There’s No Excuse for Joe Biden Not to Make Immigration Policy More Humane
In the last few weeks, the Biden administration seems to have taken progressive criticism on its immigration missteps to heart. Reversing course after months of foot-dragging, Joe Biden announced he would make good on his promise to raise the refugee cap to 62,500 for the rest of this fiscal year and ended contracts for border [...]
Post-Partisanship Is Still a Dead End
Jon Stewart’s famous 2004 appearance on CNN’s Crossfire remains a standout takedown of the pernicious culture of spin that dominates cable news. Revisiting the clip nearly seventeen years later, it’s immediately obvious why many of us still look back on it so favorably. In debating cohosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala, Stewart was effortlessly funny, [...]
Columbia student workers are taking back their union
Right sweeps Madrid, left must rethink
We Don’t Need Elon Musk to Explore the Solar System
Elon Musk, the third-richest man in the world, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla (and dabbler in online edgelord provocation), issued a strange Twitter post last month in defense of his wealth. “I am accumulating resources to help make life multiplanetary & extend the light of consciousness to the stars,” he declared. I am accumulating resources [...]
Ny Jerusalem-deklaration om antisemitisme kan blive et nyttigt redskab til forsvar for ytringsfriheden om Palæstina
#ACFM Microdose: Jeremy Gilbert on Folk Music
Jeremy Gilbert hits the road for a musical microdose accompanying the #ACFM Trip on Folk. Connecting different strands of folk music with their various political tendencies, Jeremy looks at the communism of Woody Guthrie and the singers of the Dust Bowl era, the Vietnam protest music of Bob Dylan and the Greenwich Village scene, and [...] Keir Starmer Is Responsible for Labour’s Electoral Disaster
For weeks, it has been clear that Labour would have a bad night in this week’s election. The only question was how bad. As we awoke yesterday to disastrous losses in local elections, historic defeat in Hartlepool, and a likely mayoral bloodbath to come, the answer is very bad indeed. The result should not be [...]
On VE Day, We Remember the Partisans Who Risked Everything for Freedom
Idols of white supremacy are today heading into the twilight, as the dark side of long-vaunted “heroes” finally comes under scrutiny. This goes not just for the United States’ founding fathers, but also some of those who joined the fight against Nazism and the Holocaust. Men like Churchill, Stauffenberg, and Schindler did eventually turn against [...]
FOA Mariagerfjord: ”Vi skal stille krav til arbejdsgiveren – ikke slås internt om smulerne”
FOA’s afdeling i Mariagerfjord udmærkede sig ved at nedstemme OK21-resultatet med hele 70% Nej-stemmer. Hvad er baggrunden for dette, og hvordan fortsætter de kampen – og ligelønskampen? Disse spørgsmål har KPnet stillet til afdelingens formand Kenn Andreasen. Kenn Andreasen starter med at præsentere afdelingen. Her er omkring 1600 medlemmer, og ligesom det generelt er i [...] Sæt foden ned overfor Nemlig.com!
Hvordan kan det overhovedet gå til, at arbejdsforhold som dem der hersker hos Nemlig.com er virkelighed i Danmark i dag – med ekstremt tempo, vilkårlig arbejdstid og computerovervågning af alle arbejdsfunktioner? Hvor har fagbevægelsen været de sidste 10 år, hvor de har haft overenskomst med Nemlig? Og er 3F overhovedet kun begyndt at røre ved [...] United States Withdraws From Afghanistan? Not Really
The United States, it appears, is willing to allow the Taliban to return to power with two caveats: first, that the U.S. presence remains, and second, that the main rivals of the United States—namely China and Russia—have no role in Kabul. In 2011, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke in Chennai, India, where she proposed the creation of a [...]
Between May Day struggles and indiscriminate repression in Algeria
Protest Can Free the Refugees Imprisoned by Australia’s Government
On Easter in 2002, about a thousand activists converged on the Woomera detention center in the desolate South Australian desert. They tore down the center’s fences, helping thirty-five refugees who were facing deportation escape. The Woomera breakout took place a decade after Paul Keating’s Labor government had legislated to allow for the indefinite, mandatory detention [...]
For the Nez Perce, a Proposed Gold Mine Is a Symbol of Broken Promises – The U.S. government stole Nez Perce treaty land to make way for gold miners in the 1860s. A century and a half later, gold mining again threatens the tribe’s homeland.
Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support
Canada is home to 75 percent of the world’s mining companies. Firms based or listed in Canada operate approximately four thousand mineral projects abroad. And, as you might expect, many of those projects involve shady corporate practices and violations of human rights. There have been an astounding number of conflicts at Canadian-run mines. Pick almost [...]
Labour Crash in 2021 Elections
Under Keir Starmer’s Leadership, Labour Is on the Road to Nowhere
Keir Starmer’s great selling point as Labour leader was meant to be “electability.” After four consecutive defeats under three different leaders, the party membership was desperate to see the Tories evicted from office. Starmer and his allies promised to turn around Labour’s fortunes and lead it back into government. Judging by the results of yesterday’s [...]
Joe Biden Is Not a Radical
As Joe Biden delivered his first address to Congress last week, it was obvious that something had shifted. In place of the rhetoric of deficit hawks, Biden touted spending and economic expansion. Where the first Democratic president of the neoliberal age had lauded small government, he instead spoke of jobs, public infrastructure, and invoked the [...]
David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Keynesianism in the 1960s
Will Joe Biden Betray His Big Pharma Friends?
Several of President Joe Biden’s most powerful appointees and advisers have had business relationships with pharmaceutical giants lobbying the administration on COVID-19 and intellectual property issues, according to documents we reviewed. Those ties — and Biden’s longtime alliance with pharmaceutical industry interests — could prove particularly relevant as drug companies now try to defang any [...]
Klima: Trafikpolitik med kurs mod afgrunden
Colombia on the Brink
In the last week, Colombia has experienced the most widespread civil unrest of its modern history. Since Wednesday, April 28th, millions of people have taken to the streets to fight back against a regressive national tax reform bill. The bill, farcically called the “law of sustainable solidarity,” aimed to cover budgetary shortfalls resulting from the paralysis of the economy brought [...]
Napoleon Between War and Revolution
To avoid losing its power to the royalists or the Jacobins, France’s well-to-do bourgeoisie turned its power over to Napoleon, a military dictator who was both reliable and popular. The Corsican was expected to put the French state at the disposal of the haute bourgeoisie, and that is exactly what he did. His primordial task was the elimination of the [...]
My (Your) University is Still Racist and Equity Training Won’t Change That
When I began teaching almost 40 years ago, Ronald Reagan was president. Denouncing affirmative action and “welfare queens,” and endorsing “states’ rights” and Apartheid South Africa, Reagan described the America of Jim Crow as a golden age, the “shining city on a hill.” Racism increasingly appeared to be woven into the fabric of national and international politics with no way [...]
Roaming Charges: We Who Are About to Get Shot, Salute You
My number had finally been called. Well, texted. No one calls anymore, except sexy robotic voices trying to sell me extended warranties for my car and electric toothbrush. On Monday, I was scheduled for my second dose of Pfizer’s COVID elixir, a strange brew which one friend pungently described as a mixture of germs, animal parts, formaldehyde and pus. Yum. [...]
