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October 19, 2023

Tidbits – Oct. 19, 2023 – Reader Comments: Israel-Gaza War – Calling for Ceasefire, Stopping the Bombing, Freeing the Hostages, Responses to Portside Posts; Healthcare Today; How To Take Action in Solidarity With UAW Members on Strike; More…

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Reader Comments: Israel-Gaza War - Calling for Ceasefire, Stopping the Bombing, Freeing the Hostages, Responses to Portside posts; Healthcare Today; How to take action in solidarity with UAW members on strike; Announcements; more....

May 11, 2023

What’s Next for the Climate Left? The IRA Is an Invitation to Organizers

Kate Aronoff Dissent Magazine

The Inflation Reduction Act would not have happened without the movement for a Green New Deal, but it shouldn’t be confused for one. The climate left now faces a novel problem: how to deal with having won something—and keep fighting for more.

May 11, 2023

Tidbits – May 11, 2023 – Reader Comments: GOP Defends Sex Offender; Debt Crisis; Child Labor Laws, Population Decline; Yes, I Am Latina. And No, I Am Not Mexican -an Exchange; Vietnam 50 Years Later; Charlene Mitchell Memorial Livestream Link; More

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Reader Comments: GOP Defends Sex Offender; Debt Crisis; Child Labor Laws, Population Decline; Yes, I Am Latina. And No, I Am Not Mexican -An Exchange; Vietnam 50 Years Later; Charlene Mitchell Memorial Livestream Link; Yuri Kochiyama; more

February 27, 2023

A Ukrainian Socialist Lays Out the Aims and Struggles of Her Country’s Left

Ashley Smith Truthout

Leftists in Ukraine are simultaneously resisting Russian imperialism and the domestic imposition of neoliberalism.

December 22, 2022

Changing the ‘World as It Is’ Into the ‘World As It Should Be’

Mark Engler and Paul Engler Waging Nonviolence

Resolving the conflict between being visionary and being pragmatic is critical for those who want to transform society. Can we be both visionary and strategic?

December 26, 2022

Can the Left Disagree Without Being Disagreeable?

Vijay Prashad CounterPunch

We need to be far more generous with each other, able to hold conversations without resort to insults and abuses. Out of disagreement comes understanding. But out of malicious slander only comes disorientation.

November 30, 2022

Democrats Were Dithering on Railworkers’ Rights. The Left Just Forced Their Hand.

Branko Marcetic Jacobin

Democrats were ready to throw railworkers to the wolves, letting even Republicans outflank them on labor rights. But thanks to a last-minute legislative push by Bernie Sanders and his allies today, railworkers may be getting the sick leave they’re demanding.

November 16, 2022

The 2022 Midterms Were One of the Best Elections the Left Has Had in Memory

Branko Marcetic Jacobin

Put the mainstream Democrats aside. After the midterms, more left-wing insurgents are going to the House, Bernie Sanders has two strong allies in the Senate, and progressive ballot measures passed everywhere. Election night was a good night for the Left.

November 5, 2022

Lula’s Victory Is a Testament to Solidarity

Jeremy Corbyn Progressive International

I hope those who cheer Lula’s victory pay attention to the source of his success. The route to a greener and fairer future is not through focus groups, it is through mobilisation of a multi-racial working-class, galvanised by the prospect of a government bold enough to act.

October 22, 2022

How the Left Can Build Its Own Politics

Hilary Wainwright Red Pepper

Confidence in the possibility to bring about change has often been built and rebuilt through local, frequently incomplete, victories independent of the Labour Party.

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