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Global Left Midweek - Venezuela Coup Threat

Portside
Reports on the threatened coup in Venezuela have mostly overlooked the gross belligerence of the Trump administration. Global Left Midweek brings you news and opinion from the left press, including translations from Spanish by Portside.

Who Should Negotiate Peace in Afghanistan?

Kathy Kelly The Progressive
“The war was started by men, the war will be ended by men . . but it’s the women and children who suffer the most and they have a right to define peace.”

Everything You Need to Know About General Strikes

Kim Kelly Teen Vogue
No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects worker struggles and the current state of the American labor movement with its storied — and sometimes bloodied — past.

2019 Will Be a Big Year for Water

Tara Lohan The Revelator
wildlife refuge in Nevada
We’ll have to contend with new limits to the Clean Water Act, growing threats from climate change and fixing our aging infrastructure.