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2010 & later Publications2020
- America Escalates Its "Democratic" Oil War in the Near East
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 The mainstream media are carefully sidestepping the method behind Americas seeming madness in assassinating Islamic Revolutionary Guard general Qassim Suleimani to start the New Year. The logic behind the assassination was a long-standing application of U.S. global policy, not just a personality quirk of Donald Trump's impulsive action.
- America's Long History of Meddling in Russia
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Setting aside the question of whether it's smart to take the U.S. government at its word it isn't if Russia were to meddle in our domestic politics, we would have it coming. To say the least.
- Assange's Extradition Case: Critical Moment for the Anti-war Movement
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 While media have become stenographers to power and have long betrayed ordinary people, WikiLeaks has defended the publics right to know by publishing more than 10 million documents, with a pristine record of accuracy exposing human rights abuses, government spying and war crimes on an unprecedented scale. By bringing truth to the public, the whistleblowing site transformed the Fourth Estate into becoming a powerful vehicle for peace-making.
- Biggest threat Covid-19 epidemic poses is not our regression to survivalist violence, but Barbarism with human face
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 The impossible has happened and the world we knew has stopped turning around. But what world order will emerge after the coronavirus pandemic is over socialism for the rich, disaster capitalism or something completely new?
- Black or White, It's the Same Old Anti-Semitic Pathology
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 2019 closed with a number of anti-Semitic attacks in the New York City areaincluding the killing of three people at a Jersey City kosher market by two shooters who had expressed interest in the fringe Black Hebrew Israelite movement, and a machete attack at a rabbi's home in Monsey, NY by a suspect who appears to have referenced the same anti-Semitic hate group in his rambling manifesto.
- Black Power in Toronto
Connexipedia article Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 History of the Black Power Movement in Toronto, in the context of the Black Power movement in North America.
- Bt Cotton: Cultivating Farmer Distress in India
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 To date, cotton is the only officially sanctioned GM crop in India. Those pushing for GM food crops (including the government) are forwarding the narrative that GM pest resistant Bt cotton has been a tremendous success which should now be emulated with the introduction of GM mustard. Ever since its commercialisation in 2002, however, the issue of Bt cotton in India has been a hotly contested issue. Bt cotton hybrids now cover over 95% of the area under cotton and the seeds are produced by the private sector. But critics argue that Bt cotton has negatively impacted livelihoods and fuelled agrarian distress and farmer suicides.
- Cajamarca - curing gold fever
The people of Cajamarca stopped a gold mine in their water and food rich territory. But the real story is what happened next... Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Farmers, youth and other environmental defenders from Cajamarca, deep in the embrace of the Colombian Andes Mountains, have stopped a vast gold mine, re-valued the true treasures in their territory and begun to develop regenerative alternatives to mining 'development'.
- Can Coronavirus Force Policy Types to Think Clearly About Intellectual Property?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 While there are researchers all over the world working on developing a COVID-19 vaccine, they are to a large extent working in competition. Each team wants to be the first to develop a vaccine so that they can secure a patent and get immensely rich.
- Canadian Embassy: Militarily Supporting Israeli Apartheid
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 A top diplomat organizing an event to celebrate Canadians fighting for another country's military ought to generate criticism. Doing so while that force humiliates Palestinians at checkpoints in the West Bank, fires on protesters in Gaza and bombs Syria in violation of international law is an outrage that must be condemned.
- Capitalism is an Incubator for Pandemics: Socialism is the Solution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Coronavirus is wreaking havoc across the world. Capitalism cannot adequately respond to a global health crisis. That's why we need socialism.
- Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combination
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 The real danger of each new outbreak is the failure -- or better put -- the expedient refusal to grasp that each new Covid-19 is no isolated incident. The increased occurrence of viruses is closely linked to food production and the profitability of multinational corporations. Anyone who aims to understand why viruses are becoming more dangerous must investigate the industrial model of agriculture and, more specifically, livestock production. At present, few governments, and few scientists, are prepared to do so. Quite the contrary.
- Capitalist roots of the environment crisis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Here we are, heading into the middle decades of the 21st century, with all the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of millennia of human endeavour literally at our fingertips, staring down the barrel of a catastrophic, and possibly terminal, breakdown of the relationship between human society and the natural world on which we depend.
- Claims that the 'NAFTA 2' Agreement is Better are a Macabre Joke
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Although Democrats and public pressure forced through some improvements, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), or NAFTA 2, isn't substantially different and remains a document of corporate domination. It would appear that appearances, not substance, drove Democrats in the House of Representatives to approve the deal.
- The Climate Movement Doesnt Know How to Talk With Union Members About Green Jobs
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Throughout the Democratic primary, the potential loss of good construction and fossil fuel industry jobs has helped prevent moderate Democratic candidates, including frontrunner Joe Biden, from taking policy positions that would aggressively confront the fossil fuel industry and the climate crisis. Whoever opposes Donald Trump in the general election will face a politics of climate denial built on an empty but alluring promise of job security in the oil, gas, and coal industries.
- Colonial conservation - a 'cycle of impunity'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 A UN investigation has suggested that rangers funded by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have beaten up, abused and murdered people in the forests of Congo. These atrocities were committed in the name of conservation.
- Community Homophile Association of Toronto (CHAT)
Connexipedia article Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 History of the Community Homophile Association of Toronto (CHAT).
- Cookie Monster: the Nuts and Bolts of Online Tracking
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Big Tech has become notorious for its hoarding of its users' personal data, collected with great breadth and down to minute details. Billions have been paid by online platforms to settle legal charges over their invasive and reckless privacy follies.
- Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Emboldened by the citizenry's inattention and willingness to tolerate its abuses, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expands its powers. The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration, asset forfeiture schemes, road safety schemes, school safety schemes, eminent domain: all of these programs started out as legitimate responses to pressing concerns and have since become weapons of compliance and control in the police state's hands.
- Corporations and Military Powers Are Selling Phony "Wokeness" on International Women's Day
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 It was a familiar sight March 8, 2020 on International Womens Day, as military contractors and other giant corporations used the holiday to attempt to associate themselves with progressive causes and agendas.
- Counter-Culture
Connexipedia article Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 An article on the history of the 1960s Counter-Culture in Toronto.
- The Dangers of Privatized Intelligence
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Ray McGovern once again effectively demolishes (as he has several times over the past three years) the flimsy props holding up Russiagate, especially the "Intelligence Community Assessment" (ICA) prepared in January 2017 by "handpicked analysts" from the FBI, CIA and NSA (not 17 intelligence agencies, as first claimed by National Intelligence Director James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan).
- Democrats impeach Trump for Withholding Arms to Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 That the Democrats are not impeaching Trump for an actual unconstitutional offense like the diverting of military funds to his border wall without congressional approval is revealing of its true motivations. Trump only crossed a line when he went after another member of the political establishment and fleetingly halted the U.S. war machine in its aggression toward Moscow.
- The Disappeared
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 On the fifth floor of the tall glass federal building in Portland, Oregon, the immigration court hums in hushed tones, an air of reverence coming from a dozen or so fidgety children and teenagers. They sit in two long pews that line the back of the room, facing the elevated bench of the immigration judge.
- Dying of Thirst in Gaza
In Gaza, Even the Water is Occupied Territory Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 In 2012, the United Nations issued a report entitled Gaza 2020: A livable place?, with a question mark. If the report took off the question mark, it wouldve answered its own question in the title. No, it's not.
- Even the Machines Are Racist. Facial Recognition Systems Threaten Black Lives.
The use of surveillance technology for "security" comes at the expense of civil liberties for Black and Brown people. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Politicians and companies pushing facial recognition technology say that, like the near-certainty of DNA and the exactness of fingerprint matches, the software is a precise, unbiased alternative to human bigotry in policing. Yet in reality, facial recognition technology is prone to false positives that target Black and Brown people, and then tracks them when they're on parole.
- 'Every journalist should feel a cold, icy hand running down their spine
Assange's extradition case examined Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 "Every journalist in the United States should feel a cold, icy hand running down their spine" at the charges that had been leveled against this publisher. Because they could be next,' writer Suelette Dreyfus says about Assange whose project published leaked documents exposing possible US War crimes in Iraq and letters exposing shenanigans against Bernie Sanders in 2016 by bosses within the Democratic Party.
- Every state is a battleground
Howie Hawkins' Response to "An Open Letter to the Green Party About 2020 Election Strategy" Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 It is condescending and disrespectful to say that Greens are political dilettantes who cast votes just to feel good. We vote to advance a program of system change. We don't waste our votes affirming Democrats like Clinton who personified the elite consensus for the neoliberal economics and neoconservative imperialism that has given us unabated global warming, growing economic insecurity, and endless wars.
- A Feminism for the Working Class
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 In 1999, Barbara Ehrenreich charged the feminist movement with advancing only "educated, middle-class women." Her critique is more pertinent than ever.
- German TV Exposes the Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020
- The Holocaust, the BBC and antisemitism smears
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Senior BBC news reporter Orla Guerin has found herself in hot water of an increasingly familiar kind. During a report on preparations for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, she made a brief reference to Israel and an even briefer reference to the Palestinians.
- How 'dark fishing' sails below the radar to plunder the oceans
Billions of dollars in illegal and unregulated fish supplies are mixed with legal catches and smuggled into the market. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 In September 2019, the Greenpeace campaign ship Arctic Sunrise was scanning the mid-Atlantic ocean, thousands of kilometres from anywhere. On board, investigators were looking for vessels that were doing their best not to be found.
- How the Environmental Lawyer Who Won a Massive Judgment Against Chevron Lost Everything
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Chevron has hired private investigators to track Donziger, created a publication to smear him, and put together a legal team of hundreds of lawyers from 60 firms, who have successfully pursued an extraordinary campaign against him. As a result, Donziger has been disbarred and his bank accounts have been frozen.
- How to Help Someone With a Disability: Listen to Them
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 If you know someone with a disability, the best thing you can do is listen to them. Let them tell you about their strengths, and weaknesses, and needs.
- How We Stay Blind to the Story of Power
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 If one thing drives me to write, especially these blog posts, it is the urgent need for us to start understanding power. Power is the force that shapes almost everything about our lives and our deaths. There is no more important issue. Understanding power and overcoming it through that understanding is the only path to liberation we can take as individuals, as societies, and as a species.
- 'I wish I was a boy': The Kenyan girls fighting period poverty
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 In Kenya, one million girls miss school each month because they cannot afford sanitary pads, while some share used ones.
- In northeastern BC, over 10% of oil and gas wells are leaking methane
There is no monitoring program for abandoned wells, so they can leak for a long time before emissions are detected and repaired. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Northeastern British Columbia has been a major centre of conventional oil and gas production since the 1960s. More recently, the shale gas sector has also targeted the region.
- The Inauthentic Opposition is "Stunned" by a Crime it Encouraged
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Top Democrats are "stunned" that Trump impulsively ordered the killing of "the commanding general of a sovereign government" (New York Times) Irans Maj. Gen. Qassim Soliemani - on the sovereign territory of Iraq without the permission of Iraq's government. The imperial assassination of Soliemani is a criminal act of war guaranteed to provoke a reaction that could produce a regional war involving U.S. forces in the Middle East.
- The Injured Workers Movement
Connexipedia article Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 History and formation of The Injured Workers Movement.
- Inside the World Uyghur Congress: The US-backed right-wing regime change network seeking the 'fall of China'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 In recent years, few stories have generated as much outrage in the West as the condition of Uyghur Muslims in China. Reporting on the issue is typically represented through seemingly spontaneous leaks of information and expressions of resistance by Uyghur human rights activists struggling to be heard against a tyrannical Chinese government.
- Intimidating or coercing a civilian population is terrorism. Right?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 So, Donald Trump's "peace plan" threatening to wipe out the Palestinians' legitimate rights and reduce them to a fragmented vassal mini-state with restricted freedom and limited self-rule, to be forever at the mercy of their cruel and lawless neighbour, is a terror document. Right?
- Israeli Justice... a Futile Chase
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Seventeen years ago, 23 year old Rachel Corrie (a Washington State volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement) was crushed to death by an armoured military bulldozer as she stood on top of a mound of dirt trying to prevent the dozer from destroying a civilian home in the Southern Gaza Strip village of Rafa.
- The Issue Dividing Democratic Candidates Is Hidden in Plain Sight
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Takes came in hot and heavy last weekend after the New York Times editorial board endorsed both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for the Democratic presidential nomination, mercifully ending the paper's self-aggrandizing pseudo-event widely compared to
that's right
"The Apprentice."
- Johnstone Brings her Moral Compass to our Dantesque World
Review of Diana Johnstone, Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Diana Johnstone's memoir is a classic, and will be read and quoted as long as we keep struggling for peace and justice. It is one of the great personal accounts of the anguished decline of our uncivilization, both a riveting eye-witness account of many of the horrors and perfidies, and a primer for students of history and all those struggling to not only dismantle the beast, but to prepare us for what follows it.
- The Killing and Raping Game in Kenya and the Despots Who Run It
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Politics in Kenya is dominated by rapacious elites consumed with the looting of state resources, using violence to avoid any possible accountability. Elections serve as key points of entry and consolidation in this system for both ruling and competing elites, and are manifestations of corruption, fraud, and repression.
- League for Student Democracy (LSD)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 An article about the history of the League for Student Democracy (LSD) in Toronto.
- The "Liberal" Medias Propaganda War on Bernie Sanders
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020
- The military's carbon bootprint
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 As the biggest single user of fossil fuels, why is the military exempt from the climate discussion?
- Morality in an Amoral World
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 A crisis is a mirror. It shows us - if we have the courage to see - who we are as individuals and as a society. The self-congratulatory poses of governments, politicians, and state institutions are confronted with the harsh test of reality. Each of us - as individuals, friends, families, neighbours, communities - face new and sometimes difficult challenges. The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is such a crisis.
- New Deal for Nature: Paying the Emperor to Fence the Wind
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 The latest idea to be heavily promoted by big conservation NGOs is doubling the world's so-called "Protected Areas" (PAs) so that they cover thirty percent of the globe's lands and oceans. This is now their main rallying cry and response to two of the world's biggest problems -- climate chaos and loss of biodiversity. It sounds good: It's easy to grasp and has numbers that are supposed to be measurable, and advertisers do love numbers. What better answer to climate change and biodiversity loss than to ban human "interference" over huge areas? If, that is, you think "everybody" is guilty of causing both crises and that everything's solved by keeping them away. The idea's been around for years, but now governments and industries are promoting it to the tune of billions of dollars, so it'll be difficult to oppose. But it's actually dangerous nonsense which would have exactly the reverse effect to what we're told, and if we want to save our world, it must be stopped.
- No Limits. The Disabled People's Movement: A Radical History - book review
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 In No Limits, Judy Hunt recovers the history of the disabled peoples movement, showing how disabled people organised themselves against the challenge of an inaccessible society and achieved significant gains.
- The Only Treatment for Coronavirus Is Solidarity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 We live in an interwoven, interconnected world where an injury to one is truly an injury to all. We must confront the coronavirus with solidarity and fight for a society where the health of all is more important than profits for a few.
- An Open Letter to the Green Party About 2020 Election Strategy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 As the 2020 presidential election approaches the Green Party faces the challenge of settling on a platform, choosing a candidate for president, and deciding its campaign strategy.
- Organizing to ampliyfy ecosocialist voices around the world
African journal interviews John Molyneux, a founder of the new Global Ecosocialist Network, on the challenges before ecosocialists today. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 John Molyneux, a socialist activist and writer based in Ireland, has played a central role in organizing the Global Ecosocialist Network. He was interviewed by Leo Zeilig of the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE).
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 19, 2020
Taking a Stand Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2020 Psychologists call it cognitive dissonance. George Orwell called it double-think. Some of us might call it organized hypocrisy. Call it what you will, it surrounds us. The government proclaims its commitment to 'reconciliation' with indigenous people, and says that its relationship with them is its most important relationship. At the same time the RCMP, following an order by a colonial court, invades unceded indigenous land and arrests people for occupying their own land. Governments mouth platitudes about the importance they place on dealing with the climate emergency while at the same time they build new pipelines and approve massive new tarsands projects. The biggest polluter on the planet - the U.S. military - meanwhile receives constant increases in its budget, even while it pursues demented schemes to take us to the edge of war, mostly recently by deploying a new generation of "low-yield" thermonuclear weapons on submarines. All this is business as usual. Fortunately many people across the country, and around the world, are saying no to business as usual. They are taking a stand and disrupting business as usual.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 19, 2020
 Morality in an Amoral World Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2020 A crisis is a mirror. It shows us - if we have the courage to see - who we are as individuals and as a society. The self-congratulatory poses of governments, politicians, and state institutions are confronted with the harsh test of reality. Each of us - as individuals, friends, families, neighbours, communities - face new and sometimes difficult challenges. The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is such a crisis.
- Pakistan's Women's March: Shaking patriarchy 'to its core'
Young activists and their older counterparts explain why they are uniting to fight for women's rights in Pakistan. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Thousands of women have marched across Pakistan's main urban centres to mark International Women's Day. 2020 is the third successive year that the Aurat March, women's march, has been held in the country.
- Parkdale Tenants Association (PTA)
Connexipedia article Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 History of the Parkdale Tenants Association (PTA) in Toronto.
- Patterns of Occupied Palestine and Kashmir: Part 4 of Uncountable
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020
- A People's History of the German Revolution 1918-19 - book review
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 William Pelzs Peoples History of the German Revolution is a vivid and accessible introduction to socialism's greatest lost revolution.
- The privatization of rivers in Chile
Auctioning-off rivers for private gain has severe social and environmental impacts. But there is a better way. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 The Chilean government has continued with the mercantile treatment of common goods, putting several rivers in the Bio Bio Region up for auction, despite ongoing social unrest.
- Profiting from Loss: How Business in Illegal Israeli Settlements Continues Unchecked
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 UN efforts to protect Palestinian land from economic exploitation are failing, and exposing the hypocrisy of western states.
- The Public Charge Rule for Immigrants Evokes the Antebellum Slave Codes
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Immigration historians have written extensively about how the archaic provision Trump is relying on had antecedents in state laws regulating Atlantic immigration in the 1800s. But little, if anything, has been said in the media about how Trump's rule is also rooted in a different set of state laws, specifically, state slave codes and other antebellum-era laws designed to preserve slavery and limit the movement of freed slaves.
- The Real Modi: Do the Killings of Muslims Represent India's Kristallnacht?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 On 23 February 2020 in Delhi, Hindu nationalist mobs roamed the streets burning and looting mosques together with Muslim homes, shops and businesses. They killed or burned alive Muslims who could not escape and the victims were largely unprotected by the police.
- Researchers Are Substantially Undercounting Gene-Editing Errors
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 The standard gene-editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9, frequently produces a type of DNA mutation that ordinary genetic analysis misses, claims new research published in the journal Science Advances. In describing these findings the researchers called such oversights "serious pitfalls" of gene editing.
- Revealed: The British government's covert propaganda campaign in Syria
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 The British government covertly established a network of citizen journalists across Syria during the early years of the country's civil war in an attempt to shape perceptions of the conflict, frequently recruiting people who were unaware that they were being directed from London.
- Saugeen Ojibway Nation Has Saved Lake Huron From a Nuclear Waste Dump
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 A major victory for Canada's First Nations has just been won in Ontario. On January 31, 2020, the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON) overwhelmingly voted down the proposed deep geological repository (DGR) for storage of low- and intermediate-level radioactive nuclear waste next to Lake Huron.
- Saving the Nile
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 For the 280 million people from 11 countries who live along the banks of the Nile, it symbolises life. For Ethiopia, a new dam holds the promise of much-needed electricity; for Egypt, the fear of a devastating water crisis.
- Solidarity: Five Largely Unknown Truths about Israel, Palestine and the Occupied Territories
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2020 Drawing on both historical and current struggles for Palestinians under siege, occupation and forced displacement, including the Great March of Return in Gaza, the film provides a stirring indictment of Israels settler project as well as that of the cable networks deliberate spin to shield Israel from accountability. As the films title indicates, Peck divides the film into five themes: the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba, when 800,000 Palestinians were forced from their homeland in 1947-1948; Israels disproportionate violence against Palestinians; Israels continued expansion of illegal settlement colonies; the US financial support of Israel; and whats behind the smear campaigns to label criticism of Israels policies as anti-Semitism.
- Step to Nuclear Doomsday: US Puts Low-Yield Nukes on Submarines in Response to Made-up Russian 'Escalate to Deescalate' Strategy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 The US has deployed low-yield nuclear missiles on submarines, saying its to discourage nuclear conflict with Russia. The move is based on a Russian strategy made up in Washington and will only bring mass annihilation closer.
- Stop Calling Harmful Bigotry "Religious Freedom"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 The Supreme Court is considering a case, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, that once again pits LGBTQ rights against so-called religious liberty. In this case, one of the plaintiffs, Catholic Social Services, is arguing that it has the right to discriminate against same sex couples when placing children in foster care.
- Stop Spadina Save Our City Co-ordinating Committee (SSSOCCC)
Connexipedia article Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 History of the Stop Spadina Save Our City Co-ordinating Committee (SSSOCCC), which was formed to oppose the proposed Spadina Expressway that was supposed to be bulldozed through the middle of downtown Toronto.
- SYRIZA's Betrayal of Greece is a Spectre haunting the Left
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Regardless of whether he beats the odds, no one can deny the significance of Sanders's movement in taking the relatively progressive first step of returning "socialism" from exile to everyday U.S. politics which was once an inconceivable prospect. Unfortunately, a consequence is that now his idea of an 'alternative' to capitalism has been made synonymous with the word in the minds of Americans, regardless of its qualifications.
- Systemic Cruelty
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 When bailiffs broke down his door on the 20th June 2018 they found Errol Graham emaciated and dead. He weighed just four and a half stone (28.5kg). There was no food in the flat except for two tins of fish that were four years out of date, no gas or electricity supply.
- They Stripped Us of Our Clothes and Assigned Us a Number
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 How can one begin to excavate the horrors of a radical resocialization project (from roughly 1876 to 1986) to transform "savages" into "civilized" citizens? In turning First Nations societies upside down, the government and the churches ended up turning themselves upside down, evident in the spiritual and moral degradation of themselves and students under their care.
- To Save Our Climate We Need Taller Trees Not Taller Wooden Buildings
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 To many of us working at the intersection of forest conservation and climate stability recent opinions and news coverage of proposals to fill our cities with tall wooden buildings presents not a stirring vision of sustainability but a nightmarish scenario of a land base increasingly scarred by clearcuts, logging roads and small diameter tree plantations at a time when climate science insists that reestablishing natural forests and letting them grow much bigger and older is one of humanity's last best hopes to keep climate change from accelerating out of control. To save our climate we need taller trees not taller wooden buildings.
- Toronto Womens Liberation Movement (TWLM)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 An article about the history and development of the Toronto Womens Liberation Movement (TWLM).
- The Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMX): Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and the Russians
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 There has long been fierce opposition to the TMX project (owned at the time by Texas-based Kinder Morgan), which will nearly triple the pipelines capacity to bring Alberta diluted bitumen (dilbit) to the West Coast.
- Understanding France's General Strike in the Context of the Yellow Vests and Global Class Warfare
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Labor and capital are at loggerheads in France. As the open-ended strike launched on December 5th against a neoliberal overhaul of the pension system continues to expand, the Macron regime has dug in its heels to defend the advantages this so-called reform would have for the wealthy (even though it has recently been forced to present what it considers to be a "compromise" to the union leadership).
- Wall Street Invading Wetsuweten Territory
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 While protesters have rightly condemned the RCMP actions in arresting Wetsuweten First Nation land defenders, they (and the corporate media) have largely overlooked the role of a major player in this whole debacle: Wall Street titan Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., better known as KKR.
