Brenda Victoria Castillo and Marc H. Morial
Common Dreams
By pitting Black and Brown communities against each other, shadow actors promote the false notion that democracy and equality are in competition with each other, rather than shared objectives.
Drawing lessons from history does not mean we romanticize past struggles. For a new generation of labour activists, however, they demonstrate that this work has been done before, and that it requires an array of tactics to build worker power.
Three years ago, on February 1, 2021, the Myanmar military staged a coup, ending nearly a decade of civilian rule, arresting countless numbers in a brutal crackdown on popular protest. Three years on, resistance to the coup continues.
Defenders of Israel’s genocide know we’re strongest when we work together. That’s why they are so intent on pitting us against each other. Practicing solidarity helps us understand each other.
Georgia’s sweeping, political application of conspiracy law echoes tactics that shattered the left a hundred years ago, when the government targeted socialist parties and militant unions with laws against criminal syndicalism, espionage, and sedition
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