One of the most repellent forms of that old-new popular thinking—now once again spreading with mounting intensity across Western societies since the genocidal devastation of Gaza and the American-Israeli escalation toward Iran—is the stale, mildew-ridden yet ever-ready conclusion: that, finally, the dehumanization of the Jews has been vindicated. That the racist phantasmagoria of Jews as [...]
On April 29, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 along ideological lines to weaken Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits voting practices that discriminate based on race, color, or membership in a “language minority group.” Under this provision, states were allowed to consider race in drawing district maps for the purposes of protecting the voting power of people of [...]
The US Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v Callais is the latest and probably most decisive blow to the Voting Rights Act since the attacks went full force in the aftermath of the election of President Obama.  The attacks, well-orchestrated and following a path that had been advanced by the Redeemer (white supremacist) movement of [...]
Home may be perilous and the destination out of reach But there are no paths without an end, do not grieve — Hafiz My cousin’s message arrived on January 21 at 8:39 p.m. After the January massacres in Iran. Before the war and its precarious ceasefire. She wrote to me on WhatsApp: I don’t see [...]
While the labour movement often seems at its lowest ebb, what Marx identified as capitalism’s main internal contradiction – the overaccumulation of capital at the world scale – has never been worse in absolute terms. Capital is especially frenetic within financial circuitries, amplifying extreme uneven development across the world system, but especially in the periphery [...]
“American fascism would . . . be correspondingly democratic in the American fashion.” — Bertolt Brecht, Journals At the end of last year, Donald Trump deployed more than two thousand Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to Minneapolis and St Paul, essentially occupying the Twin Cities and making his previous deployments of the National Guard to [...]
In the night of 29-30 April, as was foreseen by Ramiro Giganti, Israeli forces illegally detained some twenty boats of the flotilla and arrested nearly 200 activists – trade-unionists, health workers, solidarity activists, elected representatives. They rendered the boats unusable. Demonstrations in many countries on the evening of 30 April called for the liberation of [...]
In perhaps its most insidious decision in nearly a century, the U.S. Supreme Court disemboweled Section 2 of the landmark Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, the “crown jewel” of the U.S. civil rights movement. The VRA ended Jim Crow-era election procedures that precluded Black people from voting in the South through intimidation, literacy tests and  poll [...]
In its failed attempts to undermine and abolish the May 1 bank holiday, the French government has sought to depict International Workers’ Day as an anachronism. But when we look at the problems facing society today — and the ways in which people are trying to deal with them — it strikes me that a day dedicated to the [...]
The UN declared 2025 the International Year of Cooperatives. The theme of the year—”Cooperatives Build a Better World”—provided a splendid opportunity for the worldwide cooperative movement to mark its existence as vital to building a better world by limiting the effects of climate change. Unfortunately, that didn’t occur. To be more precise, it didn’t occur with [...]
Despite a hostile labor environment, the number of workers under a union contract in the U.S. reached a 16-year high in 2025, and public support for unions hit as high as 71 percent. The labor movement secured a number of impressive victories, including a new contract for dockworkers that raised wages by 60 percent following a brief strike, [...]
One of the most prominent groups mobilizing their members to join in local solidarity marches, pickets and rallies is Indivisible, the nationwide grassroots progressive organization that was the principal organizer of the No Kings demonstrations. The group’s website explains its involvement in May Day 2026 as “an opportunity to test our movement’s ability to do [...]
At a Tuesday press conference and mass call, labor leaders, educators, healthcare workers, and community organizers announced coordinated May Day actions on May 1, signaling a growing, multi-sector movement demanding an economy that works for people, not billionaires. Speakers outlined plans for widespread mobilizations, including educator walkouts in North Carolina, ongoing nurse strikes in Louisiana, [...]
In Ghana’s transitional ecological belt, where once-dense forests are steadily giving way to savannah, climate change is no longer a distant concern but an everyday reality. Erratic rainfall, prolonged dry spells, and declining soil fertility are eroding rural livelihoods, with women who form the backbone of smallholder agriculture bearing the greatest burden. This region, known [...]
On a delegation to Venezuela, the constant refrain from both high-ranking government officials and grassroots Chavistas – supporters of the movement led by former President Hugo Chávez – was that they were urgently “buying time.” A quarter-century of US hybrid war on Venezuela, especially the unilateral coercive measures (sanctions), has had a corrosive effect. The current fraught détente [...]
To create a safer world, millions of Americans need to mobilize to end the war on Iran, prevent nuclear proliferation, halt the arms race and slash military budgets. The president who promised to end forever wars and spoke of reducing nuclear weapons has succumbed to what David Wallace-Wells calls “impulsive warmongering.”  After bombing Iran for [...]
