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Why Is Congress Silent on the Nightmare in Gaza?

Senator Bernie Sanders says: History will not forgive our complicity. The time is long overdue for us to end our support for Netanyahu’s destruction of the Palestinian people.

RFK Jr.’s Unethical and Deadly Vaccine Testing Plans

RFK Jr. plans to require more testing of vaccines before they approved, in the name of greater rigor. In fact, his proposals are highly unethical and pose a danger to your health. Here’s why

The Democrats’ Great Debates

How to contain Trump and defend democracy? What to stand for affirmatively as an opposition party? The outcome of these two debates will determine the direction and future of the Democratic party.

With the New Pope MAGA Is Already Losing Its Mind

Within just a few hours of white smoke rising out of the Vatican, MAGA is already fuming over the new pope. MAGA is in full meltdown mode over the new pope’s tweets.

Freedom Flotilla Heading to Gaza Attacked by Drones

The ship, which was carrying human rights activists and humanitarian aid bound for Gaza, was anchored in international waters as it awaited permission to dock at Malta to pick up pro-Palestinian activists, was attacked at least twice by drones

Students at Rural Colleges Are Being Detained by ICE

Students, teachers and staff work “day and night” to protect the rights of international students, often the lifeblood of rural college towns

A Chorus of Defiance

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the of World War II on the European continent. This week is also fifty years after the Vietnam War’s end. What are the lessons for today from the peace movement on mobilizing resistance

Reader Comments & Tidbits, May 8, 2025

Reader Comments: 50 Years After Vietnam War' End; Largest May Day in US; Birth Rates Falling; Israel War Cabinet approved plan to seize entire Gaza Strip; “It’s Time” People’s Peace Summit of Palestinians and Jews in Jerusalem and 15 cities worldwide

‘Bonkers’: US/Israel Discuss US-Led Gaza Administration

"Right, because the U.S. occupation of Iraq is certainly the best-case scenario for Gaza today," one critic quipped.

Zohran Mamdani Laser-Focused on an Affordable New York

With local and national elites indifferent to working-class struggles over the costs of housing, childcare, groceries, and more, socialist NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani is finding success by putting affordability at the heart of his campaign.
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Culture

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Day 570

Anita Barrows
California poet Anita Barrows writes: "When the genocide began I started writing daily notes. I felt the urgency to document these tragedies in a whole poem every day, and that is what I will do until the genocide ends. I intend to keep writing."

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This Is More Than a Legal Read

Bill Fletcher, Jr. Portside
The focus of the book is on Dominic Ongwen, a former soldier in the cultish army known as the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda. Ongwen had been kidnapped by the LRA when he was nine years old and transformed into a soldier and criminal...

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Dangerous Chimera

Colin Kidd London Review of Books
Reviewer Kidd considers a new history of the idea of liberty by one of the UK's most esteemed political philosophers.

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Procreation Obligation

Rebecca Foust You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems
Taking George Orwell's classic text, 1984, as her foundation, poet Rebecca Foust casts a cold eye on the pronatalism of today's religious conservatives.

Labor

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America’s Labor Unions Are Souring on Trump

Steven Greenhouse The Guardian
A new AFL-CIO poll found that a majority of union members say the country is moving in the wrong direction, with many complaining that Trump has done nothing to reduce inflation.

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Labor Goes All In for Abrego Garcia

Adrian Carrasquillo The Bulwark
AFL-CIO President Liz Schuler condemned President Donald Trump's deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and described the unlawful overreach as an attack on all workers.

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May Day Follow Up

May Day Strong
Sign up for a national call on May 8th to discuss next steps in the fight coming out of May Day actions.

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Learning From the 1990s Labor Party

An interview with Mark Dudzic Carl Rosen Jenny Brown Howard Botwinick Jacobin
As capital ratcheted up its assault on labor in the 1990s and Democrats embraced a neoliberal agenda, some labor unions launched their own political party.

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How to Prevent Future Trumps

If America doesn't respond to the calamity that's befallen the working class, we will have Trumps as far as the eye can see