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2026: A Year of Reckoning

Portside Moderators Portside
As a reader of Portside, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted the lawless grab for absolute power -Here's how you can help.

Our Trade Unions Must Step Up – Speech for Tradeswomen Inc.*

Molly Martin The Stansbury Forum
We women have proven ourselves to be strong union members — and strong union leaders. We’ve built solidarity. We’ve made our unions more inclusive and more reflective of the real working class. Now it’s time for our unions to stand with us.

Cora Weiss: A Champion of Peace, Internationalism, and Women’s Rights

John Cavanagh Institute for Policy Studies
Cora was a champion of the United Nations and its mission to advance peace and women’s rights. She insisted that we at IPS name programs in positive terms with “what we’re for”: peace, disarmament, internationalism, women’s rights, the common good.

Friday Nite Videos | December 19, 2025

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Sam Altman Is Shilling for OpenAI. The DOJ's Epstein File Stunt. Europe's Great Power Move: Ukraine Funding. Cover-Up | Laura Poitras Investigates Seymour Hersh. Geothermal Energy’s Massive Leap Forward.

Inside the Mamdani Campaign’s Appeal to Black Voters

Afua Atta-Mensah and Maya Meredith Hammer & Hope
Afua Atta-Mensah was hired after the primary with the mission to build Mamdani’s multiracial support, including deepening relationships with Black voters by implementing a community organizing political strategy.

It’s Time for an All-Out Food Fight With Trump

Jeremy Brecher Common Dreams
How can ordinary grocery shoppers organize and become part of the movement that is endeavoring to protect society against Trump’s authoritarian juggernaut?
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