Cuba is going through perhaps its toughest existential challenge since the Revolution of 1959, with fresh American sanctions choking supply lines and triggering widespread disruptions, including a grave energy crisis, frequent blackouts and worsening food shortages. Yet, even as threats of a US invasion swirl and speculations about regime change light up the geopolitical grapevine – [...]
What: National Press Briefing Ahead of May Day Strong EventsWhere: Register via zoom hereWhen: Wednesday, April 29, 2026; 3:00pm ET / 2:00pm CT / 12:00pm PTWho: Anchored by more than 500 labor unions, student groups, community organizations, pro-democracy, immigrant rights, and racial justice groups, May 1st, 2026 will be a historic day of worker and student-centered protest [...]
This May Day, I’ll be one of the millions who will peacefully take to the streets to denounce the cruelty and corruption of this administration and the oligarchs it serves. I will march because I believe our lives are worth more than dollars and cents. Every one of us deserves the right to live in [...]
When we speak of poverty in political or academic discourse, we often tend to treat it as a neutral phenomenon, as though it falls upon everyone equally and in the same way. Yet a critical class-based lens exposes the falsity of this supposed neutrality, affirming that poverty is not distributed evenly, and that women bear [...]
ATLANTA — When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement. For most of his life, Page, who goes by “Scapegoat Jones,” felt safest in the community that Atlanta officials have since flooded with officers and surveillance technology in the name of “public [...]
The United Auto Workers’ (UAW) recent organizing breakthroughs in auto manufacturing in the South, major nationwide strikes, and decisive contract successes raise questions about what lessons we can and can’t draw from the last few years’ record of wins and losses. Following the March 2023 change in union leadership, in which reform candidate Shawn Fain [...]
Before the Israeli war began, Gaza’s agricultural sector was known for its abundant production of fruits and vegetables and was often called the “food basket” of the Strip. Despite extensive Israeli restrictions that hindered the sector’s growth — including limits on the entry of agricultural inputs and the export of goods — farmers in Gaza [...]
Retired oil worker Denis Ospino was a prominent part of the revolutionary resistance against the 2002–03 management lockout at Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA. She was crucial to restoring and stabilising oil production, playing an active role in protecting the Western Oil Production Directorate headquarters, and as part of the civilian and reserve unit defending [...]
The 2026 escalation of conflict and atrocity crimes in the Gulf is not simply another geopolitical crisis. It is becoming a systemic global shock, exposing the fragility of an economic order built around energy dependence, concentrated chokepoints, extended supply chains and uneven vulnerability. It is also forcing millions of people into forms of precarity that, [...]
Among leftists, the question of why one continues to use the word “socialism” can for most seem almost unnecessary—until one notices how unstable the term has become even within our own ranks. We invoke it constantly, but often as shorthand for very different and sometimes incompatible political projects. For some it means Scandinavian social democracy [...]
When word of an upcoming maritime flotilla coming from countries thousands of kilometers away first began circulating, Palestinians were in the heart of this war, in one of its harshest moments, with famine silently tearing through Gaza — heavier even than the shelling itself. Despite my awareness of the Israeli occupation’s brutality and severity, and [...]
On May 1st, workers, students, and families across the United States will refuse business as usual in the next national mobilization planned after No Kings. As many as 3,000 events are anticipated across all 50 states, building on more than 1,300 May Day actions last year.  In Chicago, Illinois, the school district officially made May Day [...]
It is tempting to argue that Israel’s new military doctrine is predicated on perpetual war—but the reality is more complex. Not that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would object to such an arrangement. On the contrary, his relentless drive for military escalation suggests precisely that. After all, his openly declared quest for a “greater Israel” [...]
“I can’t help but roll my eyes when people bash the rich as a class, blaming them for nearly everything that’s wrong in U.S. society,” IP Editor-in-Chief David Callahan recently wrote in a column, “What ‘Blame the Billionaires’ Misses.” He points to Texas Democrat James Talarico, who recently said that the “only minority destroying this [...]
For over a year, firing Trump via Impeachment in Congress has been a taboo subject for the so-called Democratic leadership – Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer. Recently, their grip on their flock is unravelling. (See: RootsAction’s petition “Tell Democrats in Congress to Insist That Schumer and Jeffries Step Aside”) Jeffries is a repetitive “one-note Charley” [...]
On a late March afternoon, beneath the vaulted, medieval-revival ceiling of Immanuel Presbyterian Church, more than four hundred members of the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) gathered in the lingering heat of a citywide heat wave. The air inside the sanctuary was thick and stubborn as members fanned themselves with [...]
In January 2026, as protests swept Iran and the Islamic Republic responded with mass killings, the international left faced a choice about whose voices to amplify and whose to render invisible. The choice it made is the subject of this essay. On April 10, 2026, a Holocaust denier, a white nationalist theorist, the founder of [...]
