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After 75 Years, What Future for Palestine-Israel?

Ghada Karmi Mondoweiss
75 years after the Nakba, Palestine-Israel is one state under Israeli sovereignty but unequal. The struggle for a more equitable and democratic future will be long and ferociously resisted. That does not make it any less worth fighting for.

May Day in Cuba: Solidarity Against the Embargo

Walter Smolarek CounterPunch
Miya Tada, a brigade participant from New York, explained how this showed that “the biggest obstacle the Cuban people are facing is the repression and economic warfare of our own government, and that just inspires me to further the struggle against the blockade back in the United States.”

Why I Changed My Mind on the Debt Limit

Laurence H. Tribe The New York Times
The right question is whether Congress — after passing the spending bills that created these debts in the first place — can invoke an arbitrary dollar limit to force the president and his administration to do its bidding.

We Must Defeat the California Recall

Duane Campbell DSA - Democratic Socialists of America
With a mobilized anti-immigrant anti-Mexican campaign, a majority of California voters could turn Republican once again. To avoid this calamity, every union, prodemocracy group, Latino political organization needs to organize to defeat the recall.

The Downward Path We’ve Trod: Reflections on an Ominous Anniversary

Joseph A. McCartin Working-Class Perspectives
The undermining of workers’ strike power since PATCO's defeat disabled what was a vital instrument for building and maintaining social solidarity and for directing inevitable class tensions and social conflict toward democratic and egalitarian ends.