Princess Reema bint Bandar Al-Saud, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, was in the hot seat. In early March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, oil prices collapsed and a price war broke out between Saudi Arabia and Russia, leaving American oil and gas companies feeling the pain. As oil prices plummeted, Republican senators from [...]
Alle steder i verden har der været massiv tilslutning til 1. maj demonstrationerne for enhed, kamp og solidaritet. Kravene lød samstemmende fra alle verdenshjørner: Brød, sundhed, arbejde, retfærdighed, uddannelse og ligeløn – lad de rige betale! Columbia Titusindvis af mennesker protesterer i Colombia for fjerde dag i træk for at forlange tilbagekaldelse af øgede afgifter [...] The welfare state, in its different versions, has been celebrated as one of the greatest achievements of the labor movement in Western Europe. And it’s no surprise: the welfare state represented great progress in people’s general living and working conditions. Health, life expectancy, and social security developed enormously in a relatively short period as the [...]
Climate warnings With the exception of fossil fuel beneficiaries, most of the leaders of the world are taking climate change, if not seriously, at least under advisement. They observe the effects of higher temperatures, increasing destructive forest fires, rising sea water levels, thunderstorms, and more difficulties in raising food and catching fish. The UN Panel on More
Overlooked by most mainstream media outlets, the Democratic primary for Manhattan district attorney will have great consequences not just for the more than 1 million people who live in New York’s most famous borough, but for the rest of the city and the nation writ large. The Manhattan DA’s office, with five hundred prosecutors and [...]
If you’re reading Jacobin, you’re probably impatient to pass Medicare for All — and rightly so. But Medicare for All can’t pass the current Congress. Even if Bernie Sanders had been elected president last year, he wouldn’t have had the votes, certainly not in his first term. It’s one of many reasons we urgently need [...]
The same study keeps coming out to show that the rich are causing climate change and environmental breakdown. In 2015, Oxfam released a report entitled “Extreme Carbon Inequality” that found the top 10 percent of people in the world are responsible for 50 percent of emissions, while the bottom 50 percent are only responsible for [...]
Den kæmpende bevægelse var på gaden d. 1. maj, på arbejderklassens internationale kampdag. Med gejst, taler, musik og boder – i strålende forårsvejr. Her bringes indtryk fra dagen, tilsat klip fra Cathrine Pedersen tale. KPnet bringer flere taler i de kommende dage. “Livet, opfindsomheden, protesterne, menneskeligheden ikke kan holdes nede, men spirer overalt. Selv under [...] 
Det er første maj, arbejderklassens internationale kampdag. En dag hvor vi – Arbejderpartiet Kommunisterne er på gaden. Vi er på gaden fordi kampen for et bedre liv og en bedre verden for folket og arbejderklassen, for de udbyttede, udpinte og undertrykte, er så nødvendig som nogensinde. Fordi vi VED at vi har en verden at [...] Australia’s conservative government is mired in sexual abuse scandals. In March, an allegation of a historic sexual assault committed by former attorney general Christian Porter came to light. Then there were revelations about an alleged rape that took place inside Parliament House, as well as a video of a staffer masturbating on a female MP’s [...]
After neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, and then president Donald Trump responded by saying there were “good people on both sides,” people who abhor white supremacism stood up, took notice, and condemned the marchers. Anti-racists would be wise to do the same about the far-right march that took place last week in Jerusalem. The situation [...]
During the first week of March in 1968, more than fifteen thousand students walked out of their high schools in Los Angeles, kicking off the largest student walkout in US history. The students, mostly Mexican Americans, were fed up with a school system that had given them de facto segregation, English-only instruction, and irrelevant curricula. [...]
In Mare of Easttown, a seven-episode HBO Max series, Kate Winslet plays a cop for the first time in her career. Every actor in America has to play a cop eventually; it’s in the guild rules. And there are so many cop-centered movies and TV series, the odds of getting a cop role are excellent. [...]
In the weeks leading up to their 2019 summer uprising, Extinction Rebellion organisers in Bristol liaised closely with Avon and Somerset Police (ASP), as they always did. XR notified the police that their five-day protest would begin on 15 July with [...] 
I anledning af 1.maj Arbejderklassens internationale kampdag for socialisme og en revolutionær vej har vi oversat denne hilsen fra CIPOML, Den internationale konference af marxist-leninistiske parter og organisationer. Kollegaer og arbejdere, Arbejderklassen i hele verden fejrer sin kampdag for international enhed, kamp og solidaritet i en tid med særlige historiske forhold. I næsten alle lande [...] Fifty years ago this month, I watched 1,200 of my fellow antiwar demonstrators get carted off to jail for simply sitting on the back steps of the Capitol and listening to speeches from two House members. That bust was the last gasp of three days of mass protest activity in Washington, DC, against the Vietnam [...]
Today we celebrate May Day with red flags, raised fists, and songs of solidarity, much as socialists have for generations. These traditions have persevered since the holiday’s inception in the late nineteenth century — but not without interruption. In 1930s Germany, May Day was celebrated in the shadow of the swastika. The holiday’s survival of [...]