- 'We've got a real divide in the community:' Wet'suwet'en Nation in turmoil
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 The battle over the CGL pipeline in British Columbia both on social media and in the press is dividing the Wet'suwet'en Nation some members say. The two opposing sides have been in a very public dispute over Coastal GasLink's (CGL) 670 km pipeline that will carry fracked natural gas from Dawson Creek, B.C., in the northeast, to Kitimat on the coast.
- The West Displays Its Insecurity Complex
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 "The West is winning!' U.S. leaders proclaimed at the high-level Annual Security Conference held in Munich last weekend. Not everybody was quite so sure.
- Which Side Are You On?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 I think of my friend whenever I hear some bullshit-bloated politician or commentator dismissing the humanity and dignity of criminals and prisoners.
- Why the working-class, socialist history of International Women's Day matters today
On International Women's Day, Katherine Connelly looks at its origins in the socialist and feminist movements led by working class women Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 The high-profile celebrations of a day founded by socialists to highlight the struggles of working-class women will not include any discussion of socialism, nor will they contain much about the specific problems and experiences of working-class women.
- 'Women are the strongest pillar'
Meet the female fishmongers in Liberia fighting for healthy fisheries. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 On the landing beaches of Liberia fishing canoes crowd the shallows, the bright colour schemes and fluttering flags showing the pride the fishermen take in their work. But although the men haul the nets this is an industry underpinned by women.
- The World Must End The US' Illegal Economic War
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 The United States is relying more heavily on illegal unilateral coercive measures (also known as economic sanctions) in place of war or as part of its build-up to war. In fact, economic sanctions are an act of war that kills tens of thousands of people each year through financial strangulation.
2019
- Adversarial Interoperability
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A round-up of the EFF's writing on 'adverserial interoperabillity' which is necessary for creating a decentralized internet free from corporate monopolies.
- All Massacres Will Become 'Alleged Massacres' If We Don't Pay Attention
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The greatest enemy of all journalists and all politicians is the failure of institutional, historical memory.
- Alliance statement: Solidarity with the popular uprising in Sudan
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Statement of allliance by the Aliiance of Middle Eastern Socialists for the ongoing uprising in Sudan which erupted on December 19th, 2018.
- Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Amazon's home surveillance company Ring is coaching police on how to use their technology which simultaneously provides a source of advertising for Amazon.
- Amazon vs. the Socialists in Seattle
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In what may turn out to be a preview of the U.S. presidential election, with the ruling class hellbent on stopping Bernie Sanders at all costs, big business in Seattle is carrying out an unprecedented assault of corporate PAC money against socialist and progressive candidates in this years elections.
- Amazon's Ring Planned Neighborhood 'Watch Lists' Built on Facial Recognition
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Amazon's plan to create proactive "watch lists" based on supposed suspicious activity - including facial recognition software - seen by their Ring cameras should alarm anyone who cares about privacy.
- American Visitors to the Gestapo Museum Draw Their Own Conclusions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An exploration of the ethics of drawing comparisons from present-day injustices to Nazi atrocities.
- Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Conspiracy theories in general tend to be crude and simplistic, more often than not reflecting the nature of the people who indulge them. But when the conspiracy theory is mingled with antisemitism as with the Rothschild rot it represents a particular failure of the imagination, a particularly null and void exercise in dehumanisation.
- Angela Davis: Relevant as Ever After Thirty Years
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A look at how Angela Davis's work in Women, Culture, and Politics (1989) applies today.
- Another Empire's Boot Stomps on Ireland
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A civilian airport in Ireland is being used as a hub by the US military.
- The Anti Nazi League and its lessons for today
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Interview with Paul Holborow, organising secretary of the Anti Nazi League in 1977-1980.
- Anti-Muslim Bigotry and Far-Right Terror
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Far-right ideology is fuelled by such a large mishmash of ideas that censoring anti-Muslim rhetoric is futile for stopping attacks.
- Antisemitism Claims have One Goal: To Stop Jeremy Corbyn Winning Power
The Jewish communitys alienation from Labour has been years in the making Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A supposed antisemitism crisis in Britain's Labour party since Jeremy Corbyn became leader has erupted back into the headlines.
- Apocalypse of Our Times
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Review of Gerald Horne's "Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism," a look at the 17th century origins of the slave trade.
- Are Israel's spies stealing your data?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Many Israeli spies go into careers in surveillance software bringing techniques that are used to violate the privacy of Palestinians into everyday commercial software.
- Argentina's Indigenous People Fight for Land Rights
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Indigenous people in Argentina live with the constant threat of eviction on land to which they own no title. Much of their predicament is due to colonial laws and attitudes that persist even though constitutional changes now recognize Indigenous land rights as an urgent issue. Deforestation due to expanding agriculture exacerbates this conflict.
- As Democratic Elites Reunite With Neocons, the Party's Voters Are Becoming Far More Militaristic and Pro-War Than Republicans
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 As President Trump announces plans to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan Democrats have seemingly adopted a pro-war stance in greater numbers than Republicans.
- Assange revolutionized journalism, and the elite will never forgive him
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Julian Assange's treatment by governments and mainstream media shows how he is a threat to the former and shames the latter.
- Assange's Indictment Treats Journalism as a Crime
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The charges against Assange send a message to journalists that they are in danger for doing their jobs. The UK can and should deny extradition of Assange to the US.
- Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Sources reveal new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times and refute lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder.
- Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Australian journalist Mark Davis HAS revealed new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times, and refuting the lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder.
- Bank Report Reveals Where Ruling Class Lives
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The 2019 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report provides a glimpse at the inequality that the neoliberal era has produced, who has benefitted and those who have been left behind.
- BDS: Repression and Progress
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Short piece about recent BDS actions and attempts to censor pro-Palestinian protest.
- Behind the popular revolt in Sudan
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Interview with journalist and former Sudanese Communist Party activist Rashid Saeed Yagoub. Amgad Fareid Eltayeb outlines the situation and background to the revolt in Sudan. Also, a solidarity statement issued by the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists.
- Berlin Tax Office withdraws charitable status from Nazi victims' organisation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The Berlin Tax Office has withdrawn the charitable status of one of the largest and most long-established anti-fascist associations in Germany jeopardizing its abillity to continue its work.
- Betraying the Kurds
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Many debates about Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria ignore the overall illegitmacy of military-political intervention.
- Beyond Corporate Power
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 By concentrating on corporate power we can end up looking to the state for solutions. But the only way to achieve even the moderate reforms necessary is through revolutionary mass movements.
- Black Liberation Struggle: The Key to American Socialist Revolution
Part Two Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Everybody is familiar with Marx's famous saying, in Capital, Vol. 1 (1867), that "labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded." This was more than a moral appeal against slavery. It was a statement of fact: Marx recognized that so long as half the country was dominated by slavery, workers would never be able to fight for even basic trade-union rights. The Civil War paved the way for the growth of American capitalism and the labor movement.
- The Boeing Way: Blaming Dead Pilots
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation held a hearing about the recent crashes of Boeing 737 MAXs. The Representatives (many of whom received campaign contributions from Boeing) actively tried to shift blame from the company and place it on the dead pilots.
- Bolivia's universal healthcare is model for the world, says UN
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Bolivia has implemented universal healthcare to provide free care to its poorest citizens. Although controversial with the country's doctors the program is lauded by the UN.
- Brazilian dam disaster 'is part of a pattern'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A team of Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) academics is marking the international day of action for rivers by hanging out the dirty laundry of a very dirty company.
- Breach of Ethics
Leaked Chats Between Brazilian Judge and Prosecutor Who Imprisoned Lula Reveal Prohibited Collaboration and Doubts Over Evidence Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Leaked documents show that Sergio Moro, a judge at the time, collaborated heavily with investigators in Operation Car Wash, a serious breach of judicial impartiality. Even critics of Lula who consider him corrupt doubt the veracity of aspects of the investigation.
- Breaking the Impasse
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Review of Cracks in the Wall by Ben White, a hopeful book about weakening pro-Zionism in public consensus.
- Breaking the Left's Gay Taboo
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A review of Allen Young's "Left, Gay and Green: a Writer's Life" that includes much historical context and the reviewer's personal history.
- Breaking the Silence: Inside the Israeli Right's Campaign to Silence an anti-Occupation Group
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Breaking the Silence, an Israeli anti-occupation group that collects testimonies of Israeli soldiers operating in Palestinian territories has been targeted by moles and other attacks.
- Brexit Divides the British Left
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Short commentary on three leftist perspectives on Brexit. The articles discussed are linked in the main piece.
- A Brief History of US Concentration Camps
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An overview of ethnic cleansing and civilian concentration camps in the US starting with the Trail of Tears.
- Britains Chief Rabbi is Helping to Stoke antisemitism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has not only misrepresented the known facts about Labour and its supposed antisemitism crisis. He has not only interfered in an overtly, politically partisan manner in the December 12, 2019 election campaign by suggesting that Jeremy Corbyn -- against all evidence -- is an antisemite.
- Britain's Witchfinders are Ready to Burn Jeremy Corbyn
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The suspension of MP Chris Williamson for alleged anti-semitism is part of a smear campaign against Corbyn. It is also a by-product of all criticism of Israel being labelled anti-semitism.
- British MPs won't get to see 'WitchHunt' in the House of Commons - the very place it needs to be shown
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A screening of a documentary - made by Jewish Labour party members - about charges of anti-semitism in the British Labour Party has been cancelled.
- Broiler chickens: The defining species of the Anthropocene?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Broiler chickens may be distinct and ubiquitous enough as a human-modified species that their fossil record could justify calling our era the Anthropocene.
- Building resistance to Canadas destructive mining industry
Review of Joan Kuyek's book Unearthing Justice Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In her book Unearthing Justice: How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry, long-time activist Joan Kuyek brilliantly shares lessons from decades of fighting environmental and community disruption by Canadas mining corporations.
- The Burning of Highlander Center: a Fascist-like Attack
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The Highlander Research and Education Center was burned to the ground in New Market, Tennessee in an act of arson by the white power movement.
- California Burning, PG&E Bankrupt
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A synopsis of PG&E's history of negligence and corruption which has caused wildfire disasters. The company tries to escape consequences but others are demanding change.
- A Call to Action
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Positive review - with caveats - of a book about how we can transform society.
- Calling Assange a Narcissist Misses the Point
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Personal attacks on Assange are used to discredit his work publicizing war crimes and the truth behind pro-war propaganda.
- Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib, and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Suffering caused through our wars including conditions inside US military camps, in Iraq, led to the extremism of Al-Baghdadi and his ISIS followers.
- Canada Adopts America First Foreign Policy US State Dept Boasted in 2017
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A declassified cable from the US embassy in Ottawa titled "Canada Adopts 'America First' Foreign Policy" notes that the Canadian government would be "Prioritizing U.S. Relations, ASAP."
- Capitalism and Disability: Selected writings by Marta Russell
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2019 This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism.
- Catalonia 'separatists' bad, HK 'pro-democracy protesters' good: Orwell's 1984 becomes user's manual for Western 'free media'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 When supporters of Catalan leaders jailed for organizing a democratic vote advance on Barcelona airport, media make a fuss over 'separatists' causing chaos. When the same tactic is used in Hong Kong, it's a 'pro-democracy' protest. In George Orwells 1984, The War Ministry was renamed the Ministry of Peace. Truth was Lies, Hate was Love. But author Lewis Carroll got there first.
- Catherine Rottenberg's Neoliberal Feminism
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An interview with Catherine Rottenberg, author of The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (2018).
- Chicago Charter Teachers Strike, Win
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Reporting on the unprecedented and successful strike of charter school teachers in Chicago.
- The Chickens Come Home to Roost ... in Syria
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 American meddling in the Middle East since 9/11 may finally be reaching a crisis as the process produces irreconcilable conflicts with allies.
- The Christian Genocide During the Ottoman Empire Sounds a Dark Warning for the Future
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Review and discussion of The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkeys Destruction of Its Christian Minorities 1894-1924 by Benny Morris and Dror Zeevi.
- Class War on New Ground
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Review of Kim Moody's New Terrain, a book looking at how capitalism has changed and how left wing organizing must adapt.
- Climate Advocates Underestimate Power of Fossil Fueled Misinformation Campaigns, Say Top Researchers
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The "climate countermovement" direct massive resources towards denying the reality of climate change. Climate advocates need to address their opposition's tactics to be able to combat this misinformation.
- Climate Change: A Socialist Solution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A lot has been written, including by myself, on why capitalism, by its very nature, cannot tackle or stop climate change. The purpose of this article is not to repeat those arguments but to make the positive case for socialism as necessary to deal with this existential crisis for humanity.
- A Collective Ignorance of Ecosystems
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Loss of genetic diversity is one consequence of the Industrial Forestry Paradigm that dominates the U.S. timber industry and all public agencies from the state forestry agencies to the federal agencies like the Forest Service.
- Collusion in Plain Sight
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The media should use the same language for Trump's pandering to corporations and failure to publicly condemn white supremacist violence as they do for his supposed collaboration with Russia.
- Colorblind Law -- NOT
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Positive review of Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. It looks at the history of how states circumvented federal desegregation laws.
- Communist Dictatorship in Our Midst
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A kind of undercurrent of thought about workplace democracy has bubbled beneath the surface of public discourse of our current "crisis of democracy." Beneath the surface: one can hardly identify any serious public discourse these days on the anti-democratic nature of most work under Neo-liberal conditions.
- Congo's Patrice Lumumba: The Winds of Reaction in Africa
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A brief history of Patrice Lumumba who was briefly Prime Minister of an independent Congo.
- 'Cotton has now become a headache'
A chemical-intensive Bt cotton monoculture is spreading through Odishas Rayagada district harming health, deepening debt, irreversibly er Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Kunari's account reflects a dependence brought about by cotton cultivation that is taking root across the ecologically sensitive highland tracts of Odisha's Rayagada district, with deep implications for its rich store of biodiversity, farmers' distress and food security (See Sowing the seeds of climate crisis in Odisha).
- Court Throws out Energy Transfer's 'Racketeering' Claims Against Dakota Access Pipeline Opponents
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An energy company that tried to bring RICO charges against Greenpeace and other people opposing their pipeline have had their case thrown out.
- Creative + Strategic = Effective Movements for Change
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Some positive, creative ideas on non-violent actions to make social change.
- Cuba's urban farming shows way to avoid hunger
Urban farming, Cuban-style, is being hailed as an example of how to feed ourselves when climate change threatens serious food shortages. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 When countries run short of food, they need to find solutions fast, and one answer can be urban farming. That was the remedy Cuba seized with both hands 30 years ago when it was confronted with the dilemma of an end to its vital food imports.
- D is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 American government is much like show business: empty entertainment with smoke and mirrors hiding the string-pullers behind the scenes.
- Dam it all: More than half of the world's long rivers are blocked by infrastucture
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 But with the increasing demand for more water, energy generation, and flood management, the construction of dams, levees, reservoirs, and other river-obstructive infrastructures is becoming ubiquitous.
- Dams and the Green New Deal: Why the Silence?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest question that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the backup for energy if it proves impossible to get off of fossil fuels fast enough.
- Dances of Disinformation: the Partisan Politics of the Integrity Initiative
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The Integrity Initiative - a supposedly non-partisan agency aiming at dismantling state sponsored misinformation - was exposed as funded by a UK government agency to undermine the opposition. This brings into question the plausibility of an impartial or apolitical playing field.
- De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A long interview with economist Michael Hudson about Trump's plan to lower interest rates.
- Dearest Arundhati Roy: Shahidul Alam reflects on his time in prison
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The Bangladeshi photographer was charged with criticising his country on Facebook and spent more than 100 days behind bars. Now freed, he replies to the Indian novelist who wrote to him in jail.
- Death, Misery and Bloodshed in Yemen
"Strike with Creativity" proclaims Raytheon. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Writing about his visit to the world's largest weapons bazaar, held in London during October, Arron Merat describes reading this slogan emblazoned above Raytheons stall: "Strike with Creativity." Raytheon manufactures Paveway laser-guided bombs, fragments of which have been found in the wreckage of schools, hospitals, and markets across Yemen.
- The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2019 A history of national debt and the international power structures it supports. Calls for the repudiation of illegitimate debt.
- Declassified Documents Now Reveal There Were Two CIA Torture Programs
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Declassified documents expose new info about the CIA's detention and interrogation operations. This article looks at their history going back to MKUltra in the 1950s.
- Deconstructed Special: The Noam Chomsky Interview
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 On this weeks Deconstructed, Chomsky sits down with Mehdi Hasan to discuss the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, the 2020 Democratic field, and why he opposed Trump's Syria troop withdrawal.
- Deep Fakes: Will AI Swing the 2020 Election?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The ability of AI to create credible-looking fake videos could pose a threat to candidates at election time but gullibility was a problem before computer technology.
- Defense for Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Transcript of a speech in defense of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange.
- The Destruction of Freedom: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange And The Corporate Media
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The corporate media's hostility towards Assange, Manning and WikiLeaks - obvious by lack of coverage or overt antagonism - shows it is tool of the state and big business.
- Did John Bolton Light the Fuse of the UK-Iranian Tanker Crisis?
Evidence suggests he pressured the Brits to seize an Iranian ship. Why? More war. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The details of the UK's seizure of the Grace 1 point to involvement by John Bolton and the Trump administration to put pressure on Iran.
- Disablement, Oppression, and Political Economy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 It is often claimed that disabled persons are invisible, disregarded by mainstream society, and irrelevant to the workings of society. This analysis has attempted to explain that the "unemployables" have been deliberately shut out of the labour force due to a capitalist economy that so far has dictated their exclusion by measure of economic calculations that favor the business class. It further posits that disabled persons are further oppressed in capitalist societies by having been purposely shifted onto social welfare or segregated into institutions for similar reasons to keep workers who could not be profitably employed out of the mainstream workforce but also to exert social control over the entire labour supply.
- Disagreeing Reasonably in a Complex World
A review of The Case Against Free Speech Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Free speech is not a naturally occurring object. It's an idea, a notion, an aspiration, an approach to politics, always involving a theory about what it means to be human in a particular society at a particular time.
- Disciplined for Acting with Integrity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The smear campaign against two profs at University of Michigan participating in BDS harks back to McCarthyist attempts to silence the left at that same institution.
- The Discovery and Rediscovery of Metabolic Rift
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Ian Angus discusses the scientific developments that led Marx to develop metabolic rift theory, and a new generation to rediscover it in our time.
- Distorting 'Democracy' in Venezuela Coverage
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Round up of some of the many media outlets that call Guaidó's coup attempt in Venezuela a democratic movement and refer to democratically elected president Maduro as a dictator.
- Do we fetishize indigenous people?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Although well-intentioned, Western representations of and interactions with Indigenous people can undermine their humanity.
- Don't Believe the Hype: Paying for Medicare for All Is Simple
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Debunking recent arguments that Medicare for All will require reducing spending in other areas.
- Doubling Down: The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not In Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The two most important narratives imposed on us are climate change as a "threat to national security" and as a "business opportunity" - the twin rationales for military and corporate power. They want to focus us on how to manage the crisis, profit from it, or adapt to it, instead of opposing it.
- Dung beetles 'reduce human pathogens risk'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Farmers remove habitats that encourage natural wildlife for food-safety reasons, however, these habitats encourage biodiversity which could reduce the risk of pathogens in food.
- Education in the Service of Assimilation: The Founding Vision of Residential Schools in Canada
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A look at some scholarly histories of residiential schools that put paid to Canada's kinder, gentler reputation.
- Eight miners die from toxic gases in Perus northern highlands
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Eight miners died after poisonous gases escaped in an informal gold mine in northern Peru. Informal mines are operated without licenses or safety standards by companies that can easily bypass regulations.
- Empires Are a Secret until They Start Falling
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Alfred McCoy says that it is only when empires are in decline that people begin to recognize they live in an empire and start to talk about it. While discussion of empire hasn't broken into the corporate media, it is certainly happening in the independent media. A concerted effort by a popular movement could bring it to the fore, just as Occupy changed the political dialogue about wealth inequality and the power of money. People in the US need to face some stark realities when it comes to declining US global power.
- Emulating the circle of life
We need to rethink efficiency in our food system. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Developing food systems that simulate the processes found in nature can make food production more sustainable.
- Engels on the importance of Hegel to Marxism
Letter to Conrad Schmidt Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Neo-Kantian by persuasion, Schmidt nevertheless asked Engels what the philosophical underpinnings of Marxs thought were. Engels already had put out a book on the topic, Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of German Classical Philosophy (1885), but apparently the implications of this work were not clear enough.
- Epifanio Camacho: a Militant Farmworker Brushed Out of History
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Biographical info on Epifanio Camacho, a labor activist who fought alongside the less militant Cesar Chavez. He has been largely forgotten by history.
- Eric Hobsbawm: Historical cosmonaut
David Kynaston on a 'national treasure' whose politics provoked endless bitterness Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Review of 'A Life In History' a biography of Eric Hobsbawm by Richard J. Evans.
- Europe's Political Turmoil -- Part II
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Could the rise of the far right across Europe actually lead to establishing fascist regimes? Overemphasis on this fear may divert attention from where it is needed.
- Everyone Washington Supports, by Definition, Is a Moderate Centrist
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Many right-wing movements and leaders are described as moderate or even left-leaning by politicians and corporate media. In these cases the terms no longer have a political definition but is a way to convey approval.
- The Evidence We Were Never Meant to See About the Douma Gas Attack
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A report that conflicts with claims that two cylinders containing chemicals were dropped from an aircraft was suppressed by the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons. This erodes public trust in the institution and is distressing given the recent history of using dubious existence of deadly weapons to justify wars.
- Exposure of Another Pro-War Lie Doesn't Make Media More Skeptical of Pro-War Claims
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The story of pro-Maduro forces burning trucks bringing aid to Venezuela has now been reported as false, even by corporate media. The bigger story of how and why this lie was propogated gets left behind.
- Face Surveillance Is a Uniquely Dangerous Technology
CounterSpin interview with Shankar Narayan on facial recognition Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Lightly edited transcript of an interview regarding face recognition technology and how it will impact people who are already over-policed.
- Facebook had human contractors 'reviewing' users' Messenger voice chats
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Facebook has given contractors access to people's private voice chats for transcription purposes.
- Facebook Wants You to Know if Youre Getting Your News From the Wrong Government
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Media outlets owned by a company with ties to the Russian government are forced to disclose their affiliation on Facebook. Media outlets owned or funded by the US government are not held to the same standard.
- The Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge and Approved Ideas
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The university environment should be the last place where dangerous ideas, and views, are stifled and stomped upon. In actual fact, we are seeing the reverse; from students unions to middle- and upper-managerial parasites and administrators, the contrarian idea must be boxed, the controversial speaker silenced and sent beyond the pale.
- failing to see the deeper causes of social tragedies
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In both cases, the roots of the tragedies are manifold. But in both cases we seem more interested in laying instant blame than in excavating the wider causes that might help us prevent such catastrophes happening again.
- The Fake News Nazi - Corbyn, Williamson And The Anti-Semitism Scandal
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Analysis of Corbyn's press shows accusations of anti-semitism against him only started when he became a political threat.
- Fake News Tsunami - Trump's 'Collusion' And Corbyn As 'Dangerous Hero'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Analysis of recent news coverage that paints Corbyn as an anti-semite compared to that of the Trump campaign's supposed ties with the Russian government.
- Families "Are Scared To Death" After A Massive ICE Operation Swept Up Hundreds Of People
About 680 suspected undocumented workers were arrested in Mississippi in one of the largest worksite operations ever conducted by ICE agents Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A massive arrest of undocumented workers in Mississippi had people scrambling to care for kids whose parents were detained and traumatized the community.
- Far-Right Identity Politics and the Task for the Left
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 To oppose far-right ideology, the left must fight the violence and austerity they promote but also acknowledge the appeal of universal values of populist movements.
