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The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in California on March 10 set off a chain reaction as depositors withdrew funds causing it and other small banks to fail or face serious problems, among them Signature Bank in New York, and First Republic Bank in San Francisco. Stock markets worldwide (...)
Daniel Ellsberg, a giant of American history for leaking the Pentagon Papers, wrote the following email to friends on Wednesday, including Consortium News, and has today decided to make it public.
Daniel Ellsberg. (Free Getty embed, Paul J. RIchards)
Dear friends and supporters,
I have (...)
TWENTIETH-CENTURY PRE-ROE America was a scary world for women. Pregnancy and childbirth were destiny. When I was in college in the late 1950s a sociology professor remarked that a woman wasn’t fully a woman until she became a mother.
Historically, what made U.S. reproductive health care (...)
Review of Abolition. Feminism. Now. By Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie Haymarket Books, 2022, 250 pages, $16.95 paper.
N ABOLITION. FEMINISM. Now. Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie make a compelling case for a feminism that is (...)
A Critique of Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies
Several years ago, I was sitting in a Lower Manhattan café with a friend, the journalist Arun Gupta, lamenting the state of the Left and how so many ostensible leftists had become little more than cheerleaders for reactionary politics. While (...)
This is a transcript of the presentations and final comments of Graham Campbell and Clay Claiborne on black liberation and Putin’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine. It is preceded by an introduction which describes who they are.
Graham Campbell: Okay, folks, so I think you will see that my (...)
President Joe Biden annual presidential state of the union address to both houses of the U.S. Congress, turned away from the neoliberal politics of his Democratic predecessors and back toward the New Deal liberalism of President Franklin Roosevelt. In a surprisingly commanding performance, (...)
Oaklandsocialist interviews Green Party candidate of president in 2020 and long time activist, Howie Hawkins. Full transcript below video.
John Reiman: So we’re talking here with Howie Hawkins, who’s a prominent member of the Green Party and a former member of the Teamsters. So would you like to (...)
Nate Moore explains why U.S. based socialists should not be opposing arms to Ukraine despite the inter-imperialist dynamics unleashed by the Russian invasion.
What position should socialists take regarding U.S./NATO arms to Ukraine? Recently, Left Voice has engaged in a debate with other (...)
Two and a half years ago, the Columbia Journalism Review refused to publish Duncan Campbell’s investigation into The Nation magazine and its apparent support for Vladimir Putin. It is published here in full
[(In 2018, Duncan Campbell was commissioned by the “voice of journalism” and “watchdog of (...)
ANOTHER BLACK MAN was murdered by police in a modern-day lynching in Memphis, Tennessee. The city is nearly 70 percent African American, including a Black female police chief.
What was unexpected and a surprise to many is that the police officers were all African Americans. Some asked how (...)
A rank-and-file interview about race, class, and labor organizing in US higher education
[(Editor’s note: The six-week-long strike across the University of California (UC) campuses last year marked the largest industrial action in higher education in US history. This strike also saw the (...)
Black police officers can have bias against Black people – and act on it.
Once again, Americans are left reeling from the horror of video footage showing police brutalizing an unarmed Black man who later died.
Some details in the latest case of extreme police violence were gut-wrenchingly (...)
Unites States: Tyre Nichols’ death prompts calls for federal legislation to promote police reform – but Congress can’t do much about fixing local police
The severe beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, by five Memphis police officers – leading to his death three days later – has (...)
The Tempest editorial board and the Tempest Collective stand in solidarity with the family and communities of Tyre Nichols, who was murdered by police on January 7, 2023.
The horrifying video released Friday showing five Memphis police officers severely beating a defenseless and compliant Tyre (...)
Police in Memphis, Tennessee beat a 29-year-old Black man named Tyre Nichols on January 7 and three days later he died. The family had an autopsy done that found he died from extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating. The department fired the five officers involved in the shooting on (...)
Portland socialist Shamus Cooke has warned that the ruling class is conjuring up a recession to wipe out recent workers’ gains. Here he writes that we need a national response that combines action from below with steps toward workers’ political independence.
The U.S. labor movement made (...)
Howie Hawkins is a retired Teamsters union warehouse worker, the US Green Party 2020 presidential candidate and an ecosocialist. Together with a range of other leftists, socialists, unionists and academics, he recently helped set up the Ukraine Solidarity Network (US). Hawkins spoke to Federico (...)
Taking into consideration the number of excess deaths caused by COVID-19 compared with pre-pandemic years is critical to getting an accurate accounting of the pandemic’s real toll.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020, a recurring topic of debate has been whether official (...)
Bill Fletcher, Jr. (Ukraine Solidarity Network) debated Medea Benjamin (Code Pink) last Sunday (Jan. 29) on the issue of Ukraine. The debate helped clarify some points, and raised some previously less clear issues.
Benjamin
Benjamin started off by saying how much she respected Bill Fletcher, (...)
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