Death by Neoliberalism
One of the persistent questions from history is how once thriving peoples and nations decline? This decline can come in the form of high drama— think Germany in the 1930s, or steady social decline that reaches a point where it becomes irreversible. Part of an explanation is that the terms ‘peoples’ and ‘nations’ suggest singularities More
The “Kill a Leftist” Law
So now it’ll be legal in some Neolithic U.S. states to run over leftists with your car. What’ll come next? Legalizing pushing people out of airplanes at 35,000 feet? Running over swimmers with boats? Unleashing your rabid dog on people whose political persuasions offend you? There are so many possibilities! It’s already legal for cops More
Does Big PhRma Know No Shame? Profiteering While People Die by the Hundreds of Thousands
The global COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, as the current human catastrophe in India reminds us, a nation of 1.3 billion people where just 2 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated against COVID and more than 400,000 new cases a day are being reported with some 3,000 deaths. Now enter Moderna, with its approved COVID-19 vaccine, pledging [...]
Would Anyone Care to Defend American Radicals?
I am told that a leading senior and radical American historian quipped last year that a second Trump administration might have given the American Left a chance to gather together – under armed guard “in Yankee Stadium.” A bit of excessively paranoid dark humor? Maybe. But maybe not entirely. Consider. As President of the United More
Palestine’s Moment of Reckoning: On Abbas’ Dangerous Decision to ‘Postpone’ Elections
The decision on April 30 by Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, to ‘postpone’ Palestinian elections, which would have been the first in 15 years, will deepen Palestinian division and could, potentially, signal the collapse of the Fatah Movement, at least in its current form. Unlike the last Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006, the big story, More
An Urgent Call for Action by Nobel Laureates
Our Planet, Our Future is the title of the 2021 Nobel Prize Summit. As a follow up to that summit, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine recently published Our Planet, Our Future: An Urgent Call for Action d/d April 29th 2021. The opening paragraph of the Noble Laureate declaration implicitly calls for immediate More
The Fascinating Memoir of a “Citizen Pilgrim”: Q&A with Richard Falk
Richard Falk, the well-known international relations scholar, taught at Princeton University for four decades. Starting in 2002 he has taught Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Falk is also a chair for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. This lengthy interview is about his latest book, a memoir, Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim, that explores his More
How We Lost It All: Labor Unions and Taft-Hartley
It’s hard to know precisely what’s being asked of them, but opinion polls show that upwards of 50% of working people say they’d be interested in joining a labor union. That much seems to be true. Yet, only 10.8% of America’s workforce is unionized. Barely one in ten. Even acknowledging that some of those expressing More
Biden’s Big Steps on TRIPS: Getting the World Vaccinated
President Biden made a huge step yesterday when his trade representative, Katherine Tai, announced that the United States would be supporting a resolution at the World Trade Organization (WTO), to suspend intellectual property rules on vaccines for the duration of the pandemic. This resolution had been introduced by India and South Africa back in October. More
Tamál Húye: Coast Miwoks Fight for Recognition of Point Reyes’ Indigenous History
On April 22, the California Coastal Commission held a virtual hearing to discuss the impact of dairy and cattle ranching at Point Reyes National Seashore. Superintendent Craig Kenkel began his presentation with the words, “Point Reyes is the ancestral home of the Coast Miwok.” Kenkel spent the rest of his talk advocating for a Park More
Liberalism’s Last Legs?
By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of the most foolish, by substituting instruction for education, by encouraging cleverness rather than wisdom, the upstart rather than the qualified, by fostering a notion of getting on to which the alternative is a More
The Global Spread of Fascism is as Real as the Spread of COVID-19
The global spread of fascism is real, as real as the spread of COVID-19, and you better believe it. For purposes of academic analysis, it might be legitimate to distinguish between a “fascist-leaning” movement and a truly fascist one, or a far-right regime and fascist regime, or an authoritarian populist and a fascist. But I More
Postal Service Reform: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. – Proverbs 19:18 We are starting to see changes come the way of the US Postal Service (USPS). There is a bill from Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and a multitude of co-sponsors to eliminate the arbitrary requirement that More
Capitalism, Borders and the Damage They Do
Todd Miller writes about modern empire and borders. His works tell of a US border security apparatus that extends into other nations around the world and provides various immigration police agencies in the United States to operate anywhere they please inside US borders. His descriptions of the surveillance technology and its uses are simultaneously fascinating More
Castigating Its Competitors: Western Hypocrisy and China
The West’s political and media assault on China increases week by week. Human rights has become the primary means of criticism and justification for sanctioning China over its actions in Hong Kong and treatment of the Uighers. This info war is creating a divide – those pro-Western ‘values’ arguing China has to be brought to More
Challenging the Bias of the Refugee as “Other”: Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains
Refugee narratives contain the stories of those voices that rarely see the light of recognition or acceptance. The defining characteristic of a refugee is the perception thrown upon them by the nations of closed borders that they can only be seen as the “other.” The inescapable label many refugees face then reinforces the false stereotypes More
Chile’s Neoliberal Nightmare, New Constitution, and Daniel Jadue
Working and marginalized people in Chile can now see possibilities of relief from the political grief of decades. A new constitution is in the works. And Daniel Jadue, author of an astonishingly progressive program as mayor of Rocoleta municipality, is a presidential candidate. The election is set for November 21, 2021. Chileans will vote on More
As India Gasps to Breathe, Modi Government Abdicates Responsibility
The COVID-19 pandemic continues its brutal march across India. Figures of new infections reached 355,828 on May 3—which accounted for more than 62 percent of the world’s new infections on that day. As hospitals run out of beds, ICU capacity, and even oxygen, these factors have been contributing to the already skyrocketing death toll in More
Palestinian Mothers are the Glue that Bonds Palestinian Society
My father, Jamil Halaby, passed away in Jerusalem, Palestine, in 1947. Fifty years later and until her death on March 16, 1997, Katrina Halaby, my late mother, was never able to visit her husband’s grave to say the kaddish or lay flowers. And because of the turbulent 1948 political climate in Palestine, no tombstone was More
The Robot Was Born a Hundred Years Ago
“Robot!” was what the painter Josef Čapek, his mouth full of paint brushes, said to his brother Karel, the writer, when asked what name he could give to an artificial assistant of mankind in the play that Karel was completing. Karel didn’t have too many second thoughts. Robot: the word was just right for his More
COVID-19: Bosses Lie. Workers Suffer and Die.