- The Faux Generosity of the Super-Wealthy: Why Bill Gates is a Menace to Society
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 While the media may be full of stories singing Gates' praises, presenting him as a good billionaire (as opposed to the current president), the reality is that one man with that amount of power, be it political (like Trump) or economic (like Gates and Bezos) has a highly corrosive effect on democracy and society more generally.
- The FBI in Ecuador
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Review of a book detailing the FBI's actions in Latin America throughout the 20th century.
- The FBI's police state operation against Trump
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The allegations that Trump is a Russian agent lack credibility. The FBI's invesitigation seems more like the agency is attempting to overthrow an elected government - a threat the FBI has posed in the past.
- Fearless Cities: A Guide to the Global Municipalist Movement
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2019 Self-government, or 'municipalism', is changing politics all over the world. This is a guide to winning back our towns and cities from below with real radical policies happening now; practical organizing strategies and tools; and profiles of 50 pioneering municipalist platforms from around the world.
- Fighting Against Racism - And For a Better Paycheck - On the Docks
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Dockworker labour solidarity. Heavily references two books: 'Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area' by Peter Cole and 'Choke Points' essays edited by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness.
- Film Charts Failed Experiment Inviting Palestinian Teens to Become Kibbutzniks
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A new documentary brings to light an episode almost completely erased from Israels official history - and one that reveals how Israel's apartheid character was established from its birth.
- Fire Brigades Union study exposes decades of deregulation and cost cutting that led to Grenfell Tower infernoPart 1
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has published a damning report demonstrating that years of austerity measures, privatisation and deregulation led to the entirely avoidable fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, which claimed 72 lives.
- Fire Brigades Union study exposes decades of deregulation and cost-cutting that led to Grenfell Tower infernoPart 2
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A major strength of the FBU's research is its documenting of the role of the last Labour government in decimating health and safety regulations in relation to the fire service.
- A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2019 A history of West Africa from the 17th century onwards. Draws on written histories as well as archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters.
- For Owners of Amazons Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching Too
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Amazon's Ring security cameras have a history of lax, sloppy oversight when it comes to deciding who has access to some of the most precious, intimate data belonging to any person: a live, high-definition feed from around -and perhaps inside- their house.
- Former UAW vice president pleads guilty to conspiracy in bribery scheme
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Norwood Jewell, former vice president of the United Auto Workers pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to violate labor laws. There could be even higher ranking officials charged, highlighting the conflicting interests of union bosses vs workers.
- France: Yellow Jackets and labour movement at a crossroads - Social and political questions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A brief look at the Yellow Vests in 2018. Though they may have their problems they provide a possiblity of change outside the electoral system.
- "Free Trade" Is Today's Imperialism by the 1 Percent
Building alternatives to free trade must become an essential component of a more progressive US foreign policy. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Principles of "free" trade allow global North corporations to continue the colonial policies that made them their wealth. Alternatives to free trade need to shift power and wealth to the global South to create fairness and progress.
- Freedom, Valor, Love: On Snowden's Permanent Record
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Edward Snowden's life reveals it's not just "the computer guy" (or other non-male folks) at tech's helms, but the general U.S. public that bears witness to corporatized data surveillance state violations, or the data industrial complex. This secretive sprawling network is the invasive rule today; it involves regular media outlets, telecommunications, social media platforms, Internet service providers, and government agencies.
- French Democracy Dead or Alive?
The Gilets Jaunes in 2019 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An overview of the Yellow Vests: their methods, demands, media coverage and summary of major events from November 2018 to January 2019.
- From Academic to Assembly Line Worker: My Life of Precarity in Middle America
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A non-tenured academic's story of trying to make ends meet in Indiana.
- From Nazi Germany to Ottoman Turkey, Genocides Begin in the Wilderness, Far From Prying Eyes
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Recent research shows that the Armenian genocide began before its usually accepted date in 1915. This is consistent with other genocides which start away from the metropolises with only minimal instructions from higher government.
- From Nukes to Occupy: The Rise and Fall of the Non-Violent Direct Action Movement in the United States, 1976 2012
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The non-violent direct action movement originated in the anti-nuclear power movement of the late 1970s / early 1980s. Inspired by the German anti-nuclear movement, activists organized occupations of construction sites for nuclear reactors, aiming to insure no new plants were built. The processes, organizational structure, and culture adopted by these activists differed sharply from the movements of the sixties and early seventies.
- From Pre-K On, US Schools Privilege the Already Privileged
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The college bribery admissions scandal is only the extreme end of the inequality in the education system. Public policies, such as school funding based on property values, disadvantage children in low-income communities starting as early as pre-K.
- From the Green Revolution to GMOs: Toxic Agriculture Is the Problem Not the Solution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The pesticide industry lobbies governments to allow chemicals that have long been known to be harmful.
- From the Middle East to Northern Ireland, Western States are All Too Happy to Avoid Culpability for War Crimes
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Forgiving war crimes when they are committed by their own side is a practice of the Nazis that many western governements seem to be taking up.
- Further Reading on the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Several book recomendations with some comments on each.
- Gabor Maté on the misuse of anti-Semitism and why fewer Jews identify with Israel
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Talking today about antisemitism, particularly posing it as a problem on the left.
- Miriam Garfinkle
Connexipedia article Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Miriam Garfinkle was a Canadian physician and social justice activist.
- Gaza Fights for Freedom
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2019 Filmed during the height of the Great March Of Return protests, it features exclusive footage of demonstrations where 200 unarmed civilians have been killed by Israeli snipers since March 30, 2018.
- The Global Assault on Indigenous Peoples
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Focusing on the the NgäbeBuglé in Panama, a look at the Indigenous people who have their way of life is destroyed by capitalism.
- The Global Movement Against Gentrification
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Accounts of worldwide efforts to promote municipal engagement and organize locally for justice are given in the book Fearless Cities: A Guide to the Global Municipalist Movement.
- GM Closures -- What's Next?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Plant closures by GM in the US, Canada and internationally threaten workers and communities. Can unions fight to stop this destructive practice?
- Google Bans Press TV
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Social media companies are banning media outlets in the name of alleged 'hate speech' but the companies' contacts and their targets make them instruments of government censorship.
- The Grand Illusion
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 As the ecological crisis deepens, nearing the infamous Tipping Point taking us closer to planetary catastrophe we are being led to believe that an imminent "greening" of the world economy will deliver us from a very dark future. Somehow, against all logic, we have adopted a collective faith in the willingness of ruling governments and corporations to do the right thing.
- Grand Jury Efforts: Jailing Chelsea Manning
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The role of Grand Juries in the persecution of Chelsea Manning and a summary of their history.
- Gray Whales Are Dying: Starving to Death Because of Climate Change
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A look at the plight of sea mammals and the state of marine science education.
- Green construction and worker safety
Green construction yields promising results for the future of our planet. But new technologies come with new safety risks for workers. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Eco-friendly construction exposes workers to new methods and materials which do not have the standard safety practices of those that are more established.
- Greenwashing the Climate Catastrophe
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Many solutions to climate change such as the Green New Deal do not address the real threat to the planet: capitalism. They in fact are a smokescreen under which to conduct business as usual.
- Nancy Gruber, 1930-2018
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Obituary of radical activist Nancy Gruber.
- A Guided Tour of AI and the Murky Ethical Issues It Raises
In "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans," Melanie Mitchell explores the workings and ethics of AI. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Mitchell's goal is to give a thorough (and I mean thorough) account not only of the ethical issues artificial intelligence raises today (and tomorrow), but of how the various branches of AI that the Dartmouth group pursued actually work. She is a good writer with broad knowledge of the topic (unsurprising, since she has a Ph.D. in computer science), and a canny mindfulness of both the merits and problems of AI.
- Guiding principles for an Ecosocialist Green New Deal
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Statement of the Ecosocialist Working Group of the DSA on their demands for a Green New Deal that combats climate change and inequality.
- Guilt of Anti-semitism Now Needs No Evidence
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Accusations of anti-Semitism against Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party make an effective smear in a corporate-contolled media that focuses on individual personalities.
- 'The happy days are now just nostalgia'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Along with the temperatures, the Brokpa say, the entire weather pattern has become increasingly unpredictable in the past two decades in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh, which border the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, Bhutan and Myanmar.
- Marta Harnecker, the Fighter
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Obituary for Marta Harnecker, sociologist, political scientist, and activist from Chile.
- Harvesting the Blood of America's Poor: The Latest Stage of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In todays wretched economy, where around 130 million Americans admit an inability to pay for basic needs like food, housing or healthcare, buying and selling blood is of the few booming industries America has left.
- A health care algorithm affecting millions is biased against black patients
A startling example of algorithmic bias Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A health care algorithm makes black patients substantially less likely than their white counterparts to receive important medical treatment. The major flaw, which affects millions of patients, was revealed in research published in the journal Science.
- Hebron - the heart of the occupation
Justice for Palestine is central to the left. The situation in Hebron is a good example why. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The history and current situation in Hebron.
- The hijab: "preventing common impositions"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Children are not the property of their parents. They are individuals with rights and bodily integrity. And just because their parents believe in child veiling or FGM and male circumcision doesn't mean they should be automatically entitled to impose their views on their children, especially when these views are harmful.
- Historian Victoria Bynum on the inaccuracies of the New York Times 1619 Project
An interview with the author of The Free State of Jones Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The 1619 Project, launched by the New York Times in August 2019, presents American history in a purely racial lens and blames all "white people" for the enslavement of 4 million black people as chattel property.
- History Is Happening: WikiLeaks, the Global Fourth Estate
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An article based on and in discussions with Nozomi Hayase's book 'WikiLeaks, the Global Fourth Estate: History Is Happening'.
- A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-1966
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Review of a book of the Indonesian massacres contains lengthy excerpts and summary of the history.
- Hitting nature where it hurts: Iran feels the pernicious effects of US sanctions on biodiversity conservation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Iran is home to a rich and complex array of biodiversity. Efforts to protect its biodiversity have been challenged by decades of economic sanctions and political isolation.
- Hollywood's 'Captain Marvel' Blockbuster Is Blatant US Military Propaganda
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Captain Marvel is the latest in a long line of movies made with the cooperation and approval of the US military.
- Holocaust to Resistance
My journey Resource Type: Book First Published: 2019 A memoir by Suzanne Berliner Weiss, a holocaust survivor born in France, who came to North America and was active in radical causes in the United States and Canada.
- The Homeless 8-Year-Old Chess Champion and Other Horrific 'Uplifting' Stories
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Stories in US media of people overcoming adversity are only inspiring if you ignore the unjust systems that create their oppression.
- Hong Kong's opposition unites with Washington hardliners to 'preserve the US's own political and economic interests'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on November 19, 2019, without any opposition. Despite loudly proclaiming to protect "human rights" and "democracy," a closer look at this legislation reveals the imperial agenda underlying Washingtons actions in Hong Kong.
- How a Christian Nonprofit Helped a Controversial Minnesota Mining Company Buy Gear for Local Police
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A Christian non-profit called Shield616 that donates gear to police forces has received donations from mining companies. This sparks concerns of a conflict of interest among residents that are protesting these mines.
- How and Why The Intercept Is Reporting on a Vast Trove of Materials About Brazils Operation Car Wash and Justice Minister Sergio Moro
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A summary of the Intercepts investigation into Operation Car Wash based on a trove of private communication they have received and are making available to the public.
- How can the U.S. dare lecturing China about Rights of the Muslims?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 For some time, I have been warning the world that the West, and the United States in particular, are helping to radicalize the Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province and outside.
- How Capitalist Globalization Forecloses on Health Systems
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Discussion of the multi-author collection "Health Care under the Knife." The book criticizes many aspects of medicine under capitalism but falls short of promoting radical alternatives.
- "How Could They?" Why Some Americans Were Drawn to the Communist Party in the 1940s
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 We did not become Communists because of any adoration of Stalin. We wanted a better world, one in peace, and we admired the giant achievements of the Soviet people in overcoming illiteracy and building a giant industrial base which proved so vital in defeating the Nazis. We also admired an economy which suffered no joblessness while nearly the entire world groaned under the Great Depression.
- 'How Dare You!' The Climate Crisis And The Public Demand For Real Action
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Reality clashed with the BBC version of false consensus in a remarkable edition of HardTalk last month. Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, was starkly honest about humanitys extreme predicament in the face of climate breakdown and refused to buckle under host Stephen Sackurs incredulous questioning.
- How Evil Wins: the Hypocritical Double Standards of Political Outrage
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The injustices carried out under Trump are not new and people who believe they are or that partisan politics will fix things are being fooled.
- How Much Do Humans Pollute? A Breakdown of Industrial, Vehicular and Household C02 Emissions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Modified excerpt from author's new book, Privatized Planet: "Free Trade" as a Weapon Against Democracy, Healthcare and the Environment.
- How the Murders of Journalists in the Middle East Are Brushed Aside
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Though higher-profile than most, Jamal Khashoggi was far from the first Arab journalist to be murdered in the Middle East. In his case, just like most others, cover-ups disguised as investigations may placate public outcry.
- How protesters are 'deanonymising' Russia's riot police
Online tools identify policemen who violently dispersed protesters in Moscow Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Tools such as reverse-image search are being used to identify police who violently broke up a protest in Moscow. The legality of releasing this information and the threats some people are making with it is discussed.
- How SDS Imploded: an Inside Account
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A look at how Students for a Democratic Society imploded 50 years ago and how it is similar to the behaviour of political parties in the US today.
- How Slick Consulting Firms Get Us on Drugs
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A look at some of the techniques drug companies use to get doctors to prescribe their products.
- How the Hand of Israeli Spy Tech Reaches Deep into our Lives
Israeli software used on Palestinians is producing new cyber weapons that are rapidly being incorporated into global digital platforms Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Digital age weapons developed by Israel to oppress Palestinians are rapidly being repurposed for much wider applications against Western populations who have long taken their freedoms for granted.
- How the U.S. Military Feeds at the Terror Trough
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A meandering take on the US's perpetual wars around the world.
- How Urban Planners Promote Gentrification
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A review of Samuel Stein's book "Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State" which looks at how private interests and government promote gentrification.
- How would a revolutionary government protect the environment?
There is an enormous unused human potential waiting to be drawn into the job of saving the ecosphere. How can it be mobilized? Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A look at how a revolutionary government would combat climate change. Includes a lengthy excerpt from the pamphlet The Green Tax Fraud by Dick Nichols.
- The Hydroponic Threat to Organic Food
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The US Department of Agriculture is approving methods as "Certified Organic" which are contrary to the principles of organic, sustainable agriculture. This is done mostly to comply with the demands of large agribusiness companies.
- I Accuse!
Herewith a proof beyond reasonable doubt that ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda whitewashed Israel Resource Type: Book First Published: 2019 This finely-honed indictment by a writer widely acknowledged for his forensic skills is directed at Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. It sets out how she defiled her office by refusing to investigate credible allegations of Israeli criminality.
- "I have been there before" - For Sri Lankan Christians like me, the Easter attacks revived old
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A personal narrative about the complicated politics of language, ethnicity, and religion in Sri Lanka in the wake of the Easter bombings.
- 'I lost four sons': In Kashmir, women suffer brunt of conflict
Women's Day is a grim reminder of atrocities and hardships faced by the women of the region in decades-long conflict. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Women in Kashmir suffer the loss of their sons, husbands, and fathers in ongoing conflict.
- Noel Ignatiev, 1940-2019
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Yesterday I learned that my friend and comrade Noel Ignatiev passed away. Hed been in poor health for some time, diagnosed with a rare form of gastrointestinal cancer that made it difficult for him to swallow properly or digest, but it still caught me off guard.
- Illusion or Advance? Ecosocialists debate the 'Green New Deal'
Activists from System Change Not Climate Change discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Green New Deal proposal. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Activists from 'System Change Not Climate Change' discuss the strengths and weaknesses of 'Green New Deal' proposals, and how the left should respond.
- Imagination and Nuclear Weapons
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Imagining the horror of nuclear war is not enough to prevent it. Governments with nuclear weapons must be forced to disarm.
- Impeachment, Brought to You by the CIA
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Despite occasional warm gas passed in a leftish direction, establishment Democrats never had any intention of allowing a left political program to move forward. After four decades of asserting that they 'believe' climate science, the moment has arrived when the only political path forward is to take on their donors.
- In Brazil, thousands of people are still living under the threat of bursting mining dams
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais is home to several large dams many of which have burst causing death and environment damage. There is evidence that some of these disasters were predictable.
- In Defense of Julian Assange
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2019 A wide range of distinguished contributors, many of them in original pieces, here set out the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, the importance of their work, and the dangers for us all in the persecution they face. In Defense of Julian Assange is a vivid, vital intervention into one of the most important political issues of our day.
- In defense of To Kill a Mockingbird: The 1962 film about racism in theaters this week
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Attempts to remove To Kill a Mockingbird from curricula are misguided and ignore the artistic and courageous ambitions of the book and film.
- In Praise of Direct Action (and More)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The speed with which air traffic controllers' work stoppage put an end to the government shutdown shows the power of direct action especially when it threatens capitalist profit.
- In Protest Against Police Raping Spree, Women Burn Their Station in Mexico City.
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A first person account of protests in Mexico City in response to reports of rape by police officers which have been dismissed by the administration.
- In The Eye of the Beholder: USA History of Imprisoning Women Politicals
Part One of review and discussion of Linda G. Ford's Women Politicals in America: Jailed Dissenters from Mother Jones to Lynne Stewart Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An in-depth review of Linda Ford's "Women Politicals in America: Jailed Dissenters from Mother Jones to Lynne Stewart" (2018). The author draws on his personal experience as a journalist and organizer.
- Indigenous People, the First Victims of Brazil's New Far-Right Government
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Anti-Indigenous sentiment in Brazil is emboldened by Bolsonaro's regime. This is leading to greater efforts by the government and agribusiness to seize Indigenous Lands.
- Indo-Pak Nuclear Confrontation: First Use Policy and the Race Towards Armageddon
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 There are several indications that India's ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological mentor the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) are obsessed with the perverse urge to wipe out Pakistan with nuclear weapons by unleashing a first or a second strike.
- Indonesia: 41 dead, 546 assaulted, 51 shot in agrarian conflicts under Jokowis watch
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An explosion of agrarian conflicts between 2014 and 2018 has resulted in many casualties including 41 people killed, 546 people assaulted and 51 people shot since President Joko Widodo came to office.
- The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 First Look Media, owner of The Intercept, is shutting down access to Snowdens leaked NSA documents. Their reporters still have copies of all the documents and are looking to find a new outlet for them.
- An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times' 1619 Project
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 I was surprised, as many other people were, by the scope of this thing, especially since it's going to become the basis for high school education and has the authority of the New York Times behind it, and yet it is so wrong in so many ways.
- The Irish Language and Marxist Materialism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A review of Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin's book "Language From Below: the Irish language, ideology and power in 20th century Ireland" which looks at the role language and nationalism has played in Irish liberation movements.
- The "Irrepressible Conflict:" Slavery, the Civil War and Americas Second Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The purpose of this lecture series, hosted by the Socialist Equality Party, is to address the falsifications of the New York Times' "1619 Project" and undertake a historical materialist analysis of American history, and in this lecture, the Civil War.
- Is the Pentagon Behind the Rise in Lyme Disease?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A conversation with Kris Newby author of Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons.
- Israel Again Bombs Gaza - But Is It "In Response"?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In this case it is undoubtedly the Palestinian side that is responding to Israeli violence. But even if Palestinians would fire missiles without an immediate cause it would be within the full rights of the Palestinian people. In its 1982 Resolution 37/43 the General Assembly of the United Nations reaffirmed: "the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;" The UN GA resolution is standing international law. The Palestinian people have the right to resist against the occupation force. In practice as well as legally Israel is a colonial entity that occupies Palestinian land, especially in Gaza and the West Bank. Any armed struggle by Palestinians against the occupation, provoked or not, is thus morally and legally justified. But do not expect that any 'western' mainstream media will ever point that out.
- Israel: Are democracy and despotic racism compatible?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A criticism of Zionism as a "melding of an elitist pseudo-democracy with racist despotism."
- Israeli intervention in US elections overwhelms anything Russia has done, claims Chomsky
The 89-year-old said the media was largely ignoring vital issues such as climate change Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Chomsky on the brazen interference of Israel in US politics to which supposed Russian meddling in the US election pales in comparison.
- Israel's latest attempt to erase Palestine
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Efforts by teams from the Israeli defense ministry to remove sensitive documents from Israeli archives must be understood in a new political climate and are not simply an attempt to spare Israeli governments embarrassment, as some have suggested.
- Israel's relentless violence on Gaza met by global silence
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A ceasefire has been reached in Gaza after Israel launched a wave of airstrikes that killed 34 Palestinians, including eight members of one family. Ali Abunimah of The Electronic Intifada discusses Israel's latest bombings, which come after more than one year of weekly, deadly Israeli attacks on non-violent Palestinian demonstrators.
- It Is True That Corruption Caused The 737 MAX Accidents. But It Was Not Foreign.
The New York Times blamed the foreign pilots for the crashes of two 737 MAX airplanes. It now takes a shot at the foreign airlines Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 So someone from Indonesia's air safety agency took another job in the industry. Three years later he changed back into a government role. That shows that Indonesia is a corrupt country and that Lion Air is the most corrupt, says a former pilot with an ax to grind.
- It Was a Remarkably Successful Grassroots Campaign to Target Amazons Credibility
CounterSpin interview with Neil deMause on Amazon's retreat from New York Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Transcript of interview with Neil deMause about NY's bid for Amazon HQ. Included downloadable MP3 of interview.
- It's No Wonder the Military likes Violent Video Games, They Can Help Train Civilians to Become Warriors
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Most studies show no correlation between video games and violence but the adoption of computer simulations by the military and their similarity to video games should give us pause about their ethical impact on society.
- It's Raining Sand in Rayalaseema
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In the Rayalaseema region in India, changing agriculture has reduced biodiversity, depleting the soil and leading to aridity and sandstorms.
- The Journalists Do The Shouting
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Todays meaningful art is samizdat stickers on wireline poles and spray-canned corporate advertising. Corporate media is no longer considered a sure source of credible reporting.
- Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Journalists and journalistic organizations around the globe, express their grave concern for Julian Assange's wellbeing, for his continued detention and for the draconian espionage charges.
- Juan Guaidó: The Man Who Would Be President of Venezuela Doesn't Have a Constitutional Leg to Stand On
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The US coup in Venezuela uses constitutional arguments to give legitimacy to Guaido's presidency. This article details how this argument is false.
- Judge: Providing Water to Dying Immigrants in Desert is a Crime
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Activists who leave water near the US-Mexico border have been found guilty of various charges. Others in similar situations are still awaiting trial.
- Judicial Secrecy: Where Justice Goes to Die
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The trend of courts imposing gag orders and press bans on judicial proceedings is a hallmark of police states and a threat to freedom and justice.
- Karl Kautsky as Architect of the October Revolution
Part 1: Before the War: The Bolsheviks Applaud Kautsky's Tactics Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Lenin remained true to the tactical ideas of Karl Kautsky after the latter had abandoned them.
- Karl Kautsky as Architect of the October Revolution
Part 2: 1917: The Bolsheviks Apply Kautskys Tactics Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The Bolsheviks came into 1917 with two pieces of Kautsky advice firmly under their belts: enlist the peasantry as a revolutionary ally, and do not deviate from militant anti-agreementism.
- Kashmiris launch calendar to remember disappeared loves ones
At least 8,000 people have disappeared since 1989 according to human rights groups, leaving relatives in no-man's land Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Women whose husbands were disappeared have spent decades wondering what happened to them and fighting for justice. They and a group representing families of disappeared persons have published a calendar commemerating 12 victims.
- Kautsky, Lenin, and the transition to socialism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Counterposing Karl Kautsky's perspective of a "democratic road to socialism" as against a supposed Leninist "insurrectionary strategy" presents a false framework for the debate.