I anledning af 1. maj fortæller vi i de følgende podcasts om fem politiske fanger, der på trods af aldersforskel, erfaringer og køn, har fælles egenskaber:
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On April 19, 2021, the Cuban Communist Party’s Eighth Congress finally brought an end to the political era of the Castros by electing Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, national president since 2018, as the party’s new first secretary. This move followed Raúl Castro’s confirmation on April 16 that he would stand down after two successive terms, as [...]
In 1924, a trademark application was filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Wisconsin for a product described as “absorbent pads or sheets for removing cold cream.” The product in question was Kleenex, which according to company lore was relaunched as facial tissue after an employee with hay fever used one of [...]
“America is back”, Joe Biden has declared. And the ideological construct known as “America” is certainly back at the forefront of mainstream political discourse. This is America – i.e. US state power – as the good guys on the world [...] Debate around Israel’s occupation of Palestine often revolves around the two-state solution — one state for Palestinians, another for Israelis. Currently, there is a single state in historic Palestine: the apartheid state of Israel. A web of walls, settlements, and a legal system of discrimination gives Israel full reign of the land, sea, and air. [...]
During the 2020 campaign, there were certain issues where, according to some anti-Trump evangelists, Trump was simply so beyond the pale — immigration and the pandemic maybe chief among them — that even though Democratic nominee Joe Biden might fail to deliver a break from the stagnant economic status quo, it was every American’s solemn [...]
Every winter, thousands of Canadian and American visitors flee the cold for Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. Over the last fifteen years, the destination’s popularity has spawned a tourist enclave called Riviera Nayarit, north of Puerto Vallarta along the Banderas Bay. Filled with luxury resorts, gated communities, and condo buildings, as well as world-class golf courses [...]
The Trudeau government knows that North American infrastructure is in jeopardy: for years, engineers have been sounding the alarm. Justin Trudeau and the Liberals claim to have a solution for this problem: the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB). Canada’s then–finance minister Bill Morneau announced the CIB’s creation in 2016. The bank uses public-private partnerships (called “P3s”) [...]
It’s only been 100 days and the country already seems numb, insensate to the widening fractures beneath its feet. In a land without outrage, you can get away with almost anything. More
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On May Day 1986 Noel Ignatiev, the former steel worker, was aboard the good ship “New Boston,” on a harbor cruise from Rowe’s Wharf in Boston to Mary Mount in Quincy Bay. With fellow passengers from Haiti, Ethiopia, Peru, Somerville, Cambridge, Jamaica Plain, and Southie, he was celebrating with the kids dancing around the May Pole at the Harbor campus [...]
Accusations by the United States government and its allies about genocideand forced labor in Xinjiang have brought China’s westernmost province into the gaze of the international media. This approach toward Xinjiang defines the information war prosecuted by Washington. More
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For over a week now Muslim Palestinians have not been allowed to celebrate the Iftar (breaking the Ramadan fast at dusk) at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, as they have done in the past. They have also been denied access to the Al Aqsa mosque and its compound. So much for religious freedom in “The only Democracy in the Middle East.”
People are dying outside hospitals because there are no beds available. A big private hospital known for its celebrity patients has transformed its lobby into a Covid ward. In other hospitals patients are sharing beds; some are getting oxygen while lying down on the floor or even in an autorickshaw parked outside. These are the lucky few. Many are still [...]
The permanent shutdown of the Indian Point 3 nuclear reactor on April 30 means that for the first time since 1962, no reactors are operating within 100 miles of New York City. Only one new U.S. plant is under construction, a still-incomplete project of 15 years costing $28 billion. No others are planned, and Indian More
At a recent virtual J Street Conference, US Senators, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren broke yet another political taboo when they expressed willingness to leverage US military aid as a way to pressure Israel to respect Palestinian human rights. Sanders believes that the US “must be willing to bring real pressure to bear, including restricting More
After neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, North Carolina, and then President Donald Trump responded by saying there were “good people on both sides,” people who abhor white supremacism stood up, took notice, and condemned the marchers. Anti-racists would be wise to do the same about the far-right march that took place last week in Jerusalem. The More
This past Sunday a pared-down pandemic contingent of Hollywood elites conducted the annual Academy Award rituals of self-glorification not, as they have done since 2002, in the modern glitz of the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood itself, but in the Art Deco splendor of downtown Los Angeles’s Union Station. It seemed oddly fitting, more than a More
Here’s the strange thing in an ever-stranger world: I was born in July 1944 in the midst of a devastating world war. That war ended in August 1945 with the atomic obliteration of two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by the most devastating bombs in history up to that moment, given the sweet code names More
Parallels between U.S. abuse of Hispanic migrants and that of Jews in the very early Nazi years are deeply creepy. They were even creepier when Trump was president. That’s because he was happy to demonize this Central American and Mexican minority, to deploy the full power of the state against it and to unleash police More
According to the geopolitical analysis site STRATFOR, sanctions are “a coercive tool to compel a targeted entity to adjust its behaviour” and can be effected in a number of ways and, indeed, applied for very different reasons. An intriguing aspect of sanctions’ imposition is that some of these reasons are not intended primarily to alter the target’s behaviour More
