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After the March Election: El Salvador’s Left Faces Starkest Crisis in Decades

Hilary Goodfriend Jacobin
President of El Salvador, Salvador Sánchez Cerén (left), and then-mayor of San Salvador, Nayib Bukele
In the wake of the March 4th electoral rout El Salvador’s left is facing its starkest crisis in decades. The resounding rebuke of the FMLN and its government has resulted in significant gains for the quasi-fascist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and exacerbated serious internal divisions.

Israeli Forces Shoot Unarmed Protesters. 15 Killed

Mondoweiss Editors Mondoweiss
The protests were organized as “The Great March of Return,” a nonviolent gathering of Palestinian refugees who demand the right to return to their families’ homes inside Israel.

It’s Oklahoma’s Turn to Strike

Eric Blanc Jacobin
On Monday, schools will be shut down across Oklahoma as rank-and-file teachers look to build on the momentum of the West Virginia strike.

Pipeline Civil Disobiedience Wins in Court

Andrea Germanos Common Dreams
Judge Drops Charges Against 13 Who Argued Pipeline Civil Disobedience Action Was "Necessary" to Save Planet. "We are part of the movement that's standing up and saying, 'We won't let this go by on our watch.'"

Book Review: Daniel Ellsberg's New Nuclear Wakeup Call

Chuck Idelson Portside
The secrets Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) unfolds are a thousand times more frightful than Stephen King at his best. Except this is no novel. Not “Dr. Strangelove” but “A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall.”

Friday Nite Videos | March 30, 2018

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Cornel West on 'The Radical King.' The Beatles | Revolution. How the NRA Hijacks Gun Control Debates. Fallback Friday With Sacha Jenkins and Baratunde Thurston. MLK’s Radical Final Years.

Tidbits - March 29, 2018 - Reader Comments: Nation Demands Gun Control - Parkland Manifesto, Youth of Color; 2018 Elections; Bolton War Preparations; Puerto Rico; Unions: What Now; May Day -Chicago; Announcements; and more...

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Reader Comments: Nation Demands Gun Control - Parkland Student Manifesto; Youth of Color Demand to be Heard; 2018 Elections; Bolton and War Preparations; Vietnam War; Puerto Rico; Unions: What Now; Europe-Lessons from Center-Left Collapse; May Day in Chicago; Announcements; and more...