- Killing for Credibility: A Look Back at the 1999 NATO Air War on Serbia
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A detailed look back at NATO's 1999 war on Yugoslavia.
- Komiks from the Underground: the Radicalism of Gilbert Shelton
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A review and history of "Radical America Komiks," a reprint collection of underground comics from 1969.
- Lawless Trump-Canada Connections
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Canada recently seized and sold $30 million worth of Iranian properties in Ottawa and Toronto, a gross hypocrisy explains Yves Engler in light of oversights of more flagrant US and Israel terror victims. But the behaviour of Canada Foreign Affairs in joining the lawless US war of sanctions, embargos and military threats against Iran goes deeper than hypocrisy.
- Leaked: USA's Feb 2018 Plan for Coup in Venezuela
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Publication of a military document outlining the military, diplomatic, and propaganda policies to overthrow the Maduro governnment.
- Legal Weed Is Great, But Black and Brown Communities Can't Be Left Behind
Marijuana legalization must bring both equity and justice for those most impacted by the War on Drugs. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Marginalized populations that were hardest hit by the War on Drugs should be at the forefront of legalization legislation as well as recipients of the tax revenue from legalized marijuana.
- Lessons of Nashville: The working class and the defense of immigrants
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A recent story about residents of a Nashville neighborhood rallying to protect their neighbors from ICE agents shows the power of class solidarity in the face of attempts at racial division.
- A Lethal Industrial Farm Fungus is Spreading Among Us
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Agricultural fungicides are creating strains of drug-resistant fungi.
- Lets Make Sure the Nazis Killed in Vain
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 I don't know how many times I've heard that if we don't stand by Israel, the victims of the Nazi Judeocide will have died in vain. I knew something was wrong with that claim, but for the longest time I couldn't put my finger on it. Now I think I can.
- A Liberal Elite Still Luring Us Towards the Abyss
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A recent manifesto decrying "populism and nationalism" see today's problems as coming from the abandonment of liberal ideals when they are in fact caused by extreme adherence to them.
- Liberals' 'humanitarian' open arms is not a solution to migrant crisis; radical economic changes are needed
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Calls by Liberals to 'open our hearts' to immigrants from poor countries are about maintaining the status quo in the capitalist world. The solution is a radical change in the global economic system which encourages migration.
- The Lies About Assange Must Stop Now
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Newspapers and other media in the United States and Britain have recently declared a passion for freedom of speech, especially their right to publish freely. They are worried by the "Assange effect".
- Like Israeli settlers, white mass shooters are a manifestation of their society
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A caution against calls from the left to label white mass shooters as terrorists. Calling them terrorists does not address the fact that they carry out the objectives of their settler-colonial states.
- Local fishermen: caught between the pros and cons of traceability
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Consumers concerned about the environmental impact of fishing are demanding more transparency and accountablity from the industry. Ironically, the resulting regulations are prohibitive to the small scale fishermen that are the most sustainable part of the industry.
- Localism's Contradictions in Hong Kong
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Localism, as a recent political phenomenon in the Hong Kong political landscape, stresses Hong Kongs political and cultural autonomy as distinct from that of China, while older pan-democratic organizations tend to stress this continuity between democratic struggles in Hong Kong and China. Localism has politicized the younger generations in many ways but is localism a coherent political ideology, and how does it square with an anti-capitalist, mass-led political practice?
- The London Climate Protests - Raising The Alarm
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Analysis of media coverage of the climate crisis looks at how many outlets try to discredit 'alarmist' activists. However a sense of panics is rational and needed to avoid catastrophe.
- The Long Goodbye of Antiwar Protest
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 There is a lack of real opposition - both by other governments and the public - to US-led regime changes.
- Lots of Scurrying But No Revolution in Sight
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Disappointed review of a collecton of essays of women and climate change, mostly in support of reforming the status quo.
- Lyme Disease and Biowarfare
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Historical look at the connection between Lyme disease and US government-produced bioweapons by a journalist who has been researching it for decades.
- Magnificent FIght: the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2019 In Magnificent Fight, Dennis Lewycky lays out the history of this iconic event, which remains the biggest and longest strike in Canadian history. He analyzes the social, political and economic conditions leading up to the strike.
- Mainstream Media Bias on 2020 Democratic Race Already in High Gear
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Mainstream media pundits undermine the chances of progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders despite the defeat of centrist politicians by the right.
- Making Money Off of Green Debt: Cory Morningstar Finds Corporate Wolves Behind Environmental Sheep
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Building through the privatization-friendly Reagan-Bush era of the 1980s, ramping up significantly with Bill Clinton's signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the 1990s, and solidified through the de facto repeal of the post-Great Depression separation between investment and commercial banks at the end of Clintons scandal-plagued final term in office at the turn of the millenium, the United States went through a very noticeable shift in how its economy functioned.
- The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela's Coup Leader
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A detailed account of US-backed groups that positioned Juan Guaidó to declare himself president of Venezuela.
- Marx for Today: A Socialist-Feminist Reading
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In-depth look at the relationship between feminism and Marxism.
- Marx on Children (and on Forgiving Christianity)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An exploration of Marx's and Christianity's views on children.
- Masterless Men: Poor whites and slavery in the Antebellum south by Keri Leigh Merritt - Book review
"1619" and the myth of white unity under slavery Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A critique of the New York Times' "1619" initiative, marking the 400th anniversary of the disembarkation of the first African slaves in what was to become the United States.
- David McReynolds, 1928-2018
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Obituary and memoir of leftist activist David McReynolds.
- Media Rally Around 'Forever War' in Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A round up of some of the alarmist reporting on supposed withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
- Meet Europe's Left Nationalists -'A momentous turn against free movement in Europe'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The rise of leaders like Sahra Wagenknecht and Jean-Luc Mélenchon marks a momentous turn against free movement in Europe-at the expense of immigrants.
- Memory, History, and a Pillar of Salt
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A personal memoir about art and history in the early days of AIDS and ACT UP.
- The Menace of Right "Populism"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Editorial about Trump and right-wing regimes world-wide and the opportunities for left-wing organizing.
- The Militarization of Empathy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Surprise reunions between returning soldiers and their families are a major spectacle in US media. But these heartwarming scenes serve as a distraction from the activities of the soldiers while they are overseas.
- A million species 'threatened with extinction'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A summary of a dire climate report on the decline in global biodiversity.
- MLK in Memphis, 1968
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A look at MLK's actions and speeches in Memphis and their relevance today.
- Money, Power and Turf: Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Cost
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 It is hardly surprising to see Middle Eastern countries at the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, as the worst violators of freedom of the press. But equally alarming is the complete polarization of public opinion as a result of self-serving media and, bankrolled by rich Arab countries, whose only goal is to serve their specific, often sinister, agendas.
- Money Talks, Bullshit Walks on Cable News
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 None of the big companies buying advertising time on CNN and MSNBC have any interest in the progressive taxation and restored union organizing and collective bargaining rights that Sanders advocates.
- The Most Enduring Media Cover Up
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Clearing the FOG hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese interviewed Alison Weir, journalist and founder of If Americans Knew, a website that provides factual information about the Israeli State and Palestine.
- Moving past climate denial
Deniers feel that the impacts of climate breakdown don't matter, but the solutions pose an imminent threat, new research shows. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Katharine Hayhoe, a climate researcher and political science professor argues that it's more productive to show climate change skeptics that solutions are beneficial to them rather than trying to make them believe in the science of climate change.
- Murder on the Mekong: why exiled Thai dissidents are abducted and killed
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In Thailand, people who violate lèse-majesté law - which prevents any criticism of the monarchy - can find themselves with a bounty on them and end up living in exile. Some dissidents have been murdered or disappeared.
- My Friend Was Murdered for Trying to Save the Amazon
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Paulino paid with his life for trying save his tribe's forest, the Arariboia Indigenous Territory, in the north-east Amazon.
- My Response to the PBS Series: Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A criticism of the PBS series on Reconstruction which presents slavery as a 'southern problem,' ignoring its ties to capital and class.
- Myanmar's Other Reporters
The world cheered when two Reuters journalists were freed from prison. But whos watching out for the rest? Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Detailed analysis of the state of freedom of speech and the press in Burma/Myanmar.
- Nationalism, Patriotism, Hate Crimes
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A look at the (mis)use of the word "nationalism" to describe Trump and white supremacists.
- NATO's Crises
The 2% goal as defence illiteracy Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 NATO's London Summit on December 3 and 4, 2019 displays the deep political crisis of the 70-year-old alliance: Only a dinner and a short meeting, no statement to be issued, quarrels among the leading military members, accusations, substantial differences on Syria and many other issues, the deepest-ever Transatlantic conflict and the usual issues of burden-sharing.
- The Need for a Compelling Anti-Capitalist Narrative
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 To inspire people with possibility socialists need to create a vision of the world they want to create instead of just showing how bad capitalism is.
- Neoliberalism: Free Market Fundamentalism or Corporate Power?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The idea of "free market fundamentalism (FMF)" omits the fact that neoliberalism requires state intervention to run, so criticism of neoliberalsm based on FMF is ahistorical and self-defeating.
- Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match In China
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Unless China starts playing by neoliberal rules Trump's economic war with them will lead the US to a race to the bottom or isolation from international markets.
- The Never-Ending Curse of Coal
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Last week Murray Energy, one of the largest coal mining corporations in the nation, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That makes it the fifth coal company to do so in the last year.
- The new Jewish left
In Canada, young Jews are fighting antisemitism while opposing the Israeli occupation Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Young Jewish people in North America are fighting antisemitism while opposing Israel's occupation of Palestine.
- The New Politics of Disablement: The Contribution of Mike Oliver
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Obituary for Mike Oliver, one of the founders of the social model of disability. Includes historical information, his legacy, and suggested reading.
- New York Times Admits it Sent Story to Government for Approval
The American paper of record just provided a major example of the symbiotic relationship between U.S. corporate media and the government Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The NY Times' seeking approval for a recent story is part of a history of the mainstream media's collaboration with the US government.
- New Zealand - Open letter: Betraying women and free thought in the name of Christchurch massacres
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An open letter questioning shows of solidarity with Muslims after the Christchurch massacre, specifically non-Muslim women wearing head coverings and a Canadian university that disinvited an ex-Muslim atheist speaker.
- The New Zealand Shootings, a Microcosm of Imperialism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The New Zealand Shootings and other mass murders use the same justification as governments that carry out campaigns against the same targets on a larger scale.
- Newly Released FOIA Documents Shed Light on Border Patrols Seemingly Limitless Authority
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 More than 1,000 pages of previously unseen Customs and Border Protection training documents, shed light on the details of the Amercian Border Patrols seemingly limitless authority.
- Nicaragua: The Other Revolution Betrayed
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A look at the current neoliberal regime in Nicaragua and how the Sandinista government failed to deliver on the promise of the 1979 Revolution.
- The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 They now warn us that we have to drastically reduce global emissions by at least 45 percent over the next decade. Otherwise, we'll pass the point of no return defined as reaching 450 ppm or more of CO2 in the atmosphere sometime between 2030 and 2050 when our climate crisis will morph into a climate catastrophe.
- The Nine Worst Lawfare Injustices in the US and What They Tell Us About Ourselves
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 "Lawfare" is when the law is weoponized and directed against a group of people declared to be an enemy. This is a brief history with nine examples.
- 1919: The Year the World Was on Fire
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A sprawling take on international revolutionary events of 1919 using Emma Goldman, Bill Haywood, and John Reed as focal points.
- Nitrogen Crisis: A neglected threat to Earth's life support systems
Part One of a discussion of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The rift in the nitrogen cycle is a major threat to the stability of the Earth System. This and subsequent articles will discuss how the natural cycle works and how it has been disrupted in the Anthropocene.
- A Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat the US Coup Attempt in Venezuela
 To the People of Venezuela Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An open letter to the people of Venezuela regarding the US coup and with support for how they can resist.
- 'Not a Good Answer': Privacy Advocates Reject Democratic Proposal for 'Technological Wall' With Expanded Border Surveillance
'More surveillance' has become the default answer to far too many difficult policy questions Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Digital rights advocates called on Democratic lawmakers to expand their fight against the wall into a fight for all human and constitutional rights-instead of suggesting alternative "border security" proposals that would infringe on civil liberties.
- Nothing Kept Me Up At Night the Way Gorgon Stare Did
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An interview with an expert on drones about a new camera technology that drastically improves wide-area sureillance capabilities.
- Notorious Portuguese political prison becomes museum of resistance
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A historical fortress Peniche used to hold dissidents under Portugal's dictatorship is being turned into a museum to remind people of the life under fascism.
- Nuclear Lies and Broken Promises
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told an economic meeting in the city of Sivas this September that Turkey was considering building nuclear weapons, he was responding to a broken promise. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the government of Iran of lying about its nuclear program, he was concealing one of the greatest subterfuges in the history of nuclear weapons.
- Numsa strike against sexual harassment is a 'powerful moment in labour history'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A union of metal workers in South Africa staged a strike underground in harsh conditions to support a coworker whose sexual harassment complaint had been dismissed by management.
- Offering Choice But Delivering Tyranny: the Corporate Capture of Agriculture
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Proponents of genetically modified seeds say they are opening up 'choice' to farmers and consumers but end up giving monopolies to powerful corporations with proprietary agricultural tools and methods. This lessens environmental and dietary health and diversity.
- Old Mother Forest
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A poignant look at the ecosystem of a rainforest from a conservationist in India.
- On Equating BDS With Anti-Semitism: a Letter to the Members of the German Government
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An open letter to the German government by a Jew arguing against a motion equating BDS with anti-Semitism.
- On the Coast of Oaxaca, Afro and Indigenous Tribes Fight for Water Autonomy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In southern Mexico, a multi-ethnic network of towns has halted the construction of a mega-dam. Now they are organizing to manage their own natural resources and revitalize their culture as native water protectors.
- on the degradation of political debate
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Today, political debates have become vacuous and insipid because politicians have become contemptuous of the electorate. Voters, many believe, are ignorant, swayed more by emotion than by reason, happy to accept lies and drawn to politicians with easy answers.
- On the Democratic Character of Socialist Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Great social movements redefine legality and human rights, setting in motion a process of change that becomes irresistible. Socialists utilize electoral opportunities while recognizing that they are far from the whole story. A workers government committed to socialism will probably be achieved as the democratic ratification of a program that has already gained majority support through discussion and mobilization among the population at large.
- On the Front Lines of the Climate Change Movement: Mike Roselle Draws a Line
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An excerpt from the book The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank. An account of environmental activists fighting massive industries to save the environment.
- An Open Letter to Chelsea Manning: A Free Woman in An American Prison
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A message of courage and strength addressed to Chelsea Manning.
- Operation Condor 2.0: After Bolivia coup, Trump dubs Nicaragua 'national security threat' and targets Mexico
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 One successful coup against a democratically elected socialist president is not enough, it seems. Immediately after overseeing a far-right military coup in Bolivia on November 10, the Trump administration set its sights once again on Nicaragua, whose democratically elected Sandinista government defeated a violent right-wing coup attempt in 2018.
- Orbán: Strong Man, Authoritarian Ideology
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Review of a book about Viktor Orbán's political career.
- The Orwell quotes right-wingers never mention
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A brief look at George Orwell's revolutionary, left-wing views to counter the superficial references to "thought police" or "big brother" used in right-wing circles.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 27, 2019
What Next? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2019 Millions of us, in many different countries, came out in late September to demand action on the climate crisis. Around the world, in diverse ways, we are working to keep up the pressure. Time is short, and the tasks are huge. In the midst of our activism and organizing, we need to keep asking ourselves some important questions: What are our goals? And what should we do to reach our goals?
- Our Movement, Our Lives
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Review of a history of the Black Lives Matter movement, both nationally and locally.
- Our Veggie Gardens Won't Feed us in a Real Crisis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Small scale farming that can actually provide for people requires more knowledge and resources than people think.
- Our Veggie Gardens Won't Feed us in a Real Crisis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Prudence would dictate that we heed this year's events as a warning and get serious about making preparations for worse years. Literal cycles of "feast or famine" have marked agriculture since its birth and sooner or later we will experience significant shortages here in the US, if not from the weather, than from war or lack of resources.
- 'Palestinian Rights Has Become an Incredibly Mainstream Issue'
CounterSpin interview with Josh Ruebner on BDS bans Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Interview with Josh Ruebner about anti-BDS legislation. With downloadable MP3 of interview.
- Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2019 Although Soave may not personally agree with their motivations and goals, he takes their ideas seriously, approaching his interviews with a mixture of respect and healthy skepticism. The result is a faithful cross-section of today's radical youth, which will appeal to libertarians, conservatives, centrist liberals, and anyone who is alarmed by the trampling of free speech and due process in the name of social justice.
- Paris police use pepper spray against seated climate change protesters
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Police in Paris have been filmed pepper-spraying peaceful protestors. This is part of Macron's crackdown on the "yellow vest" movement in which several protestors have been seriously injured.
- Party for the Revolution
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Review of Crowds and Party by Jodi Dean, a philosophical look at the crowd and the individual in revolutionary action.
- Pathological Deceit: The NYT Inverts Reality on Venezuela's Cuban Doctors
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Claims that the Maduro government is using Cuban doctors to coerce voters by refusing care to the opposition are based on very dubious evidence.
- The Peking University Marxist Society and Student Activists
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Their report on the living and working conditions of university staff approaches Mao's suggestion that 'knowledge of any kind is inseparable from direct experience' when it states that 'it is only through practice that you can produce genuine knowledge.'
- The People Emerge: The Storming of the Bastille
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A history of the storming of the Bastille emphasizing the revolutionary history that is glossed over in patriotic celebrations.
- The Perils of Embedded Journalism: 'Afghan Papers' Wouldn't Be Needed If We Had a Real Independent News Media
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 If the Post and other major news media outlets had been pursuing the truth over the years about these all the wars, and the so-called "War" on Terror, instead of leaving the hard work of exposing all the lies to the likes of whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden and journalist/whistleblower publisher Julian Assange, we'd already know about the venality and culpability of our government.
- Permanent Record
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2019
- The Persecuted
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Fundamentalist Christians maintaining that they are persecuted may not make sense given the prevalence of sympathetic and Christian-owned media and businesses. Listening to a sermon reveals they see the inability to impose their views in society as persecution.
- Perspectives for the coming revolution in America: Race, class and the fight for socialism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The title for this meeting is "Perspectives for the Coming Revolution in America." It begins with the understanding, broadly felt by a growing section of workers and youth throughout the world, that we live in a revolutionary period.
- Pete Seeger Was A Movement Musician
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A memorial to Pete Seeger on what would have been his 100th birthday.
- Peterloo (film review)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Review of a movie about the massacre at a popular revolt in St Peter's Field in Manchester, U.K in 1819.
- The Peterloo massacre and Shelley (1)
Part 1: The aftermath of the massacre and the responses Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The escalation of repression by the ruling class that followed, resulting in a greater suppression of civil liberties, was met with meetings of thousands and the widespread circulation of accounts of the massacre. There was a determination to learn from the massacre and not allow it to be forgotten or misrepresented.
- The Peterloo Massacre and Shelley (2)
Part 2: Shelley's politics and his Peterloo poems Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The Peterloo poems adopt various popular forms and styles. Addressing a popular audience with his attempt at a revolutionary understanding suggests a sympathetic response to the emergence of the working class as a political force, and the poems are acute on economic relations.
- A Plague of Rats: How Years of Austerity Prompted Many Britons to Vote for Brexit
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Many Britons in poor areas voted for Brexit even though they benefited financially from the EU. Though often blamed on fear of immigration it is also a result of discontent brought on by severe austerity and privatization.
- The Plastic Industry's Fight to Keep Polluting the World
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An in-depth look at the failure of recycling intiatives and the plastics industry's PR efforts that put the onus on small scale efforts to reduce waste while they fight any initiatives that curb production at the industry level.
- A Play with No End
What the Gilets Jaunes really want Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 When I caught up with the Gilets Jaunes on March 2, near the Jardin du Ranelagh, they were moving in such a mass through the streets that all traffic had come to a halt. The residents of Passy, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Paris, stood agape and apart and afraid.
- "Please Step Away from the Socialism": The Red Scare Dems at MSNBC
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The anti-socialist scaremongering at MSNBC should put paid to the idea that they have any leftist bias.
- Politics in the Pub Mark Davis
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2019 The current attempt to use the UK courts to drag Assange into the clutches of a foreign intelligence agency for his revelations is not just an abuse of the extradition process but a fundamental threat to journalism.
- The politics of identity, left and right
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 One of the consequences of the bifurcated debate is historical amnesia about the origins of identity politics. Most people imagine that its roots are on the left. In fact, they lie on the reactionary right, in the counter-Enlightenment of the late 18th century. It wasnt then called the politics of identity. It was called racism. It is, however, in the concept of race -- the insistence that humans are divided into a number of essential groups, and that ones group identity determines ones moral and social place in the world -- that we find the original politics of identity, out of which ideas of white superiority emerged.
- The PR Campaign to Hide the Real Cause of those Sky-High Surprise Medical Bills
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Since 2010, an increasing number of hospitals have outsourced their emergency rooms, radiology, anesthesiology, and other specialized services to physician staffing firms. Patients who need these critical services may inadvertently receive care from a doctor outside of their insurance network and find that they owe thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in surprise medical bills.
- Press Freedom is Under Threat in the Land of its Birth
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The US was not among the conulates protesting controversial new extradition bill in Hong Kong. They can't with a straight face object to Hong Kong passing an act that endorses extradition for political crimes while Washington is pursuing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
- Press Freedom is Under Threat in the Land of its Birth
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The author draws parallels between the US and Hong Kong's treatment of freedom and individual rights.
- The Prisoner Says No to Big Brother
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A tribute to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Includes details of some of the corruption they have exposed.
- Progressive Ideas Matter to Voters. So Why Do Democrats Fixate on the Identity of the Messenger?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 There is a larger rhetorical trend toward divorcing voter preferences from ideology to focusing on identity. Wittingly or not, the effect is to undermine the obvious power of progressive ideas.
- Protesting the "slave law" in Hungary: The erosion of illiberal hegemony?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Popular protests have arisen in Hungary to oppose exploitive changes to the labor code. The government opposition has supported the protests but this could result in weakening the protests' legitimacy as a movement.
- The Public Library: Antidote to Everyday American Banality
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A celebration of the local library that includes conversations with librarians and patrons.
- Publicised Cruelty: Scott Morrison Visits Christmas Island
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Australia is reopening the immigration detention centre on Christmas Island. The prime minister made a public tour of the facilities.
- Quo Vadis, Lebanon?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Some Lebanese call what is happening on the streets of Beirut, Tripoli and other cities, an "October Revolution", but in reality, this uprising has very little to do with the iconic Russian Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
- Race, Class, and the Left with Adolph Reed Jr.
Resource Type: Audio First Published: 2019 Audio interview with Adolph Reed Jr.
- Race, Identity and the Political Economy of Hate
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A look at statistics casts doubt on the supposed rise of white nationalist groups and violence.
- Radical Ambition
The New Left in Toronto Resource Type: Book First Published: 2019 The story of Toronto's New Left from its initial stirrings in the late 1950s to its 'long, ambiguous goodbye in the early 1980s.
- The Radical Roots of Free Speech
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Interview with Laura Weinrib author of "The Taming of Free Speech: America's Civil Liberties Compromise."
- Raging Against the Algorithm: Google and Persuasive Technology
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Fears of Google's algorithms detrimental effect on society may be well-founded but the proposed solutions are problematic.
- Reading Manifestos: Restricting Brenton Tarrant's The Great Replacement
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Attempts to censor the Christchurch shooter's manifesto hinders attempts to understand and counteract their motives. Arguments for censorship, such as enabling copycats, are based on controversial evidence.