Basically, Derek Chauvin was convicted of enforcing the status quo. Because his behavior was caught on video — his knee on George Floyd’s neck, oh my God, choking him to death — and looked so disturbing to most of the public, official American “justice” had to take some sort of action. He became a scapegoat. More
The only thing worse than SEC Chairman Gary Gensler’s pick for Director of Enforcement at Wall Street’s so-called watchdog is the way corporate media is attempting to spin it. On April 22 Gensler announced that he had appointed Alex Young K. Oh to be his top Wall Street crime fighter. Reuters (and numerous other media More
Those madly titillated by conflict have become bolder of late in the corridors of the isolated Australian capital. In such spaces, insanity can be nurtured with a sickening attention to detail, much of it fictitious. One of the most powerful bureaucrats of the Australian Public Service has made a contribution to a war dance he More
April 25th was the anniversary of the 1916 Easter rebellion in Ireland. A military failure, that moment in Irish history serves as one of the most important markers of the long struggle for Irish independence from England. After several of the participants were executed or jailed, others fled the country. The nation of Ireland was More
Amador Hernandez Ten Years Later Ten years after a trip by a documentary team assembled by Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP) to the Lacandon Jungle of Chiapas, Mexico, GJEP is highlighting the resulting film and releasing a new interview with one of the photojournalists that travelled to the region to document the threatened relocation of More
The relationship between the philosophy of Michel Foucault and Marxism has been contentious since the 1970s. Notably, Jean-Paul Sartre accused Foucault’s thought as being “the last barricade the bourgeoisie can still erect against Marx.” The reason is simple: he rejects the onto-teleological claim of Marxism and the reduction of all conflict to class conflict. Instead, More
What does it mean for a community to go from the gas chambers of Auschwitz 76 years ago to the chambers of city hall, the arts, and academia in the U.S. today? Journeying from the bottom of the European caste system to the top of the U.S. caste system constitutes generational whiplash. Ashkenazi Jews (Jews More
As children of the 90s and early aughts, millennials came of age beset by problems both too large to ignore and too expensive to fix: debilitating student debt, worsening climate change, skyrocketing inequality. When we looked to our government to address these problems, political leaders of both parties clutched nervously at their purse strings. “How More
December 22, 1963 — exactly one month after President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated, former President Harry S. Truman published an op-ed in the Washington Post that most people, especially our perfumed ruling elite, wanted to ignore. Truman, who signed the CIA into existence just after World War II, wrote, “I think it has become necessary to More
This is the eighth in a series about train and bicycle rides from Switzerland to Belarus, in those carefree days before pandemic lockdowns. Before leaving the Brest Fortress (on the Belarus-Polish border) I inspected various museums and monuments from the Second World War, when again the fortress was a bastion fought over by Russians and More
One of the many challenges facing President Joe Biden is what to do with regard to Guantánamo. Together with former President Barak Obama, President Biden did much to restore normal relations with Cuba, a course of action that was altered by Donald Trump’s decision to harden the U.S. Government posture with Havana. In an April16, More
The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed an unending onslaught on humanity. The world has seen 3.12 million deaths due to the Coronavirus till April 27 and several people have died due to hunger owing to the lockdowns, shutdowns resulting in disastrous economic consequences. The countries are in 2nd, 3rd and 4th waves of COVID-19. The governments have intervened More
There is one main U.S. law that governs the management of marine fisheries in federal waters: The Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA). Originally intended to address the concern over foreign fisheries operating near U.S. waters, the MSA, which was passed in 1976, extended the nation’s exclusive fisheries zone from 12 to 200 nautical More
President Joe Biden has made no secret of his admiration for Franklin D. Roosevelt. He’s even given a painted portrait of FDR a place of honor in his White House Oval Office. A bit more significantly, Biden has just announced the most ambitious gameplan — since FDR’s New Deal — for enhancing the well-being of More
Earth Day comes and goes every year but nothing seems to ever really change. We are still headed for climate catastrophe, we are still in the midst of a mass extinction, we are still losing our topsoil at an alarming rate. It is time to center food systems, and especially agriculture, in our efforts to More
Gustavo “Kike” Ramirez would have turned 17 this year. He died when his employer failed to provide him with a safety harness at a Nashville, Tennessee construction site on June 23, 2020. “It was ten months ago, and I still think about him every day,” said Jenifer Enamorado Ayala, recalling her brother’s preventable fall that More
A few months ago, I watched a documentary called The Philosopher Kings: Wisdom from the Custodial Staff at Prestigious Universities. The movie outlined the lives of janitors from various colleges. It explored what conjuncture of circumstances led them to join the universities’ custodial staff, and it gave the janitors the opportunity to reflect directly on More
If you don’t dig deep Joe Biden appears to be governing as the most liberal president since LBJ. But conservatives needn’t worry. Biden is no progressive in centrist’s clothing. True, the president’s legislative agenda—after the coronavirus relief bill, which was undeniably progressive—would expand the social safety net, increase direct aid to citizens in trouble and More
The Cuban Communist Party’s Eighth Congress took place in Havana on April 16-19, five years after the previous one. President Miguel Díaz-Canel delivered the closing remarks. He had just replaced former President Raul Castro as first secretary of the Party’s Central Committee. Castro is retiring from public life. Centering on the Congress’s theme of continuity, More
