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Trump’s Test Case: Deploying the Military to Washington, DC

Malik Miah

Posted August 19, 2025

IN A LONG rant of over 70 minutes at an August 10 news conference, Trump claimed that the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., “has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs, and homeless people. And we are not going to take it anymore.”

Everyone knows that when he singles out “wild youth” he means Black youth. By “high crimes areas” he means the Black community….

Bloody Amputation: Trump’s “Peace” for Ukraine

David Finkel

Posted August 19, 2025

THE TRAJECTORY WAS always clear to anyone who was paying attention, and knew how to filter out the noise of Donald Trump’s empty threats of “severe sanctions to destroy Russia’s economy,” let alone 500% tariffs on Russia’s oil customers, if there weren’t an “immediate cease-fire” in the Ukraine war….

Gaza Exposes the Bankruptcy of Western Liberalism

Gilbert Achcar Interviewed by Elias Feroz

Posted August 13, 2025

IN DEFENDING AND arming Israel over the last two years, Western governments have shown the hollowness of international law. The genocide will be remembered as a decisive moment in the collapse of liberalism.

In his book Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective, Gilbert Achcar analyzes the background, dynamics, and global consequences of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.

In this interview with Jacobin, Achcar discusses the political radicalization…

Lions in Winter: Longtime Activist Lives on the Left

Alan Wald

Posted August 8, 2025

You Can’t Please All:
Memoirs 1980-2024
By Tariq Ali
London: Verso, 2024, 816 pages, $44.95, hardback.

Until We Fall:
Long Distance Life on the Left
By Helena Sheehan
New York, Monthly Review, 2023, 360 pages, $28, paperback….

Our Genocide — Executive Summary

B’tselem

Posted July 31, 2025

B’TSELEM IS THE long-established Israeli human rights information center. It is one of the two organizations in Israel (along with Physicians for Human Rights) that have now formally identified the Israeli state’s war on Gaza as genocide. What follows is the Executive Summary of B’tselem’s report titled “OUR GENOCIDE.” You can also read the full report .

SINCE OCTOBER 2023, ISRAEL has fundamentally changed its policy toward the Palestinians…..

“Atlanticist Liberalism Can Never Recover from Its Present Agony”

interview with Gilbert Achcar

Posted July 23, 2025

LAST MONTH SAQI Books published Gilbert Achcar‘s new book The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective. Labour Hub interviewed the author about the book and the political events that gave rise to it.

Labour Hub: Fifteen years ago, you wrote: “No national strategy in confronting the Zionist state is possible….

The First Phase of the Mamdani Campaign

Howie Hawkins

Posted July 17, 2025

THIS ARTICLE IS a slightly edited section from “Independent Political Action Under Trump” that appeared in Counterpunch, July 8, 2025.

What About Zohran Mamdani?

Zohran Mamdani’s win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor on June 24, 2025 is being hailed by advocates of organizing progressive politics inside the Democratic Party. They say it shows that their strategy of running on the DP line is a winning strategy….

Free the Children! End the Starvation and Genocide!

Ukraine Solidarity Network (US)

Posted July 7, 2025

INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’s DAY is June 1 in Ukraine, Russia, and 47 other countries. This Children’s Day, the Ukraine Solidarity Network (US) calls for the freedom and return of the tens of thousands of Ukrainian children whom Russia has kidnapped and for ending the mass starvation of millions of children in Palestine, Sudan, and other sites of widespread child hunger such as Haiti, South Sudan, and Mali….

Contradictions without Dialectics: Debating Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

Harvey J. Graff & Sean Kamperman

Posted June 29, 2025

The Israel-U.S.-Iran War: An Interview with Yassamine Mather

Posted June 26, 2025

Suzi Weissman interviewed Yassamine Mather on June 20, 2025 for Jacobin radio. Their discussion has been abridged and edited for posting here.

Suzi Weissman: Welcome to Beneath the Surface. I’m Suzi Weissman and today I’m joined by Yassamine Mather, a longtime socialist critic of the Islamic Republic. She’s the acting editor of Critique, a journal of Socialist Theory, where I am also on that editorial board. Her research on Iran is within the framework of the Middle East Center at…