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Seeking Fantasies Across The Sea
A young boy, no more than sixteen, steers a battered trawler boat with an unyielding focus on the darkness ahead. Between the congestion of bodies on board, a pregnant woman passes in and out of...
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UAW Challenges Mercedes-Benz Union Vote, Demands New Election Over Alleged...
The United Auto Workers (UAW) union is challenging the results of last week’s unionization vote at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama, where workers voted against union representation. The UAW alleges...
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The Dangerous Anti-Democracy Coalition
Elon Musk and entrepreneur and investor David Sacks reportedly held a secret billionaire dinner party in Hollywood last month. Its purpose: to defeat Joe Biden and reinstall Donald Trump in the White...
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Cairo Fears a ‘Boomerang Effect’: Suppressing Protests for Palestine
On Tuesday, April 23rd, protesters in Cairo were detained while participating in a peaceful demonstration in support of women in Sudan and Gaza. Ironically, this event coincided with Sinai Liberation...
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US-Backed Canadian Mine in Guatemala Threatens Water Supply for Millions
Asunción Mita is a town of roughly 40,000 people in the hills of southeastern Guatemala, near the border with El Salvador. It’s dusty and hot in the dry season — located in the Central American dry...
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“We the People” Need a Government That is Creatively Unstable
Let us pray that ‘we the people” have not voted for a brute majority to any party, followed by a ‘strong’ leader at the helm. Governments born of such a combo, as we have seen repeatedly worldwide, and...
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Israel’s Rafah Tents Massacre, Yet Another Heinous War Crime
It was one of the most heinous assaults on Palestinian civilians in recent memory. Last night, Israeli forces pounded a tent camp housing displaced people in a designated safe zone in north Rafah,...
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Debrief with May Boeve
The coming years are often referred to as our last chance to get on track to co-existing with our planet — the “decisive decade” is a term used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Many...
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The ICC Takes on Israel and the US Congressional Mafia
Senator Lindsay Graham was bursting with contempt for the International Criminal Court (ICC) when he grilled Secretary of State Blinken at a May 21 Congressional hearing. Wagging his finger, he warned...
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Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Attacks on Media Suddenly Take a Dangerous Turn
On Sunday, Donald Trump posted video of a man raging and cursing uncontrollably at MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough outside what appears to be an airport in New York. This generated a flurry of attention on...
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Their Past, Our Future?
What does it mean to “be on the left”? While the answer means different things to different people and can involve lengthy debate and discussion, all of which is fine, I boil it down to something very...
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Revealed: Israeli Spy Chief ‘Threatened’ ICC Prosecutor Over War Crimes Inquiry
The former head of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, allegedly threatened a chief prosecutor of the international criminal court in a series of secret meetings in which he tried to...
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On Climate Change, Centrism Means a Slow Death
The Miami Herald recently reported on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) latest forecast predicting a record-breaking hurricane season for the Atlantic Ocean. “Brace Yourself,...
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‘2024 is our 1994!’: A South African election travelogue
On Instagram on 18 May, a South African woman living in London posted, “this is my third election while living in the UK and I have never seen this many people in line. It feels like 1994 again....
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US Congress Warns: If ICC Tries Israeli Officials For War Crimes, ‘America...
The speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, said Congress plans to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC). He warned that, if the ICC prosecutes Israeli officials,...
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Mass Slaughtering Civilians To Stop Terrorism
Remember kids, Israel has to bomb hospitals and starve Gaza and incinerate children and shoot people waving white flags and assassinate doctors and journalists and commit daily massacres of civilians,...
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The BBC Is Afraid to Report the Facts About Israel’s War
This BBC journalist wrote under condition of anonymity to provide us with insight into what has been happening behind the scenes at one of the world’s most influential media organizations. Afew months...
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Repress U., Class of 2024
The academic year that just ended left America’s college campuses in quite a state: with snipers on the rooftops and checkpoints at the gates; quads overrun by riot squads, state troopers, and federal...
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The Shoah After Gaza
In 1977, a year before he killed himself, the Austrian writer Jean Améry came across press reports of the systematic torture of Arab prisoners in Israeli prisons. Arrested in Belgium in 1943 while...
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How Tens of Thousands of Grad Workers Are Organizing Themselves
It’s the biggest organizing wave the U.S. labor movement has seen in decades. Graduate workers are unionizing in huge numbers, winning drive after drive with 90 percent support or more. What’s more,...
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US Endgame in Ukraine — War Without End, Amen
It is now two and a half years since Moscow sent two draft treaties, one to Washington, one to NATO in Brussels, as the proposed basis of talks toward a new security settlement — a renovation of...
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Capitalism Can’t Overcome The Laws Of Physics
You can’t have infinite growth on a finite planet. That should be a commonplace idea. And that inevitably means facing up to the necessity of putting an end to capitalism in favor of an economic system...
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You Can’t Turn Back the Clock on Genocide
As Amal Nassar lay in pain on a bed at the Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza, the echoes of explosions and artillery fire could be heard all around her. It was mid-January...
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What Does Left Internationalism Mean in the 21st Century?
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has put international concerns front and center for the US left today. Jacobin spoke with three leading internationalist organizers about how leftists should think about...
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A Professor on “Authorities” Who Order Police to Crush Student Protests
The Washington Post’s journalists recently exposed what many already suspected or knew. Donors from society’s richest 1 percent pressured university administrators and political leaders to use police...
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South Africa’s ‘Born Frees’ Are Disillusioned With Democracy
Three decades ago, on April 27, 1994, a seismic shift reverberated across South Africa. After centuries of white minority rule and legalized racial segregation, Black South Africans stepped into the...
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In a Victory for Assange and First Amendment, UK Court Grants Right to Appeal
From the First Amendment to the European Convention on Human Rights, Assange’s defense relies on freedom of expression. On May 20, a two-judge panel of the High Court of England and Wales handed...
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The Untold ICC Story: How the Global South Helped Palestine Challenge Western...
Even the most optimistic of political analysts did not expect that the International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor would be uttering these words: “I have reasonable grounds to believe that...
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Back to Basics: The Fundamentals of Community Organizing
In a new pamphlet, veteran organizer George Goehl lays out the core practices organizers shouldn’t leave behind, even as we seek to evolve the craft of organizing. In 2023, Jenn Carrillo and I began...
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The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left
The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left by Boris Kagarlitsky Foreword by Patrick Bond Pluto Press, order here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350288/the-long-retreat/ Since...
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