Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, par STONE Peter
PragerU is not accredited but has become a key tool in pushing false claims to youngsters – and raked in $200m from 2018 to 2022
A rightwing media outlet promoting climate-crisis denialism and other “anti-woke” staples to young students and adults via social media has become a fundraising (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Former president Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign and his coming trials are driving the United States toward an unprecedented constitutional crisis.
Trump, the first former president ever to be indicted, has been indicated in four different federal and state courts on a total of 91 (...)
, by Against the Current
The brutality of the Israeli Occupation, the scale of Israel’s continuing political turmoil, the undisguised Ku Klux Klan-ish murderous Israeli settlers’ attacks on Palestinian civilians and towns, the deepening rage within the Palestinian population of the Occupied Territories and inside (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Cornel West announced in early June that he was running for president of the United States as the candidate for the People’s Party and then as aspiring to be candidate of the Green Party. This series of articles explores the experience of Black political candidates for the nation’s highest (...)
, by WEINBERG Bill
I must respond to this insidiously sinister statement from CodePink, The People’s Forum and like groups entitled “McCarthyism is Back and Together We Can Stop It,” accusing opponents of the savage-capitalist fascistic regimes in Russia and China of “red-baiting,” and cynically exploiting (...)
, by FEELEY Dianne
As UAW contracts with the Detroit Three expire at midnight September 14, it looks like the companies are far from settling. Having raked in over a quarter of a trillion dollars in the last decade, they are balking at newly elected UAW President Shawn Fain’s demand that “Record profits deserve (...)
, by GINDIN Sam
There is a debilitating tendency on the Left to instantly judge bargaining settlements as either sellouts or breakthroughs. But neither the cynicism nor the cheerleading gets us very far in grasping the actual significance of these agreements.
Sober assessments pivot on the relative weights (...)
, by MALIK Kenan
Rich Men North of Richmond represents the poor but lets the wealthy off the hook
There is mean things happening in this land
Oh the rich man boasts and brags
While the poor man goes in rags
There is mean things happening in this land
So runs the opening verse of John Handcox’s (...)
The Critical China Scholars collective writes in anger and dismay at the situation now brewing following the New York Times (NYT) report about Neville Roy Singham’s connections to the Chinese Communist Party and funding of leftist organizations and news outlets, the New McCarthyism petition (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan, SHALOM Stephen R.
Here’s how to be oppose Cold War rhetoric and still be an internationalist who supports democracy and human rights.
A petition titled “McCarthyism Is Back—Together We Can Stop It” is currently being circulated by a number of organizations and individuals on the left. It is motivated by a (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Cornel West announced in early June [2023] that he was running for president of the United States as the candidate for the People’s Party and then as aspiring to be candidate of the Green Party. In Part 1 of this article, we looked at the reaction of the left, with comments from DSA and Green (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Cornel West announced in early June that he was running for president of the United States as the candidate for the People’s Party and then as aspiring to be candidate of the Green Party. This series of articles explores the experience of Black political candidates. In Part 1 of this article, (...)
, by MIAH Malik
The family of Henrietta Lacks and Thermo Fisher Scientific reached a settlement related to the unauthorized use of her cancer cells, which benefited labs and companies and proved invaluable for research for decades.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump and attorney Chris Seeger released a (...)
Medical exploitation is an often overlooked part of Black history and partly explains the mistrust that members of the Black community have for the medical industry.
In a case that revealed the exploitation of a Black woman beginning in the 1950s and extending for 70 years, Thermo Fisher (...)
, by WITTNER Lawrence S.
Apologists for Russian actions are meeting resistance around the world.
In recent decades, a segment of the global Left has looked upon the U.S. government as the Great Satan in international affairs, responsible for the world’s major ills. Thus, on those occasions when countries at odds (...)
, by CHUTEL Lynsey, FAHRENTHOLD David A., HVISTENDAHL Mara, JHAVERI Ishaan
The Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide.
The protest in London’s bustling Chinatown brought together a variety of activist groups to oppose a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes. So it (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is about to make the terrible mistake of breaking with over 100 years of solidarity with colonial peoples in their struggles against imperialism and with solidarity with the oppressed in their fight for democracy.
Since 2014, Russia has waged a war of (...)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
This article is written in collaboration with Roland Sheppard, who was an eyewitness in the auditorium, the Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965, and has closely followed the case and written and spoken about it since.
After breaking with the Nation of (...)
Teen dies in sawmill accident as US states aim to roll back child labor laws (Headline of Wisconsin Public Radio, July 6, 2023)
The police received an early-morning call regarding an unresponsive teenager at Florence Hardwoods, a sawmill in northern Wisconsin, reported the Florence county (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
We appear to be in strike season, with hundreds of thousands of workers either on strike or threatening to strike to protect their jobs and for higher pay.
Hollywood was hit first when 11,500 writers walked out on May 2. Some 60,000 actors followed on July 4. UPS workers, 340,000 of them, (...)
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