Defend Immigrants!
Dianne Feeley
Posted January 14, 2025
Incoming president Donald J. Trump has called for the “largest deportation program in American history.” This presents a multi-front crisis for millions of immigrants and their families, particularly as Trump has expanded the category of who is “deportable.” He has even threatened to override the U.S. Constitution and end birthright citizenship, which was added to the Constitution following the abolition of slavery.
Trump demonizes immigrants, claiming they are poisoning, robbing, murdering and taking resources from citizens. While immigrants have left their countries for various reasons, stories reveal the desperation of those escaping war, violence, poverty and climate catastrophe.
Many Americans believe that immigrants without documentation should be deported because they snuck out of the orderly line for requesting asylum. But there is no orderly line! The system is broken, deliberately so.
Others may be uncomfortable that the country is becoming more diverse. In 1965 less than 5% of the population was born outside the United States while today it’s 15%. Further, almost 90% of the immigrants come from non-European countries. This country had open borders during most of our history, but as Chinese men were recruited to build the transcontinental railroad, exclusionary laws were put into effect.
Claiming a mandate, the Trump administration will implement a severe anti-immigration policy from Day One. Although incoming officials have not projected a target for how many they plan to deport during the first year, Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, talks tough about shutting down the border and initiating massive deportations. This can only be accomplished by canceling the various categories under which most immigrants without documentation find minimal protection…
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Biden, Alleging “national security,” Stops Nippon Steel’s Purchase of U.S. Steel
Malik Miah
Posted January 14, 2025
Why? Is it good for steelworkers? Are foreign capitalists worse than American bosses? Should workers care?
Japan’s Nippon Steel is the world’s fourth largest steelmaker. U.S. Steel is ranked twenty-three and only number three in the United States. Most financial observers thought it was a good deal for the industry, given the financial troubles of U.S. Steel.
Japan and its rulers, furthermore, are a major U.S. ally in Asia, including military threats against China. Japan supports Washington…
Trading One Uniform for Another: The Military to Prison Pipeline
Steve Early & Suzanne Gordon
Posted January 9, 2025
Prisoners After War:
Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration
By Jason Higgins
University of Massachusetts Press, 2024).
Like old soldiers around the country, a group of former service members gathered in Crest Hill, Illinois to remember fallen comrades on Memorial Day, 2024. Several months later, The Veteran, a newspaper published by Vietnam Veterans Against the War, ran a photo of the event they attended. It shows a multi-generational group of men – white, Black…
What Menachem Begin Did to Anwar Sadat and Jimmy Carter
David Finkel
Posted January 3, 2025
On the occasion of Jimmy Carter’s passing, I pulled up the archival recording of the signing of the Camp David Accords, September 17, 1978.
What I remembered most about the event happens just after the 25-minute point. Check it out for yourself. After Menachem Begin and Carter embrace, Begin walks over to Anwar Sadat, who looks to me like he’s ready for a handshake. Instead, Begin clasps him into a big hug, which Sadat of course can’t refuse.
From that moment, Sadat’s status as an independent…
In the Time of Monsters
Frann Michel
Posted December 27, 2024
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
written & directed by Jane Schoenbrun
produced and distributed by A24
“THE OLD WORLD is dying and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters,” observed Antonio Gramsci (according to a 2010 translation by Slavoj Zizek).
Monster movies — or more broadly, horror films — are having a moment, and writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow is a horror film about, among other things, the meanings of horror media. It riffs…
The Chaos Known and Unknown
The Editors
Posted December 20, 2024
THE ADVENT OF “Trump 2.0” poses dangers and challenges in U.S. society as well as globally — including the non-trivial problem of surviving environmental catastrophe — and most certainly to the social movement and socialist left. We will attempt here to sort through those elements of the swirling chaos that are pretty well known, and suggest where the uncertainties may lie. We know for sure that all our movements will be under attack — and it’s absolutely…
Speaking about BDS
Huwaida Arraf
Posted December 14, 2024
HUWAIDA ARRAF, A Detroit area civil rights attorney and activist and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement, prepared this presentation for a Wayne State University Board of Governors meeting on December 11, 2024 to advocate divestment from corporations complicit in Israel’s war crimes in Palestine. Nearly two dozen students, faculty and the general spoke….
Celebrate the Syrian People’s Victory!
Posted December 10, 2024
A Ukraine Solidarity Network Statement
THE UKRAINE SOLIDARITY Network (U.S.) wholeheartedly celebrates the liberation of Syria and its people from the half-century murderous Assad family tyranny. Like so many others, we are profoundly inspired by the scenes of people celebrating in the streets,…
Lebanon’s Ceasefire Is No “Divine Victory”
Gilbert Achcar
Posted December 6, 2024
COULD THE CEASEFIRE agreement between Israel and Lebanon be a new “divine victory”? That was how the agreement that ended the Israeli onslaught on Lebanon in 2006 was characterized by Hezbollah. Then, the party displayed that phrase on huge billboards featuring a picture of its Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, in a clear play on words, as the slogan could be read as both a victory attributed to God and a victory led by Nasrallah, whose name in Arabic means “God’s victory.”……
“Progressing by Grassroots Networks”
Posle Media interviews Catherine Samary
Posted November 27, 2024
HOW DOES THE left in France confront the global “right-wing” turn? Can leftist organizations supporting Ukraine develop a common strategy? Researcher and longtime activist Catherine Samary discusses the role of the left in today’s French politics for Posle Media.
Posle: Before we turn to the discussion of the war in Ukraine and prospects for left internationalism, let’s talk about the recent developments in your home country. How do you analyse the current…
Mazan, France: Rape as a Political Fact
Aurélie-Anne Thos
Posted November 21, 2024
WOMEN START QUEUEING at 6AM at the courthouse in Mazan, France so they can support Gisèle Pelicot at the open trial she requested. This rape case has caught international attention because it so perfectly illustrates how many men feel they are entitled to women’s bodies. This continuous outpouring of support demonstrates the determination of women to publicize and end the dehumanization women face the world over.–The Editors….
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