- Recalling the Hundreds of Thousands of Civilian Victims of Americas Endless 'War on Terror'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 According to very conservative estimates, as reported by the "Costs of War" project of Brown Universitys Watson Institute on International and Public Affairs, nearly 250,000 civilians have been killed during the 8 years since September 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan in wars or attacks that were instigated by the United States.
- Reclaiming control of Indonesia's oceans
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Indonesian activists are building a global movement to resist the financialisation and privatisation of the world's oceans.
- Recording Reveals Oil Industry Execs Laughing at Trump Access
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A 2017 recording of Independent Petroleum Association of America executives reveals them revelling in their access to high levels of government. Since then many environmental protections have been rescinded.
- Red-Green Alliance: A Green Earth With Peace And Room For Us All
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The Red-Green Alliance advocates a strong international labour organization with muscles to raise global demands for workers. It means a labour organization where it is possible to remain organized, even when traveling across borders, and where people working in the same company, or in the same sector across borders, can be organized together, and raise common demands.
- Reflections on coherence and comradeship
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A lengthy personal meditation on strategic challenges facing left organizing.
- Reform or revolution? A response to three intriguing questions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The article by Steve Downs Three questions of political strategy poses three intriguing questions: Does "democratic road to socialism" = "parliamentary road to socialism"? Does "insurrection" = "revolution"? Does "rupture" = "revolution"? Steve found these questions helpful in understanding the contending views in Solidarity and DSA over reform or revolution.
- Refugees Are in the Channel Thanks to the Actions of the West
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The outcome of Western military and economic interventions in the Middle East and North Africa have caused the outflow of refugees from zones of conflict.
- Remembering America's First (and Longest) Forgotten War on Tribal Islamists
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Here are the relevant points when it comes to the Moro War (which will sound grimly familiar in a twenty-first-century forever-war context): the United States military shouldnt have been there in the first place; the war was ultimately an operational and strategic failure, made more so by American hubris; and it should be seen, in retrospect, as (using a term General David Petraeus applied to our present Afghan War) the nation's first "generational struggle."
- Remembering Mitch Podolak
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019
- Renouncing Violence Is a Demand Made Almost Exclusively of Muslims
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Media analysis shows that calls to renounce violence are directed at Muslims or other victims of Western occupation.
- Repeat after me, protests in Venezuela good, protests in France bad!
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Anti-government protests in Venezuela and France are treated differently because of the interests the respective presidents - and their opposition - represent.
- Republican Estate Tax Repeal: An Effort to Avoid Ever Being Taxed
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 While Sen. Bernie Sanders proposes an important increase in the estate tax, Republicans are gearing for its complete repeal. Morris Pearl of the group Patriotic Millionaires, talks about how the Republicans plan would help the rich from ever being taxed.
- Resignations rock US civil rights institute after it strips Angela Davis of award over pro-BDS views
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Three members quit the board of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute after its controversial decision to first grant, then to rescind an award for iconic activist Angela Davis, following objections to her anti-Israel statements.
- Resistance Matters
The Radical Vision of an Antipsychiatry Activist Resource Type: Book First Published: 2019 Don Weitz writes "Antipsychiatry organizing saved my life once, and has always given it meaning. This book is an invitation to join me and other psychiatric survivors (and our allies) in exposing psychiatrys coercive, life-destroying practices and utter lack of scientific validity; and creating and promoting life-affirming alternatives."
- Rethinking Dominant Approaches to Climate change
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Market-based attempts to curb climate change are inadequate since they further enable its root cause, capitalism.
- Review: Jonathan Metzl, Dying of Whiteness (2019)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A detailed review, focusing mainly on gun violence, of Jonathan Metzl's book Dying of Whiteness.
- A Revolutionary Detroit Memoir
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Review of autobiographical memoir of a white, working-class, Catholic woman who became involved in Black activisim.
- Revolutionary reels: Soviet propaganda film and the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 However, the Bolsheviks would revolutionize Russian cinema as leaders recognized the potential of film propaganda as a way to influence the political and social attitudes of the people. Vladimir Lenin clearly understood the power of film, as he stated, "Of all the arts, for us, cinema is most important."
- Revolutionary theory, academia and Marxist political parties
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 According to Lenin, revolutionary work has four parts: theoretical work, propaganda, agitation and organization.
- A rich diversity: Underground channels and stream of US Trotskyism, 1928-1965
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019
- Rich Getting Richer Via Tax Policies
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Marginal income tax rates plunged starting in the 1980s, hitting their modern-day lows under President George W. Bush. After rising modestly during the Obama Administration, they fell again under President Trump. Rate cuts generate only part of the current bonanza. Tax breaks passed by various Congresses account for the rest, hugely increasing the billions that flow to the haves.
- Rigging the Science of GMO Ecotoxicity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Scientific article about dangers of GMO plants and techniques used by developers to disguise harms to get GMOs through testing.
- The Rigors of Organizing: On the Road with the German Climate Resistance
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Ende Gelände, is a broad coalition of German climate resistance organizers. Members are touring the US sharing info about their tactics.
- Rivers in crisis: water theft and corruption in the Darling River system
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A water crisis in New South Wales has resulted in millions of fish dying and a shortage of water in communities. Politicians blame drought while other blame corruption and the actions of big irrigators.
- Rivers of Dust: The Future of Water and the Middle East
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Syria and Iraq are at odds with Turkey over the Tigris-Euphrates. Egypt's relations with Sudan and Ethiopia over the Nile are tense. Jordan and the Palestinians accuse Israel of plundering river water to irrigate the Negev Desert and hogging most of the three aquifers that underlie the occupied West Bank. According to satellites that monitor climate, the Tigris-Euphrates basin, embracing Turkey, Syria, Iraq and western Iran, is losing water faster than any other area in the world, with the exception of Northern India.
- Robot Trolls on Amazon: How Fake Reviews Could Undermine Progressive Politics
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In the pursuit of profit, corporations appear to be using bots to undermine competitors on Amazon, as they do on Twitter and Facebook. This could have detrimental effects on progressive authors and filmmakers who, in the absence of major corporate backing, need the support of reviewers -- at least on Amazon -- in order to boost their marketability.
- A Robust Doctrine: Break the Taboo on Odious Debts and their Repudiation
The Challenges for the European Left regarding Debt and the Banks Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An interview with Éric Toussaint, the author of The Debt System. A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation. He discusses debt, illegetimate debt and the instances in history when debts were repudiated.
- Rooting rebellion in nature
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Reflections on the legacy of philosopher and geologian Thomas Berry, ten years after his death.
- Rosa Luxemburg and the actuality of revolution
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 She was brilliant, insightful, with considerable knowledge and practical experience. She said and wrote things that are worth comprehending, actively considering, and testing out as we try to understand and change the world around us.
- RT's ban from media freedom conference shows British irony is alive and well
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 RT has been banned from a conference on media freedom for reportedly 'spreading disinformation.' They find this accusation and its source an ironic juxtoposition.
- Russia and the Democrats
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The Democratic Party's insistence of Russian meddling in the election show how out of touch and unfit their leadership is.
- Russiagate and the Dry Rot in American Journalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The idea that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election is used by both liberals and the right to maintain the status quo. Comparisons to Hunter S. Thompson show how staid mainstream news has become.
- Russiagate is Dead! Long Live Russiagate!
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Looking at the fiasco of Russiagate, it's instigators, who profits from it and the issues that it distracts from.
- Russiagate media smears against Corbyn brought to you by US and UK military-intelligence apparatus
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The popular socialist leader of Britain's Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, could be on the verge of becoming prime minister of the United Kingdom. And the mere possibility is terrifying British intelligence services and the US government.
- The Same Media That Opposed Democracy in South Africa Now Warn Against It in Israel/Palestine
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Coverage of South African apartheid in US news in the 1980s compared with coverage of Israel/Palestine today reveals similar racist bias.
- Sard's Permanent War Economy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A long biographical essay on Edward Sard who founded the theory of "permanent war economy."
- The secrets of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Close analysis of 1984, including biographical details of Orwell, defending it as a work of leftist literature.
- The Seizure of an Iranian Tanker and the Lethal Toll of Sanctions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Sanctions against Syria are having a disastrous effect on the population. Comparisons to Iraq during the 1990s by someone who was there show the historic failure and potential further consequences of sanctions.
- 'Sexy tricks': How journalists demonize Venezuela's socialist government, in their own words
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The United States has labeled Venezuela's government a "dictatorship" and part of a "troika of tyranny," and has sponsored multiple coup attempts there, including one in November. The corporate media has dutifully ignored the US role in the country's economic woes, laying the blame squarely at the feet of Maduro, omitting crucial political context on Venezuela's economic crisis while keeping up a constant flow of content presenting the country as a socialist hellhole.
- The Shaving Kit - Manufacturing The Julian Assange Witch-Hunt
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A survey of mainstream media coverage of Assange's arrest that makes him an object of ridicule. Much attention is given to the beard he had at the time.
- Shedding Light on Forced Child Pregnancy and Motherhood in Latin America
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Published: 2018 Research and campaigns by women's rights advocates are beginning to focus on the problem of Latin American girls who are forced to bear the children of their rapists, with the lifelong implications that entails and without the protection of public policies guaranteeing their human rights.
- Shots All Around: How Four Roses Bourbon Workers Won Their Strike
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Four Roses Bourbon Worked successfully striked over a two-tier contract proposal that would have given worse benefits to new hires.
- Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the New York Times 1619 Project
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In its insistence that race -- which has no basis in science -- is the determinative category of both the present and past, the 1619 Project shares the most basic premise of the white supremacists and fascists that are being set into motion by the Trump administration.
- 'Slaves of the sea'
The long-forgotten Jaladas community and their need for policy inclusion Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Due to socio-econimical, political, and geographical reasons, the Jaladas community has been negelected and they are vulnerable. Relevant sectoral policies enacted by the government of Bangladesh would address these issues.
- Social Media Regulation: Speak of the Devil and in Walks Zuck
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Social media giants such as Facebook support government regulation as a means to secure their monopolies.
- Socially Polarised, Politically Paralysed
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An essay on the peculiar character of contemporary social polarisation illstrated through the discussion of Brexit.
- Solidarity, Survival and Sabotage: Reconstructing the History of the Blackouts Tormenting Venezuela
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A detailed timeline of events during the recent blackout in Venezuela.
- The Solution to the Country's Debt and Deficit Problem
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 For most people, the country's national debt and annual deficit are not major concerns. However, for a substantial portion of the policy types who make, write, and talk about economic and budget policy, debt and deficits are really big deals. And, the fact that our budget deficit and debt are both large by historic standards, and growing rapidly, is an especially big deal.
- Sowing the seeds of climate crisis in Odisha
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In Rayagada, Bt cotton acreage has risen by 5,200 per cent in 16 years. The result: this biodiversity hotspot, rich in indigenous millets, rice varieties and forest foods, is seeing an alarming ecological shift.
- Spokane vs. the Border Patrol: How Immigration Agents Stake Out a City Bus Station
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Amid the Trump administration's immigration enforcement crackdown, the Border Patrol has stepped up raids on Greyhound buses nationwide, combatting what the agency claims is a "growing threat" of "alien smuggling and drug trafficking organizations to move people, narcotics, and contraband to interior destinations."
- Sri Lanka Easter Sunday Massacre: Reflection Of Long Time Silence
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A personal story about extreme ideologies that infiltrated Islamic societies.
- Stanford Study Says Renewable Power Eliminates Argument for Using Carbon Capture with Fossil Fuels
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A study in the peer-reviewed journal Energy and Environmental Science, concludes that carbon capture technologies are inefficient at pulling out carbon, from a climate perspective, and often increase local air pollution from the power required to run them, which exacerbates public health issues. Replacing a coal plant with wind turbines, on the other hand, always decreases local air pollution and doesn't come with the associated cost of running a carbon capture system, says Jacobson.
- Statement Condemning US Removal of Democratically-Elected Evo Morales
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Following months of destabilization, on November 10, 2019, the legitimate, constitutional, democratically-elected President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, was driven at gunpoint out of office and the country by the US and its allies, among them Bolivian fascists and several members of the Organization of American States (OAS), including Canada. This latest aggression follows centuries of colonial, imperialist, and neo-colonial conquest and plunder of the Indigenous-majority population of Bolivia.
- Still Lonely on the Right
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A review of 3 books about Black Republicans.
- The Strange Career of the Second Amendment -- Part I
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Detailed analysis of the Second Amendment and different perceptions of gun rights in US history.
- The Strange Career of the Second Amendment, Part II
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A further look at the history of the Second Amendment. Focuses on late 19th and 20th c and disparity of the laws in regard to race.
- The Strange Workings of Identity and Adolph Reed Jr.'s Thought
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 One of the cornerstones of the socialist approach to identity is the insistence that identities are not naturally occurring but are, rather, the products of history. The controversy surrounding Reeds work offers an opportunity to try to clarify our understanding of identity.
- "Strategic Extremism": How Republicans and Establishment Democrats Use Identity Politics to Divide and Rule
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Since morality is easy to use as a tool to manipulate voters, Republican's wooing of the alt-right is an effective strategy in a close election. To counter this the left must focus on real issues that challenge corporate power.
- Study Reveals How UK Intelligence Works with Media to Smear Jeremy Corbyn
New research from Matt Kennard has shown how the British intelligence establishment works with the UK media to smear Jeremy Corbyn. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Academic studies of the Corbyn coverage have also shown that corporate media have shown a profound hostility to him and his project. One report from the London School of Economics included an entire section called "Delegitimization through Ridicule, Scorn, and Personal Attacks."
- The Stupidity of Smart Devices and Smart Cities
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Smart phones, smart bombs, and, it follows, Smart Cities (capitalising such terms implies false authority), do not exist in that sense, whatever their cheer squad emissaries in High Tech land claim. They are merely a masterfully daft celebration of tactically deployed cults: there is a fad, a trend, and therefore, it must be smart, a model option to pursue.
- Suicide Watch on Planet Earth
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The burning of Notre Dame cathedral, while tragic, is nothing compared to the damage to our planet brought by climate change.
- Sundarbans: 'Not a blade of grass grew...'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 People in the Sundarbans of West Bengal, for long living on the edge, are now facing climate change recurring cyclones, erratic rain, growing salinity, rising heat, depleting mangroves and more.
- Swedish Sex Pistol Aimed at Assange
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 By asserting the extraterritorial jurisdiction of American law to demand the extradition of another countrys (Australia) citizen from a third country (Great Britain) for activities that took place entirely outside the US, the present indictment is, as Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalists, points out: a direct threat to journalists everywhere in the world
.Under this rubric, anyone anywhere in the world who publishes information that the U.S. government deems to be classified could be prosecuted for espionage.
- A Tale of Two Citations: Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and Michael Harrington's "The Other America"
Contrasting Lessons for Activists Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Looking at the forgotten, more radical aspects of Carson's "Silent Spring." Compares it with other, less radical works that were more easily co-opted by governments looking to appease new social and environmental movements.
- A Tale of Two Toilets: Profiting from Necessity?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 As indoor plumbing arrived in the U.S. in the 1840s and Dr. John Snows treatise on sewage-contaminated water causing cholera came out in 1855, the current global toilet situation cannot be attributed to lack of knowledge, technology, or resources.
- Talking Trash: Unfortunate Truths About Recycling
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A deep dive into the mechanics of recycling and why it isn't a panacea for our environmental problems.
- Tamil Nadu's seaweed harvesters in rough seas
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An unusual activity of the fisherwomen of Bharathinagar in Tamil Nadu keeps them more in the water than on boats. But climate change and overexploitation of marine resources are eroding their livelihoods.
- Taxed, throttled or thrown in jail: Africa's new internet paradigm
The costs of speaking out online are rising rapidly Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Many governments in Africa, threatened by the democracy of internet communication, are stifling it by imposing taxes and fees, throttling internet service itself and even arresting bloggers.
- Taxing Financial Transactions Is More Strategic Than Taxing High Wealth
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019
- Technocracy now: The US is working to turn Lebanons anti-corruption protests against Hezbollah
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The movement was spurred by the levying of regressive taxes and the persistence of a corrupt neoliberal order that has mismanaged the economy and hollowed out the public sector while enriching a handful of elites amid a looming economic collapse. Though the protests remain focused on class issues and corruption, the US is increasingly determined to co-opt the movement for its own goals.
- 10 Ways that the Climate Crisis and Militarism are Intertwined
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The environmental justice movement that is surging globally is intentionally intersectional, showing how global warming is connected to issues such as race, poverty, migration and public health. One area intimately linked to the climate crisis that gets little attention, however, is militarism.
- Thank Russia for Winning World War II
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019
- Thank Russia for Winning World War II
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Our Soviet allies barely held on alone for three years against Hitler, yet conventional wisdom is that we won the war because we equipped Soviets to die for us. This is propaganda the USSR bore more than 90% of its own wartime industrial burden.
- That Couldn't Be True: Restorying and Reconciliation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 To achieve reconciliation with Indigenous people Canada must let go of the myth of itself as a benevolent force in the world.
- 'They Had Already Decided They Wanted to Invade Iraq'
CounterSpin interviews with Robert Dreyfuss and Diana Duarte on media and the Iraq War Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 MP3s and transcripts of two interviews about justifications for the Iraq war. One focused on intelligence on WMDs and the other on women's rights.
- This London Firm Helps the Wealthy Hide Assets - or Steal Them. Luckily We Have 15 Years of Their Client Communications
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A London firm that helps the rich hide or steal money has had 15 years' worth of communications leaked. These are being made available to hopefully help return stolen money.
- This School District Threatened To Take Kids Away From Parents Over Lunch Debt. Then It Refused a Businessman's Offer to Pay Those Debts
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A Pennsylvania school district sent letters to parents who owed lunch money informing them that they could lose custody of their children due to their lunch money debt.
- Thousands of Goldminers Invade Yanomami Territory
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Goldminers have invaded Yanomami lands in northern Brazil, probably emboldened by Bolsonaro's war against Indigenous rights. They have brought disease to uncontacted peoples and are poisoning the environment.
- Three Lessons for the Left from the Mueller Inquiry
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russiagate is never going to uncover collusion between Donald Trump's camp and the Kremlin in the 2016 presidential election.
- Three Questions of Political Strategy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 As I read contributions to The Call and Jacobin, and from Solidarity members, I wonder if that doesnt explain some of the disagreements about "reform or revolution" that have come up between some Solidarity members and some members of DSAs Bread and Roses caucus. Framing these disagreements as a set of questions has helped me better understand the contending views.
- To Adapt to the Escalating Climate Crisis, Mere Reform Will Not Be Enough
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 As I've watched young people around the world take part in the climate actions of the last month, I've gotten the sense that I'm watching a spectacle which has been orchestrated to create the illusion that we're still in an earlier, more stable time for the planet's climate. Legitimate as the passion and commitment of this generation of teen climate activists is, their efforts are being packaged by the political and media establishment in a way that encourages denial about our true situation.
- To Be or Not to Be a Jewish State, That is the Question
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Israel's champions owe us an explanation. First, they insist that Israel is and always must be a Jewish state, by which most of them mean not religiously Jewish but of the "Jewish People" everywhere, including Jews who are citizens of other states and not looking for a new country.
- To Readers, $X Billion Just Means 'a Whole Lot of Money'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A call for media to put numbers in context, e.g., food stamps cost of $70 billion a year is just 0.4 percent of the budget.
- To Silence a Poet, and a Nation: What Stella Nyanzi's Conviction Means for Uganda
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Dr. Stella Nyanzi has been convicted under internet obscenity laws for criticizing Uganda's president. The style of her writing may be as much an issue as the criticism itself.
- Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Much of modern psychiatry is based on unscientific theories even many practitioners of its find problematic. Since Thomas Paine knew Dr. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), considered the "father of American psychiatry," this article draws parallels between Paine's criticisms of religion with those of psychiatry today.
- Top Bolivian coup plotters trained by US military's School of the Americas, served as attachés in FBI police programs
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The United States played a key role in the military coup in Bolivia, and in a direct way that has scarcely been acknowledged in accounts of the events that forced the country's elected president, Evo Morales, to resign on November 10, 2019.
- Trade Deals Are About Increasing Protectionist Barriers
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Past trade deals were about making it easier to trade manufactured goods, making it as easy as possible for corporations to take advantage of low-cost labor in the developing world. This has the predicted and actual effect of putting downward pressure on the wages of less-educated workers.
- Trudeau government gives dangerous new powers to Canada's political cops
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association has published a massive collection of documents that reveal that CSIS is gathering information on peaceful protest groups. This coincides with new legislation from the Trudeau government that gives CSIS increased powers to conduct surveillance.
- Trump's Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The US's ability to use finance as international leverage is weakening as American nationalism becomes more blatant and alienates allies.
- Trump's Trade Threats are Really Cold War 2.0
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Trump's attempts to bully China economically may backfire and alienate the US from trade partners.
- The TSA's Role as Journalist Harasser and Media 'Watchdog'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An American journalist whose work opposes the US government is openly marked for extra screening and inspections when travelling.
- Turkey in 2019: An Assessment
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A look at the current state of the Erdogan regime in Turkey as well as the hopes and challenges of what the left can accomplish.
- The 2019 UN Vote Against the US Blockade of Cuba
Trump's Washington Remains Cornered Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 On November 7, 2019, for the 28th year in a row, the entire United Nations General Assembly, gathered in one room, voted overwhelmingly against "the Economic, Commercial, and Financial Embargo Imposed on Cuba by the United States." The final tally was 187 in favor, 3 opposed (Brazil, Israel, US), 2 abstentions (Colombia, Ukraine), 1 not voting (Moldova).
- Uber Has Always Been a Criminal Organization
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Uber's whole business model was premised on criminality -- the willful, systematic flouting of local taxi regulations, based on a wager that the company could retroactively absolve itself by getting the laws changed via big-money lobbying. With that kind of mission, it's not surprising its executives had blood on their hands long before they started taking Saudi blood money.
- Ukraine, the New Cold War and the Politics of Impeachment
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The question not being asked is why it was politically, legally or morally justified for the U.S.-- the Obama administration, to 1) use NGOs and the CIA 2) to join with real and virulent Ukrainian Nazis to 3) oust the Democratically elected president of Ukraine 4) in order to install a puppet regime that answers to the national security state? Passionate assertions that Donald Trump is corrupt face the question back: what part of this entire operation isn't corrupt?
- Ukraine on Fire: The Real Story
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2019
- Ukraine's Nazis: Who are they, why are they so influential and why have media ignored them?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A recent festival in Kiev proudly displayed Nazi symbols and even advertised 'White Pride' yet received almost no attention from Western media, who still steadfastly pretend there are no Nazis in Ukraine, neo- or otherwise.
- Ukrainian neo-Nazis flock to the Hong Kong protest movement
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Neo-Nazis from Ukraine have flown to Hong Kong to participate in the anti-Chinese insurgency, which has been widely praised by Western corporate media and portrayed as a peaceful pro-democracy movement. Since March 2019, Hong Kong has been the site of often-violent protests and riots that have run the citys economy into the ground.
- UN aviation body blocks critics online
The UNs aviation body is blocking climate critics on Twitter, accusing them of 'fake news' and 'spam'. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The International Civil Aviation Organization is blocking people who interact with them on Twitter. They claim their critics' arguments are not 'fact-based.'
- Uncle Sam was Born Lethal
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The white European "settlers" of North America wiped out millions of the continent's original inhabitants. They populated their southern colonies and states with Black slaves they mercilessly tortured, raped, maimed, and murdered in forced labour camps that provided the critical raw material for the rise of American capitalism long before Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler rose to power.
- Unconditional support for Israel is unconditional support for injustice
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Like tens of thousands of Jews worldwide, we oppose Israel's ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and its regime of violence, intimidation and incarceration aimed at the Palestinian population of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. We challenge those who offer unconditional support for Israel to ask themselves if they would support the same violations of human rights and international law anywhere else in the world. We affirm that our criticism of Israel comes from an embrace of both Jewish and universal humanitarian values and has no relation whatsoever to antisemitism.
