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Left Leaders, Intellectuals Demand: ‘Free Boris Kagarlitsky and all anti-war...
An international campaign for the freeing from prison of well-known Russian intellectual, writer and anti-war activist Boris Kagarlitsky, along with all other jailed opponents of the war in Ukraine,...
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My Father’s in Rafah, My Heart’s in the Struggle | Why I Organize for Palestine
Every day Tamar’s father sends a text message from Rafah, a “combination of mourning and steadfastness.” She carries his words and a responsibility to her family into all her organizing in New York...
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Convergence Launches Its Newest Offering
Block & Build: Left Strategy in the MAGA Era is a new political education tool from Convergence designed to help us tackle the most urgent and strategic task of our political moment: blocking the...
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Another Left Is Possible
One hundred and twenty delegates gathered at Wits University from 14 to 17 December 2023 to launch Zabalaza for Socialism (ZASO, Zabalaza means Struggle), an eco-socialist, feminist and anti-racist...
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Norman Finkelstein talks Identity Politics, Middle East, Chuck Schumer and...
Dr. Norman G. Finkelstein, renowned political scientist and author of several books (Beyond Chutzpah, The Holocaust Industry, The Rise and Fall of Palestine), to name a few, joins Kiko’s Freethinker’s...
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48 Years After the Military Coup, Tens of Thousands in Argentina Take to the...
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Argentina on March 24 to demand justice for the victims of the state and the military dictatorship of 1976. This year, the annual march had...
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I Could Not Stay Silent
A State Department official working on human rights issues in the Middle East resigned Wednesday in protest of U.S. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza. Annelle Sheline, who worked as a foreign...
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“This Is a Movement of Hope”
Organizers with Listen to Wisconsin, the group driving the state’s “Uninstructed” campaign, say next week’s primary will send President Joe Biden the “final, unequivocal message from the Midwest”...
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Working-Class Environmentalism and Climate Justice: The Challenge of...
On 9 July 2021, Melrose Industries announced the closure of its GKN Driveline (ex-FIAT) factory of car axles in Campi di Bisenzio, Florence, and the layoff of its workers (more than 400). While in many...
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5 Lessons From Hungary: How to Fight Authoritarians
White Nationalist politicians and activists from the U.S. have beaten a path to Hungary, lionizing Viktor Orbán as a role model for crushing liberalism by any means necessary. But what can people...
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The UAW’s 2028 National Strike Should Center Medicare for All
Fresh off their historic labor victory against the country’s Big Three automakers, the United Auto Workers (UAW) are laying the groundwork for workers across multiple sectors to join them in a general...
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Youth and Elders Together: Strategically Key?
In my first couple of years of progressive activism in the late 60’s, many of those I worked with who were also young took a pretty dismissive view of elder activists. And it wasn’t just elders. “Don’t...
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On Kuffiyehs and Watermelon – Revealing the Meaning of Palestinian Symbols
Those who admonish Palestinian Resistance, armed or otherwise, have little understanding of the psychological ramifications of resistance, such as a sense of collective empowerment, honor and hope....
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Haitian Community Defenders Fight US-Armed Death Squads and Puppet Governments
As the stars illuminate the dark alleyways of Solino, Ezayi’s heavy beige Timberlands stomp across the cracked concrete. He is on a mission. The night lookouts who stand guard at the western barricades...
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Tax Day and War Resistance, Philip Berrigan Style
Each year Americans forfeit a sizable slice of their income to the United States Treasury to fund the government. Tax Day is dreaded. No one likes surrendering their hard-earned cash. But rather than a...
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A 32-Hour Workweek Is Ours for the Taking
The United Auto Workers won many of their demands in their groundbreaking, six-week strike in 2023, but one of them — despite not making it into their new contracts with the Big Three automakers — has...
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Palestine Action Permanently Shut Down Tamworth Elbit
Palestine Action shows us that direct action gets results: Relentless direct action has secured another victory in the fight against Israel’s arms trade, as Elbit Systems are forced to sell their...
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What Organizers Need From Lawyers, Part 1: Help Block Authoritarians
In the previous two dispatches, we issued a call for progressive lawyers to join the pro-democracy fight alongside social movements and explored what’s behind the global rise in authoritarianism. Now...
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International Civilian Aid Flotilla to Break the Siege of Gaza
The international Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) will sail in mid April with multiple vessels, carrying 5500 tons of humanitarian aid and hundreds of international human rights observers to challenge...
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The Myth That India’s Freedom Was Won Nonviolently Is Holding Back Progress
If there is a single false claim to “nonviolent” struggle that has most powerfully captured the imagination of the world, it is the claim that India, under Gandhi’s leadership, defeated the mighty...
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