Subjects Archives: Protest

Some of David Graeber’s basic assumptions about money and public provisioning limit what the left can imagine and accomplish.

They reaffirmed support for President Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution.

Trump’s attacks on working people—threats to send troops into major U.S. cities, ripping collective bargaining rights from a million federal workers, an immigration enforcement terror campaign that borders on unconstitutional—have been so extreme that many people are talking about a general strike.

Presented as a spontaneous youth-led uprising against corruption, violent protests that erupted across Mexico this month were backed by local oligarchs and an international right-wing network determined to topple the popular President Claudia Sheinbaum.

Major tech companies–OpenAI (GPT), Google (Gemini), Anthropic (Claude), Meta (Llama), and xAI (Grok)–are spending heavily to boost the computing power of their respective large language artificial intelligence models. The companies claim that this spending will transform them into systems that businesses will happily pay to use and, in the near future, lead to artificial general […]

More than 1,500 people have been arrested under terrorism legislation at protests against the proscription, many for merely holding signs saying: “I support Palestine Action. I oppose genocide.”

What Washington is building is not merely a show of force; it is a forward posture aimed at breaking the Bolivarian Republic’s resistance and installing a pliant, pro-U.S. order in Caracas.

Gen Z-led uprisings across the Global South point to long-term socioeconomic and environmental crises caused by neoliberalism. Yet they have often been coopted by entrenched social classes. Can their energy be channelled towards progressive ends?

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes money as an inexhaustible and malleable public institution. According to DPF, money is public credit, a capacious tool for mobilizing everyone’s capacities to meet our needs and […]

“The goal is to generate riots to justify the expansion of authoritarian measures and to strengthen the case for the troop deployments,” said Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley.

On September 22, Italian workers staged a general strike and conducted massive demonstrations to denounce the Italian government’s complicity with the Gaza genocide.

Hundreds of thousands marched across Italy on September 22, blocking highways and ports in one of the country’s largest mobilizations in decades, signaling the return of a collective voice against war and arms trade with Israel.

The recent surge in public anger isn’t a sudden phenomenon, but rather the culmination of 60 years of flawed economic policies and mismanagement.

“Because the destruction of this nation is because of them, not the ordinary Indonesian people”, they said. “Long live the people, long live women, long live workers!”, they added.

Organizers are leading the largest civilian attempt to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza.

The federal government of Canada thought the Air Canada flight attendants’ strike was over on the afternoon of Aug. 17, when it ordered 10,000 striking flight attendants and cabin crew members back to work. 

As scholars dedicated to questions of justice and ethics we believe that Yvette Cooper’s recent proscription of Palestine Action represents an attack both on the entire pro-Palestine movement and on fundamental freedoms of expression, association, assembly, and protest.

Julian Assange joined at least 90,000 and as many as 300,000 people who marched across Australia’s most famous bridge on Sunday to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

A group of residents on the island of Syros organized the protest and said it was ‘unacceptable’ that Israeli tourists be welcomed as Palestinians suffer from starvation and war in Gaza.

If the President and his allies were serious about improving lives, they would back bills that reform our immigration system and protect the farm economy.