- Unconditional support for Israel is unconditional support for injustice
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Like tens of thousands of Jews worldwide, we oppose Israel's ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and its regime of violence, intimidation and incarceration aimed at the Palestinian population of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. We challenge those who offer unconditional support for Israel to ask themselves if they would support the same violations of human rights and international law anywhere else in the world. We affirm that our criticism of Israel comes from an embrace of both Jewish and universal humanitarian values and has no relation whatsoever to antisemitism.
- Undermining the watercycle
A critical appraisal of the mining industry's contributions to the global water crisis. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The mining industry is often overlooked as a cause of the global water crisis. This article examines recent history of mining disasters and how the industry PR greenwashes its image.
- Unearthing Justice
How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry Resource Type: Book First Published: 2019 Brimming with case studies, anecdotes, resources, and illustrations, Unearthing Justice exposes the mining process and its externalized impacts on the environment, Indigenous Peoples, communities, workers, and governments. But, most importantly, the book shows how people are fighting back.
- Unfree Media State Stenography And Shameful Silence
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A recent viral clip of Jeremy Corbyn featured vital truths about the corporate media that ought to be at the forefront of public consciousness in the approach to the UK General Election on December 12, 2020.
- United States - DSA Two Years Later: Where Are We At? Where Are We Headed?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) had had a massive surge in membership in the last two years. Here is a look at the history of socialism in the US and the DSA's current prospects for enacting real change.
- US Media Ignore -- and Applaud -- Economic War on Venezuela
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 US reporting on Venezuela fails to mention the effect economic sanctions have in Venezuela defying the work of experts in the area.
- U.S. Newspapers Are More Than Twice As Likely to Cite Israeli Sources in Headlines Than Palestinian Ones
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A study of 50 years of news headlines on the Israel-Palestine conflict from five major American publications shows that they are biased towards the Israeli side.
- U.S. Senate's First Bill, in the Midst of the Shutdown, Is a Bipartisan Defense of the Israeli Government From Boycotts
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 This Senate's first bill of 2019 considers giving state and local governments the power to punish companies that boycott Israel. These laws have been found to be unconstitutional but still have bipartisan support.
- The 'Unpeople' of South Korea
Idiocy and Violence of Immigration Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Who are the unpeople of South Korea? They are an majority of illegal migrants who lack basic rights and security and believed to deserve it according to the laws and principles under which Korean society operates.
- Updating Some U.S. Political Prisoners January 2019
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An update on political prisoners in the United States.
- US Capitalism Was Born in the Destruction of the Commons
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Interview with Silvia Federici and Peter Linebaugh about Federici's book Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons.
- The US coup in Venezuela: New attempt to eradicate the Chavista Revolution
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The coup in Venezuela is the latest in a long history of US attempts to undermine and overthrow progressive governments in Latin America. American progressives must do more to stop this aggression.
- US Cyber Attack on Russia's Power Grid is an 'Act of War' (According to the US)
What about Venezuela's hacked power grid? Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The New York Times reports that the US has hacked Russia's power grid. Reporting on the issue has failed to mention any call for consequences or the fact that the US has already been accused of doing the same to Venezuela.
- US Democrats Cultivated the Barbarism of Isis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 There is something profoundly deceitful in the Democratic Party and corporate media's framing of Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria. One does not need to like Trump or ignore the dangers posed to the Kurds, at least in the short term, by the sudden departure of US forces from northern Syria to understand that the coverage is being crafted in such a way as to entirely overlook the bigger picture.
- US Foists 'Humanitarian Aid' on Venezuela, Helps Create a Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The US-backed Saudi Arabia war on Yemen is causing the worst humanitarian crisis of the modern era. The lack of concern from politicians should belie this justification for U.S. intervention in other countries.
- US Foreign Policy Exposed
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Some recent events and information leaks have forced even the mainstream media to break the usual veneer over US foreign policy.
- US Government Knew Climate Risks in 1970s, National Petroleum Council Documents Show
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Newly discovered documents show that the fossil fuel industry has know since the 1970s the effect that CO2 emissions would have on the environment.
- US Media Keep Saying Iran is "In Violation" of a Nuclear Agreement the US Withdrew From
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 US Media portray Iran as having violated the US-Iran nuclear agreement. That's because the Trump administration, acting on its own, foolishlypulled out unilaterally from that agreement, and has been imposing sanctions on Iran, all of which has been in violation of the agreement, and which, by violating its terms, effectively terminates the agreement.
- US Negotiations: Masters of Defeats
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A summary of several US attempts at diplomacy that have failed due to their unwillingness to make any concessions to the other party.
- US and Puppet Guaido Implicated in Terrorism Plot Against Venezuela PLOT
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 New evidence has been uncovered regarding terror campaign planned by the US and the Venezuelan opposition.
- US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as 'Watershed Event' for 'Galvanizing Public Unrest'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A 2010 memo from Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) seems to be playing out as planned in 2019.
- US State Department Publishes, then deletes sadistic Venezuela hit list boasting of economic ruin
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A fact sheet put out by the US State Department listing its "accomplishments" in Venezuela reads more like a confession of atrocities. The document was later withdrawn.
- US Trotskyism 1928-1965 Part I: Emergence
Left Opposition in the United States Resource Type: Book First Published: 2019 The first in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1928 to 1940, surveying labour struggles, contributions to the study of history and Marxist theory, and confrontations and convergences among left currents.
- US Trotskyism 19281965 Part II: Endurance
The Coming American Revolution. Dissident Marxism in the United States: Volume 3 Resource Type: Book First Published: 2019 The second in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1941 to 1956, surveying the Second World War, the post-war strike wave, ongoing struggles against racism, and more.
- US Trotskyism 19281965 Part III: Resurgence
Uneven and Combined Development. Resource Type: Book First Published: 2019 The third in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1954 to 1965, surveying the Cold War era, the Black liberation struggle, the "third wave" of feminism, and more.
- U.S.: We Will Break Your Legs
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The US has threatened to deny visas to any ICC personnel investigating possible war crimes by U.S. forces. This should make clear the hypocrisy when the the US cites human rights violations as an excuse to invade other countries.
- U.S.A : How Federal Workers Could Fight the Shutdown
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Federal workers have dealt with low pay, degraded working conditions, and repeated employer lockouts. If they want to improve their conditions, they'll have to organize.
- The UTLA Victory in Context
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A look at the bigger picture surrounding the LA teacher's strike as part of the national upsurge that began with the 2012 strike of the Chicago Teachers Union.
- Venezuela Blitz - Part 1: Tyrants Dont Have Free Elections
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Thorough summary of support for the Venezuela coup in US and UK media with many excerpts.
- Venezuela Blitz - Part 2: Press Freedom, Sanctions And Oil
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Analysis of corporate coverage of Venezuela reveals: reporting on the supposed lack of free press, and rarely mentioning the US's interest in their oil and effect of sanctions on the country.
- Venezuela Coup Leader's Oil Plans Revealed: Guaidó Hopes to Privatize State-Controlled Industry
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Juan Guaidó and his economic advisers have a plan to privatize the country's petroleum industry. This privatization scheme will be difficult to implement, however, since he is not in power.
- Venezuela Coverage Takes Us Back to Golden Age of Lying About Latin America
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Corporate media has many stories about food and medicine shortages in Venezuela. These lies and others are debunked by someone who lives there.
- Venezuela: The U.S.'s 68th Regime Change Disaster
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The US's sanctions and political interference in Venezuela are part of a long history of foreign meddling that brings strife to the affected country.
- Venezuela: Is President Maduro 'illegitimate'? 10 facts to counter the lies
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Concise rebuttal of talking points used by those trying to bring about a coup in Venezuela.
- Venezuelan economist: 'Hyperinflation is a powerful imperialist weapon'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Interview with Venezuelan an economist about how hyperinflation is being used as a weapon against the country.
- A Very Incomplete List of Sinister Things Vladimir Putin/Russia/'the Russians' Have Been Accused of Doing
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A list as the title describes (with links).
- The Violent History of the Venezuelan Opposition
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Mainstream media paint Venezuelan opposition as peaceful heroes and President Maduro as a villain. Details about opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez show this to be blatant propaganda.
- The War in Eastern Ukraine May be Coming to an End but Do Any Americans Care?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The Ukraine War remains largely unknown to the American public even though the United States has had a great stake in it.
- The War on Venezuela is Built on Lies
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Maduro, like Chavez before him, is a fairly elected leader with support from the people. Talk of his 'illegitmacy' is propaganda in service of the coup.
- The War That Never Ends
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 North Korean denuclearization is unlikely without concessions (such as sanctions relief) from the US side. How likely is the Trump administration to make such a deal?
- Washington's Dr. Strangeloves: Is plunging Russia into darkness really a good idea
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 US cyber attacks on Russia's power grid, reportedly done without the president's knowledge, are part of a historic pattern of US/Russian relations being sabotaged US defense and intelligence agencies.
- Washington's Biggest Fairy Tale: 'Truth Will Out'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The idea that the truth will eventually be exposed may be comforting to people that think we live in a transparent democracy. But this investigative journalist discusses how hard it is to get information from the government.
- Water as a Form of Social Control
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Whether in Palestine or Detroit, restricting access to water is a tactic used to deprive populations of personal and social agency with dire consequences to health.
- Water resources - 'The river is dying': the vast ecological cost of Brazil's mining disasters
Water resources are tapped with often reckless abandon and poor regulation. And it looks set to go on under new president. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Brazil's worst mining disaster in decades has prompted calls to create stronger regulations and enforce them with real consequences rather than small fines that often go unpaid.
- We Dont Do Propaganda
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Dutch historian Rutger Bregman's (un-aired) appearance on Tucker Carlson sparked outrage in Carlson and an opportunity to highlight how money controls the narrative in mainstream news.
- We hacked tube ads to call out the Home Office's hostile environment
Our Future Now on how they helped the Home Office be a little more honest about its policies Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Today our activist group, Our Future Now, have installed subverted adverts on London Underground trains calling out the Home Office's 'hostile environment' and its brutal and racist policies.
- 'We Need to Ban Fracking': New Analysis of 1,500 Scientific Studies Details Threat to Health and Climate
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The latest analysis of studies on the effects of fracking confirms that it poses an extreme threat to the environment and local people's healt.
- We The Workers: A limited documentary about labour rights groups in China
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A review of a documentary on labour conditions in China. The docementary was filmed at great risk but the motiviations and the end product are questionable.
- Wealth and the Invisibility of Human Life
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Review of the book "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism" by Quinn Slobodian.
- Weaponized Social Media Is Driving the Explosion of Fascism
Social media platforms give governments, extremists, haters and propagandists the ability to excite and incite hate amplified by algorithms. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Describing how social media wages war on reality by spreading propaganda. With examples from ISIS to Alex Jones.
- Weaponizing human rights: UN chief Bachelet's Venezuela report follows US regime change script
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A report from the UN High Commissioner on the situation in Venezuela has been condemned by many sources as a political tool to justify the US's attempted regime change in that country.
- West Africa's Fine Line Between Cultural Norms and Child Trafficking
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Human traficking in West Africa is difficult to deal with as it has become entrenched in the culture of people living in extreme poverty.
- The West Failed to Learn the Most Important Lessons From the Rise and Fall of ISIS
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The attempted coup in Venezuela today is an example of imperial overreach western governments displayed in the Middle East.
- The Western Media is Key to Syria Deceptions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An analysis of why western media has failed to practice any scepticism regarding claims that the Syrian government is using chemical weapons.
- What George Carlin Taught Us about Media Propaganda by Omission
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In the old George Carlin joke, the TV sportscaster announces: "Here's a partial score from the West Coast Los Angeles 6." For a brilliant comedian like Carlin -- who skewered corporate power, class structure and political/media propaganda that's one of his more innocuous jokes. But it's sharply relevant today as corporate TV news outlets serve up a series of partial scores. Call it 'propaganda by omission.'
- What is Happening in Spain?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Spain spends much less on public social expenditures that what it should spend according to its level of economic development. It is one of the countries of the European Union 15 (the more advanced economies of the European Union) that spends the least on public services such as health care, education, public housing and child care, and on transfers, such as pensions.
- What kind of rebellion will save humanity from extinction?
The real power of mass civil disobedience is not its ability to shock the powerful into listening, but rather its potential to draw masses o Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2019 Despite overwhelming evidence that the world has already passed certain tipping points, setting off large and unpredictable changes in the climate, why are governments still refusing to act on the scale and pace required?
- What Los Angeles Teachers Won
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A Los Angeles teacher's take on the successful strike.
- What Religion is Your Nationalism?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 On November 9, 2019, 27 years after mobs destroyed the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the Supreme Court of India, despite stating that the demolition of the mosque was against the rule of law, pronounced the lawbreakers as victors. Those who had indulged in a bloodbath to build a temple where they claim Lord Ram was born have become the owners.
- What the 'White Irish Slaves' Meme Tells Us About Identity Politics
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In setting out to rebut narratives of 'Irish Slaves' the left has often downplayed the history of Irish oppression.
- What the Media Won't Tell You About the Venezuelan Coup
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Calling Venezuela's election illegitimate is false and is also a familiar tactic for US interference in a country's government.
- What's the alternative to factory farms?
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Mixed review of a collection of essays about industrial agriculture. Most of the papers point out the destructiveness of animal agriculture but neglect the wider issue of capitialism.
- What's the True Unemployment Rate in the US?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The real unemployment rate is probably somewhere between 10%-12%. The 3.7% is the U-3 rate, per the labor dept. But thats the rate only for full time employed. What the labour depatment calls the U-6 includes what it calls discouraged workers (those who havent looked for work in the past 4 weeks). Then there's what's called the 'missing labour force' - i.e. those who have't looked in the past year. They're not calculated in the 3.7% U-3 unemployment rate number either. Why? Because you have to be 'out of work and actively looking for work' to be counted as unemployed and therefore part of the 3.7% rate.
- When the IWW Took on the Copper Kings
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Review of the movie "Bisbee 17" about a strike and subsequent deportation of the workers of an Arizona mining town.
- When Welfare Checks Turn Deadly
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The disabled and mental ill encur growing risks and dangers when interacting with police as their actions are often interrupted as hostile or dangerous. Such misinterruption often result in a fatal encounter with law enforcement.
- When Your Boss Locks You Out for Nearly 6 Months and Cuts Off Your Healthcare
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 When energy company National Grid locked out its workers during contract negotiations, workers workers had to struggle with loss of income and health insurance. Workers as well as legislators see this as an unfair bargaining tactic.
- Where Have You Gone Abbie Hoffman?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A collection of excerpts of people writing about Abbie Hoffman on the 30th anniversary of his death.
- 'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, 9 slave testimonies
The voices of five men and four women, once held in human bondage, interviewed in Alabama in 1937. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Testimonies of several victims of slavery collected in the 1930s tell of separation from family, overwork, and abuse.
- While the World Watches Trump, Its Missing Whats Really Going On
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The superficial antics of Trump and other world leaders are making front page news while investigative reporting on real issues is pushed to the margins.
- White Women and White Power
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Review of two books about white supremacy. Especially focused on the role of white women in white power movements.
- Who Inflicts the Most Gun Violence in America? The U.S. Government and Its Police Force
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Statistical analyses of gun violence in America consistently fail to account for the number of victimes of police killings. The militization of policiing has led to a greater number of victims, particularly among young black men and the mentally ill.
- Who Is Responsible?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A short update on attempts to gain justice for Indigenous genocide in Guatemala in the 1980s.
- Who Would Believe It? Annals of the New Left Era
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A review of "You Say You Want a Revolution" a collection of memoirs of the Progressive Labor Party.
- Whose history? Why the People's History Museum is vital
In recent months, high-profile figures have claimed museums should be neutral spaces. Thank goodness, then, for the Peoples History Museu Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Peoples History Museum also acts as a space for learning and offers a site for new debates to emerge, regularly allocating space for community exhibitions and contemporary political discussion. It also exhibits documents from recent events and contemporary unions, as it continues to build its collections.
- Whose "Security" -- and for What?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Editorial about how accepted "security" discourse obscures the real structural and systemic crises today.
- Why Activists Fail
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Describes why activists have historically failed to make a real difference - they don't know how the world works. Describes how the world works and explains some components of nonviolent strategy for change.
- Why Ann Coulter Has Power: U.S. Politics are Authoritarian by Design
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A description of undemocratic processes in the US government - the Electoral College, gerrymandering, etc. - and how these allow a small minority to decide the leadership of the country.
- Why Are These Facts So Stubbornly Forbidden?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The author gives several examples of people refusing to change their beliefs even when confronted with facts.
- Why Aren't the Democrats Talking About Ending Patent Financed Drug Research?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Presenting a case for replacing government-granted patent monopoly financing of pharmaceutical research to make drugs available at free market prices.
- Why climate action is the antithesis of white supremacy
Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Climate action and climate change denial are antithetical to each other as the former is based on interconnectivity and collective action while the latter seeks exclusion and separation.
- Why Left Wing Populism Is Not Enough
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Mainly a critique of Chantal Mouffe's book 'For a Left Populism,' discusses the shortcomings of a poplulism that downplays the role of class.
- Why the 1953 cancellation of German debt wont be reproduced for Greece and Developing Countries
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Detailed look at the differences between cancellation of Germany's debt and that of developing countries today.
- Why the Anthropocene is not 'climate change' - and why that matters
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Reducing our current predicament to combatting climate change, or even narrower, reducing CO2 emissions fails to show the big picture of how humans have changed the planet. To contend with the Anthropocene we need to get rid of one-dimensional thinking of climate change.
- Why The 'Ok Boomer' phenomenon is short-sighted
Millennials and Generation Zers have more in common with struggling boomers than wealthy elites our own age Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The "Ok Boomer" meme, which many young people are using online as a rebuttal against supposedly out-of-touch baby boomers, taps into frustrations disproportionately experienced by millennials and Generation Zers -- particularly in Canada's most unaffordable cities. Unfortunately, however, the meme also represents a discourse that ignores the many older people experiencing poverty, discrimination and hardship.
- Why the US is Persecuting Assange
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Governments don't like it when reporters disclose secrets that impede their preferred narrative. This article draws parallels between Assange and the work of Yemeni reporter Maad al-Zikry.
- Why the US Puppet President of Venezuela is Toast
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In the alternative universe of corporate media, which ignores the economic war being waged against Venezuela, Reuters bemoans that the crackdown on Guaidós agents has failed to receive significant retaliation from the international community. In reality, Venezuela has massively suffered from the US-orchestrated punishments for resisting reverting to the status of a client state.
- Wildly Underestimated Oilsands Emissions Latest Blow to Alberta's Dubious Climate Claims
As disaster looms, petro province lets industry call the shots. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The oilsand industry's own measurements of their carbon output fall far short of that reported by Environment Canada's and others' research. This could deal a blow to the industry's PR efforts.
- With the right-wing coup in Bolivia nearly complete, the junta is hunting down the last remaining dissidents
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A brutal military junta that seized power from Bolivia's democratically elected President Evo Morales is violently repressing a working-class indigenous-led uprising, and the country is rapidly falling under its control. Soldiers in military fatigues prowl the streets, enforcing a series of choke points around the seat of power.
- Women and the far right
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Many of the past gains of human and civil rights with women are at risk of being rolled back as the far right assumes power in numerous countries. Such attacks on women's reproductive rights and their places and roles in society have historical precedents in fascist movements in the past.
- Women's Oppression and Liberation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 On the role of Marxism in the feminist movement in India.
- Women's stories from the frontline of Sudan's revolution must be told
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Women are leading Sudan's revolt against religious fundamentalism. As in Egypt and Saudi Arabia they face a violent backlash.
- A World in Revolt
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 We are pleased to include in this issue of Insurgent Notes a series of very detailed accounts and analyses of the gilets jaunes or yellow vests movement in France prepared by activists associated with Temps critiques. The texts are informed by a distinctive theoretical perspective (regarding capitalist reproduction and the possibility of revolution) and their sustained involvement in the yellow vests movement from its inception.
- The World Needs a Water Treaty
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 During the face-off earlier this year between India and Pakistan over a terrorist attack that killed more than 40 Indian paramilitaries in Kashmir, New Delhi made an existential threat to Islamabad. The weapon was not Indias considerable nuclear arsenal, but one still capable of inflicting ruinous destruction: water.
- The World Needs a Water Treaty
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Climate change is making water into as valuable a commodity as oil with similar national tensions resulting.
- Yellow fever
Populist pangs in France Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The 'gilets jaunes' are a complex movement that has grown from a distrust of France's elites towards demands for citizen-led democracy. Their invocation of the French Revolution has provided the movement with a powerful sense of popular legitimacy but, as Gabriel Bristow argues, contains contradictions of its own.
- The Yellow Vests of France: Six Months of Struggle
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A look at the Yellow Vest movement in France after six months. Although they avoid structures of formal organizations they are converging with several other groups.
- Yelp and the Myth of Consumer Power
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Online reviews on Yelp have had a massive effect on the service industry but this should not be perceived as giving power to consumers. In the end it is only the platfrom that profits.
- Yet Another U.S. Coup Attempt to Eradicate the Bolivarian Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 History of the attempted coup in Venezuela as of January 2019.
- "Zone Defense:" a New Way To Stop ATVs in Wilderness Areas
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In 2002, a new method of organizing was used by 20 organizations in a rural area of southwest Oregon to successfully confront an ATV threat in an area where no national, regional or local group had enough members to do much by itself. The nature of the campaign required numbers of people to turn out on short notice to meetings in sparsely populated areas for which little advance notice could be expected.
2018
- Academics Who Serve as Israel's Useful Idiots
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 How derisively would we have treated an academic - an expert in human rights, no less - who argued back in the 1980s that those who supported a boycott of apartheid South Africa must have been secretly anti-white or anti-Christian because they did not equally prioritise a boycott of Israel?
- ACLU sues US over separation of mother, child seeking asylum
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 American Civil Liberties Union accused the U.S. government of unlawfully separating a Congolese woman and her 7-year-old daughter by holding them in different immigration facilities 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) appart.
- Afghanistan is Collapsing. Get Out: Now!
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the disastrous results of US and NATO intervention in Afghanistan, a conflict which has little to do with eliminating international terrorism.
- Africa: New evidence of ongoing corporate looting
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A World Bank report indicates a massive depletion of Africa's natural wealth by transnational corporations (TNC). There are two ways to address TNC capture of African wealth: bottom-up through direct action that blocks extraction, or top-down through significant reform.
- Africa's whistleblowers
'All I did was tell the truth' Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In Africa, those who denounce corruption face hardship and physical danger even when theres a legal framework that should protect and guarantee them a fair hearing.
- African Americans and Immigrant Workers
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Malik discusses job competition and tensions between Afrcian Americans and Hispanic workers, more specifically between African Amercians and undocumented workers. He illustrates this through the example of a conflict in a Chicago bakery.
- Africa's Pioneering Marxist Political Economist, Samir Amin (1931-2018)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the pioneering work of Egyptian-French Marxian economist Samir Amin, who died on August 12, 2018.
- After Alleged Election Fraud and Protests, Honduran Congress Moves to Regulate Hate Speech Online
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The Honduran Congress is debating a law that seeks to regulate hate speech and "fake news" on the Internet. Honduran activists and opposition political parties say the proposal would function as a gag law aimed at silencing government critics.
- After 10 years, Hassan Diab is finally free
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Hassan Diab is freed by French authorities after what was deemed a bungled case and rush to judgment, one which zeroed in on Diab with unjust finger-pointing from B'nai Brith.
- After the Grenfell Tower Fire
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the grave injustice surrounding the Grenfell Tower fire, from the way residents were treated before and after the disaster and the austerity measures that exacerbated it - such as cuts to fire departments.