In Yakima County in Washington state, where a mutant coronavirus is fueling a deadly fourth wave, Superior Court Judge Blaine Gibson has just relaxed COVID-19 protections for farmworkers. Key to Judge Gibson’s April 21 decision is disallowing access to farms by community workers. This decision was hailed by Vegetable Growers News, which claimed that “elected More
Ten Things to Understand about Latin America
The United States — the land and people — will be a lot better off when the idea of US supremacy is dropped. Toward that end, and toward the goal of a better world, here are ten things for the US to understand about Latin America. 1. Threat of a good example. That is the More
GDP versus Lasting Growth Rooted in Love
In what feels like a throwback to another era, banks and big business are once again talking about ‘growth’, and economic development. Both of which amount to the same thing to the men and women of money – profit. After over a year of utter turmoil, death, illness, heartache, social and economic lockdowns, some nations More
About That “Rules-Based International Order”
The Biden administration has taken to frequently asserting its intention to return — versus the Trump administration’s departure therefrom — to something called a “rules-based international order.” What is this supposed “order?” What obligations does it impose, and upon whom? Which governments meet those obligations. Which don’t? Google returns about 197,000 results on the phrase More
A Very British Case: Postmasters and Miscarriages of Justice
British justice is a splendidly odd animal. Its miscarriage is one of those wonders of institutional repetition. When textbooks are written on the subject, one will feature prominently. On April 23 this year, the convictions of 39 former sub-postmasters were quashed by the criminal division of the Court of Appeal. They had been accused, and More
Why Wildfires May Benefit Spotted Owls
A couple of years ago, I attended a meeting of the Deschutes Collaborative. Spotted Owls and wildfire was the topic that day. The meeting was a classic example of how collaboratives selectively use science to justify more logging of our forests. The two-hour meeting featured a biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and More
Cashing in on the Housing Crisis
Sheelah Kolhatkar’s article “Trailer-Park Trades: When corporations acquire mobile home communities, what happens to the residents?” in the 3/15/21 issue of The New Yorker explores how private equity companies have targeted the low-income residents of mobile home parks. The residents have a substantial investment in staying if they own the mobile home, but not the More
Infrastructure Wars
“There is no alternative”. – Margaret Thatcher (ad nauseum) “There is only a heart-shaped hole filled with cold indifference where India’s public heart should be.” – Arundhati Roy (April 2021)[1] There has been discussion lately[2] regarding definitions of the word “infrastructure”. Tons of money, supported by all its power relations, working to extend the practical More
Medical Apartheid: From Israel/Palestine to Canada
Independent Jewish Voice Canada has applauded Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem for declaring Israel an apartheid state in its treatment of Palestinians. However, neither organization included medical apartheid in its charges. Though their statements were widely reported worldwide, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) refuses to publish any information critical of Israel. Canada has a long history of More
Art and Outrage are Inseparable! Making Culture in the Ruins
What gave their (Kafka and Benjamin) criticism its bitter sharpness was not anti-Semitism as such…it was…the lying denial of the very existence of widespread anti-Semitism, of the isolation from reality staged with all the devices of self-deception by the Jewish bourgeoisie… – Hannah Arendt, Introduction to Illuminations: Walter Benjamin, Essays & Reflections Th[e] classical approach More
Why Biden Must Do More
Joe Biden came into office facing historic, overlapping crises: a pandemic, a recession, racial unrest, and flagging faith in democracy and government. He had two choices: Govern from a mythical middle and risking failing to structurally address any one of these overlapping crises, or step boldly into the moment and reassert a role for effective More
Mahmoud Abbas: a Puppet on a String
For the first time in fifteen years, the people of Palestine seemed to be on the verge of having the opportunity to select new leaders. This was to be a significant breakthrough for the people, long brutally oppressed by Israel. This opportunity has now been snatched from them by their president, the Palestinian traitor Mahmoud More
Hope for Critically Ill Covid-19 Patients Within Reach
There is new hope for severely ill patients with Covid-19. On March 30th, US company CytoDyn, released results from a randomized, double-blind study of a drug called leronlimab. The study revealed an unprecedented 82% reduction in the rate of death at Day 14 for patients on a ventilator who received 2 weekly doses of leronlimab More
Humanizing the People Police Kill
On the day Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, local law enforcement in my hometown killed my nephew’s father. His name was Jose Flores. When my local paper “reported” on Jose’s death, it was more a regurgitation of a police report than journalism. There were no interviews with Jose’s family, More
Feats of Klee
…an ordering of images a search for the hidden sense an illumination of visions in the mind – such is, to me, his art. – Antonin Artaud, “A Painter of the Mind,” (1923) The Swiss-born German artist Paul Klee created more masterpieces in the closing years of his life than most artists do in their More
Senators of the Lost Cause
This is what you shall do. . .stand up for the stupid and crazy… – Walt Whitman, Preface to the first edition of Leaves of Grass A number of readers wondered whether, following my recent piece on The Triplets in the House of Representatives, I was being unfair to the United States Senate, a body More
The Hamptons: Where Wealth and Poverty Clash
It’s tough being rich. For one thing, you have to be on constant alert to keep commoners from encroaching on your turf and upsetting your sense of proper social order. Consider the angst of the swells who summer in the Hamptons, an ultra-tony seaside enclave of New York City’s old-wealth families and Wall Street elites More
Response to Ann Garrison Article on Pacifica
A response to Ann Garrison’s piece from April 15, 2021: Pacifica Radio: Let’s Talk About the Debt Regarding democracy at Pacifica, Ann Garrison wrote: “In early June, listener subscribers and staff of the Pacifica Radio Network, which includes five nonprofit metropolitan stations, KPFA-Berkeley, KPFK-Los Angeles, KPFT-Houston, WBAI-New York City, WPFW-Washington D.C., and over 200 smaller More
EUs sociale topmøde er en falsk kulisse for sociale nedskæringer
Det portugisiske EU formandskab afholder i denne uge et uformelt topmøde om den såkaldte sociale søjle. Det dækker over EUs ambition om at overtage kontrol med alt fra uddannelse til arbejdsløshedsunderstøttelse. Det seneste år under corona-nedlukningen har EU igen tydeligt vist at unionsstaten alene er til fordel for stor-kapitalen og de store monopoler. Hele eurozonens [...] Lady Day and the Feds
The United States Vs. Billie Holiday is a powerful biopic streaming on Hulu now. Academy Award nominee Andra Day nails the times and troubles of the famous blues singer known as Lady Day, as she battles racial capitalism during the Jim Crow era. Lee Daniels, whose body of work includes Precious (2009), directs The United States Vs. Billie Holiday. If you watched the former film, you More
Gone But Not Forgotten…by Pop
Unlike the days following Osama bin Laden’s death on May 2nd, 2011, the tenth anniversary of his killing passed without hoopla in the American Homeland. A decade on from death of America’s arch enemy, no jubilant drones danced in patriotic formation above the National Mall; there was no SEAL Team 6 reenactment at the freshly More
Philosophical Drinking Song
Philosophical Drinking Song Explications of Spinoza Go so well with a mimosa. Contemplations more Platonic Are enhanced by gin and tonic. Empiricism à la Hume Is best when Scotch is in the room. Manifestos about Dada Demand a cool piña colada. While perusing Zarathustra A swig of rum is sure to boost ya. C. Wright More
De grønne veste indtager København
Kvindekamp
Den kæmpende bevægelse var på gaden d. 1. maj, på arbejderklassens internationale kampdag. På Trianglen foran Fælledparken i København talte Marie Herget Christensen på vegne af Kvinder i Kamp. Rigtig glædelig arbejdernes internationale kampdag Denne kampdag er også arbejderkvindernes internationale kampdag. Derfor rejser vi i dag – og alle andre dage – arbejderkvindernes krav. Sosu’erne, [...] Big Tech’s Censors Come for Science
The free speech controversies roiling Big Tech have now reached the scientific sphere. In mid-February, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by John Hopkins professor of medicine and public health Martin Makary arguing that a combination of vaccines and natural infections would result in herd immunity in many parts of the United States [...]
