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Abortion Rights After Dobbs: The State of the Struggle
Johanna Brenner
Posted April 16, 2024
It’s been two and a half years since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade. The dystopian landscape that many activists feared has indeed materialized with 14 states banning abortion, while seven more have severely restricted the procedure – for example, banning abortions after six weeks or 15 weeks — in ways that would have been illegal under the Roe v. Wade decision in effect from 1973-2022….
Boris Kagarlitsky, Prisoner of Conscience
Posted April 7, 2024
THE DANIEL SINGER Foundation has designated Boris Kagarlitsky as its first recipient of the “Prisoner of Conscience Award.”
Daniel Singer (1926-2000), a Jewish-Polish journalist and writer living in France, was a committed democratic socialist, and a sharp critic….
Feminist Movements in Pakistan: Challenges and Struggles
Asma Aamir
Posted March 29, 2024
I WOULD LIKE to talk about Pakistan, a country that has no secular State. It is officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, run by the federal and provincial governments, following the Constitution of 1973. The Judiciary system is divided into civil courts, criminal courts and the Sharia court, which examine the laws of the country in compliance with the Islamic law and rights….
The New McCarthyism: A Personal Testimony
Warren Montag
Posted March 14, 2024
I AM A tenured professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles, which has a long tradition of progressive activism, including around Palestine. I have served as the faculty advisor to the campus chapter of the Students for Justice in Palestine for about 12 years. There was nothing unusual about the fact that, soon after the October 7 attack by Hamas and beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza, a group of 37 faculty, of which I was one, drafted and sent a letter to faculty, students and…
Chaos Here and There
Posted March 14, 2024
AFTER NON-SUPER TUESDAY, Nikki Hayley’s presidential campaign, and Colorado’s hail-Mary effort to bar Donald Trump from the ballot all came and went, more basic facts of the political landscape have come into sharper focus. The United States….
Frantz Fanon and the Paradox of Anticolonial Violence
Alan Wald
Posted March 12, 2024
Writers and Missionaries:
Essays on the Radical Imagination
By Adam Shatz
New York: Verso, 2023, 357 pages,
$29 hardback.
The Rebel’s Clinic:
The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
By Adam Shatz
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2024, 451 pages, $32.00 hardback.
ARE YOU THE kind of socialist activist looking for easy answers to questions about revolutionary violence, or who hungers for uplifting political biographies…
The Significance of “Uncommitted” Vote in Michigan
Malik Miah
Posted March 6, 2024
[UPDATE: Super Tuesday primary results in Minnesota show the “Uncommitted” movement spreading, with 19% of Democratic voters choosing that option. In Massachusetts, nine percent voted “No Preference” in the Democratic primary….
The War is a Confrontation between Independent Post-Colonial Ukraine and Russian Imperialism
Kay Mann interviews Clara Sedova
Posted March 1, 2024
This article is an interview with Clara Sedova, a militant of the Russian Socialist Movement (RSM), by Kay Mann of Solidarity. The interview is from October 2023. We publish it on the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
KM: Can you explain the position of the RSM on the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
ES: For us, the war is a confrontation between independent post-colonial Ukraine and Russian imperialism. This is not a proxy war, and we need to analyze the situation…
Open Letter to the Israeli and U.S. Governments and Others Weaponizing the Issue of Rape
Posted February 29, 2024
ALL TOO OFTEN in the fog of war, the brutality of sexual assault and rape is lost in the public eye, and bringing these abuses to light is something for which feminists have fought for decades. Complicating this issue, however, is the fact that accusations of sexual assault have also been wielded as a tool of war – and as an (often lethal) weapon of racism and colonialism….
Stand Against Genocide and Imperialism, from Palestine to Ukraine
Ukraine Solidarity Network
Posted February 24, 2024
Statement on the Second Anniversary of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Two wars dominate world politics today–and the U.S. is involved in both, although in very different ways. Washington enables Israel’s genocidal onslaught on Gaza with weapons, funds and political support while providing direct military backing through airstrikes in Yemen, Syria and Iraq. In Ukraine, however, the U.S. opposes Russia’s also-genocidal attack on its culture and people, and has provided weapons, funds, and political…
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