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Resistance Is Alive and Well in the United States

Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman, Soha Hammam Waging Nonviolence
Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches of 2017, but research shows they are far more numerous and frequent — while also shifting to more powerful forms of resistance.

Trump’s Antisocial State

Melinda Cooper Dissent Magazine
The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.

Constitutional Collapse

Aziz Rana Sidecar, blog of New Left Review
Trump/Musk are pursuing the collapse of the American constitutional model, fundamentally altering the terrain on which the US left operates, requiring an oppositional politics the country has not seen since the time of FDR.

Friday Nite Videos | March 21, 2025

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AOC, on Fight Oligarchy Tour, Gives Speech of the Year. Imprisoned Israelis Refuse Military Service in Gaza. Why Your Brain Blinds You for Two Hours Every Day. Stripped for Parts | Documentary. Trump Demands Putin Sign Ceasefire | Puppet Regime.

Bernie’s Anti-Oligarchy Tour Is Showing Dems How To Fight

Zeeshan Aleem MSNBC
Sanders is doing some things that Democrats ought to pay attention to. He is using the theme of oligarchy and class domination as an overarching message. “We are here to say loudly and clearly that in our great nation we will not accept oligarchy.”

The European Left Faces a Historic Challenge

Stefan Bekier Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Introduction to the Ensemble! (FR) meeting on the consequences of the Trump presidency for Europe. Europe must deepen and broaden its integration or become dependent on the neo-fascist international forming around the Trump-Putin axis.
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