Introduction by Bruce Hobson, co-founder of the Mexico Solidarity Project and Liberation Road member On Saturday, April 18, Claudia Sheinbaum gave a statement at the Encuentro Internacional Progresista in Barcelona in which she offered Mexico’s stance on the world’s peoples’ struggle for peace and democracy. The statement immediately began to have a profound impact globally. For me [...]
The history of women’s struggles in contemporary Iran has reached a point where it can no longer be interpreted simply within the binary of “progress” or “regression.” We stand within a fractured condition: on the one hand, the tangible advancement of women in symbolic, cultural, and social spheres; on the other, the intensification of naked violence [...]
A ceasefire in Lebanon was announced on Thursday by US President Donald Trump, but its reality tells a very different story. The ceasefire was not the product of American diplomacy, nor Israeli strategic calculation. It was imposed—largely as a result of sustained Iranian pressure. Washington, Tel Aviv, and their allies—including some within Lebanon itself—will continue [...]
Hungary may be celebrating Peter Magyar’s unlikely win over Viktor Orbán, yet the former PM’s hardline migration politics has already infected the European psyche – forming part of a broader, deeply concerning pattern brewing across the continent. Even as asylum applications and crossings approach levels last seen in 2015, Europe has undergone a profound shift over the past year, [...]
Back in the relative calm of January, as the media fixated on American threats to invade Greenland, the British government quietly published an intelligence report. Written by a committee of the country’s top spy chiefs, the report warned that within just a few years, the UK could face food shortages and social breakdown.  The cause [...]
The scenic campus of Birzeit University sits on a hill near Ramallah, 12 miles northwest of Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank. Vast blue sky is visible from every road and sidewalk. Palestinian flags wave in the breeze. The familiar campus bustle of classes, friends and events was violently interrupted on Jan. 6, 2026, when [...]
On February 11, 1937 — forty-four days after their occupations of the Fisher Body No. 1 and No. 2 plants began in Flint, Michigan — General Motors (GM) workers won a landmark agreement. The one-page document included commitments to union recognition and collective bargaining over wages, seniority, work-life balance, and other working conditions, and a prohibition on [...]
There is a conversation happening in LGBTQ spaces right now that mostly isn’t happening out loud. It surfaces in strategy sessions and donor meetings and organizational board rooms, in the careful language of political consultants and the nervous calculations of advocacy leaders who are watching polling numbers and thinking about what is winnable and what [...]
Amjad Ashour, 50, stands in the nutrition department at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, holding his four-month-old infant as doctors warn him that a lack of formula leads to stunted growth, developmental delays, and serious health complications. His child is already suffering from the shortage. Ashour’s wife, the baby’s mother, is herself malnourished, leaving the [...]
In 2023, mechanical engineers – members of the Swedish Industrifacket Metall (IFM) union – dared to walk out of a Tesla repair shop. This set in motion what was to become one of the country’s most significant industrial disputes in recent history. Yet, the number of workers on strike remained rather small – just 45 [...]
Cast your memory back to September 2019. Six million people took action globally in a week-long wave of climate protests. From Angola, to Cuba, Germany, India, Nigeria, Pakistan and even Antarctica, people walked out of school or work and took to streets and squares. I was one of them. On a clear autumnal day, our [...]
There is a publishing house in Germany called Unrast Verlag that recently came to my attention. From its web site, I think it’s anarchist-aligned or at least anarchist-supportive and also seriously feminist. It appears to be quite well established as the site lists about 650 authors. I can’t read German, but I heard from a [...]
On Sunday, April 12, Zohran Mamdani delivered a speech reflecting on his first one hundred days as New York City’s mayor. His remarks are reprinted here. It is a Sunday night in New York City. And while some prepare for the week ahead, for many, the workday has only just begun. Tonight, in the northern [...]
After the breakdown of talks in Pakistan, the ceasefire between the US and Iran is more fragile than ever, and now seems likely to give way to a new phase of the war. The ceasefire and talks have failed to end Israel’s devastating attacks on Lebanon or to negotiate international access to the Strait of [...]
As Cuba teeters on the brink of an escalating US assault, my thoughts drift back to a trip my wife and I took to Havana and Trinidad (the Cuban city) in 2017. Shelly and I fell madly in love with a place so strangely unique that it wrestles with your intuitive sense of possibility. Everything [...]
Recently the political director of a major labor union reminded me that we need a theory of change to build a fairer and more just society. That challenge struck me as worth exploring. What theory of change do we need? Let’s start with the No Kings mobilizations. The theory of change behind No Kings is [...]
When Dolores Huerta came out about the abuse she suffered from Cesar Chavez, Jenna Peters-Golden was not that surprised, because they had seen similar situations before. “I feel sadness, of course, for all individuals who are impacted by sexual violence, but I also feel a lot of grief at how much weaker and fragmented our [...]