In Britain, the Left Is Resisting a Massive Expansion of Police Powers
Britain’s parliamentary left has been in a state of fragmentation following the defeat of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party in the December 2019 general election. The last eighteen months have seen the purging of socialists from the party under new leader Keir Starmer, with mass suspensions of members and efforts to block left candidates from standing [...]
Efter pandemien må vi ikke lægge os til at sove igen
I dette sidste essay, skrevet kort før hans tragiske og alt for tidlige død i september 2020, argumenterer den amerikanske antropolog og anarkist David Graeber for, at coronakrisen må blive startskuddet til noget radikalt nyt: En grundlæggende omtænkning af vores forestillinger om værdiskabelse, fællesskab og økonomi. [...]
Nutshell Pt. 2 – Phife Dawg
Regionsvalg i Madrid: Højrefløjen sejrer, tid til eftertanke på venstrefløjen
Jane McAlevey on the Union Defeat at Amazon
Why did the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) lose its fight against Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama? Jane McAlevey analyzed the loss in a widely read piece for the Nation. Sadly, everything she says is true. Doug Henwood interviewed McAlevey for his Jacobin Radio show Behind the News. You can listen to the conversation [...]
“The Amazon Workers in Bessemer Would Already Have Their Union If We Had the PRO Act” – What the union loss at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama means for the future of organizing in the Biden era.
‘How Can I Use This, Rather Than It Use Me?’ A New Campaign Takes Aim at Screen Addiction
“I logged into this thing, typed into the chatbox – ‘hello’ – and somebody in America typed ‘hello’ back,” recalls writer Julia Bell of using her friend’s computer in the early nineties. “I screamed,” she says, “I was like, ‘oh my fucking god, it speaks back – this thing speaks back to me!’” Three decades [...] Joe Biden Shouldn’t Shy Away From the Radicalism of the New Deal – ‘Why the New Deal Matters’ author Eric Rauchway explains why embracing FDR’s signature programs is not just a moral imperative—it’s good politics.
US-China Tensions Are Escalating. What Does That Mean for the Left?
President Joe Biden made his first public address to Congress last week. Speaking to a sparsely attended chamber, he repeatedly linked his expansive domestic policy agenda with a call to confront China in a battle of “democracy versus autocracy.” Since taking office in January, President Biden has wrong-footed observers across the political spectrum. Mitt Romney [...]
Andrew Bacevich on Ending the US’s Forever Wars
Over the past few decades, Andrew Bacevich has been one of the most trenchant critics of US foreign policy, assailing the bipartisan pursuit of “forever wars” and overseas adventurism from a conservative standpoint. In the wake of Joe Biden’s announcement of the end of one of those wars, the nearly twenty-year campaign in Afghanistan, Jacobin [...]
How the U.S. Military Reinforces Our Brutal Class System—And Vice Versa – Why does our economy ensure a constant stream of recruits? And why are the armed services so attractive to the marginalized? Vets answer these questions and more.
Biden’s “Bullshit” Climate Summit
Early Draft of AFL-CIO’s Report on Police Reform Shows a Commitment to Defending Police Unions – The long-awaited draft report is an explicit rejection of calls for the labor movement to separate itself from police.
Unions Can Keep Workers From Falling Prey to the Far Right
In 2017, far-right politician Marine Le Pen symbolically ended her ultimately unsuccessful presidential campaign in the small town of Ennemain. Nestled between the northern industrial cities of Amiens and Saint-Quentin and surrounded by crop fields, it’s the type of place Le Pen calls “forgotten France.” Workers from a nearby foundry were present in the crowd [...]
Blame Modi and the BJP for India’s COVID-19 Catastrophe
As someone who was once a longtime Delhi resident, I am part of several of the city’s vast number of WhatsApp groups. Every one has been full of requests for help during the past three weeks. The number of people with COVID-19 in Delhi — with a population density of 13,861 persons per square kilometer [...]
What are the real reasons behind the New Cold War?
Chauvin Lost, but the Murderers Won
The verdict is in. The murderers have won. On April 20, a jury of 12 people managed to swim against the tide of white supremacy, and convict Derek Chauvin of murdering a black man. That’s twelve votes for the party of human life.
But during the time of the trial, the party of murderers gained more votes than that. From the [...]
AT&T’s “Harvesting” Scam
If you live in California and still use legacy Plain Old Telephone Service (“POTS”) from AT&T, you are likely getting ripped-off big time. And if you are an AT&T POTS customer anywhere in the U.S., you are also likely getting ripped-off. More
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Quibbling Over Cruelties: Human Rights Watch, Israel and Apartheid
Criticism of Israel’s policies towards Palestinians has always induced a defensive rage from its defenders and advocates. A Threshold Crossed, a report by Human Rights Watch, lit several fires of rage and disapproval. Israel, according to the authors, is responsible for apartheid policies. More
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Boris Johnson’s Lies Don’t Harm Him Because the UK’s Political System is More Corrupt Than He Is
Britain’s corporate media are suddenly awash with stories wondering whether, or to what extent, the UK’s prime minister is dishonest. Predictably in the midst of this, the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg is still doing her determined best to act as media bodyguard to Boris Johnson. In a lengthy article on the BBC’s website over the weekend, she presents a series More
On the Spectrum
Those who pay attention to mental and emotional states, and their multitude of disquieting effects, recognize the notion of a spectrum. For instance, autism is not a one-size-fits-all condition. Some people who are diagnosed with autism function well, getting along in society, while others cannot successfully function without assistance. In other words, there is a More
The True Meaning of the Afghan “Withdrawal”
Many of us have had a recurring nightmare. You know the one. In a fog between sleeping and waking, you’re trying desperately to escape from something awful, some looming threat, but you feel paralyzed. Then, with great relief, you suddenly wake up, covered in sweat. The next night, or the next week, though, that same More
Will Guantánamo Ever Be Shut Down?
The Guantánamo conundrum never seems to end. Twelve years ago, I had other expectations. I envisioned a writing project that I had no doubt would be part of my future: an account of Guantánamo’s last 100 days. I expected to narrate in reverse, the episodes in a book I had just published, The Least Worst More
The Biden Administration Wants to Partner with Criminals to Spy on You
“The Biden administration,” CNN reports, “is considering using outside firms to track extremist chatter by Americans online.” Federal law enforcement agencies are legally and constitutionally forbidden to monitor the private activities of citizens without first getting warrants based on probable cause to believe those citizens have committed, or are committing, crimes. The feds can browse More
As Zimbabwe’s Workers Fight for Justice, It’s Time for a Fundamental Rethink of U.S. Policy
This is “no longer business as usual,” declares Peter Mutasa, President of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU). “Unions are going to be united.” According to Mutasa, the situation in the country is dire, with basic salaries at or near the poverty line and workers unable to meet basic expenses. The COVID-19 shutdowns and More
Cancel Culture Conundrums
Cancel culture is at a crossroads, seems to me. And I might as well be at the center of it. If I wasn’t before, I appear to be now. But what is cancel culture? Isn’t that a rightwing term used to excuse bigoted behavior and avoid accountability for said behavior? Yes, that’s how the right More
It’s Win or Die for Scottish Labour. So Why Is the Party Fighting to Lose?
