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Heatwaves: anger and sadness. And hope, despite everything
Christine Poupin & Daniel Tanuro
Posted July 15, 2026
IN LESS THAN two months, Europe has been hit by three heatwaves that are exceptional in terms of their early onset, intensity, duration and geographical extent.
The health impacts are numerous and dramatic: respiratory problems caused in particular by ozone formation (from nitrogen oxide emissions from internal combustion engines — ozone levels exceeded safe limits in June for 300 out of 450 million Europeans); cardiovascular events; infectious diseases; acute kidney failure; air pollution…
World Cup Schizophrenia: How FIFA Trashes “The Beautiful Game”
David Finkel
Posted July 6, 2026
Red Card. The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine. By Jules Boykoff, Introduction by Dave Zirin. OR Books, 2026. 138 pages + notes. $18 paperback, $10 ebook.
“Soccer is never just soccer. And sports are politics by other means.” (Red Card, 11)
With 72 group stage matches finishing up and the 32 single-elimination games beginning the weekend of June 28, observing the 2026 soccer World Cup is a bit schizophrenic on several levels.
As a spectacle, the joy of the…
Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship — for now
Malik Miah
Posted July 5, 2026
THE SUPREME COURT ruled on June 30 that President Trump could not end birthright citizenship by Executive Order. In practical terms, the Court upheld the plain language of the 14th Amendment that children born in the United States are and remain U.S. citizens at birth,
While the vote was 6 to 3, Vice President JD Vance said it was actually 5 to 4 since Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in a concurring opinion, told the Trump regime how it can….
Survival and Tragedy
Giselle Gerolami
Posted July 2, 2026
By the time Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre was released in October 2025, Giuffre’s story and the larger story of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes were well known. The book was published a few months after her untimely death by suicide in April 2025.
The book was the result of years of intense collaboration between Giuffre and writer Amy Wallace. Wallace worked tirelessly to speak in Giuffre’s voice and the result…
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ Nakba exhibit can serve as a site for solidarity
Yasmeen Abu-Laban & Abigail B. Bakan
Posted July 1, 2026
MUCH ATTENTION AND controversy has surrounded the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg and its exhibit “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present.” Indeed, there was a veritable tsunami of criticism before the exhibit even opened….
Trump-Netanyahu Debacle: A World of Collateral Damage
David Finkel
Posted June 27, 2026
PERHAPS DONALD TRUMP was misunderstood: When he promised that the war with Iran would end in “Unconditional Surrender,” we didn’t realize that it meant “surrender” would be by him.
But seriously, amidst the swirling uncertainties about whether the war is really over and what comes next, there are some things we need to be clear about. First, this was a hideous imperialist war with horrific global consequences, a whole world of collateral damage.
Second, once having launched the war, it was…
Toward Liberation or Ruin?
The Editors
Posted June 25, 2026
THE UNITED STATES of America marks its 250th anniversary in July 2026 with its multiple divided legacies. As we know, the country was founded in the perpetuation of racial slavery, in genocide of the Indigenous nations, in ambitions of vast colonial dominion — and simultaneously in the struggles against those things, producing contradictions persisting throughout its history.
Solidarity with the Prairieland Defendants
E.W. Ramsey
Posted June 24, 2026
A brief accounting of the beginning of the new Red Scare
Eight of the nine Prairieland defendants, convicted in March of terrorism, were sentenced on June 23, 2026 to 30-100 years. Seven — Savanna Batten, Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill, Meagan Morris, Maricela Rueda, Benjamin Hanil Song and Elizabeth Soto — had been convicted of rioting, providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to use an explosive and use of an explosive device (fireworks!). The eighth, Daniel Rolando Sanchez…
Seven Pro-Palestinian activists arrested in Southeast Michigan
Ted McTaggart
Posted June 16, 2026
“Freedom of Speech… Just Watch What You Say” — Ice-T
Early in the morning of Wednesday, June 10, federal agents arrested seven young pro-Palestinian activists in Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois. The seven were indicted (along with an eighth, who was abroad at the time of the indictment and has not yet been arrested) with numerous felonies that could result in each receiving between 5 and 55 years in prison along with multi-million dollar fines. While the federal government’s…
Visiting Cuba 2026 — A Critical Point
Robert Bartlett
Posted June 10, 2026
I VISITED CUBA over the 2026 May Day week with a delegation from Building Relations with Cuban Labor. The effects of the 65+ year U.S. embargo and recent blockade of oil were everywhere to be seen….
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125 Years of Socialist Strategy in the US Labor Movement
June 4 to October 8, 2026
Against the Current
- Toward Liberation or Ruin?—The Editors
- Langston Hughes Viewing America—Juan J. Rodríquez Barrera
- Antifascist Conference Roundup—Ivan Drury Zarin, Rafael Bernabe, Sushovan Dhare, Mireille Fanon-Mendès France
- German McCarthyism Redux?—Annette Ohme-Reinicke
- U.S. vs. China Hegemony in Taiwan—Red Mole
- Conspiracy, Class & the American Empire—Youbin Kang
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