- After Visiting Brazil's Lula in Prison, Noam Chomsky Warns Against "Disaster" Under Jair Bolsonaro
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An interview with Noam Chomsky about newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil. Politically the election marks a dramatic shift to the right for the country which Chomsky describes as a disaster for Brazil. The article includes a link to the interview on video.
- Ahed Tamimi Offers Israelis a Lesson Worthy of Gandhi
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi may not be what Israelis had in mind when, over many years, they criticised Palestinians for not producing a Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. Eventually, colonised peoples bring to the fore a figure best suited to challenge the rotten values at the core of the society oppressing them. Ahed is well qualified for the task.
- Air pollution now 'largest health crisis'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The WHO estimates that seven million premature deaths are linked to air pollution every year, of which nearly 600,000 are children who are uniquely vulnerable.
- "Al Qaeda's MASH Unit": How the Syrian American Medical Society Is Selling Regime Change and Driving the US to War
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is not merely a group of Syrian doctors tending to the wounded in war torn areas, nor is it an objective and relaibale source on chemical attacks and other atrocities. This article explains that SAMS is actually a politically enaged organization that has for years been actively seeking to overthrow the Syrian government.
- Alberta has only itself to blame for bitumen problems
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The article explains why Alberta has primarily itself to blame for the low price of its bitumen, a situation built on years of mismanagement in government and poor industry advice.
- Alberta's Problem Isn't Pipelines; It's Bad Policy Decisions
Bitumen prices are low because the province has ignored at least a decade of warnings. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A 2007 Alberta government report indicates that the provincial government has been aware for more than a decade that its oilsands policies were setting the stage for today's price crisis.
- "Alexa, Drop a Bomb": Amazon Wants in on US Warfare
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at US comapany Amazon and its involvement with the US military in creating an artificial 'brain' called JEDI. It demonstrates a new level of US determination for global domination, and would represent the creation of a weapon that would dramatically up the level of global military rivalry and ensure more human conflict.
- The Algiers Accords: Decades of Violations and Silence
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 This week marks the 37th anniversary of a pledge made by the United States in 1981: The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Irans internal affairs. This week also marks 37 continuous years of the United States failing to uphold its pledge: the 1981 Algiers Accords.
- Alice Walker's Conspiracy Theories Aren't Just Anti-Semitic - They're Anti-Black
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 White supremacy relies on different stereotypes of Black and Jewish people. Alice Walker's adoption of anti-semitic conspiracy theories points to the need for solidarity between the Black and Jewish communities - which are not mutually exclusive.
- All Fire and Fury in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Using Oliver Stone's 'portentious' documentary film 'Ukraine on Fire' as a basis for discussion, the article looks beyond the mainstream media and public discourse on the events and developments in the country which ultimately framed the public's view of the situation.
- All You Fascists Bound to Lose
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at Shane Burley's new book "Fascism Today: What It is and How to End It", which examines the current fascist movement and the opposition to it in the United States.
- Am I a bad feminist?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 My fundamental position is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They're not angels, incapable of wrongdoing. Nor do I believe that women are children, incapable of agency or of making moral decisions.
- Amazon HQ2 Will Cost Taxpayers at Least $4.6 Billion, More Than Twice What the Company Claimed, New Study Shows
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In addition to the billions in local government subsidies Amazon stands to gain from Federal Opportunity Zones. Researchers who have studied opportunity zones find that these tax schemes rarely ever help cities, and often financially cripple them.
- Amazon's Initiative: Digital Assistants, Home Surveillance and Data
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at technological developments such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, which are less innovations than intrusive tools utilized by big data companies to mine personal information and condition human approaches to the way information is shared.
- American Exceptionalism: The Naked Truth
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A large number of Americans hold a deeply-held conviction that no matter what the US does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the government of the United States means well. American leaders may make mistakes, they may blunder, they may lie, they may even on many occasions cause more harm than good, but they do mean well. Their intentions are always honorable, even noble. Of that the great majority of Americans are certain.And Americans genuinely wonder why the rest of the world cant see how benevolent and self-sacrificing America has been. Even many people who take part in the anti-war movement have a hard time shaking off some of this mindset; they march to spur America -- the America they love and worship and trust -- they march to spur this noble America back onto its path of goodness.
- American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 In this provocative collection of essays, Henry Giroux warns of the consequences of doing too little as Trump and the so-called alt-right relentlessly attack critics, journalists, and target the hard-earned civil rights of women, people of color, immigrants, the working class, and low-income Americans.
- America's Troll Farm Media
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the American mainstream media, which is in a constant search of sensation, scandal, gossip, and above all -- profit.
- Amnesty International: Trumpeting for War
Again
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 One would expect a human rights organisation to be intrinsically opposed to war, but AI is a cheerleader of so-called humanitarian intervention, and even "humanitarian bombing".
- Anarchism and Kavanaugh
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Richman argues that without the current State, but rather with an Anarchistic one, the U.S. public would have been spared the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination episode.
- Animating the Great Migration and After
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Brian Dolinar reviews Pioneering Cartoonists of Color by Tim Jackson.
- Anti-BDS bills expected to feature prominently at AIPAC
Annual meeting to push for measures that counter boycott Israel campaign as rights groups call bills 'unconstitutional' Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 At the annual meeting of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), the lobbying group's agenda is set to propose measures to counter the growing campaign to boycott Israel and its West Bank settlements. At the centre of discussion are anti-bocott bills, described by critics as laws designed to curb the not-for-profit Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement- a human rights movement that supports Palestinian rights.
- The anti-semitism paradox damaging Labour
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the damaging effect of anti-semitism for the political left, which is being exploited in a tactic to stifle class solidarity and subvert a genuinely progressive Labour leadership.
- Apple and the Guardian: Partners in a Death Spiral
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 This report on Apple CEO Tim Cook's visit to a UK school to promote the company's new coding curriculum for schoolchildren could hardly be a better illustration of the way the Guardian newspaper serves as a key propagandist for aggressive global corporate capitalism, helping to create for it a façade of humanitarianism.
- Approaching Development: GMO Propaganda and Neoliberalism vs Localisation and Agroecology
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the pro GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) lobby and the reasons why they are pushing GMO technology. The article looks towards agroecology as a better means of achieving genuine food sovereignty.
- Architects of Mass Slaughter
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Detailed review of two books about the Indonesian Genocide.
- Archive That, Comrade!
Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of Remembrance Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 Archive That, Comrade! explores issues of archival theory and practice that arise for any project aspiring to provide an open-access platform for political dialogue and democratic debate.
- Argentine Newspapers Recuperated by Workers' Cooperatives
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An economic recession in Argentina that culminated in intense protests and the resignation of then-president Fernando de la Rua, also fostered the phenomenon of companies being recuperated by its workers as a cooperatives. In the last two years the majority of companies recuperated have been media outlets, which opens up new possibilities for journalism in the country.
- As lies on Syrian gas attack unravel, US and UK shift to claims of Russian "cyber war"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An examination of the alleged gas attack in Syria as pretext for yet another war against a Middle Eastern nation, the suppression of anti-war sentiment, and the legitimization and crackdown on democratic rights and censorship of the Internet under the banner of combating Russian cyber warfare.
- As the Obama DOJ Concluded, Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Democrats and Republicans both seem willing to curtail freedom of the press when an outlet publishes work against their interests, however, prosecuting Julian Assange/Wikileaks would create a precedent that would criminalize the core function of investigative journalism.
- Assange's internet blackout & Skripal case part of propaganda war that risks real one
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 John Pilger condemns the mainstream media for its role in acting as an uncritiical conduit for government propaganda.
- The Atomized and Siloed U.S. Left
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 We're increasingly siloed as organizers and protesters. The environment literally decays as we watch, and the Trump administration is hard at work dismantling what environmental regulations there are.
- The Attack on Wilderness From Environmentalists
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Wildlands are being lost across the globe, and some conservation groups are assisting in that loss by proposing lesser protective status.
- Australia: Worst drought ever, but don't mention climate change!
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Despite record drought conditions in Australia and the numerous climate related disasters around the globe, the Australian goverment still refuses to acknowledge human-induced climate change.
- The Authoritarians Who Silence Syria Questions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the unchallenged western media narrative on Syria and notably recent commentary by Brian Whitaker, the Guardian's former Middle East editor, who is opposed to experts in the study of propaganda setting up a panel - the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media - which aims to "provide a source of reliable, informed and timely analysis for journalists, publics and policymakers" on Syria.
- Bangladesh: Challenge of the Students Uprising - Its historical background
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The students movement that erupted on 29 July following the death of two students in a tragic road accident in Dhaka spread to almost all the major cities of the country. Thousands of outraged school and college students laid siege to the streets of the capital Dhaka for a week demanding road safety across the country.
- Banned in Pakistan
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Pakistan's decision to censor 'blasphemous' websites provides a new perspective on the attitudes of many Western liberals towards Charlie Hebdo.
- Baran & Sweezy versus Marx
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In response to the editors' question 'Where was Marx in 1968?," Daum chooses to comment briefly on one topic: the anti-Marxist influence of Paul Baran and Paul Sweezys book Monopoly Capital.
- Barbara Ehrenreich Isn't Afraid to Die
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, The Certainty of Dying, and Our Illusion of Control", where she questions current cultural practices, our sense of 'self', and advocates for a broader acceptance of death's inevitability.
- Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903, by Aidan Forth - Review
Internment in the colonies served a darker purpose beyond aid efforts Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A book review of Aidan Forth's "Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903", which provides new insights and ulterior motives behind Britain's aid efforts in southern Africa.
- Barcelona's Experiment in Radical Democracy
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Issues that Barcelona en Comu is tackling come up against limitations set by Catalan and Spanish law. The city lacks authority to regulate housing, although the city has created new affordable housing, and has successfully limited the reach of Airbnb.
- The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the reporting of 'fake news' by the BBC, which has no legal obligation to give its audience any information about its sources and seemingly has legal protection from scrutiny.
- BDS Versus Settler-Colonialism
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Review of two books about pro-Palestinian political activism known as BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions.) Contains detailed discussion of history and current events covered in the books.
- "Before all else a revolutionist": Marx and the Question of Strategy
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 If we begin listening to the voices of those he conversed with, we can stop seeing Marx as the source of infinite quotes and begin to view him instead as a comrade on a common path a path that he walked before us, always in conversation, and often in dispute, with many of his contemporaries.
- Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Taxes do not fund government spending.That's a core insight of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) whose radical implications have not been understood very well by the left. Indeed, it's not well understood at all, and most people who have heard or read it somewhere breeze right past it, and fall back to the taxes-for-spending paradigm that is the sticky common wisdom of the left and right.
- 'Being treated like slaves': Why migrant exploitation exists
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the labour market in modern capitalist society, and how it leads to the exploitation of migrant workers who are sometimes treated as slaves.
- The Belem Ecosocialist Declaration: An historic document
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In 2008 more than 400 activists from 37 countries endorsed this statement of ecosocialist principles and goals. Today the Belem Ecosocialist Declaration remains an important consensus statement of ecosocialist principles and goals.
- The birth of the Cuban polyclinic
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 During the 1960s, Cuban medicine experienced changes as tumultuous as the civil rights and antiwar protests in the United States. While activists, workers, and students in western Europe and the United States confronted existing institutions of capitalism and imperialism, Cuba faced the even greater challenge of building a new society.
- Black Nationalism, Black Solidarity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Malik explains examines Black Nationalism and its relationship to a Marxist analysis of nationalism of oppressed peoples.
- Black Politics After 2016
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A article on the significance of race in American politics, particularly since the 2016 election, and the symbiotic relation between antiracist politics and Democratic neoliberalism.
- Blacking Out the Yellow Vests on Cable News: Corporate Media Doing its Job
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 France is experiencing a left-leaning popular and working-class uprising consistent with the French revolutionary tradition of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity", yet the majorty of Western media have given very little investigation or serious attention to the momentous events.
- Blanket Silence: Corporate Media Ignore New Report Exposing Distorted And Misleading Coverage of Corbyn
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A Media Reform Coalition report reveals that the corporate media in Britain have been producing an alarming amount of 'fake news' items, which includes a narrative that Jeremy Corbyn and Labour party are mired in an 'antisemitism crisis'. The corporate media have largely ignored the report, or any other reasoned criticism of their biased reporting.
- Blasphermy, Religious and Secular
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An essay on a European Court of Human Rights ruling and on changing forms of blasphemy law.
- Blood Money
Taxpayers pick up the tab for police brutality Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018
- Bolsonaro: a Monster Engineered by Our Media
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Jonathan Cook explains why the mainstream Western media prefer an extreme right-wing leader over one from the Left.
- Bolsonaro: a Monster Engineered by Our Media
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Jonathan Cook explains why the plutocrats and the mainstream media spokespeople much prefer a far-right populist like Jair Bolsonaro, or Donald Trump, to a populist leader of the genuine left.
- The Boomerang Effect: How Netanyahu Made Israel an American Issue, and Lost
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Trends in US opinion polls indicate that Israel is not just losing support and overall appeal among large sections of American society but also among the newer generation of American Jews, a worrying change in US public opinion for the Israeli government.
- Brazil's Largest Newspaper Quits Facebook, Accuses it of Harboring 'Fake News'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The Brazilian media conglomerate Folha de S. Paulo, made the decision to rebel against Facebook by ceasing to publish content, saying the decision stems primarily from Facebook's recent change on users' news feed which aims to reduce the amount of content and favour posts by friends and family. The paper says Facebook is effectively banning professional journalism from its pages in favour of personal content and 'Fake News'.
- Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court, and the End of Legal Neutrality
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings destroyed any surviving myth of legal neutrality. Shultz explains why this may be a good thing, because it is time to recognize that the Supreme Court and its Justices are not politically neutral and that neither should they be.
- A Brief History of American Torture
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The recent appointment of Gina Haspel as Head of the CIA reopens a dark chapter in US history -- the "enhanced interrogation", or torture of men, women and children. It also emphasizes the fact that no American officials who sanctioned, devised, supervised or implemented torture have ever been brought to justice for these crimes against humanity.
- Bring on Solutionary Rail!
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at Solutionary Rail, a people-powered campaign to electrify America's railroads and open corridors to clean and renewable energy.
- "Brutal and Sadistic": Noam Chomsky on Family Separation & the U.S. Roots of Today's Refugee Crisis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An interview with Noam Chomsky on the refugee crisis and the Trump administration's family separation policy. The article includes a link to the video interview.
- The Business of Bullshit
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Bullshit business is about the meaningless language conjured up in schools, in banks, in consultancy firms, in politics, in the media and, of course, in thousands of business schools releasing MBA-certificated managers who are then spreading the meaningless managerial buzz-word language of bullshit business around the world. Bullshit business can indeed take over organizations crowding out their core purpose profit-maximization.
- The Button, the Wall and the Myth of Nations
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 North Korean sanctions, the border wall with Mexico, and the "toxic" role of nationalism with regards to international relations and domestically in the US are discussed.
- Buy Banned Books
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The article takes a look at 'banned books' in the social media era, where the 'imagination police' dominate and a form of 'fictional aparteid' is taking place, and moreover why we have a duty to buy them.
- Bypassing Dystopia
Hope-Filled Challenges to Corporate Rule Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Joyce Nelson explores global examples of active and creative resistance to the iron grip of corporatism on our economies and imaginations.
- Call-Out Culture Is a Toxic Garbage Dumpster Fire of Trash
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the "Call-out" culture where individuals who express opinions are quickly reprimanded online with derogatory labels; a mass media social comdemnation often without any sort of due process, which ultimately spreads a fear to engage in controversy or voice opinions that are even slightly outside the tide of contemporary thinking.
- Can a Minority Overthrow the Majority?
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Feeley reviews Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Rights Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean.
- Can a minority rule a majority in perpetuity?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of "Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?" by Josh Ruebner. Subjects include the question of one or two states, and whether Israel should be considered democratic or an apartheid state are among numerous topics addressed in the book.
- Can the Working Class Change the World?
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 A look at how the working class and its allies can oppose capitalism to bring radical change.
- Canada's Deadly Diplomacy and the Plight of Political Prisoners in Honduras
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the political crisis in Honduras since the Nov. 26 election, which has led to brutal and deadly government crack-downs by military police and other state forces of Honduras. Described as state-led terrorism, it is being tacitly supported by funding from Canadian taxpayers.
- Canada's Military shapes Coverage of Deployments
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the Canadian military's influence over news coverage. The article outlines the great lengths the military goes to shape information covering its missions, including the recent deployment to Mali.
- Capitalism: A Crime Story
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 Harry Glasbeek explains how liberal law strives to reconcile capitalism with liberalism, while giving corporate capitalism privileged treatment under the law.
- Carrying capacity, technology, and ecomodernist confusion
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Biologist Michael Frieman responds to an article titled "The Earth's Carrying Capacity for Human Life Is Not Fixed" by Ted Nordhaus, an executive director of the Breakthrough Institute and strong proponent of ecomodernism. Friedman counters the idea that capitalist technology is capable of solving virtually any of the environmental problems generated by humankind while still making eternal capitalist growth possible- a viewpoint based on assumptions that are fraught with problems.
- The Case that Dare Not Speak Its Name: the Conviction of Cardinal Pell
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Cardinal Pell, a high-ranking official of the Catholic Church and financial grand wizard of the Vatican, was found guilty on December 11, 2018 of historical child sexual abuses pertaining to two choir boys from the 1990s. But details remain sketchy.
- Catalunya: 'Only the People Save the People'
Against the Current vol. 192 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018
- Caught In The Cross Hairs - Media Lens And The Mystery Of The Wikipedia Editor
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Media Lens investigates the case of "Philip Cross", a person who has made hundreds of thousands of edits to Wikipedia pages in a campain against anti-war activists, critics of British and Western foreign policy as well as Media Lens itself.
- CEMB march at Pride 2018 in London: A Victory against Islamism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain marched in Pride in London on 7 July for LGBT rights in countries under Islamic rule; in 15 states or territories, homosexuality is punishable by death. The march was a victory against Islamist forces in Britain like Mend and East London Mosque that tried and failed to stop CEMB from marching with accusations of 'Islamophobia' aimed at imposing de facto blasphemy and apostasy laws.
- Central Europe and Central America: Will there be a historical convergence?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018
- Cesspools, Sewage, and Social Murder
Environmental Crisis and Metabolic Rift in Nineteenth-Century London Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Karl Marx's analysis of changes in British agriculture in the nineteenth-century provides the theoretical starting point for what is now known as 'metabolic rift theory'. This article considers an aspect of the theory that has not been much discussed in modern ecosocialist analysis- the environmental crisis that the accumulation of human excrement caused in urban areas, notably in London.
- Challenging Capitalism through Workers Control
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 From the upheavals of the early 20th century to the neo-liberal re-structurings of the late 20th century emerges the common feature of 'worker's control' -- a movement to protect jobs and communities.
- Champions Of Democracy - From Fake News To Imposed Insanity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 While social media is largely blamed for the proliferation of 'fake news', it is through social media where the corporate media commentariat are exposed. Readers are now at last able to see some rational dissent, this is the up-side to social media that the 'mainstream' cannot even discuss.
- Charges 'Without Merit' - Jeremy Corbyn, Antisemitism, Norman Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A commentary on the anit-semitism claims by the British media regarding Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party.
- Chasing Shadows: Socialism Won't Go Away Because It is Capitalism's Antithesis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The abstract forces of capitalism's dynamism create the conditions for ever more creative and novel ways to profit, which is why the Golden Age of postwar capitalism-which had a mix of capitalist and socialist economic features-evolved into the neoliberal period after the external oil shocks of 1973 and 1979. Those conditions created a transitional context to shift out of a regulated state-interventionist capitalism into the aggressive, free-market neoliberal variety lasting more than 30 years, leading us to the precipice of the present.
- Checkpoint Nation
Border agents are expanding their reach into the country's interior Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Even if you never leave the United States, you can encounter Border Patrol at the thirty-five fixed checkpoints and dozens of temporary checkpoints they operate deep in the interior. The locations of these checkpoints are not made public, but the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, has developed a project to track them.
- 'City of Surveillance': Google-backed smart city sounds like a dystopian nightmare
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A Google-backed project to build the interconnected, data-driven city of the future sounds like all George Orwells nightmares come true, and is now in the spotlight after a privacy expert resigned from the project in protest. Torontos Waterfront district used to be an industrial wasteland, but Sidewalk Labs a sister company of Google wants to turn that wasteland into a prototype city of the future, where data helps planners micromanage every aspect of urban life.
- Clarion Alley Confronts a Lack of Concern
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Clarion Alley's thought-provoking, provocative, clever and often political art was created by those determined to leave a record of their existence and experience and to give voice to marginalized and disenfranchised communities.
- Claude McKay's Lost Novel
Review of Amiable with Big Teeth; Against the Current vol. 192 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Review of Amiable with Big Teeth, a novel by the African-American revolutionary activist and writer Claude McKay.
- Climate Change Drives Up Rural Poverty in Latin America
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In Latin America and the Caribbean region's first meeting of Week of Agriculture and Food, held in November 2018, more than 1,000 officials and experts agreed that the fall in agricultural yields and increasing migration from the countryside are consequences of global warming.
- Climate Jobs for All
 Building Block for the Green New Deal Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 This article discusses the federal jobs guarantee (JG) concept which is also known as "jobs for all." The advocates of JG generally include climate protection as one of many types of work beneficial to the public that might be included in a jobs guarantee program.
- Climate Jobs for All
Building Block for the Green New Deal Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A federal climate jobs guarantee (CJG) is a proposed program similar to the New Deal's WPA that would prioritize jobs that protect and improve the environment. Polls show that the program has popular support and could be a major political force in 2020.
- Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 Stories of the impact of and resistance to climate change from grassroots activists around the world.
- Climate justice and migration in the media
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A climate justice narrative is needed to communicate and enhance public understanding of migration induced by climate change. Key components must include human rights protection, greater equity in burdens sharing, and participation in decision-making processes.
- Climate litigation looms
Interview Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Nick Breeze interviews Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), who explains why we must stay below 1.5C, and why loss and damage compensation, and litigation, are the next big agenda items at COP24.
- Climate-Driven 'Bugpocalypse'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An alarming report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that in addition to annihilating hundreds of mammal species, the climate crisis has also sparked a global "bugpocalypse" that will only continue to accelerate in the absence of action to stop planetary warming.
- Cold as Ice
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An excerpt from a letter written in 1897 to the editor of the British newspaper the 'Daily Chronicle'. The letter is included in "The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde", published by Harvard University Press. The letter is an appeal and commentary on the harsh and cruel treatment of children being held in English prisons.
- The Collaboration Trap
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Most of environmental/conservation groups in the West are participants in various public land collaboratives.Most participating collaborative members are made up of people who generally believe in exploiting natural landscapes for human benefit. As a generalization, there is overwhelming representation in such collaboratives by people who speak for the resource extraction industry or their sympathizers like rural county commissioners, ORV enthusiasts, and so forth.
- Communism and Self-Management
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at workers' self-management in past regimes and their relevance to current debates.
- Community forest management against illegal timber logging
Indigenous communities comply with strict rules to ensure the regeneration of the forest and protect water sources. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Guatemala is hit hard by mudslides caused by deforestation. Government-led initiatives created in consultation with Indigenous communities have been successful in preserving forests and promotiing sustainability.
- Comrade Bernard
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of Bernard Goldstein's "Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland", a firsthand account of the struggles of the Jewish working class in Poland between the two World Wars.
- Confronting Germany's New Fascists in Berlin
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the rise of facism in Germany with the recent winning of seats, now with 92 representatives in the national Bundestag, by the five-year-old Alternative for Germany (AfD). This new found platform provides the party with a voice in every debate and the first speakers after those of the government.
- Confronting the Right: An Introduction
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An overview of issues related to confronting the right, including questions surrounding the labelling of free speech as hate speech.