Several years ago, when I learned that Olympic College in Bremerton, Washington, was about to develop a strategic plan and vision for its future, I was hopeful that the endeavor would shine a light on the bifurcated two-tier faculty workforce and the substandard working conditions of adjuncts, which, I hoped, might lead to improvement and More
A hedgehog is a small animal that lives off bugs and a Hedge Hog is a large investment fund that lives off shit. Your shit, to be precise. Hedge Hogs sort through the data you discard in the normal course of living. They seek signs of, well, movement. Hedge Hogs are happy to make a More
I almost fell out of my chair when I heard U.S. Sen. Steve Daines question Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on grizzly bear science. Relying on criteria in a nearly 30-year-old recovery plan (that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now concedes is outdated), he insisted grizzlies in the Yellowstone region are now fully recovered since More
Since the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, women have disproportionately borne the brunt of the pandemic’s economic devastation. Literature on gender-related economic divergence during the public health emergency has been mostly concerned with disparities between men and women. Studies looking at parents specifically, including those parsing the pandemic’s effects on working More
The upper Priest River area in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest has the largest contiguous area of old-growth cedar, hemlock, and grand fir in the interior Western United States and the largest concentration of ancient cedar stands in northern Idaho. Because of the bowl-shaped topography the high ridges on three sides capture cold air in More
Much like other communities, Asian Americans have a long history of developing spaces and institutions to advance themselves in a country that often gave them little support. The Chinatowns found across the country derive from this history. This May, Asian American History Month, it’s worth taking a look at what we can learn from them. More
Oh great — here comes a new stealth attack on the fragile, life-sustaining natural resources of Planet Earth. This latest assault by Wall Street alchemists would redefine one of our most basic resources: water. Everyone knows that water is “invaluable” — it’s literally life, requiring a constant intake by each of us, or we quickly More
Oh sweet lord Satan, is this it? Is this really how it ends? With Joe Biden struggling to pronounce Pashtun words on badly shuffled cue cards. Is this it? After twenty long years that could only accurately be described as goddamned, is this finally mercifully it? Twenty years! Twenty years in Afghanistan! Has it really More
What I want America to realize today is how the promise of our future is being destroyed as the legacy of Martin Luther King’s thinking and life is being expunged from our history. MLK’s teachings enraged those who have reason to hate truth, so they were not satisfied with his death. They sought the death More
Arizona and Georgia have been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. Each state is engaged in electoral fraud-making for the future — in full view of the nation. They both want to ensure that voting in their states, especially for future presidential elections, is manipulable, that ways and means to recalculate votes More
The women set a high bar but their colleague, Jim Jordan can meet it. At first blush it would seem that Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert have an insurmountable lead if recent actions by those two women are the measuring stick. They both serve in the United States House of Representatives and seem to More
On 9 April 2021, retired physician and health and environmental campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason wrote to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (DEPA). She wanted to draw the agency’s attention to the findings that indicate the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup causes high levels of mortality following contact exposure in bumble bees (glyphosate-formulated herbicides are the most widely More
“As a measure of just how absurd the Academy Awards are (even at its primary function of being a slick marketing gimmick for the reissue of films that most people have already seen) consider the fact that the two greatest directors ever to work in Hollywood, Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock–both of whom were workhorses More
Tens of millions of people in this country have experienced violence, abuse, and sexual assault. These are traumatic experiences, often made all the worse for survivors by the legal system. Now there’s a movement underway to change that. In university law classes and training programs for established attorneys, trauma awareness is gaining traction in law More
EU er på vej med et direktiv om at indføre en EU-dikteret mindsteløn. Først kom EU-kommissionens forslag, og nu er der fra EU-parlamentet kommet med et ændringsforslag, der skærper direktivet yderligere. Det gør det kun mere tydeligt, at EU’s mindsteløn ikke vil kunne undgå at få konsekvenser i Danmark. EU’s garantier om undtagelser for Danmark [...] At a moment of unexpected synchronicity, I find myself writing on Earth Day about a pioneer in global consciousness who was best known as “World Citizen # 1.’” He was a former WWII bomber pilot who was so pained about having bombed a civilian city that, in 1948, he gave up his US national citizenship More
The crime drama has long been popular in both literature and on television, but during repeated lockdowns its appeal has seemingly scaled yet greater heights. Whether it’s the BBC’s Line of Duty and Bloodlands, [...] Shrouded in darkness, an unknown figure rigs an explosive device and places it in the trunk of a nearby car. Moments later, a couple gets inside, and we follow the vehicle through the bustling, winding streets of a seedy town on the US-Mexico border. Soon, our perspective becomes fixed on another couple, who seem to [...]
After enduring layoffs by an austerity-driven administration, a coalition of unions at Rutgers University has voted in favor of a new agreement with the school. The agreement includes a work-sharing program through which some workers will agree to furlough for a portion of each week, with lost income made up for through unemployment insurance, in [...]
During the earliest months of the coronavirus pandemic, world leaders and corporate executives alike embraced the rhetoric of social solidarity, often drawing on nostalgic memories of war efforts past and common sacrifice in the face of adversity. That rhetoric, to put it mildly, did not realize itself in the form of policy: the pandemic has [...]