In October 2014, after years of Labour complicity with austerity, writer Tariq Ali concluded that “we live in a country without an opposition”. His remarks were true of the entire continent: across Europe, social democratic parties, lacking ideas and loyalty to [...] Key Lessons for Success in Higher Education and Beyond
As I reflect on my early undergraduate years at UCLA, where I entered as a first-generation math major from the notorious Ramon Gardens public housing project (or Big Hazard projects) in East Los Angeles, I’m still surprised (more like shocked!) that I graduated. While I excelled in mathematics, I wasn’t prepared in reading and writing More
Impact Investing: a Ruse or a Means to Reducing Inequality?
As an African-American, 30-year veteran of community development and social justice struggle, my entry a few years ago into the “space” of financial dealings — even among socially responsible-oriented folks — was quite an adjustment. Pretty white; much more corporate feeling; driven by numbers (i.e. financial “performance” and “returns,” albeit with an eye towards “doing More
How “Market Reforms” Hobbled Bulgaria’s Response to COVID-19
Elena is a nurse in the public hospital in Kozloduy, a small town in northwest Bulgaria, the poorest region in the EU. Her working day sometimes lasts up to ten hours. She works alone with up to thirty patients per shift, as there are not enough nurses in the hospital. At fifty-four, Elena is considered [...]
Stop Painting Northern England as a Land of Reactionary Proles
Barely a year since Labour’s so-called “red wall” of ex-industrial seats crumbled in the December 2019 general election, the North of England is again center stage. With a by-election in the northeastern port town of Hartlepool — and the strange emergence of a Northern Independence Party (NIP) looking set to take votes from Labour — [...]
Fra de strejkende plastarbejderes protest: Alle arbejdere i Serbien må gøre oprør!
Plastarbejderne hos Fiat i Kragujevac i Serbien har strejket siden d. 18. februar mod nedskæringer på lønnen og jobusikkerhed. Strejken har stor opbakning og er også en kamp mod arbejdsgivernes grove udnyttelse af corona-pandemien. Vi bringer her en støtteudtalelse fra Arbejderklassens Revolutionære Alliance i Serbien. Forværringen af den kapitalistiske krise, med monopolernes angreb og voksende [...] Statens luftfartsselskab SAS i frontalangreb på faglige rettigheder
Under dække af corona-krisen har det svensk-danske statsejede luftfartsselskab, SAS, gennemført det ene angreb på de ansatte efter det andet. Samtidig har det modtaget mia. i støtte. Langt de fleste kabinemedarbejdere, bagageportører, flymekanikere m.fl. er stadig på tvungen orlov. Lokalaftaler er blevet opsagt, og de arbejdere der er tilbage, er blevet presset til at gå [...] Israelske bosættere brænder palæstinensiske landområder
Israelske bosættere satte søndag, d. 2. maj 2021 om natten ild til palæstinensisk landbrugsjord, angreb huse og brændte nogle af beboernes biler
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Service Workers Aren’t Lazy — They Just Don’t Want to Risk Dying for Minimum Wage
Business owners around the country are offering up a lament: “no one wants to work.” A McDonalds franchise said they had to close because no one wants to work; North Carolina congressman David Rouzer claimed that a too-generous welfare state has turned us all lazy as he circulated photos of a shuttered fast-food restaurant supposedly [...]
On Education, Joe Biden Is Making Sure “Nothing Will Fundamentally Change”
When it comes to education policy, Joe Biden is following through on his promise that nothing will fundamentally change. While he expressed support for some progressive measures on the campaign trail, like ending the high-stakes testing mandate for K-12 and giving relief to higher education students and borrowers, his actions so far have led some [...]
Keir Starmer’s First Big Test
Financialization Created Chicago Public Schools’ Fiscal Crisis
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is in a deep and enduring fiscal crisis. After decades of budget cuts, Chicago’s public K–12 schools have been hollowed out, magnifying the hardships of stagnant wages, rising housing prices, and more faced by the city’s working class. Pundits have predictably blamed CPS’s fiscal crisis on either the greedy teachers’ union [...]
Why You Should Support Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Against Israel
A clear shift in public discourse around Israel is unfolding in the United States. Americans are increasingly disapproving of blank checks and uncritical support for Israel. Growing numbers of people embrace the Palestine movement as an organic part of any left or progressive movement. Yet there remains one area of Palestine advocacy that is still [...]
“Jeg kunne lide uniformerne og demonstranternes fremtoning, jeg kunne lide deres skjolde og deres flag”
“It’s a Nightmare”: Inside America’s Rural Housing Crisis – Across Wisconsin, low-income people are struggling to find quality, affordable housing.
Thank You, Pablo Iglesias
“When your role within your organization and your task to improve democracy in this country becomes greatly limited and mobilizes the worst elements of those who hate it, certain decisions have to be taken without hesitation.” These were the words of Podemos cofounder Pablo Iglesias as he announced his shock decision to step back with [...]
EU’s skattehul kan lukkes
For første gang i utroligt lang tid ser det ud til, at der blæser nye skattevinde i EU-systemet. Med en forandringsparat administration under Joe Biden i USA og med nyfundne stædige kræfter i EU-Parlamentet ser det ud til, at EU for første gang kan spille en positiv rolle i kampen imod skattely.
Indlægget EU’s skattehul kan lukkes blev først [...]
The Legacy of Bobby Sands and the 1981 Hunger Strike
When Bobby Sands died in the Maze prison on May 5, 1981, after a hunger strike that had lasted for sixty-six days, the British government’s Northern Ireland Office (NIO) compiled a list of reactions from around the world. New York City mayor Ed Koch urged Britain to withdraw from Northern Ireland, and the International Longshoremen’s [...]
CRISPR Madness: Welcome to the Age of Genetic Chaos
The Nobel prize in chemistry awarded last year to the biochemists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for the genetic modification technique called CRISPR cemented the popular idea that a new era of precision manipulation of hereditary material had arrived. The award came on the heels of the unauthorized use of the technique by the scientist More
Cracks in Northern Ireland?
“I’d say I’m Northern Irish and British. I’m not Irish. I don’t live in Ireland”. – Zara Ferguson, a navy reservist living in Northern Ireland “I’m very pleased and proud to be in the UK and feel it’s the best way forward. It would have been better if all of Ireland had stayed in the More
US First Quarter GDP: Recovery or Just Another Rebound?
