Category: Newsletter
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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…
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2023 Solidarity National Convention Dossier
As the article Solidarity Convenes National Convention reported, Solidarity convened its National Convention online during the weekend of August 18-20, 2023. The convention formally adopted two resolutions: The Policing System and Its Replacement On Anti-imperialism and International Solidarity: From Ukraine to Palestine and Beyond. Beyond the formal resolutions, the Convention and the pre-convention discussion took…
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Israel-Palestine Conflict Gives Birth to a New U.S. antiwar Movement
Israel’s merciless bombardment of Gaza, destroying apartment buildings, hospitals, schools, and places of worship, killing thousands; its siege, cutting off food, water, and electricity; and its massing of tens of thousands of troops on the Gaza border, preparing an invasion, have horrified millions of Americans. Thousands have joined protest demonstrations in Los Angeles, Chicago, New…
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UAW striking for pensions, a socialist response to the cases made against them
UAW Ford workers demand pensions, 1949. (Photo: Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University) One of the major demands being made by the UAW membership in this round of bargaining is the restoration of defined-benefit pension plans that would provide retirees with a guaranteed stream of income. The restoration of pensions would be a massive…
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Week Five — UAW surprise strike at Ford Kentucky truck plant
(Photo: UAW website) With the surprise strike that shut down the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant almost one month into the UAW strike against the Detroit Three, the corporation responded with a squeal that it had reached the limit of what it could offer. Given the profits Ford is reaping, strikers found that laughable. CEO Jim…
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Solidarity with the Palestinian people — end the occupation!
The root cause of the violence is the occupation of Palestine by the Israeli state. Palestinians have borne the brunt of the death and destruction of the last 75 years. The situation in the Gaza strip is particularly inhuman. Here, the population has been subjected to ongoing humiliation, collective punishments and violence from the Israeli…
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Give us a break, TX!
Construction in the Greater Heights area of Houston. Texas lawmakers sitting in air-conditioned comfort want workers to labor in 100+ degree heat with no water breaks. (Photo: Folko Mueller) Texas, in recent times, has seemed to be constantly trying to outdo Florida in a contest over who is more staunchly ultra-reactionary as shown by a…
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Death Spiral Delusions: Behind the New Israel/Palestine Disaster
The aftermath of an Israeli air strike on the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza, October 10, 2023. (Mohammed Zaanoun, original available here) IN A RECENT post “Catastrophe in Jenin and Palestine, continued” (July 8, 2023), I reiterated a previous remark: “The degenerative spiral in the so-called Israel-Palestine ‘conflict’ is nowhere near reaching the bottom…
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Initial Comments on Hamas’s October Counter-Offensive
Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike that killed five people in central Gaza City, October 8, 2023. (Mohammed Zaanoun, via +972 Magazine) The counter-offensive launched by Hamas against Israel on 7 October 2023, a day after the 50th anniversary of another Arab surprise attack on Israel—the October 1973 War, is a much more…
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Week Four — GM concedes EV union recognition
Going into the fourth week of the UAW strike, GM got serious when it dawned on them that workers at its most profitable plant, in Arlington, Texas, were about to join the picket lines. Instead of continuing to call the union’s strategy mere, “theatrics” it offered to include electric vehicle battery production work in its…