Climate change is better understood as climate systems breakdown, and it’s only through the lens of the latter that we can grasp the scale of the crisis ahead. On this episode of Downstream, Aaron Bastani is joined by Mat Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton to discuss their new book, Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the [...] Over the course of fifty days, Amazon mobilized dozens of consultants and influencers, created websites, sent dozens of anti-union messages to every employee on Twitter and WhatsApp, and called a hundred meetings with mandatory participation during working hours. On the other hand, the union avoided mobilizing its members with public protest actions and did not organize moments of active solidarity [...]
India’s prime minister Narendra Modi is, if nothing else, a showman. His cult of personality, and the governing style of his far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), emphasize spectacle and image management. For many years it seemed that no matter what controversy he got into, or however lackluster his party’s performance, Modi could spin his way [...]
Den 28 april genoptog colombianerne generalstrejken fra 2019 med massive mobilisationer i hele landet. Nogle af slagordene er de samme: overholdelse af fredsaftalen og protest over de mange mord på sociale ledere og andre civile. Desuden er vreden vokset med en varslet skattereform, som vil ramme den brede befolkning hårdt, netop som folk er mest […]
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On his first day in office, Joe Biden fired Peter Robb, the awful former management-side attorney who was general counsel on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Since then, Biden has shored up union pension plans in his pandemic relief bill and released a video opposing Amazon’s union-busting in Bessemer, Alabama — even if he [...]
You’d think the new Hulu docuseries Sasquatch was going to be about Bigfoot, the massive legendary creature supposedly inhabiting the forests of North America. The title hints at it. And by God, when I watch a show called Sasquatch, I want it to be in some substantial way about Sasquatch. But it isn’t, really. Sasquatch [...]
Efter lang tids venten er regeringens landbrugsudspil endelig kommet. På papiret kan ambitionsniveauet synes højere end forventet, men reelt set[...]
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The Uyghurs — a predominantly Muslim people who inhabit China’s northwestern Xinjiang province and consider the region their homeland — have long had a tumultuous relationship with the various iterations of the Chinese state that have governed them since the mid-eighteenth century. In 2017, that relationship entered a new and more terrifying phase as the [...]
The death of Bob Fass, the longtime host of “Radio Unnameable,” and a crucial member of the counterculture of the Sixties, has understandably led to recollections of him and tributes to his many talents. What his death hasn’t yet prompted as far as I know is a discussion of the role of radio as a More
…The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 1967 Enough has been said, here and elsewhere, about the contents of the bestselling book Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (KATM) and the meticulous archival and field research on which it More
So Rudyard Kipling’s arithmetic came to pass after all. ‘Strike hard who cares—shoot straight who can/ The odds are on the cheaper man.’ The U.S. has thrown in the towel. Another ‘superpower’ is set to depart Afghanistan. The symbolic date of September 11 is meant to have a ring of finality to it. It should: More
Standing near the top of Kelly Butte and looking toward the west, you have a great view of i-205, with a mess of six lanes of traffic and a wild combination of on- and off-ramps leading to major intersections, there just east of the highway, in between SE Division Street and Powell Boulevard. Among the More
In recent months the air in Germany has been overfull. But the fog, thick as in old London, was not humid but political – and medical-political. The thickest was Covid fog. Blanketing some 2/3 of the news, the details changed daily, even hourly. How many new cases, how many deaths, who could go out when More
Attributing names to the brutal acts humans are capable of inflicting upon each other is never without problems. There are gradations of terror, hierarchies of atrocity and cruelty. In these, the pedants reign. Disputes splutter and rage over whether a “massacre” can best be described as a crime against humanity or a counter-measure waged with More
North Korea is rattling America’s cage again. It sent a reminder call when it recently fired off multiple short-range missiles after denouncing Washington for going forward with joint military exercises with South Korea. A few days later the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the formal name for North Korea) launched two new tactical guided ballistic More
EU svigter, når vi ikke evner at indføre økonomiske sanktioner mod Polens traktatkrænkelser. Begrænsningerne af LGBTQ-personers rettigheder bør have konsekvenser og derfor vil vi nu sagsøge Polen, skriver Søren Søndergaard, Pernille Skipper og Nikolaj Willumsen.
