Portside

Reader Comments: Shoot First, Lie Later; U.S. Attack on Venezuela; Resources - Posters You Can Reprint; Minneapolis Mass Strike January 23; Building towards May Day 2026 - From No Kings to Mass Action; Conference on the Jewish Left; Cartoons; more...

The progressive party is now active in 18 states and much of its expansion happened in the past five years. The party believes 2026 will be a wave year for the left nationwide, so it will be aggressively recruiting candidates for state legislatures

Be excited about Zohran, but sober about our movement's shallow roots. The big question now is whether we will be able to lean on that hope to rebuild a powerful working-class movement in workplaces and neighborhoods across our city and nation.

The far north has long been a region of exceptional international cooperation. It has been replaced by an emerging era of competition over resources-rare earth metals and control of shipping lanes. Trump’s designs on Greenland come at such a time.

Every part of this illegal violent occupation is based on lies. According to residents, the basic tactic seems to be ICE convoys driving around looking for any nonwhite person out by themselves, jumping out, dragging them into a van then driving off

The end of rules-based authority

Union leaders have accused the Trump administration of a “rhetorical shift towards white supremacy” after social media posts by the US Department of Labor drew comparison with a Nazi slogan.

"The essays in this book," writes reviewer Perlman,"bring out Einstein’s deep humility, anti-racism and socialist commitment."

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good in the head last week, Republicans declared that Americans would overwhelmingly support the killing. In reality, the vast majority find the murder unjustified.

While public debate fixates on rising costs, the administration’s most serious harm has come from its policies that hold down wages and weaken workers’ bargaining power.