Dispatches From the Culture Wars — October 21, 2025
Portside
Doing the Time Warp again
Doing the Time Warp again
Doing the Time Warp again
Tidbits-Oct 16 -Readers Comments: Chicago Invaded-By ICE, Texas National Guard; Trump’s Labor Dept Says ICE Raids Causing Food Crisis; Boat Strikes Just the Beginning, Now CIA Missions Planned Against Venezuela; US Socialism Today; All-Out for Oct 18
Portside
Readers Comments: Chicago Invaded-by ICE, Texas National Guard; Trump's Labor Dept Says ICE Raids Causing Food Crisis; Boat Strikes Just the Beginning, Now CIA Missions Planned Against Venezuela; What's Happening in US Socialism; All-Out for Oct 18;
Dispatches From the Culture Wars — October 7, 2025
Portside
Repression and resistance
This Is Not a Drill: Bravery As Strategy in the Face of American Tragedy
Common Dreams
In recent memory, the prospect of a president preventing congressional elections from taking effect has been unimaginable. But today, it is not at all hard to imagine that this could happen.
Media Bits and Bytes — September 30, 2025
Portside
Public pressure saves Kimmel’s show
Global Left Midweek – Focus on Eastern Europe
Portside
Democracy is messy
Zionist McCarthyism Comes for CUNY
Jacobin
Not content to torment the Ivy League, Republicans are seeking authoritarian control over working-class public universities like the City University of New York. The latest salvo: allegedly firing four adjuncts for their support of Palestine.
Global Left Midweek – July 30, 2025
Portside
The old is dying and the new struggles to be born
books
McCarthyism and Its Victims: Here We Go Again?
Portside
Repression is certainly in the air, its effects likely to be as chilling as intended: people are afraid and have good reasons to be afraid. Reviews of two recent books on Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the Long War Against American Communism.
labor
ICE Tried To Make an Example out of Labor Leader David Huerta. Now Is the Time for Unions To Speak Up on Behalf of Immigrant Workers.
Prism
Huerta is home now. But the fact that ICE would publicly detain someone with his visibility and institutional support simply for protesting should serve as the ultimate warning for anyone who believes in worker power.
Spread the word