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In 1969, the US Supreme Court held, in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, that students don’t “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” Schools may only prohibit, censor, or punish student speech which would “materially and substantially interfere with the requirements of appropriate discipline in More
The Biden administration has crafted two major legislative packages aimed at making our economy more equitable, sustainable, caring, and better prepared for future crises. Last month, the president unveiled his American Jobs Plan, which requests about $2.3 trillion over eight years to modernize the nation’s infrastructure, with most of the costs to be covered by More
Fences. Everywhere I went during a recent trip to Point Reyes, I encountered fences. Why are there fences in a national park unit? They exist to facilitate the private use of public lands for a personal profit with the full blessing of the Point Reyes National Seashore administration. Fences are symbolic of the controversy surrounding More
A New York Times piece on soaring CEO pay at one point noted how attaching most CEO pay to stock options is supposed to align CEO pay with shareholder interests: “Executives at publicly traded companies receive most of their compensation in stock, an arrangement intended to align pay with the performance of a company’s share More
“Independent media bring issues to the boil; mainstream media inhale the steam.” That’s what Phyllis Kriegel, editor of New Directions for Women, told me back in the 1990s, and it remains true today. Cierra Hinton, publisher and editor of Scalawag, a publication covering the South, cited a recent example. Not long ago, Scalawag ran an investigation into local murdered and More
When Reese Erlich died in early April, we lost a global reporter who led by example. During five decades as a progressive journalist, Reese created and traveled an independent path while avoiding the comfortable ruts dug by corporate media. When people in the United States read or heard his reporting from more than 50 countries, More
APK holder 1. maj med gademøder i København, Odense og Århus og ONLINE MØDE KL 19 – ALLE ER VELKOMNE! Se programmet med talere fra den kæmpende bevægelse – fra den faglige kamp, kvindekampen, for retten til en bolig, social retfærdighed, international solidaritet og socialisme. AFTENMØDE ONLINE KL 19 – 20.15 Kom med – klik [...] 
In Paris this morning, seven Italians were arrested, all former members of ‘red terrorist’ groups – small groups of clandestine militants who carried out kidnappings, bombings and assassinations during Italy’s ‘years of lead’. All seven were long ago convicted [...] There are over 2,200 graduate workers at New York University. As of Monday, they are on strike. The work stoppage began after what GSOC-UAW, the graduate workers’ union, describes as nine months of stonewalling at the bargaining table by the university administration. The union delivered a petition to NYU at the start of last month, [...]
Uberørt af den globale økonomiske nedtur under pandemiens lockdown, har militærudgifterne på globalt plan nået
svimlende rekordhøjder.
Ifølge ’Stockholms Internationella Fredsforskningsinstitut’ (Sipri) steg militærudgifterne i
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De mange COVID19-restriktioner betød, at der måtte tænkes nyt, hvis den fjerde kulturfestival ikke helt måtte aflyses. Lole Møller, Rød+Grøn[...]
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Visionær debat om nordisk socialismeNordisk socialisme” er titlen på en ny bog af Pelle Dragsted, debattør og tidl. MF. Her[...]
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I slutningen af august lyder startskuddet til en bred partioffensiv, der skal sikre et godt resultat for Enhedslisten ved kommune-[...]
Indlægget Fælles offensiv for klima og social retfærdighed blev først udgivet på
Danmark er fremmedfjendsk, og det kan have store konsekvenser for fremtiden. Hvis Danmark ikke vil lukke sig om sig selv,[...]
Indlægget Nyt fra SUF: Jeg elsker Danmark, men jeg hader Danmark blev først udgivet på
Flere medlemmer af Enhedslisten har underskrevet #Enblandtos-erklæringen om krænkelser og overgreb i politik, sammen med flere hundrede andre politisk aktive[...]
Indlægget Et netværk for kvinder og kønsminoriteter blev først udgivet på
I november mødtes omkring 70 kvinder og kønsminoriteter via Zoom. Vi mødtes for at tale om det, de fleste i[...]
Indlægget Det, vi kan sammen blev først udgivet på
Regeringen har besluttet at anlægge en ledning med fossil gas til Lolland-Falster. Rød+Grøn har talt med kommunalbestyrelsesmedlem Bente Borreskov om[...]
Indlægget En kulsort vanvidsløsning blev først udgivet på
Et borgerforslag om at flytte handikapområdet fra kommunerne har opnået mere end 50.000 støtter og skal førstebehandles i Folketinget 4.[...]
Indlægget Borgerforslag: Flyt handikapområdet fra kommunerne blev først udgivet på
On Twitter, the mysterious and pseudonymous James Medlock (who tweets about lefty policy stuff, but is also some sort of cult figure?) recently hosted a group commiseration session about a malady that is shockingly widespread, but about which too many of us remain heedlessly ignorant. I’m speaking of the Marginal Rate Delusion. It turns out that vast swathes [...]
Siden marts sidste år har landets børn måttet tilbringe usædvanligt meget tid hjemme. Vi har bedt tre børn skrive lidt[...]
Indlægget Sådan har børnene oplevet nedlukningen blev først udgivet på
Ifølge FN’s Børnekonvention har børn og unge ret til selv at definere deres kønsidentitet. Hvis Danmark vil efterleve konventionen, må[...]
Indlægget Børn og unge skal have ret til at skifte navn og CPR-nummer blev først udgivet på
De seneste års reformer af kontanthjælpsloft, integrationsydelse og starthjælp har ført tusindvis af børn ud i fattigdom. Den udvikling har[...]
Indlægget Det er tid til at afskaffe børnefattigdom blev først udgivet på
Når regeringen vil tvangsfjerne flere, kan det gå ud over børn, hvis forældre ikke matcher forestillingerne om den klassiske kernefamilie.[...]
Indlægget Forebyg frem for automatisk at fjerne blev først udgivet på
Regeringens anbringelsesudspil rummer gode intentioner om børnerettigheder og stabilitet, men der mangler fokus på forebyggelse og ressourcer til ordentlig sagsbehandling.[...]
