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May 17, 2025

The PKK Is Gone, Having ‘Fulfilled Its Historic Mission’

Tiziano Saccucci Il Manifesto Global

The PKK has dissolved itself, but leaves behind a renewed political vision the final communiqué calls “socialism of a democratic society”: anti-hierarchical, feminist, ecological and municipalist, rejecting the nation-state and statist socialism.

May 17, 2025

‘We Are in a Moment of Unparalleled Peril’: An Interview With Naomi Klein

Cerise Castle Capital & Main

This counterrevolution is strange because there never was a revolution. They’re upset about pronouns. They’re upset that their workers want some workplace democracy. They’re upset about DEI. They really believe that their power should be absolute.

May 17, 2025

America’s Descent Into Authoritarianism May Have Started With Policing in Blue Cities.

Stephen Janis and Taya Graham real News Network

As the Trump administration continues to press the boundaries of the Constitution, Johns Hopkins Professor Lester Spence says we need to understand one yet-to-be-examined source of the push towards authoritarianism: urban policing.

May 17, 2025

Genocide, Trauma, and Jewish Identity

Paul Von Blum The Progressive

Peter Beinart’s ‘Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza’ offers an incisive perspective on Zionism and Jewish identity.

May 17, 2025

Unpacking the House’s Highly Regressive Tax Plan

Carl Davis Common Dreams

Two-thirds of the tax cuts offered in 2027 would go to the top 20% of families, and 41% would flow to just the top 5% of families.

May 17, 2025

Starbucks Dress Code Causes Walkouts

Grace Snelling Fast Company

The union has been bargaining to reach a contract with Starbucks for over three years, with no end in sight. It says that the new dress code represents “bad faith bargaining,” .

May 16, 2025