Category: Newsletter
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Oakland labor rallies for Palestine
On December 16, 2023, nearly 2,000 people, mainly labor activists and their families, gathered in front of Oakland City Hall to demand a cease-fire in Gaza. Demands such as “Ending US military aid to Israel” and “End the Occupation” were also central to the message of the day. After an hour-long rally, most of the…
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Palestine: Our best hope now…
Gilbert Achcar’s post “Al-Aqsa Flood and Miscalculation” ends with the following sentence: “The sad truth is that we have reached a situation in which our best hope now is for armed resistance and international pressure to succeed in stopping the aggression and genocide, and in preventing the Zionist state from seizing all of the Gaza…
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Against Formulas in Organizing: Why Workers and Their Conditions Should Dictate Campaign Plans
University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) strike, spring 2019 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…
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Atrocity, Delusion and the Apocalypse: What the Gaza Disaster Reveals
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…
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Feminist tide engulfs Italy on 25 November
Giant rally to protest violence against women, Rome, November 25, 2023 (Photo: Sinistra Anticapitalista) 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…
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Protestors’ Demands for a Ceasefire, End to Support for Israel, Shake American Institutions
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…
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State Elections in Germany bring further losses to the Left and upticks for the Far Right
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…
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On the bus for the end of fossil fueled capitalism
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…
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In solidarity with the peoples’ struggles against unbridled imperialism, for the liberation of the peoples and saving the environment
Palestine solidarity demonstration in Liège, October 28, 2023. (Photo: Fourth International) 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…
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Pro-Palestine ceasefire Movement shakes the Democratic Party
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…