Indlægget ‘Børnene Først’ mangler fokus på forebyggelse blev først udgivet på
Vi skal passe på ikke at gentage fortidens fejl ved at glemme forebyggelse til fordel for tvangsfjernelser. Månedens tema ser[...]
Indlægget Børneforsorg med mørke skygger blev først udgivet på
No US presidential administration’s foreign policy can be truly assessed until it faces something wholly unexpected, an event that forces it into a reactive posture where the promises of the campaign trail no longer apply. Think September 11, which spawned the War on Terror; or the Arab Spring, which led to the US intervention in [...]
When New Democracy, Greece’s conservative ruling party, won the July 2019 elections following a decade-long austerity crisis, it did so on a ticket promising tax relief, growth, law and order, and nationalism, but also on reassurances of social inclusion. Its leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a Harvard-educated scion of one of Greece’s most prominent political families, promised [...]
When New Democracy, Greece’s conservative ruling party, won the July 2019 elections following a decade-long austerity crisis, it did so on a ticket promising tax relief, growth, law and order, and nationalism, but also on reassurances of social inclusion. Its leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a Harvard-educated scion of one of Greece’s most prominent political families, promised [...]
Margrethe Vestager forsikrer, at EU’s direktiv om passende mindsteløn ikke rører den danske model. Et løfte, hun ikke kan holde.
Indlægget Debat: Vestager giver løfter om en europæisk mindsteløn, som hun ikke kan holde blev først udgivet på
In a 2016 interview with the Guardian, former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg made a revealing recollection: the Conservatives, he recalled, refused to build social housing because it would “create Labour voters”. Clegg’s remarks certainly align with the evidence: in Osborne’s spending [...] The vaccination gap between rich and poor countries has widened to a chasm. As science writer Stephen Buranyi noted this week in the Guardian: “Of the doses already given, about half have gone to the richest 16% of the world’s population. . . . According to analysis by the Center for Global Development and the Economist, nations in [...]
Composer Peter Maxwell Davies celebrated Orkney’s defeat of uranium mining with his piece, “The Yellow Cake Revue.” (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) On a midsummer day on Saturday, June 21, 1980, in a Victorian Hotel on the Orkney Islands, resident composer Peter Maxwell Davies and actress Eleanor Bron performed the composer’s newest piece — The Yellow Cake More
In March last year I was in New Delhi for a conference at one of the several universities there– it was my last trip anywhere since the pandemic took hold in increasing parts of the world that spring. Delhi’s notorious pollution relented, and there were blue skies during my week there. But the pandemic was More
The US role in the defeat of leftist Andrés Arauz in Ecuador’s presidential contest on April 11 was not overt because it did not need to be, according to a high-ranking Latin American diplomat. We met with the diplomat and others on an official election observation delegation with CODEPINK. Names of some sources remain anonymous More
Political speech, the most significant part of free speech, is anything but robust in most Muslim countries. Criticism of the government lies at heart of the political speech. Ordinary citizens and journalists must be free to criticize public officials, expose corruption in the government, contest policies, even if “those in control of government think that More
President Biden gave us his climate plan on March 31. It was buried inside his American Jobs Plan. The 12,000-word Fact Sheet about it released by the White House hardly acknowledges the climate emergency. The plan is presented as a jobs through infrastructure program. The climate emergency demands a radical and rapid decarbonization of the More
“Let’s be clear: Deploying weapons in space crosses a threshold that cannot be walked back,” stated retired U.S. Army Colonel John Fairlamb in a piece in the The Hill, the Washington, D.C. news website. Fairlamb knows the weaponization of space issue. His background includes being International Affairs Specialist for the Army Space and Missile Defense More
There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the threat that enemies of science represent to contemporary American culture. That concern, is well founded. In fact, it is better founded than I believe most people suspect. Until recently, most victims of the anti-science contagion were religious fundamentalists, or those on the far right of the political More
Last year was a terrible time for vast numbers of people around the globe, who experienced not only a terrible disease pandemic, accompanied by widespread sickness and death, but severe economic hardship. Even so, the disasters of 2020 were not shocking enough to jolt the world’s most powerful nations out of their traditional preoccupation with More
Not even a day after the Derek Chauvin guilty verdicts came down, another Black man—Andrew Brown Jr.—was executed in cold blood by police. And once again—as has been the case in too many of these fatal encounters—suspected drug involvement was what gave law enforcement the excuse to completely disregard the value of human life. Like More
On May 1st, the date Donald Trump signed onto for the withdrawal of the remaining 3,500 American troops from Afghanistan, the war there, already 19 years old, was still officially a teenager. Think of September 11, 2021 — the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and the date Joe Biden has chosen for the same More
Republicans, inspired by Donald Trump’s repeated lies of a “rigged” and fraudulent presidential election, boldly are passing and proposing laws that would rig elections in their favor, tarnishing democracy. In another vein, they have gone so far in Florida and Oklahoma as to pass legislation openly aimed at leftist demonstrators that would grant immunity from More
Fejring af arbejderklassens internationale kampdag 1. maj, forbydes i den ene tyrkiske region efter den anden. Også spredning af plakater og løbesedler er forbudt under påskud af corona sikkerhed. Men det stopper ikke organisationerne – 1. maj arrangementerne vil blive gennemført som planlagt! Af Tyrkiets Arbejderparti, EMEP Istanbul er blevet føjet til listen af 1. [...] The car that came closest to running me over at a protest was silver. I don’t remember the make or model, just the color, and that it was big, a truck or SUV. I had to look up when speaking to the driver as I told him not to drive through the crowd of people. [...]
