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Authoritarianism Grows in El Salvador

Dianne Feeley

Posted October 27, 2024

Although the Constitution of El Salvador prohibits consecutive presidential terms, Nayib Bukele was inaugurated for a second term on June 1, 2024.

Given the opposition that has emerged to challenge his second term, police arrested leaders of the National Alliance for a Peaceful El Salvador on May 30 and 31. The Alliance is a broad coalition that emerged to defend democracy in the face of Bukele’s consolidation of power. Of the eight arrested, two were historic FMLN leaders – the coordinator of…

Boeing Workers Resoundingly Reject New Contract

Malik Miah

Posted October 26, 2024

BOEING’s LARGEST UNION, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), rejected a tentative labor contract on October 13 by a wide margin, extending their powerful strike. The majority “No” vote extends a nearly six-week long strike at facilities where the company makes its best-selling commercial plane.

Given the November 5 presidential election, this is a setback for the Biden administration, which sent….

Remarks at the Boris Kagarlitsky Conference, October 8, 2024

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Posted October 19, 2024

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

GREETINGS AND MY profound thanks for the honor of participating in and addressing today’s conference, celebrating the work of comrade Boris Kagarlitsky and acting in solidarity with the comrade in his fight for freedom. A fight, I should say, not only for his own freedom, but a fight for freedom against the forces of authoritarianism and 21st century fascism.

In twenty minutes, it is impossible to address all…

Justice Not Evictions

John Zettner

Posted October 15, 2024

We Live Here
Detroit Eviction Defense and the Battle for Housing Justice
by Jeffrey Wilson and Bambi Kramer
Seven Stories Press, 2024, 238 pages, $16.95 paperback; ebook $10.

WILSON AND KRAMER’s graphic story highlights the victorious struggles of several homeowners, providing a glimpse into the economic crisis in Detroit and its resistance by the community. The tsunami came to the city earler than the country’s 2008 meltdown and stayed longer.

The group of activists…

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…