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.

Under Israeli Settler Attacks, I Feel I Am Not Alive

Miriame Mazid and Melodie Cochet Convergence
Ruqayya Rabe’i was three months pregnant when a mob of Israelis invaded the village where she lives. She spoke with Jacobin about her lost pregnancy and how settler violence seeks to destroy the basis of Palestinian life.

Glacier Time Bombs

Robert Hunziker CounterPunch
In High Mountain Asia, there are thousands of glaciers at some stage of transforming into large lakes that may burst, barreling down mountainsides. The recent Nepal incident is but a warning,

The Gutting of Higher Education – What’s Left of the New School?

Jeremy Varon Dissent Magazine
Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the school is an increasingly common story across all of higher education.

Volunteers Were the Key to NYC-DSA’s Socialist Sweep

Ashley Bishop Convergence
Lost in conversations about New York socialists’ charisma or social media prowess in recent electoral victories is something simple: boots on the ground. New York City DSA mobilized thousands of volunteers and is poised to do so again in the future.
Subscribe to Portside