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    How attacks on transgender women are part of a larger MAGA agenda

    Originally published: LA Progressive on March 31, 2026 by Sonali Kolhatkar (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Apr 17, 2026)

    There is a broader context for the Olympics committee’s recently announced ban on transgender women athletes—one that wants to turn back the clock on gender politics.

  • Pro-Rent Control Demonstration

    Will U.S. tenants learn from pro-rent control demonstration in England?

    Originally published: LA Progressive on March 12, 2026 by Patrick Range Mcdonald (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Mar 14, 2026)

    Organizers are working to have demonstrations take place throughout England, and it’s something that tenants and activists in the United States and other countries can learn from.

  • A video released by the White House that included clips from Hollywood action movies like Iron Man, Top Gun, and others was immediately mocked for reflecting the militaristic fantasies of teenage boys. (Photo: Marvel Studios/Screengrab via WhiteHouse.gov)

    When the White House turns war into entertainment: Missiles, memes, and masculinity

    Originally published: LA Progressive on March 9, 2026 by Rob Okun (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Mar 11, 2026)

    Consider what’s missing from the videos: no civilians running from falling bombs. No grieving families. No returning veterans struggling with trauma.

  • Bad Bunny Matters

    Why Bad Bunny matters

    Originally published: LA Progressive on February 9, 2026 by Javier A. Hernandez (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Feb 11, 2026)

    Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show isn’t just entertainment, it’s a declaration of Puerto Rican national identity and resistance.

  • Democratic Socialism

    Why young voters are embracing Democratic Socialism

    Originally published: LA Progressive on December 27, 2025 by Thom Hartmann (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Dec 29, 2025)

    And why the political establishment is panicking.

  • Chavismo

    The spirit of Chavismo: Why Trump must not invade Venezuela

    Originally published: LA Progressive on December 3, 2025 by Peter McLaren (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Dec 05, 2025)

    And so it is written—tragically, predictably—that Venezuelans and Americans will bleed because power prefers spectacle to accountability.

  • Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls addressed the crowd at the Friday night plenary. Photo: Jim West / jimwestphoto.com

    Chris Smalls: The Amazon worker who sparked a new labor movement

    Originally published: LA Progressive on November 20, 2025 by Sharon Kyle JD (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Nov 22, 2025)

    How a young Black organizer challenged Amazon’s power and redefined what worker-led activism looks like in America.

  • Eugene V. Debs

    Eugene V. Debs: Perseverance in the face of power

    Originally published: LA Progressive on November 8, 2025 by J. Cynthia McDermott (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Nov 11, 2025)

    When Mamdani quoted Debs this week, he was not reaching backward. He was reminding us that democratic courage has ancestors.

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    How legacy media fails Trans people

    Originally published: LA Progressive on October 21, 2025 by Shealeigh Voitl (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Oct 25, 2025)

    Politically manufactured panic over “transgender extremism” endangers trans people, and the corporate media is unfortunately playing along.

  • Stephen Miller

    Stephen Miller and the making of the Fascist subject

    Originally published: LA Progressive on October 20, 2025 (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Oct 24, 2025)

    Miller’s presence and voice reveal more than the death of conscience; they expose the swindle of a future already in motion.

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    Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina

    Originally published: LA Progressive on October 15, 2025 by FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, ROGER D. HARRIS AND JOHN PERRY (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Oct 17, 2025)

    Venezuela embodies resistance and regional integration. Argentina, under Milei, epitomizes the collapse into “narco-capitalism,” social devastation, and foreign subjection.

  • BLM

    Black Lives Matter grassroots weighs in on AB 715 – News Release

    Originally published: LA Progressive on October 13, 2025 by LA Progressive Staff (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Oct 16, 2025)

    Black Lives Matter-California Statement on Governor Gavin Newsom Signing Anti-Labor, Islamophobic, Fake Civil Rights Act AB 715.

  • Teaching the Transgender Debate

    Teaching the Transgender debate: Journalism, academic freedom, and responsible reporting

    Originally published: LA Progressive on September 30, 2025 by Robert Jensen (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Oct 04, 2025)

    The debate over transgender identity and ideology would make a great lesson in covering controversial social issues, an important part of the job of journalism instructors. Such teaching wouldn’t be advocacy, except perhaps advocacy for the clear thinking necessary for good journalism.

  • Illustration by Patrick Chappatte on CagleCartoons.com

    The corrosive ideology of the Trump administration

    Originally published: LA Progressive on September 28, 2025 (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Sep 30, 2025)

    This is the corrosive ideology of this administration. Lie, suppress, or deny our nation’s history. And we have years more of this corrosive form of government.

  • Freepik

    Labor Movement in fight for its life against neofascist threat

    Originally published: LA Progressive on September 12, 2025 (more by LA Progressive)  |

    For unions to survive, they must adopt antifascism.

  • Target Boycott

    Target boycott hits the bullseye

    Originally published: LA Progressive on September 11, 2025 by Erin Aubry Kaplan (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Sep 13, 2025)

    The Black-led boycott of Target seems to be working, even in L.A. neighborhoods that once yearned for big-box stores.

  • Marriage Equality

    Marriage equality on the rocks

    Originally published: LA Progressive on September 8, 2025 by Rev. Irene Monroe (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Sep 11, 2025)

    While Justices Thomas and Alito dissented in Obergefell in 2015, the broad public support that both parties once embraced has now waned among Republicans.

  • America’s Post-Democracy Crisis

    America’s post-democracy crisis: Why winner-take-all politics is driving us off the cliff

    Originally published: LA Progressive on September 6, 2025 by Steven Hill (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Sep 09, 2025)

    From racialized redistricting to MAGA backlash, the collapse of U.S. democracy isn’t just about gerrymandering—it’s baked into our electoral system. Proportional ranked choice voting may be the only way out.

  • Confederate Guard

    Confederate Guard: Trump’s blueprint to occupy the Blue Union city by city

    Originally published: LA Progressive on September 2, 2025 by Desi Cortez (more by LA Progressive)  | (Posted Sep 08, 2025)

    Swap muskets for press releases, sabers for executive orders, and you’ve got the same old Lost Cause—now with Wi-Fi, merch, and a loyalty program.

  • T

    The fabricated cartel: Why the U.S. is using Tren de Aragua to justify war on Venezuela

    Originally published: LA Progressive on September 4, 2025 (more by LA Progressive)  |

    From the Alien Enemies Act to warships off Caracas, the U.S. narrative around Tren de Aragua and the so-called Cartel de los Soles looks like a new “Weapons of Mass Destruction” playbook.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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