This past week the US Commerce Department released its early estimates for US GDP for the 1st Quarter 2021, January through March. If we are to believe the numbers, the US economy grew a respectable 6.4% during the period. But did it really? And does it represent a strong recovery underway? Or just a rebound, More
Survivors of Trauma Transform Their Vulnerabilities into Strength
In 2015, Médecins Sans Frontières or Doctors Without Borders conducted a survey in Kashmir the results of which were as follows: out of “5600 households selected from more than 400 villages in 10 districts 1.8 million adults (45% of the adult population) are experiencing symptoms of mental distress with 41% exhibiting symptoms of probable depression More
Financial Transactions Taxes: The Perfect Way to Pay for Biden’s Infrastructure Package
There has been a lot of silliness around President Biden’s proposed infrastructure packages and the extent to which they are affordable for the country. First and foremost, there has been tremendous confusion about the size of the package. This is because the media have engaged in a feast of really big numbers, where they give More
Debat: Et opgør med usolidarisk udlændingepolitik er nødvendigt
Thomas Birthin Schmidt, Enhedslisten Aarhus“I mere end 140 år har vores grundlæggende værdier været frihed, lighed og solidaritet”. Citatet er[...]
Indlægget Debat: Et opgør med usolidarisk udlændingepolitik er nødvendigt blev først udgivet på
Akut sundhedskrise i Indien
Mangel på læger, sundhedspersonale, hospitalssenge, medicin og medicinsk ilt er et resultat af årelang systematisk forsømmelse og leflen for de superrige og de medicinske forsikringsselskaber. Følgerne er katastrofale og Modi-regeringen står med ansvaret, slår det indiske Revolutionary Democracy fast i sin udtalelse. Befolkningen i Indien er kastet ud i den største sundhedskrise nogensinde, hvor Covid [...] The Flows Tell the Story: Klamath River Coho Salmon are in Dire Condition
So far this spring only 36 Coho Salmon age 1+ have been trapped by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) while exiting the Shasta River Basin and only 21 Coho Salmon age 0+, 3 Coho Salmon age 1+have been trapped on their way out from the Scott River. These are dismal numbers and indicate that Klamath River Coho continue More
Magical Thinking
With China and Russia at the top of Biden’s agenda in our contemporary story of empire, readers may think that my foray into an example of magical thinking is poorly chosen. When the hypocrisy of magical thinking and faux religion hits home personally, even at a time of personal loss, then “attention must be paid” More
Care Advocates Celebrate Wins in American Families Plan, Now Back to Organizing
“No one should have to choose between a job and a paycheck or taking care of themselves and their loved ones, a parent, spouse, a child.” For care advocates, who have spent decades fighting for state and federal policies that provide relief to working families, mothers, and children, hearing that line from President Joe Biden More
Afghanistan’s Musical Tradition: a Health Check
In the midst of war, insecurity and chaos, the music and songs of Ahmad Zahir, Farhad Darya, and others make the souls of Afghans happy. In durhams and nightclubs, whether in Kabul or in foreign countries, there is the sound of the tambourine, the tar, and the rabab, sounds that remind all Afghans of the More
When the Legislature Leaves Town, Litigation Follows
Anyone who’s ever seen a circus roll through town can tell you there are a lot of “droppings” to clean up behind the elephants. Montana’s legislative circus and the GOP elephant parade left town late last week and there are so many unconstitutional “droppings” it’ll take years for the lawyers and judicial system to clean More
Our solidarity with the Colombian people!
10-year Anniversary of Northern Rockies Wolf Delisting Comes Amid On-Going Slaughter
MISSOULA, MONTANA Ten years ago today, federal Endangered Species Act protections were stripped from gray wolves in Idaho, Montana, eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, and northern Utah because of a rider attached to a must-pass budget bill by U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) and U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID). This undemocratic move a decade ago—which blocked More
On His Birthday, Let’s Celebrate the Old Man Karl Marx
Karl Marx’s work during his final years of life, between 1881 and 1883, is one of the least developed areas in Marx studies. This neglect is partially due to the fact that Marx’s infirmities in his final years kept him from sustaining his regular writing activity — there are virtually no published works from the [...]
Til minde om de kommunister der blev interneret og deporteret for 80 år siden
Den 4. maj samledes en gruppe efterladte og efterkommere til de danske kommunister der for 80 år siden blev interneret og for mange vedkommende deporteret til KZ-lejren Stutthof foran Borgen for at markere dagen og for at aflevere en opfording til Statsministeren. Læs Albert Scherfigs tale og se fotoserien fra dagen her. Artikel og fotoserie […]
Indlægget Til minde [...]
Juan Guaidó er ikke velkommen i Danmark – nej til kup i Venezuela
1. maj tale
Her kan du høre Konfronts 1. maj tale 2021. Nedenfor finder du talen i tekstform på dansk og engelsk. Dansk udskrift Kære kammerater. Først og fremmest, rigtig glædelig 1. maj! 1. maj er en dag, hvor vi mindes de kampe vi har kæmpet, fortsætter med at kæmpe og ser frem mod de kampe der endnu […]
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Hollywood Shouldn’t Remake the Brilliant Another Round
Leonardo DiCaprio just nabbed the rights to make an English-language version of the terrific Oscar-winning Danish film Another Round. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s about four middle-aged men who rejuvenate their increasingly dull lives by drinking just enough to stay buzzed all day, every day. DiCaprio plans to star in the lead role [...]
Johnson’s Government is Rotten to the Core – But Does It Even Matter?
It says something profound about our prime minister – and indeed the nation that elected him – that, even as a schoolboy in the gilded corridors of Eton, Boris Johnson’s sense of entitlement stood out. In a now-notorious letter to his parents [...] Colombians Are in the Streets Against a Violent Neoliberal Order
In Colombia, a proposed deeply regressive tax reform bill was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Thousands of Colombians have joined protests since April 28, when a massive general strike against the bill became the flash point for mounting unrest with President Iván Duque’s authoritarian neoliberal regime. Even though Duque has recently announced he [...]
Capitalism Is Driving COVID Disaster in the Global South
The scenes currently being witnessed in India are truly horrifying. Yesterday, the number of confirmed cases in the country passed 20 million. The country’s health infrastructure is stretched to breaking point. Doctors and nurses report a crippling lack of basic supplies and dramatic overcrowding in ICUs across the country. With the health system collapsing, the [...]
In Dairy Country, a Network of Hmong and Latino Workers Fight Covid-19 – Dairy production in Wisconsin relies on immigrant labor, a contradiction in a state that has seen the rise of nativist, anti-immigrant politics.
Get Rid of No-Strike Clauses and Stop Begging – The right to strike is the only thing that gives working people power. Let’s stop bargaining it away.
Hate Racism? Oppose the CIA
This week, the CIA caused a stir thanks to a widely ridiculed recruitment ad featuring a young Latina officer using language popular in social justice circles. In the ad, the first-generation immigrant officer defiantly rejects the “imposter syndrome” she once struggled with in the office, refusing to “internalize misguided patriarchal ideas of what a woman [...]
Malalai Joya: Fred uden retfærdighed er meningsløs
Egypt’s Al-Sisi Regime Is Still “Disappearing” Researchers Who Oppose Its Crimes
It is three months since reproductive rights researcher Ahmed Samir Abdelhay Ali presented himself at the fifth district police station in central Cairo. He is still yet to be freed. Samir, a twenty-nine-year-old graduate student at Vienna’s Central European University, had traveled from the Austrian capital to Egypt for his school’s Christmas break, where he [...]
