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Unapologetic support for abortion rights must be a pillar of the Left
This week the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization–the case that will determine the fate of Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, and more broadly, the fate of Roe v. Wade.
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Why Amazon is terrified of Its U.S. workers unionizing
Amazon continues to abuse its warehouse workers, both in its day-to-day treatment of them and in its thuggish, law-breaking campaign to prevent unionization in the U.S.
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The United States pushes Russia to the brink of war, then cries “wolf”
The Russians have plainly said that they deem the Ukrainian government to be U.S-controlled, not a free agent, and they hold Washington directly responsible for whatever may happen on the ground in their neighborhood.
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SVR – United States push Ukraine to relaunch Donbass conflict, while accusing Russia of wanting to attack
The head of the SVR, Sergey Naryshkin, told a journalist from the Rossia 1 channel that behind the reports that Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine lies Washington’s desire to push Kiev to attack the Donbass.
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Auto Workers win direct Democracy in referendum
It’s a historic win for reformers in one of the nation’s most important unions, where members have pushed for this change for decades.
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White supremacy, Nazism and fascism R U.S.
Despite many criticisms, white supremacy remains not only well and strong, but is also recognized and hailed by the United States on the world stage as an acceptable and legitimate ideology.
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‘They want us dead’: another year of devastating overdoses in Baltimore
Little legislative movement in Maryland over the past two years has left people who use drugs more vulnerable and even less safe.
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Obituary for Russiagate
The fraudulent fable has died, but its consequences live on.
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Supreme Court launches frontal assault on right to abortion
Two generations of Americans have no experience of the world before Roe v. Wade, during which obtaining an abortion was a surreptitious, often criminalized process, sometimes ending in physical mutilation and even death, and the right of women to make such decisions was subordinated to the reactionary ministrations of police, priests and politicians.
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Media don’t factcheck right-wing migration myths
Increases and declines in unauthorized immigration mostly correlate with changes in job opportunities and other economic conditions in the United States and in nearby countries.
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The American prison system’s war on reading
This April, the Iowa Department of Corrections issued a ban on charities, family members, and other outside parties donating books to prisoners.
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The dollar costs of inequality: they are greater than you think
Pretty much everyone accepts that inequality is a big problem in the U.S. But it is doubtful that most people truly grasp how successfully U.S. elites have captured the benefits of economic growth and, as a result, how much the resulting inequality has cost them.
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The Local Journalism Initiative: a proposal to protect and extend democracy
What remains less appreciated is that the founders of the United States regarded creating a free press a policy issue of the greatest possible importance.
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How to picket stores that sell your employer’s products
Note: Consumer picketing can be directed against all products that a struck employer manufactures, processes, distributes, transports, or otherwise enhances in value.
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Algorithms of injustice: Artificial intelligence in policing and surveillance
If anything, the use of computer algorithms to guide police appears only to entrench and exacerbate existing biased policing practices.
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Some striking Kellogg’s workers call for boycott of company products in U.S.
Union negotiators said they were prepared to meet the company for another round of negotiations next week but their offer was rebuffed by bosses, who claimed they were left with no choice but to permanently replace those on strike.
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Out of Afghanistan
This long bloody madness has ended.
Can we learn to love peace at last?
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‘U.S. Capitalism Born in Blood: From the First Thanksgiving to Today’ w/ Dr. Gerald Horne
The Thanksgiving holiday is built around an insidious and false creation myth–that the so-called “settling” of North America was a peaceful and amicable process.
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On the road from Detroit to South Africa: Black radical internationalist traditions
Roy Singham reminisces about his work with the late General Gordon Baker, Jr. and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) in Detroit and its connections with South African workers.
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Covid capitalism
General tendencies, possible “leaps”