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Opposing U.S. Militarization in the Asia-Pacific While Seeing China’s Emerging Imperialism

Federico Fuentes interviews Au Loong-yu

Posted December 16, 2023

Federico Fuentes: One of the biggest challenges facing the left is coming to grips with China’s status within the global capitalist system. China’s meteoric rise has led many to ask whether China remains part of the Global South or has become an imperialist country. How should we understand China’s status today?

Au Loong-yu: The issue is that for the past three decades China has not been a regular Third World country. From a largely peasant-populated country 40 years ago,…

Against Formulas in Organizing: Why Workers and Their Conditions Should Dictate Campaign Plans

Dawn Tefft

Posted December 15, 2023

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)—which pairs volunteer organizers with workers looking for organizing support—plays a unique role in the labor movement. EWOC was founded by United Electrical Workers and DSA in response to workers needing emergency organizing support during the pandemic. It has since evolved to support workers wanting to organize a new union or an issue campaign in almost any scenario. EWOC was founded with a few principles in mind: 1) volunteers can support…

Atrocity, Delusion and the Apocalypse: What the Gaza Disaster Reveals

David Finkel

Posted December 9, 2023

To confront the almost incomprehensible scope of the disaster engulfing Gaza and all of Palestine, along with the no longer hypothetical specter of a semi-fascist dictatorship arising in Israel, it’s necessary to grasp two basic dynamics.

First and most immediate is the asymmetric but symbiotic barbarisms of the Israeli state and the Hamas nemesis that it did a great deal to empower, outlined in my article Catastrophe in Palestine and Israel: Apartheid on the Road to Genocide …

Israel’s West Bank Inferno & the Responsibility of Socialists

Alan Wald

Posted December 6, 2023

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama:
Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By Nathan Thrall
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2023. 255 pages. $29.99 hardback.

For those readers unfamiliar with the universe of suffering that structures Palestinian life on the West Bank, prepare yourself for a journey into a human-made political hell as you plunge into the pages of Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. The term “West Bank” refers to a land-locked area…….

Feminist tide engulfs Italy on 25 November

Marta Autore

Posted December 5, 2023

On 25 November, a massive wave of more than half a million people filled the streets of Rome, with many spontaneous gatherings in squares throughout the country – first and foremost in Messina, Sicily, to shout out all their anger and determination against patriarchal violence, against those who perpetrate it and those who reproduce it.

While it is true that for years the demonstrations called by Non Una Di Meno for the international day against male violence against women and gender violence…

Three Palestinian Students Shot in Vermont

Malik Miah

Posted December 1, 2023

THREE YOUNG PALESTINIAN men have been shot near a university campus in Vermont, after a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy was stabbed to death in Illinois in October, raising alarms against rising Islamophobia in the country.

Critics say the mainstream media coverage and the political discourse have caused anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment to increase amid Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed nearly 15,000 Palestinians (the massacre resumed December 1)….

Opening the Door Wider to Jim Crow Laws?

Malik Miah

Posted November 28, 2023

A FEDERAL APPEALS court on November 20 issued a decision that could severely curtail enforcement of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). It could affect voters of color nationwide and will probably be appealed to the Supreme Court.

The decision opens the door wider to a return to Jim Crow laws that once ruled the South. Those laws made…

Protestors’ Demands for a Ceasefire, End to Support for Israel, Shake American Institutions

Dan La Botz

Posted November 22, 2023

After Hamas’s heinous attack on Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 people, many civilians, including children, Israel began a siege of Gaza, cutting off food, water, and fuel, unleashing an unrelenting bombardment, and carrying out an invasion of Gaza that has killed over 10,000 people, almost half of them children, no doubt hundreds more by the time you read this. The sight of an entire city virtually completely destroyed, hospitals ruined, and men and women walking through the rubble carrying…