At sætte ulve til at vogte får.
No, We Don’t Need These Forever Wars
If the Left’s expectations were low for Joe Biden on the domestic sphere, they were somewhere around floor level when it came to foreign policy. Biden didn’t promise much, and what he did promise didn’t seem to point to anything particularly ambitious. But have conditions nonetheless forced a subtle shift in US foreign policy? And [...]
The Congresspeople Standing Up for Their Trans Children – Trans people, who face relentless attacks on their right to exist, are nearly absent in federal representation. Reps. Marie Newman and Pramila Jayapal, both parents to trans kids, have their backs.
To Defend Public Health, We Need More Than Lockdowns
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, state-imposed lockdowns have become a widely accepted public health measure around the world. For many on the Left, these restrictions on business, travel, and public gatherings have appeared as a vital part of a socialist response to the pandemic — their necessity prompting demands for massive government investment [...]
Turning a Profit from Death – On Modi’s Pandemic Response in Neoliberal India
De rigtige meningers klub
Martha Nussbaum At skabe kapabiliteter – hen mod et retfærdigt samfund Forlaget Mindspace, 2021 ANMELDELSE: Martha Nussbaum er en af de mest indflydelsesrige nulevende filosoffer og har bl.a. inspireret dele af FN’s [...]
Fentanyl Is the Genie That Won’t Go Back in the Bottle
When Axel was twelve, his dad Kirk took him to see Smash Mouth — his first concert. Soon Kirk, a musician, hauled a drum kit into their house outside of Providence, Rhode Island, and the two spent Axel’s early teenage years learning songs by his favorite bands like Fountains of Wayne. This past New Year’s [...]
Political Blackness and the search for multiracial solidarity
Biden’s Foreign Policy and Nuclear Weapons: a Dialogue
Ricard Falk: The humane and competently handled responses that the Biden presidency has pursued with respect to the COVID challenge, mitigating economic burdens on the poor, empathy for abuses of persons of color, and moves toward proposing a massive infrastructure program are uplifting changes in policy and leadership of the country, especially welcomed after enduring More
Government Report Documents US Responsibility for Venezuela’s Humanitarian Dilemma
In January 2019 the US and its allies ceased to recognize Maduro as Venezuela’s legitimate president after then National Assembly leader Juan Guaidó, who had never run for national office, “announced he was willing to serve as interim president.” Guaidó’s coup attempts are euphemistically described as “high-profile but ultimately unsuccessful efforts to encourage security forces to abandon Maduro.” More
The [...]
Britain Risks Cementing in Power a Corrupt and Incompetent Government in Undeserved Gratitude for the Vaccine
"No more f**king lockdowns – let the bodies pile high in their thousands,” Boris Johnson is reported as saying last October as the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic got underway. Many will view his callous words, which he vehemently denies uttering, as an ill-chosen figure of speech, but they may fail to realise the grim truth that what he [...]
New Tenants: Birdwatching in New York City
Bird watching is as New York as baseball, bagels, and be-bop. Some of the very first citizen-scientists in the modern-day field, many New Yorkers, have been elemental in the development of the Audubon Society and ornithological institutions dedicated to the study of these fascinating creatures of flight and song. More
Tim Cook, Apple, and Runaway Limitless Corporate Greed
David Gelles, the New York Times reporter, likes to report about corporate plutocrats raking it in while stifling or endangering their workers. We’ve all seen those large advertisements by big companies praising the sacrifices of their brave workers during this Covid-19 pandemic. When workers ask for living wages, most of these bosses say “No” but take plenty of dough for themselves. More
Squad & Co: Unite as a Block to Downsize Biden’s Military Budget
A month before the vote on the federal budget, progressives in Congress declared, “We’ve studied President Biden’s proposed $753 billion military budget, an increase of $13 billion from Trump’s already inflated budget, and we can’t, in good conscience, support this.” Now that would be a show stopper, particularly if they added, “So we have decided More
A Farewell to “Great Men”
“Why do you read this trash? It is inflated trash, Hemingway. By a dead man.” “I like to see what they are writing,” I said. “And it keeps my mind off me doing it.” – Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, “Une Génération Perdue,” A Moveable Feast I was reading (and watching) a hit piece in More
Forgetting Citizenship: Australia Suspends Flights from India
As India is being devastated by COVID-19 cases that have now passed a daily rate of 400,000, affluent and callous Australia has taken the decision to suspend all flights coming into the country till mid-month. The decision was reached by the Morrison government with the blessing of the State Premiers and the Labor opposition. Not More
BuzzFeed News Wanted to Be Radical – Instead It Was Mainstream Media With Listicles
Once upon a time in the world of online journalism, something extraordinary happened. In 2014, BuzzFeed was the rising star of Silicon Valley, having established itself off the back of listicles and weird news [...] Women’s Rights in Nicaragua Under Attack From an Unlikely Source
Gioconda Belli, the Nicaraguan writer perhaps best known for her autobiography The Country Under My Skin, has been described as ‘an icon of Latin American feminist literature’. She spoke recently of the ‘extraordinary power’ of being a woman, and that despite this power ‘women have often been relegated to a second place, one where they More
An America Neglected Coming from Behind
Joseph R. Biden Jr. shows himself to be the right president “we the people” need at the right time, trying to usher in a new dawn for America as he seeks to help a long-neglected middle and working class emerging from one of the country’s darkest hours. Biden, in a contrast of behavior between him More
How India Has Creatively Turned Social Media Into a COVID-19 Helpline to Battle the Pandemic
Death, sickness, and helplessness have become the “new normal” that Indians are being forced to live with as they witness the collapse of an already inadequate health care system and the failure of its political system that was caught napping on the uptick of cases, which showed an upward trend as far back as February. More
Our Humanity; Our Identity
Identity politics has been on the ascendancy in many parts of the world in the last few decades. Its relationship to ethnicity, culture and religion is what concerns us at this point. To understand this relationship one has to consider the context. We should also try to explain the impact of identity politics upon religion More
Historiefrisørene
Historiefrisørene
Dagens antikommunisme er et perfekt alibi for at omskrive historien. Nazisternes erklærede mål om at bekæmpe kommunismen er blevet en formildende omstændighed for folkedrab og forbrydelser mod menneskeheden. Fællesudtalelse Kommunistisk plattform – marxist-leninistene (KPML), Norge Arbejderpartiet Kommunisterne (APK) Når historien omskrives Film omhandlende besættelsestiden er, stadig godt stof for underholdningsindustrien, så disse glider i en [...] On the Air with All (or Most) Things Considered – To mark the 50th anniversary of National Public Radio, we revisit this 1979 story on the station and its flagship program “All Things Considered,” which at the time was known as “Sesame Street for adults.”
Islamophobia in Europe
Arrest of seven Italian ex-militants: Macron tougher than Sarkozy!
This Old Steel Mill Town is Now a Hub for Green Energy – Sick of poison runoff and toxic beaches, a former steel town near Baltimore fights for clean jobs.
