Winning 19 Seats, Arab Citizens Wonder if It's Enough

Celebrations over high voter turnout at the Joint List and Mansour Abbas' UAL headquarters have given way to frustration and concern. While Abbas is keeping his options open, the Joint List has offered to work with Eisenkot to unseat Netanyahu.

We Know What You’re Against. What Are You For?

A humane and decent society provides people with opportunity to fulfill their potential and find happiness and meaning, including meaningful work. Two key ingredients make this more likely-shared prosperity and robust democracy. Both are essential.

ICE Spying Against Left Activists Rivals COINTELPRO

ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations are engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.

The Question Before Los Angeles

Challenger Nithya Raman is no more and no less a socialist than incumbent Karen Bass.

Reader Comments & Tidbits, Oct. 29, 2026

Reader Comments: Dolores Huerta - Rest in Power; Worldwide Kiss of Death; Vivek Ramaswamy’s Vile Attack Ad; France’s Youth Ignite a Massive Revolt; Israeli elections; Ox-y-moron; “Who Built America?” Launch Event: Rethinking the U.S. History Textbook

DSA Is Eyeing a 2028 AOC Presidential Run

Members of the Democratic Socialists of America are thinking seriously about a national presidential campaign for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2028 that would reach millions of working people and have the potential to transform American politics.

The Deeper Affordability Crisis

The problem isn’t just Trump-induced inflation. For ordinary working people, living standards have been dwindling for decades.

Tributes Pour In for Labor Leader Dolores Huerta

Lawmakers, activists and union leaders across the US remember the co-founder of United Farm Workers union

Can Jewish and Arab Votes Unite Versus Netanyahu?

“We have no future here if we don’t stop being afraid,” said Yair Golan, the leader of the left-wing Democrats party. “We must no longer accept Netanyahu’s racist division between Jewish votes and Arab votes.”

Global Left Midweek — October 28, 2026

Elections and rejections
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Culture

books

An Organization of Organizers

Alan Wald New Politics
Reviewer Wald says this book "is entirely convincing that the IS achievement in this era should earn a well-deserved place in any accurate history of the 1960–70s Left."

food

A Great Moral Blind Spot of Our Age

Nicholas Kristof The New York Times
The sickening situation in American meatpacking plants could soon get worse, for the Trump administration proposed raising the maximum normal speed of chicken slaughter lines from 140 birds per minute to 175 per minute.

poetry

Why Hadn’t We Seen Them Before

Dr. Mary Jane Castle
Drawing on her many years working in human rights and public health, poet Mary Ann Castle shows us that poverty can have many faces.

Labor

labor

Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist Dolores Huerta Dies at 96

Dolores Huerta Foundation
Dolores Huerta, a founder of the UFW, helped expand the meaning of feminism. She showed that women’s equality could not be separated from the fight for fair wages, immigrant rights, racial justice, reproductive freedom and political power.

labor

Dockworkers Worldwide Are About To Strike for Palestine

Peter Cole Jacobin magazine
The second International Day of Action of Dockworkers, in solidarity with Palestine and against militarism, begins this Friday — and could be the largest worker action against war in history.

labor

Meta Must Reinstate Brazilian Bank Workers’ Union on WhatsApp, Says UNI

UNI Global Union UNI Global Union
Just days before Brazil's presidential run-off, Meta shut down the WhatsApp channel of a major union. WhatsApp was a key tool for organizing voters for the election between the former union leader Lula and the son of ousted authoritarian Bolsinaro.

labor

Profits Are Soaring. Workers’ Share of Income Is Sinking.

Conor Lynch Jacobin magazine
Working people’s share of national income has fallen to a record low, even as corporate profits soar to unthinkable new heights. The trend reflects decades of eroded worker power, and reversing it will take a revitalized labor movement.

Friday nite video

video

Once Upon a Time in Harlem | Documentary

A 1972 party engineered by genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves brought together living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. This film brings the reunion of this extraordinary group to the screen, as they reminisce, critique, argue, laugh and drink. 

video

Hawaii Just Made Citizens United Irrelevant.

The I-194 ballot initiative would stop artificial persons, including corporations, from contributing to campaigns and political parties.Your state could be next.

video

Death by Firing Squad

When the murderer's dead and his head's in a bag, will it help you forget the way that you got had?