Will They Crush Biggest Student Movement Since Vietnam

In a matter of days, dozens of Gaza solidarity encampments have sprung up on over a hundred university campuses across the U.S. It’s the biggest student movement since the anti-war protests that swept U.S. universities in the 1960s.

How the Right Has Weaponized Antisemitism

The protesters, are mostly undergraduate women, along with a smaller number of undergraduate men, 18 to 20 years old, standing up for what they have a right to stand up for: their beliefs. The encampment was blocking nobody’s way....

Palestinian Describes Beatings, Sexual Abuse, Torture

Amer Abu Halil, a West Bank resident who was active in Hamas and was jailed without trial, recalls the wartime routine he endured in Israel's Ketziot Prison.

Portland Teachers Led Longest K–12 Strike in Decades

The seeds of our strike were sown 10 years ago. In the 2013–2014 school year, school district leaders demanded more than 75 concessions, including bigger class sizes, fewer workload protections, and cuts to healthcare benefits.

May 2, 2024-Reader Comments, Announcements, Take Action

Reader Comments: UAW's Sean Fain in Solidarity with Students; Letter to Columbia President Shafik; Students need our support now; Anti-Zionism in the Jewish Community; Research Tools for Organizers; Setting a Larger Table - Religion & Socialism; more

Would “Dictator” Trump Kill His Rivals?

Trump has unleashed his inner psychopath and if he wins this election it’s going to get uglier here in America than most people today can imagine…

Why US Student Protesters are Wearing Masks

An intense and organized effort to bring down personal and professional repercussions on participants is playing out online

Police Protest Arrests Repeat Attrocities of the 60's

The lessons should be obvious. Bringing police onto a college campus on the pretext of preserving or restoring “order” invariably makes things worse. It’s almost always inspired not by conditions on campus, but by partisan pressure on university adm

Detention Center Deaths Linked to US Border Policy

A year ago, 40 men were killed in a detention center fire in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. A ProPublica-Texas Tribune examination shows that landmark shifts in U.S. border policies helped sow the seeds of a tragedy.

Global Left Midweek – May Day 2024

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Culture

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What Are ‘Food Barons’— and Why Should You Care?

Charlie Hope D’Anieri The Bittman Project
The rise of the baron illustrates the failures of our approach to food policy better than a dry description of policies ever could. For example, the story of the Grain Barons tells the history of the Farm Bill and how it has corrupted the food system

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Climate Change

Eve Sutton
It’s the Idea of Spring and poet Eve Sutton has been reminding us that climate change has been going on for a long time. It is no joke!

Labor

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A Great Week for American Workers

Harold Meyerson American Prospect
The seven days between Friday, April 19, and Thursday, April 25, saw a succession of worker victories that was almost breathtaking in its scope.

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Journalist Casualties in the Israel-Gaza War

CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists
“.......journalists have been paying the highest price— their lives—to defend our right to the truth. Each time a journalist dies or is injured, we lose a fragment of that truth,” said CPJ Program Director Carlos Martínez de la Serna.

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Wait! I Said DE-Escalate!

As protests for Gaza ramp up on college campuses, the de-escalation effort doesn't seem to be...de-escalating.

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Can AI Help Us Talk to Whales?

AI may soon allow us to understand and talk to whales. But some scientists are asking: SHOULD we talk to whales?