Kommunistisk Politik Digital 9 – 2021 – Nyheder hvor der kæmpes
Nr. 9 – 2021 NYHEDER HVOR DER KÆMPES Uge 16-17, 2021 14-dages blad på nettet – Få overblik med KPDigital. Bl.a. med vigtige artikler fra og uh KPnet og KPnetBlogs Gå med i arbejderklassens parti, APK I dagene d. 21.-23. april år 2000 holdt Arbejderpartiet Kommunisterne, APK sin stiftende kongres. I dagens anledning bringer vi [...] Sen. Chris Coons’s Defense of Vaccine Apartheid Is Obscene
Last week, the World Health Organization reported some 5.7 million new cases of COVID-19, a jump of 8 percent from the previous week and the highest number yet recorded. Driven heavily by the surge of new cases in India, it’s a reminder that the pandemic’s end is probably still far away for many outside the [...]
Is Line of Duty Copaganda?
15 Salvadoran Military Officers Could Soon Go on Trial for the El Mozote Massacre
In April, El Salvador began the final phase of pretrial hearings in the criminal case against the accused perpetrators of the 1981 El Mozote massacre. The massacre, which took place during the country’s civil war of 1980–1992 and killed some one thousand civilians in and around the village of El Mozote — most of them [...]
Eric Hobsbawm’s Success Was Because of His Marxism, Not in Spite of It
Eric Hobsbawm was an unrepentant Communist for over three quarters of a century. One of the world’s most famous historians and an influential public intellectual, Hobsbawm possessed a range of qualities that British intellectuals have in general lacked. He became known for his polymath mastery of European and world history, multilingual range, theoretical sophistication, synthetic [...]
The Laura Flanders Show: A New Day for Public Television?
Manchester United Fans Shut Down Match Over Glazers
Economic Update: How US Capitalism Uses Nationalism
Europe’s Border Guards Are Illegally Expelling Refugees
A young man known in public documents only as Fady has been fighting a battle far harder than anyone his age would normally imagine. He first came to Europe from Deir az-Zour, Syria, fleeing that country’s civil war. In 2015, German authorities recognized him as a legally protected refugee. Since then, Fady has used his [...]
Is the French Military a Threat to Democracy?
On April 21, nearly one thousand active service members of the French military joined dozens of retired French generals in signing a letter that stops just short of calling for a coup against the elected government in the name of “putting an end to chaos.” Published in one of France’s leading far-right magazines, Valeurs Actuelles, [...]
Fagligt møde online 6. maj: Hvordan får vi fagforeninger der kæmper?
Alle erfaringer fra OK21 siger, at hvor der har været organiseret aktivitet og initiativer blandt medlemmerne er kampviljen mobiliseret og Nej-procenten langt højere end hvor kun fagtoppen er kommet til orde med deres massive ja-kampagne. Hvordan styrker vi den faglige kamp, og hvordan bygger vi solidariteten op med de grupper der måske snart skal ud [...] The Biggest Bust Ever: Direct Action Lessons From Three Days in May of 1971
Fifty years ago this May, when the U.S. Capitol police were better at arresting large numbers of white trespassers, I watched 1,200 of my fellow anti-war demonstrators carted off to jail for just sitting on the back steps of the Capitol and listening to speeches from two House members. That bust was the last gasp More
GOP Still Wants to Pretend the Preservation of Slavery Wasn’t a Major Reason for the American Revolution
Ben Franklin was determined to violently break with Britain, but he was having great difficulties getting the loyalist southerners on board. Fortunately for Franklin, the answer was dropped in his lap in the form of a British court case, Somerset v Steuart (1772), which recognized that the petitioner, an enslaved person named Somersett, was a human being, and not “lost [...]
What Would a Deep Green New Deal Look Like?
The Green New Deal has attracted perhaps the greatest attention of any proposal for decades. It would guarantee Medicare-for-All, Housing-for-All, student loan forgiveness and propose the largest economic growth in human history to address unemployment and climate change. But the last of these hits a stumbling block. More
Modi is Singularly Responsible for India’s Pandemic Disaster
India has become the new global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, with daily infections surpassing 300,000 per day and the official death toll—likely a massive underestimate—nearing a quarter of a million people. Hospitals are being overrun with patients, and the crisis is exacerbated by a devastating shortage of oxygen. The Indian judiciary has gone as More
Rape and Ethnic Cleansing in Tigray
Victims have told investigators that when Ethiopian federal regular soldiers and militia inflict infertility on Tigrayan women with burning metal rods, after gang-raping them, they tell the women that this is to stop them having ‘Woyene’ children (the Amharans’ derogatory term for ‘Tigrayans’). Unleashing this kind of sentiment is a dangerous tactic in a country More
A City Wrestles
While most of America breathed a collective sigh of relief at the historic April 20 verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, Portland Oregon, saw its most inexplicable night yet of chaos. On the same day as the Chauvin verdict, Portland police shot and killed Robert Delgado, a man experiencing houselessness, within four minutes of arriving More
Ignorance Does Not Lead to Freedom
The slogans of the January 6 insurrections who stormed the Capitol demonstrated much passion. But they had little understanding of how a democratic government works. Nor did they care to find out. Foreign terrorists did not manipulate them. They earnestly believed as President Donald Trump told them that day and for weeks beforehand, that Congress More
Brazilian Senate Will Question: Bolsonaro on COVID-19 Response
The Supreme Court of Brazil has authorized a Senate Commission (CPI, Commisão Parlamentar de Inquérito) to investigate Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on his handling of COVID-19 in Brazil. The impetus for investigating the Brazilian president seems to be appropriate given how much Bolsonaro has downplayed the Coronavirus and the fact that Brazil has the second-highest More
If You Don’t Op-Ed, Will You Get Enough?
After half a century, the New York Times will no longer publish an Op-Ed page — or at least not one under that name. Commentaries on the news written by contributors outside of the newspaper’s regular staff will be called “guest essays” to explain their role without using what opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury calls “clubby More
America Hacks Itself
America has a serious infrastructure problem. Maybe when I say that what comes to mind are all the potholes on your street. Or the dismal state of public transportation in your city. Or crumbling bridges all over the country. But that’s so twentieth century of you. America’s most urgent infrastructure vulnerability is largely invisible and unlikely More
Fra nazisme til etno-pluralisme
Housing and the Rising GDP
The economy grew at a 6.4 percent annual rate in the first quarter driven by double-digit growth in consumption in both residential and nonresidential investment. The quarter’s growth left GDP just 0.9 percent below the pre-pandemic level reported for the fourth quarter of 2019. Productivity Growth Looks Strong The strong growth in the quarter also More
Nej, venstrefløjsaktivister er ikke det samme som fascistiske bøller
Magical Properties
Magical Properties Back in the Paleolithic Were people appealing To one another, as casually As we do today, for a light? Or was it far more fraught — Perhaps they feared or thought That their fire, their heat, Would somehow be deprived; Or do you suppose They resented those Who wanted to take With little More
Biden’s Climate Proposals: Tiptoeing Across the Starting Line
President Joe Biden announced on Earth Day that under the Paris climate agreement, the United States will pledge a 50-percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2030. He also reiterated his intention to “set a course” toward “net zero emissions economy-wide” by 2050. This was a welcome change from life under the previous president, who had More