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‘This weaponization is meant to shift focus away from Gaza’
CounterSpin interview with Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine.
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‘What kind of American are you?’
The film Civil War addresses the paradox that the only way to stop polarisation is to take a side.
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Jewish anti-Zionists fight slander against their pro-Palestinian advocacy
Those who claim pro-Palestinian Jews are not really Jewish are “by my definition, completely unhinged.”
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Asian ‘NATO’ encircles China
The U.S.-steered Aukus military alliance is cranking up hostilities by inviting Japan into the anti-China pact, writes FIONA EDWARDS of the No Cold War campaign
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How the New York Times fights America’s wars
The New York Times is not an unbiased fount of information, but a sophisticated ideological weapon. Our goal is to unmask the Times and expose the paper for what it is: a tool of empire encased in a liberal veneer.
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Beyond the binary of race and class: A Marxist Humanist perspective
The emergence of a new generation of antiracist activists and theorists seeking to advance an anticapitalist agenda creates a new vantage point of reexamining how racism relates to the logic of capital. This essay explores sources in the work of Marx, twentieth century Marxists, and Frantz Fanon that can provide direction for overcoming the binary of class and race.
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TikTok ban: How American civil liberties are under attack
Prohibition on the popular video-sharing app would suppress narratives from marginalised communities, including pro-Palestine voices.
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To the emerging political force who could change the world
This is truly a new political fact: particularly on the issue of war, but not only, the 20-year-olds are coming back on the scene.
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Open science and agroecology: A Conversation with Miguel Ángel Núñez
An independent researcher argues that Venezuela is undergoing an agroecological transition.
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Israel is holding more hostages than Hamas
Hamas is holding 132 hostages: 130 of them were taken captive on October 7 and two were taken hostage before then (one in 2014, the other in 2015).
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When Che Guevara came to Gaza
The iconic revolutionary visited Gaza to inspire a popular uprising against Israeli dominance, writes Yousef al-Helou.
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AI chatbots: Hype meets reality
The chatbot revolution began in 2022 with OpenAI’s introduction of ChatGPT.
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Barnard AAUP chapter unanimously issues vote of ‘no confidence’ in Rosenbury
Barnard AAUP Chapter President Frederick Neuhouser said the vote calls for a change in course such as “implicitly a call for resignation.”
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Eco-socialism to fight climate change
With Lima failing to tackle critical issues on global warming, Bolivia outlines socialist project to save the planet.
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Two, three, many Gaza encampments: Veteran of 1968 Columbia strike speaks out
To rebel is justified. Palestine must be free! Palestine will be free!
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Rural labour in the Modi years
The two phenomena, a reduction in real wages and a reduction in employment opportunities, in fact go together.
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How Africa’s national liberation struggles brought democracy to Europe: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2024)
African liberation struggles not only won independence in their own countries; they also defeated Estado Novo colonialism, which spurred the Carnation Revolution 50 years ago.
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Protect the Arctic Region: Already threatened Arctic ecology can be devastated further by rapid militarization
The Arctic region is warming at twice the global rate, leading to rapid melting of ice–some have even predicted ice-free summers by year 2034.
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Portugal’s forgotten revolution
The ‘carnation revolution’ saw soldiers, workers and communities join forces to overthrow fascism and challenge capitalist power. Peter Robinson traces events from April 1974.
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Ukraine war funding and failed Russian sanctions
Russia is extremely unlikely to fall a third time for a Biden/NATO request to ‘freeze’ military operations and negotiate again.