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U.S. imperialism creates refugees, then criminalizes them at the border
U.S. imperialism creates refugees, then criminalizes them at the border.
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The Gates of the Great Continent: Palestine, China, and the War for Humanity’s Future (Part 4)
Now, as in the worldwide revolutionary upsurge of the 1960s-70s, the strongest emotive and analytical connections between China’s historical experience and the Palestinian resistance come through the memory of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Sex, liberation and the Russian Revolution
My main argument is: On balance, the fledgling socialist country did more to liberate human sexuality and gender in a shorter period of time than any society since the rise of classes. Despite the serious political errors the country made, I believe those errors would have been corrected had there been the time and space for the organized voices of oppressed groups to develop and assert their rights.
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Activists push Palestine to the front line of the Oscars
A massive protest took to the streets outside of the Academy Award ceremony, while a filmmaker took the stage to denounce Israeli occupation.
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ACLU slams House for latest plan to ban TikTok and stifle free speech
This bill, which was introduced by Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), would violate the First Amendment rights of hundreds of millions of Americans who use the app to communicate and express themselves daily.
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The great unwinding
The Failing Battle for Health and Healthcare in These All Too Disunited States.
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The U.S. sees China through the dark mirror of its own unbridled aggression
As China grows and prospers many in the U.S. want us to believe that China will follow the same path that the U.S. itself pursued—global military aggression, the overthrow of numerous governments around the world and persecution of minorities at home.
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The Gates of the Great Continent: Palestine, China, and the War for Humanity’s Future (Part 3)
In the last section we explored the Axis of Resistance and its pursuit of material self-sufficiency, as well as Basel al-Araj’s incisive Mao-inspired analysis of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior enemy.
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Western climate agenda goes against African development
This commentary provides an overview of carbon and biodiversity offsets as an expansion of global capitalism under the western environmental agenda marshalled against development in Africa.
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Part-time jobs, no benefits: The real state of the working class
In his March 6 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden declared, “We have the best economy in the world.” He said millions of new jobs had been created in the last three years and that unemployment was at record lows.
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“What Is Anti-Racism? And Why It Means Anti-Capitalism,” A book review
Arun Kundnani details the histories of liberal and radical anti-racism and argues that anti-racism ultimately means anti-capitalism.
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Pretending the U.S. can’t just drive aid into Gaza
Have they considered digging a giant tunnel to get aid into Gaza as well? Or launching aid into Gaza by building a giant slingshot? Or perhaps they could invent some type of portal gun à la Rick and Morty?
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The Historical Origin of “The Singing Union”
The early history of the Industrial Workers of the World has become the stuff of legend for the U.S. socialist left. Key to the legendary status of the early IWW is the notion that the organization was a “singing union.”
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Growth is not good: the great GDP myth
It’s not some question of being realistic yet effective over being compassionate but economically incompetent: there is absolutely no material basis to continue to measure societies by their GDP, explains BERT SCHOUWENBURG
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[UPDATED] Another lost Cold War document: Zhou Enlai’s March 8, 1952 denunciation of U.S. germ warfare
When the U.S. began its aerial germ war bombing campaign over No. Korea & China in Winter 1952, China’s Foreign Affairs Minister publicly accused the U.S. of dropping infected insects in Northeast China.
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Climate crisis and nuclear waste in the U.S.
Climate crisis could disturb Cold War-era nuclear waste buried by the U.S. decades ago, according to a U.S. federal report.
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Racist asylum and immigration policy in the U.S. and Canada
Fears of an “invasion” at the border are nothing more than white supremacy being openly expressed. It could not be otherwise in a settler colony created by migration from Europe. To millions of people the word American still refers to whites only.
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How private equity conquered America
Blackstone, Apollo, and a handful of other firms are demolishing the US economy for short-term gain, and leaving workers and communities in the wreckage.
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Igniting conflict in the heart of Africa
The perils of U.S. empire have driven a spiral of violence in the Sahel.
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Islamophobia: Defending Rutgers’ Center for Security, Race and Rights from Senate Judiciary Committee
“The institutional target of the attack by the Republican members of the Judiciary Committee–the Center for Security, Race and Rights–is an academic institution engaged in research, public education and advocacy “to address the underlying structural and systemic causes of Islamophobia and xenophobia against people of Arab, African, and South Asian descent.”” – Aslı Ü. Bâli / Laurie Brand