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A Letter from the Editors: Election and Widening War

The Editors

Posted October 10, 2024

WITH WAR AND genocide spreading from Palestine to Lebanon and Iran, with southern states inundated by the biggest climate-change flood disaster in U.S. history, and people’s general insecurity about their own and the country’s future, the United States lurches toward what’s called “the most consequential election in our lifetime” that may in the end resolve little or nothing….

Harris, Trump, or Neither? Arab & Muslim Voters’ Anger Grows

Malik Miah

Posted October 10, 2024

AMONG THE MOST significant political developments in the 2024 presidential election is that Arab, Palestinian and Muslim communities are rejecting the party of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for their support of genocide in Gaza, Palestine, and Lebanon….

Scholars to Address Conference Honoring Russian Dissident Boris Kagarlitsky

Posted October 3, 2024

Free Boris Kagarlitsky and all Russian anti-war political prisoners!

October 1, 2024

Scholars from across the globe will gather for an online conference on October 8 in honor of Russian sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky, who is serving a five-year sentence in a Russian penal colony on the fabricated charge of “justifying terrorism.”…

Marx Redux

Scott McLemee

Posted September 30, 2024

Scott McLemee interviews Paul Reitter, translator of a new English edition of Marx’s Capital.

IN EARLY 1845, a young and precariously employed holder of a Ph.D. in philosophy named Karl Marx signed a contract with a German publisher for a book, in two volumes, on political economy. He had already filled notebooks with extracts from his studies in the field, and at the time likely felt like he was already reasonably far along on the project. But his publisher canceled the contract two…

Free Khalida Jarrar, End the Global Prison-Industrial Genocide

Palestinian Feminist Collective

Posted September 21, 2024

The Palestinian Feminist Collective demands the immediate and unconditional freedom of Palestinian political prisoner, feminist activist and scholar, and revolutionary leader, Khalida Jarrar, who teaches us that “hope in prison is like a flower that grows out of stone.”

Jarrar has been held in captivity by the settler-state for more than six years over the course of five imprisonments and is currently held captive in zionist dungeons without charge since December 26, 2023. She now faces her greatest…

For a Bit of Air, Khalida Jarrar, Palestinian Lawmaker Lies Down on the Floor

Gideon Levy

Posted September 21, 2024

AT THE END of 2023 Palestinian lawyer and activist Khalida Jarrar was arrested by the Israeli police and jailed without charges. Placed in administrative detention, she has had the charges renewed for another six months. Given her health problems, her husband, Ghassan Jarrar, is concerned about her well being.

The Palestinian Feminist Movement is campaigning to have the charges against her dismissed. This story, by Gideon Levy, is from the August 30, 2024 edition of Haaretz.–The ATC…

Recovering Eugene Pottier: The “Internationale” and its Communard Lyricist

Paul Buhle

Posted September 16, 2024

Beyond the Internationale:
Revolutionary Writings by Eugene Pottier, Communard
Edited and Translated by Loren Kruger
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Company, 2023,
150pp. $17 paperback.

BACK IN MY days of teaching U.S. history, I would pull out a tape recording made by an ancient friend, an erstwhile Trotskyist living out his last years outside Seattle, his singing in Yiddish with a piano accompaniment….

A dark moment in contemporary German history

Folko Mueller

Posted September 12, 2024

Earlier this year, on January 31, 2024, an article of mine titled “Never again is right now!” was posted here in the Solidarity Webzine. In it I discussed some major demonstrations that had just taken place in Germany as pushback against a secret AfD

In Saxony, the AfD gained three points and came in at 30.6 percent. Only the center-right CDU got more votes with 31.9 percent. In Thuringia, the AfD won the election with 32.8 percent and thus made history, just as it had encouraged its voters to…

AOC Boosts Jill Stein by Attacking Her

Howie Hawkins

Posted September 9, 2024

IN A SPRING 2021 interview with Democratic Left, the magazine of Democratic Socialists of America, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was asked, “Some on the Left have looked at Biden’s record and his difference with the Bernie (Sanders) wing of the party, and they conclude that no progress is going to come out of the Biden administration. What’s your view?”

In her response, AOC criticized “bad faith critique” by some on the Left: “Well, I think it’s a really privileged critique. We’re…

Joe Sacco: Comics for Palestine

Hank Kennedy

Posted September 6, 2024

AFTER ISRAEL’s RECENT assault on Gaza began, Joe Sacco (a “moral draughtsman” in the words of Christopher Hitchens) was compelled to speak out against Israel’s war. At the Comics Journal, Sacco contributed The War on Gaza from January to July. Sacco’s bravery should serve as an example for other cartoonists to follow. Introducing the series, Comics Journal publisher Gary Groth said “It is surely….