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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…

Actors’ Strike Vs. Hollywood & TV Shows Achieves Victory

Malik Miah

Posted November 20, 2023

AFTER A 118-DAY strike, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists–SAG-AFSTRA–reached a tentative agreement with the major studios. On November 8 union negotiators agreed unanimously to a three-year tentative agreement….

State Elections in Germany bring further losses to the Left and upticks for the Far Right

Folko Mueller

Posted November 17, 2023

On October 8, elections were held in two important states of Germany: Bavaria and Hesse. Bavaria is the second largest German state in terms of population and also one of the wealthiest, with its economy also ranking second among German states in terms of GDP. Hesse ranks fifth in terms of population (out of 16 states) and contains the city of Frankfurt—the primary financial center for both Germany and continental Europe.

The outright winners should come as no big surprise. The Christian Social…

Capitalist Globalisation, Transnational Class Exploitation & the Global Police State

Federico Fuentes interviews William I. Robinson

Posted November 15, 2023

Federico Fuentes: Over the past century, we have seen the term imperialism used to define different situations and at other times be replaced by concepts such as globalisation and hegemony. You yourself have written that “the classical image of imperialism as a relation of external domination is outdated.” Why is this the case? Does this mean the concept of imperialism as a whole is outdated too?

William Robinson: Colonialism and imperialism are historic processes…….

Apostle of Genocide Rules Israel from the Grave

Cliff Conner

Posted November 7, 2023

MEIR KAHANE, a fanatic ultrarightwing American-Israeli zealot, was assassinated more than thirty years ago, and yet his spirit is in full control of Israel’s genocidal onslaught against the Palestinian Arabs of Gaza. When he was alive, his racist and antidemocratic political movement, the Kach party, was banned in Israel and officially designated a terrorist organization, both in Israel and the United States.

Today his disciples and admirers are entrenched in the government of Israel and direct…

On the bus for the end of fossil fueled capitalism

Ivan Drury Zarin

Posted November 3, 2023

Notes for a talk delivered at the Council of Canadians “Transition Tuesdays” panel on October 24, 2023

I want to begin by acknowledging that I am calling in from the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil Waututh, and Squamish nations. There can be no justice on these lands so long as they remain occupied by the settler colonial state of Canada. A “just” transition must begin with the free, prior, and informed consent of Indigenous nations for social and economic development.

Thank you…

Catastrophe in Palestine and Israel: Apartheid on the Road to Genocide

David Finkel

Posted October 31, 2023

ON THE MORNING of October 7, the nemesis that the Israeli state did much to create smashed over, under and through the border wall separating Gaza’s “open air prison” from southern Israel. The brutal events that followed have opened the gates of hell — even wider than usual — in the Middle East.

Any number of illusions lie shattered, beginning with the biggest — the United States’ government’s view that a brokered “normalization” of…

In solidarity with the peoples’ struggles against unbridled imperialism, for the liberation of the peoples and saving the environment

Statement by the International Committee of the Fourth International

Adopted 25 October 2023

1. The contradictions of global capitalism continue to bring forth brutal wars and occupations. Threatened by economic and political crises, capitalist governments, bearers of racist, patriarchal and imperial ideologies, construct external and internal enemies, provoking wars and continuing oppression. Such conflicts are part of the global logic of neoliberal capitalism, the logic of intense economic and political competition, of widening inequalities, and of the chaos it brings at every level….

Pro-Palestine ceasefire Movement shakes the Democratic Party

Dan La Botz

Posted October 30, 2023

For a second week, as Israel continued and expanded its bombardment and launched its invasion of Gaza, thousands marched in protest demonstrations in New York, Chicago, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles and other cities, demanding a ceasefire. My friends and I participated in a march of thousands in Brooklyn from the Brooklyn Museum to the Brooklyn Bridge.

Led by Palestinian and Jewish groups, protesters called not only for a ceasefire, but for an end to Israel’s genocidal war and a stop to U.S. funding…