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Left responses to the Gaza siege, and news and analysis from all over

Students are walking out today to protest for university divestment from arms manufacturers over Israel's warfare on Gaza.

In the past year, we’ve seen large, militant strikes by autoworkers, Hollywood writers, and others. It’s a promising sign that, after decades of weakness, the US labor movement is ready to take the fight to the boss.

"Now that Johnson is speaker, he will do what the Republicans never stop doing—everything in their power to cut our Social Security and Medicare, by hook, crook, or commission."

The IDF’s ‘three-phase’ operation would increase Hamas’s influence in the region rather than extinguishing it

A month of renewed protest and repression

Increased militancy after pandemic sacrifices and tighter labor market contributed to impressive contract deals in the last year

Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today. From The Wall Street Journal, 1/24/2009

The Court may be ready to scuttle remaining portions of the Voting Rights Act by giving states the ability to racially gerrymander by claiming that they’re only engaging in partisan gerrymandering. It's outrageous.

A church-run charter school is on track to open in Oklahoma — publicly funded but run by the archdiocese. The arrival of religious charter schools is one more piece of evidence that public charter schools are not so public after all.