United States, has officially killed more than 51,000 Palestinians since October 2023.

  • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Washington, DC

    Cuts to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau aren’t about ‘efficiency,’ they are an assault on workers’ protections

    Originally published: Liberation News on April 25, 2025 by Cole Stallings (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Apr 28, 2025)

    On April 17, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sent termination notices to approximately 1,500 of its workers—these mass layoffs represent a nearly 90% cut to the agency.

  • Beginning in 1969, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou led more than 500 researchers to develop a malaria treatment. The project began to assist Vietnam, but it has gone on to save millions of lives all over the world, especially in the Global South.

    Tu Youyou, Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong and the struggle against malaria

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on April 25, 2025 by Stephen Millies (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Apr 28, 2025)

    Caused by a parasite which is spread by infected mosquitoes, malaria has killed billions during thousands of years of human history.

  • Skadden Arps office in Manhatttan.

    Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem

    Originally published: All Rise News on April 24, 2025 by Adam Klasfeld (more by All Rise News) (Posted Apr 28, 2025)

    By creating a spreadsheet, Georgetown Law students sparked national headlines, along with PR headaches and staffing challenges inside the world’s most powerful firms.

  • Images from the closing Mass from Pope Francis journey to the Cuba and the US. CREDIT: Jeffrey Bruno

    The Cuban saga of Francis

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on April 24, 2025 by Rosa Miriam Elizalde (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted Apr 28, 2025)

    Francis’ Cuban saga began in March 2014, when he wrote personal letters to Barack Obama and Raúl Castro. He offered the Vatican as neutral ground for discreet dialogue, which took place sometimes in public and sometimes in absolute confidentiality. He did so without fanfare or press releases, as is usually the case with efforts that pursue truly momentous goals.

  • Chris Hayes reports on the Trump hush-money trial from Manhattan, New York City, May 2024.

    The attentional Oligarchy

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on April 14, 2025 (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Apr 27, 2025)

    Trumpism thrives on the arms race for our eyes and ears. Chris Hayes knows how to get out of it.

  • Pan-Africanism

    What correctly defines Pan-Africanism in 2025 and beyond

    Originally published: Hood Communist on April 17, 2025 by Ahjamu Umi (more by Hood Communist)  | (Posted Apr 27, 2025)

    Since its initial organizational expression in 1900, the phrase Pan-Africanism has been expressed in many different forms.

  • Farmers working in a maize field in San Lorenzo, Chiapas, Mexico. Credit: Flickr/faoalc (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

    The right to water: A new front in Trump’s aggression on Mexico

    Originally published: Liberation News on April 23, 2025 by Devorah Levy-Pearlman (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Apr 27, 2025)

    For the first time in 81 years, the U.S. denied Mexico’s request to supply water from the Colorado River to Tijuana.

  • Keir Starmer was guided to power by Morgan McSweeney. (Photo: Allstar / Alamy)

    Morgan McSweeney’s ‘plot without precedent in Labour history’

    Originally published: Declassified UK on April 24, 2025 by Richard Sanders (more by Declassified UK)  | (Posted Apr 27, 2025)

    A new book chronicles how Labour strategist Morgan McSweeney used ‘any means necessary’ to destroy Corbyn as leader and install Starmer.

  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during his swearing in ceremony as Secretary of Health and Human Services, February 2025. (Photo: Daniel Torok/The White House)

    Get ready for the end of Autism

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on April 23, 2025 by Mike Ervine (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Apr 25, 2025)

    The squatter and RFK Jr. have it all figured out—except for the figured out part.

  • December 29, 2024, Washington, DC: Department of Education building in Washington, DC with American Flag (Photo by Greggory DiSalvo)

    The Department of Education is collecting delinquent Student Loan Debt

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on April 23, 2025 by April Ryan (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted Apr 25, 2025)

    The Department of Education will withhold money from tax refunds and Social Security benefits, garnish federal employee wages, and withhold federal pensions from people who have defaulted on their student loan debt.

  • London demonstration against the Supreme Court ruling, 19th April 2025. Photo: Guy Smallman www.guysmallman.com.

    We are the resistance

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on April 22, 2025 by Anna Southern (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Apr 25, 2025)

    The UK Supreme Court does not change the reality of trans and non-binary people.

  • Pregnant woman sitting on pier

    U.S. maternal deaths rise by 27% in 5 years

    Originally published: Liberation News on April 22, 2025 by Alexia Isais (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Apr 24, 2025)

    Recent research shows that the national average rate of maternal deaths is now 32.6 per 100,000 live births, with much higher rates seen for Indigenous mothers with 106.3 deaths, and Black mothers with 76.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, respectively.

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