On March 23, 1971, ethnic violence broke out across East Pakistan among the Bengalis and the Urdu-speaking population known as Biharis. The latter were refugees of India’s Partition in 1947, and Pakistan was the dream they were willing to kill and die for. The Bengalis, on the other hand, sought liberation from Pakistan. The railway [...]
Joe Biden entered the White House promising to reverse Donald Trump’s draconian anti-immigrant policies while, through his “Plan to Build Security and Prosperity in Partnership with the People of Central America,” restoring “US leadership in the region” that he claimed Trump had abandoned. For Central Americans, though, such “leadership” has an ominous ring. Although the [...]
For some Joe Biden has already exceeded expectations. For others his economic program is nowhere near enough to address the climate crisis and American decline. While his Covid relief package has seen billions dispensed immediately, the Jobs Plan proposes to invest $35 billion in green R&D over eight years – less than Americans spend annually [...] Until recently, anyone with a scholarly interest in Eric Hobsbawm would sooner or later be told to contact Keith McClelland. The reason was simple: He held the (virtual) keys to an extraordinary document — a PDF file that contained details of almost everything Hobsbawm ever wrote. It ran to over a hundred thirty pages and [...]
Last month, Russia began to amass troops close to its border with Ukraine. Kremlin top brass’s media interventions seeking to explain the buildup of around one hundred thousand troops were ambiguous: from reassurances that these were simple military exercises to effective threats of a full-fledged war if Ukraine should join NATO. The demonstrative character of [...]
Next Thursday, Britain will vote in its first electoral contests since 2019. The 6 May local elections will be a key test for Starmer’s Labour – in order to have a shot of winning the next general election, the party must perform [...] Trods grønne løfter fortsætter EU-støtten til kommercielle fremstød, der skal få forbrugerne i EU til at indtage mere kød og flere mælkeprodukter. En ny rapport fra Greenpeace konkluderer, at EU aktivt modarbejder folks lyst til at spise mindre kød og færre mælkeprodukter.
Indlægget EU modarbejder grønne madvaner blev først udgivet på
The military and intelligence communities are fully capable of pressuring presidential administrations with the use of worst-case or slanted intelligence. The Biden administration is currently facing such pressure from director of national intelligence Avril Haines and CIA director William Burns as well as from senior general officers. The critics of U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in the mainstream media, particularly in the Washington Post, [...]
As we enter a second Cold War against China and Russia, there are lessons to be learned from the first, since much the same propaganda mechanisms are once again hard at work. Western governments and media unrelentingly criticise China for the persecution of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province, but there is scarcely a mention of the repression of Kashmiri Muslims [...]
Global vaccine production is insufficient, and even that has been hoarded by developed countries that have bought up from two to three times more supply than is needed by their populations, an action that has come to be known as “vaccine nationalism.” What’s more, vaccine purchase does not necessarily equal vaccine availability, as has been the case in Europe and [...]
In discussing recent international political events, a friend told me, “Countries are like people: they react in the same manner.” I didn’t realize the full import of her words until I reflected on the unrelenting efforts by the U.S. to make an enemy out of Iran. There are abundant historical examples to prove that dehumanizing More
Kids of color appear to be fair game for too many cops: No More Police Killings of Children! By Dave Lindorff The latest police murder — and that’s what it was whatever the circumstances — of 16-old foster child Ma’Khia Bryant by a Columbus, Ohio cop, is sickening to watch. No way did that officer, More
President Joe Biden, in announcing an ostensible end to the U.S. war in Afghanistan, is continuing his streak of paying eloquent lip service to progressive causes while maintaining the implied status quo. In a televised address from the White House on April 14, Biden said, “it’s time to end America’s longest war. It’s time for More
The grimness grinds on for the world’s 80 million forcibly displaced persons, 34 million of them children. Covid-19 is proving to be hard to beat, putting severe, months-long restrictions on activist support for refugees in transit and host nations alike. Ali (not his real name), who spoke to us from Ritsona camp in Greece, has More
Now that Cuban president Raul Castro has resigned the presidency of Cuba, will the U.S. government lift its six-decades-long economic embargo against Cuba? Don’t count it. Squeezing the life out of the Cuban people as a way to get regime change has become such a normalized way of life for the United States that it More
President Franklin D. Roosevelt inherited a nation in crisis. Upon his arrival in Washington in 1933, the unemployment rate was a staggering 24.9 percent — the highest rate ever recorded. But Roosevelt had a vision, announcing, “Our greatest primary task is to put people to work.” In October, Roosevelt would ask his trusted adviser Harry [...]
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, has often criticized the neoliberal economic model centered on free trade, privatization, and deregulation. If his administration truly wishes to shake off the yoke of neoliberalism and reclaim national sovereignty, one step they should take is to follow other countries that are rejecting excessive powers for More
