Skip to main content
Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it.

Social Strikes

JEREMY BRECHER Labor Network for Sustainability
Can General Strikes, Mass Strikes, and People Power Uprisings Provide A Last Defense Against MAGA Tyranny?

Venezuela, Trump, and Voluntary Servitude

Marga Ferré transform! europe
We must firmly oppose the attack on Venezuela, because if we let Trump win, the message he sends is that there is no international law, that there is no democracy and that all we are left with is vassalage.

The Perilous Shift in U.S. Weapons Sales to Taiwan

Jianlu Bi Foreign Policy in Focus
Washington’s attempt to “use Taiwan to contain China” is not only failing to provide security but is actively accelerating the very confrontation it claims to deter.

Friday Nite Videos | January 9, 2026

Portside Portside
Can We Unrecruit People With No Business in Law Enforcement? | The Daily Show. Join Ice | Jesse Welles. Videos Contradict Trump Account of ICE Shooting. The Secret Behind Zohran Mamdani’s Viral Videos. FBI Whistleblowers: What Trump Is Hiding.

The Mad King’s Madness Deepens

Paul Krugman Paul Krugman Substack
For Trump, ICE’s violent lawlessness is a feature, not a bug. Sending armed, masked, poorly trained, and out-of-control thugs into blue cities is a war on Americans, just as January 6th was a war on American institutions.
Subscribe to Portside