- The Constitutional Root of Racism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at how the US Constitution enables racism by affording power to the states.
- A conversation with film historian Max Alvarez
How the #MeToo campaign echoes the McCarthyite witch hunt of the 1940s and 1950s Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Clearly, this is not as organized a political campaign as the one that took place in the 1940s and 1950s, but the climate is chillingly similar in terms of the massive capitulation and conformity in the entertainment industry.
- Cooperative farming is the only solution to the present agriculture crisis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the agricultural crisis in India and the economic realities the country faces in a market tilted in favour of America and Europe. Solutions include government policy based on science in the use of land and water, less reliance on pesticides and fertilizers, and a move towards cooperative farming.
- Corbyn's Labour Party is Being Made to Fail - By Design
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The embattled Labour party is reportedly soon to adopt the four additional working "examples" of anti-semitism drafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The full adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism will be a victory for Israel and its apologists in Britain, who who have been seeking to curb all meaningful criticism of Israel.
- Corporate Coercion and the Drive to Eliminate Buying with Cash
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Consumer freedom and privacy are examined as coercive commercialism quickly moves toward a cashless economy, when all consumers are forced into corporate payment systems from credit/debit cards, mobile phones and perhaps even through facial recognition technology.
- Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 We on the Left don't need to reflexively and absurdly jump to the defense of imperial criminals at the instigation of that (well, yes) "enemy of the people" the U.S. corporate and so-called mainstream war, news, and entertainment media.
- The corporate media's world of illusions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In fact, the Great Western Narrative has been developed and refined over centuries to preserve a tiny elites privileges and expand its power. The role of journalists like me was to keep feeding these illusions to readers so they would remain fearful, passive and deferential to this elite. It is not that journalists lie or at least, not most of them it is that they are as deeply wedded to the Great Western Narrative as everyone else.
- The Counterinsurgency Paradigm: How U.S. Politics Have Become Paramilitarized
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Bernard Harcourt argues in his recent book "The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens" that the same counterinsurgency paradigm of warfare used against post-9/11 enemies has now come to the US as the effective governing strategy.
- Courrieres Mine Disaster 1906
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The devastating mine disaster in 1906 that killed over 1,000 workers in Courrieres, France, is remembered.
- The Crisis in Corbyn's Labour Party is Over Israel, Not Anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 If there is indeed an anti-semitism problem in the UK's Labour party, it is not in the places where the British corporate media have been directing our attention. What can be said with even more certainty is that there is rampant hatred expressed towards Jews in the same British media that is currently decrying the supposed anti-semitism of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
- The Crisis of Social Democracy: From Norway to Europe
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 With social democratic parties in Europe suffering poor election results and significant setbacks, this article puts the current crisis in historical context, and how resolution and success will depend on more radical solutions.
- Crisis of the State, Crisis of the Left
Articulating Socialism After the Anarchist Moment Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 'Augmenting the left' -- that is, finding ways to build new organizational alliances, expand practices of resistance, and culturally envision and collectively build toward a better world -- is not just a worthwhile project, but also an essential one. Human survival may depend upon it. In this regard, it must be recognized that there is also a crisis of the various post-Marxisms, especially to the extent that they tried to replace class as the central structural pivot around which different forms of oppression and counter-hegemonic emancipatory struggles condense.
- Crucifying Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Juilien Assange, who exposed the dark machinations and crimes of the US government, is now under threat of being expelled from the Equadorian Embassy. The article looks at what is happening to Assange and why the the silence over his plight is a betrayal by the press.
- Cucks, Cuckolding and Campaign Management
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Talk about a bunch of sad sacks that really stink in the sack. The Trumpocalypse is ruining sex for the rest of us.
- Current Developments in Iran
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An update on the new wave of demonstrations that started December 28, 2017 in Mashhad, the second-largest city in Iran, and why dissent is different from that of 2009.
- The Curse of Energy Efficiency
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The more 'efficient' our technology, the more resources we consume in a downward spiral of catastrophe.
- Cursed Fields
What the tundra has in store for Russia's reindeer herders Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Noah Sneider visits the Yamal Peninsula in Russia where an outbreak of anthrax is killing herds of reindeer and engdangering the lives of the local people. Rising temperatures and a particularly hot summer have led scientists to conclude that climate change is the most credible explanation for its deadly return.
- The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Various companies and government agencies aim to use technology that measures biological features such as facial expressions or tone of voice to assess individuals, such as refugee claimants or potential employees, for 'risk'. Many critics say the science behind this is dubious and can hide cultural bias under a blanket of objectivity.
- The dawn of our liberation: The early days of the International Communist Women's Movement
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An examination of the early days of the international Communist Women's Movement (CWM). The article focuses on three points in particular: the CWM's ideas on women's emancipation, the relationship with non-communist women's movements and the problematic relationship with male comrades.
- The deadly flood in Kerala may be only a gentle warning
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Arundhati Roy comments on the disasterous flooding in the Indian state of Kerala. While acknowleding various forces lead to the disaster, Roy also places blame on government mismanagement and ignoring the needs of the state's most disadvanted people.
- The Death of a Once Great City
The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Kevin Baker takes a close look at the changes to his home city of New York over the past forty years. He notes that while some of the more undesirable aspects of New York in the 1970's have improved, such as crime, dirt, garbage- the new and more gentrified city masks significant problems, the most notable being a growing housing crisis.
- De-Briefing Academics: Unpaid Intelligence Informants
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Many academics frequently engage in what government officials dub 'de-briefing'! Academics meet and discuss their field-work, data collection, research finding, observations and personal contacts over lunch at the Embassy with US government officials or in Washington with State Department officials.
- Defending Afrin means defending the women's revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Since January 20, 2018 the Turkish army has been attacking the Kurdish region of Afrin in the Democratic Federation of North Syria; among the casualties are women, children and many refugees. In this message to the world a confederation of women's organisatons in Afrin call upon all women worldwide to join their struggle.
- Defending 'Our Democracy'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Despite the onsought of attacks on American democracy, groups like the teachers in West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky and the Parkland surviors through their activism are defending America's democracy.
- The Defiance that Launched Gaza's Flaming Kites Cannot be Extinguished
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Now Israel is facing a new and apparently even tougher challenge: how to stop Palestinian resistance from Gaza using flaming kites, which have set fire to lands close by in Israel. F-16 fighter jets are equipped to take on many foes but not the humble kite.
- Defining Israel as a "Jewish State"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The definition of what is a "Jewish State" and "what is a Jew" is a fundamental part of this debate. The "Jewish State" is like no other. It uses a concept of Jewish nationality which is like no other definition of nationality. It is the Jewish character of the State that is given preference to all other considerations and gives superior rights to Jews over the non-Jewish population in Israel.
- Demand for atheism rises in countries under Islamic rule
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The rise of atheism in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia is something we have been speaking about for some time now. The Iranian Baztab Now website warned of a tsunami of atheism amongst Iranian youth. The #ExMuslimBecause hashtag initiated by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain became viral overnight with over 120,000 Tweets from 65 countries.
- Democracy and Ecological Crisis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In view of the global ecological problems which have arisen from aggressive market driven economies, the author examines what democracy and socialism really mean, and what a more environmentally responsible Post-Capitalism society might look like.
- Despite Gaza Massacre, Israel Remains Immune From Criticism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Imagine for a moment that it was not the two million Palestinian in Gaza, who are mostly refugees from 1948, but the six million Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan who had staged a march to return to the homes that they have lost in Syria since 2011. Suppose that, as they approach the Syrian border, they were fired on by the Syrian army and hundreds of them were killed or injured. The international outcry against the murderous Syrian regime in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin would have echoed around the world.
- Dialectics of Revolutionary Learning
Book review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Review of the book Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge by Sara Carpenter and Shahrzad Mojab.
- Disabled People in UK Lead Fight Against Austerity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In July 20,2018, John Clarke represented the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) at the International Deaf and Disabled Peoples Solidarity Summit, in Stratford, east London that had been convened by one of our key allies in the UK, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC). This powerful gathering was an important moment in the building of a resistance by disabled people as part of a broader international struggle against the forces of neoliberal austerity.
- Disabling Barriers
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Review of a collection on disability rights.
- Disagreement is not hatred
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An essay on the transgender debate which argues that debate ends when we label views we simply disagree with as 'hatred''.
- Disinformation: In the Philippines, political trolling is an industry - this is how it works
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In the Philippines, influential personalities and online 'trolls' are credited with winning Rodrigo Duterte the presidency in 2016. This article examines the chief architects of disinformation who continue to vociferously share 'fake news' and silence dissenters.
- Diverting Class War Into Generational War, Again
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Dean Baker provieds a counter argument to a New York Times article titled "65 or Older? Here's What We Owe Our Kids" by Glenn Kramon, which directs blame at Social Security and Medicare for the current struggles of the younger generation.
- Does the Bitcoin frenzy make any sense at all?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The author explains how the strange story of a "crypto-currency" reveals the underlying irrationality of a system that is designed to work for the rich only.
- Don't Fall for the Chemical Weapons Convention Justification
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the interventionalist arguments in support of Western air and missile attacks in Syria, and the false claim that the attack was justified under international law because it was a response to the use of banned chemical weapons.
- The Doomsday Machine and Nuclear Winter
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The portion of an interview with Daniel Ellsberg, an American activist and former United States military analyst, who comments on thermonuclear war and its outcome.
- Doubts about 'Novichoks'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Briefing notes developed from ongoing research and investigation into the use of chemical and biological weapons during the 2011-present war in Syria conducted by members of the "Working Group on Syria, Media and Propaganda".
- Drinking Poblems
A Kansas town confronts a tap-water crisis Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the health crisis in Pretty Prairie, Kansas, where Nitrate from farms has polluted the water supply for three decades. Elizabeth Royte takes a look at the town's history and social climate in order to understand why the problem was left for so long.
- Dunlop Factory (South Africa): The workers who won't snitch
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Metalworker union Numsa files legal arguments in the Constitutional Court on on behalf of Dunlop factory workers from Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, after workers were dismissed because they did not snitch on fellow workers during a protected strike.
- Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of "Green" Capitalism
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 Analysis of the 1930s Dust Bowl as the result of capitalism and US imperialism. Also looks at what we can learn from it for today's climate crisis.
- Ecological Sustainability, Inequality and Social Class
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Raju Das connect sustainability to metabolism, reproduction, and value of labour power.
- The Economics Behind the Skripal Poisoning
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The question is why are they doing this with Russia? Why are they imposing sanctions and mounting a great publicity campaign?
- Ecuadorean Villagers May Still Triumph Over Chevron
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Michael Krauss, a lawyer who teaches "ethics" at a law school named after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, recently posted a blog on the Forbes website entitled "The Ecuador Saga Continues: Steven Donziger now owes Chevron more than $800,000" (Forbes 3/14/2018). Kraus says that Chevron has basically triumphed over evil...
- Editorial Statement: Introducing Insurgent Notes on Marx in 1968
Insurgent Notes vol. 17 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The editors introduce the focus of this issue: How present or absent was the thought of Karl Marx in 1968?
- Eight reasons why the latest Syria chemical weapons attack allegations are almost certainly complete nonsense
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A discussion on the chemical attack in Douma, Syria, and why the allegations are likely false.
- Eight Things I learned About Palestine While Touring Eight Western Nations
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The main theme of all my talks in various cultural, academic and media platforms was the pressing need to refocus the discussion on Palestine on the struggle, aspirations and history of the Palestinian people. But, interacting with hundreds of people and being exposed to multiple media environments in both mainstream and alternative media, I also learned much about the changing political mood on Palestine in the western world.
- "Embodied Materialism" and Ecosocialism
Book review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Detailed chapter-by-chapter review of Ariel Salleh's Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx, and the Postmodern.
- Empty Suits
Defamation law and the price of dissent Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at lawsuits filed by companies that are intended to censor, intimidate, and silence dissenters by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense- known as SLAPP or strategic lawsuits against public participation.
- The End of "The Great War"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A thorough look at the ending of World War I, focusing especially on class conflict.
- The End of Policing & Police: A Field Guide
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 A Field Guide to the Police is a study of the indirect and taken-for granted language of policing, a language we're all forced to speak when we talk about law enforcement. The book refuses to see the world as police do, instead it contends that when we talk about police and police reform, we speak the language of police legitimation through the art of euphemism. State sexual assault becomes "body-cavity search," and ruthless beatings become "plain compliance." Like any other field guide, it reveals a world that is hidden in plain view. In entries like "Police dog," "Stop and frisk," "Rough ride," and scores more, the authors show how "copspeak" obscures the true meaning and history of policing. This book will arm activists on the streets--as well as anyone with an open mind--on one of the key issues of our time: police violence. The book argues that a redefined language of policing might help us chart a future free of police and police violence.
- Endless War, Swirling Chaos
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The editors of Against the Current comment on current American global affairs, including the Singapore Summit, Iran and Palestine as well as the need for a new Anti-War movement.
- Engineering the climate could cost us the earth
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Political scientist Gareth Dale takes a look at Geoengineering as a "political technology" and institutional apparatus that is preventing effective climate action, and actually serves to reduce the sense of urgency needed for genuine and more effective structural change.
- Eric Hobsbawms histories
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Eric Hobsbawm was the author of, among many other works, a classic quartet on modern world history, The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire and Age of Extremes. Hobsbawm was widely respected as one of the greatest historians of the left and one of the greatest historians of the 20th century more generally.
- Estar Baur (1920-2017)
Against the Current vol. 192 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 With the passing of Estar Baur, Dianne Feeley discusses Baur's life as a lifelong socialist activist.
- Eternity, nature, society and the absurd fantasies of the rich
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The wealthier they are, the more they fear that others will try to take their wealth. No wonder the super-rich are building bunkers to escape the apocalypse.
- Ethics and Whistleblowing for Engineers Affects Us All
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Some engineering professors worry that their students' busy course schedules prevents them from adequately exploring the liberal arts. Without exposure to the liberal arts, engineering students will lack the broad context that will help them approach their work as a profession, not just a trade.
- Europe's Political Turmoil (Part I)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Far-right parties are gaining ground all over Europe scapegoating immigrants and people of colour. The radical left has not come up with a competitive strategy for winning people over.
- European Communist Parties and '68
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 One effect of the May 1968 uprisings was to highlight and/or hasten the split between communist parties and social movements in Europe.
- Europe's Political Turmoil and the Rise of the Far Right
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the recent rise of far-right governments all over Europe and the failure of the left to effectively counter this.
- Even the FBI Agrees: When Undercover Agents Pose as Journalists, It Hurts Real Journalists' Work
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The FBI doesn't want the public to know more about how its agents pose as journalists during undercover investigations.The government acknowledged in a court filing that FBI agents who pretend to be journalists create a chilling effect, making it harder for real journalists to gain trust and cooperation from sources.
- Ex-Muslims: A community in protest
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 I see ex-Muslims as a community in protest: insisting on freedom from religion, and freedom of conscience. For the right to apostasy and blasphemy, without fear. Like the LGBT, anti-slavery, anti-colonialist, anti-apartheid, suffragette or civil rights movements, its a movement which insists upon our common humanity and equality not upon difference or superiority. Its a movement of people who refuse to live in fear and in the shadows, and who are speaking out for social change in unprecedented ways.
- Expansion of monocultures expels peasants from their lands
 Repression intensifies against peasant leaders opposed to land grabs, evictions and the pollution of water sources. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In Guatemala a wave of violence at the hands of large agriculture corporations has been driving Indigenous people and peasants off their land.
- Exploitation, Alienation and Oppression
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Bakan discusses the varations of Marxism and proports that the best of the Marxist tradition resists orthodoxy. She considers the complexity and variation in the core concepts in Marx's work regarding inequality.
- Exposing Canary Mission
A Resource for College and University Leaders Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A report on Canary Mission, a secretive and non-academic political organization that uses their website to engage in defamatory attacks against college students, academics and others who report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and advocate for Palestinian rights.
- Extinction Rebellion: From the UK to Ghana and the US, Climate Activists Take Civil Disobedience World-Wide
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the Extinction Rebellion, an international movement that calls for peaceful mass economic disruption around the world in order to bring awareness to the growing environmental crisis.
- The Face Off: Law Enforcement Use of Face Recognition Technology
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Face recognition is poised to become one of the most pervasive surveillance technologies, and law enforcement's use of it is increasing rapidly. However, the adoption of face recognition technologies like these is occurring without meaningful oversight, without proper accuracy testing of the systems as they are actually used in the field, and without the enactment of legal protections to prevent internal and external misuse.
- Facebook announces latest step in censorship campaign, prioritizing "local news"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media giant will prioritize news from 'local sources' in the News Feed displayed to users. This is the third move this year in a roll-out of updates by Facebook aimed at censoring online information.
- Facebook: A Cooperative Transformation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Facebook represents a standard for a global model of concentration of wealth and power in the 21st century, joined by companies like Google, Amazon, and Uber. Entrepreneurs with computer skills and good or lucky timing have privatized and enclosed the global information commons and have enriched themselves by providing services for free or for reduced prices to the billions.
- Facebook and the Rise of Anti-Social Media
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 For those who haven't thought about it, the internet is insidious because of the very capacity that Cambridge Analytica claims to be able to exploit: customization. Users have limited ability to confirm the authenticity of anything they see, read or hear on it. Print editions can be compared and contrasted-- technology limits print media to large-scale deceptions. With the capacity to create entire realms of deception -- identities, content, web pages and entire online publications, trust is made a function of gullibility.
- Facing the left-wing challenge in the European Union - Ten proposals
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The left could bring radical change if they could prove themselves capable to people in the Eurozone dissatisfied with austerity measures. Here are ten proposals for social mobilization and actions to be taken by any government that is truly operating in the interests of the people.
- Fact-Checking the Establishment's 'Fact-Checkers': How the 'Fake News' Story is Fake News
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the introduction of "Fake News" in the US and how is was used by both political parties in the lead-up to the 2016 US election, and moreover how it was propogated by the mainstream media and fact-checked by dubious verification sources.
- Fake News and the Gatekeepers of Truth
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at misinformation or 'fake news' and how it has changed from the past; while only governments and prominent figures could once manipulate public opinion, today it is anyone with online access.
- The fallacy of Israel's human shields claims in Gaza
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Desperately trying to justify the killing of unarmed protesters, Israel once again uses its 'human shields' mantra.
- Fascist Attack in Chile
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An open letter calling for international solidarity in the aftermath of an attack on the March for the Right to Free, Legal Abortion on Demand in Santiago, Chile where three women were stabbed.
- Fathi Harb burnt himself to death in Gaza: Will the world notice?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Self-immolation is more than suicide. That can be done quietly, out of sight, less gruesomely. In fact, figures suggest that suicide rates in Gaza have rocketed in recent years. But public self-immolation is associated with protest.
- A Faustian Bargain with the Climate Crisis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Take as our inspiration the temptations of capitalist individualism set before us, we make the exact same bargain. The difference in this case however is that we know the disaster is coming; we don't even need to worry about what our spidey senses say, 97% of all climate scientists agree that the capitalist mentality that sees the world as an infinite resource and infinite garbage dump is warming the atmosphere. We have even less excuse.
- The FBI's Maoist Faction
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The following is based on research by Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher for their book, A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration from the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union - 1962-1974, (London: Repeater Books, 2018).
- FC St. Pauli: Antifascist, Antiracist
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Haasen describes the political activism of FC St. Pauli footbal team and its supporters in Hamburg, Germany. Having once supported the Nazi Regime, this club has radiically changed it stance to become a vocal supporter of antiracism, antifascism and humanitarian efforts.
- The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life.
- 15 Actions That Can Shut Down Trump's Assault on Immigrant Families
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A list of recommended actions that can be taken against the Trump Administration's policy toward immigrant families, some of which include: Expose for-profit detention corporations; Target mayor's offices, state capitals, and governor's mansions; Practice non-violence, as well as using the media to your advantage.
- The Fight for Housing, 1967-68 & Milwaukee NAACP Commandos
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A history of The Commandos, an offshoot of the NAACP Youth Council formed in Milwaukee in the 1960s. Their main fight was against segregated housing.
- Finding the truth amid Israel's lies
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The famous and by now overused expression that history is written by the victors can be countered in many ways. One way is by unpacking the victors publications in order to expose the lies, fabrications and misrepresentations, as well as their less conscious actions. A rereading of these open sources about the Nakba, mostly written by Israelis themselves, unlocks fresh historiographical perspectives on the big picture of that period while declassified documents allow us to see that picture in a higher resolution. This reprise could have been done at any moment between 1948 and today as long as historians were willing to employ the critical lens needed for such an examination. Rereading these open sources, especially in tandem with the numerous oral histories of the Nakba, reveals the barbarism and dehumanization that accompanied the catastrophe. The barbarism is common to settler communities in the formative years of their colonization projects and can sometimes be obscured by the dry and evasive language of military and political documents.
- First they came for Alex Jones. Now Facebook bans Venezuela news site
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Days after the purge of Alex Jones from social media, Big Tech seems to have found another suitable target for apparent censorship. Facebook suspended the page of a prominent leftist news site writing about Venezuela.
- Fishers under siege
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of Penny McCall Howard, Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea: "Working the Ground" in Scotland.
- Fisk Puts to Test the Free-Press Myth in Douma
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Veteran Middle East corrrespondent Robert Fisk was the first western correspondent to arrive in Douma following the US, UK and French attacks on Syria. Based on first hand interviews Fisk's account is clearly honest about what he reported and certainly plausible, yet respected British newspapers like the Guardian gave his reports a cursory if not hostile treatment.
- A Flag for Trump's America
The power of strength Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the Blue Lives Matter slogan and flag, which became a symbol for the U.S. police counter-movement advocating that those who are prosecuted and convicted of killing law enforcement officers should be sentenced under hate crime statutes. It was started in response to Black Lives Matter.
- Florida Students Confront Spencer
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Aliya recounts her experience protesting the Richard Spencer event at the University of Florida.
- 'Follow Your Bliss' - The Tweet That Brought Corporate Journalism To The Brink Of A Nervous Breakthrough
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Don't write for the "mainstream". Don't write for money. Don't write for prestige. Just "follow your bliss" by writing what you absolutely love to write to inspire and enlighten other people. Write what seems interesting, important and true, and give it away for free.'
- Following the Levellers, Volume Two
English Political and Religious Radicals from the Commonwealth to the Glorious Revolution, 16491688 Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 The Levellers sought to restructure the state in 1647-9 around popular consent and liberty for conscience, especially in their Agreement of the People. Following the Levellers, Volume Two examines the later political efforts of Leveller spokesmen like John Lilburne, John Wildman, and Richard Overton, and their followers.
- For an international coalition to fight Internet censorship
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In this open letter from the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, the threat and consequences of internet censorship and reduction in access to information is highlighted.
- For Campus Free Speech
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Bose describes the right-wing incursion on universities and his troubled feelings about the climate of intellectual fear among some on the campus left. He elaborates on this by discussing the demands for speaking engagements for right-wing pundits to be cancelled.
- For International Women's Day: Honoring the Fighters
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Brief descriptions of Ahed Tamimi, Asma Jahangir, Heather Heyer, Berta Cáceres, Erica Garner, and Tarana Burke in honour of International Women's Day.
- Force of Evil: Abraham Polonsky and Anti-Capitalist Noir
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Policy lies at the heart of Abraham Polonskys Force of Evil, arguably the most anti-capitalist film ever to emerge from Hollywood. Released 70 years ago to puzzled critics and an indifferent public, over time it would achieve cult status among devotees of film noir while offering a tantalizing glimpse of what might have been accomplished by Polonsky and other members of the Hollywood Left had the blacklist not intervened.
- 'The Forced Displacement of Palestinians Never Truly Ended
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 As Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary, a child and grandchild of exiled Palestinian reflects on the Nakba, where 750,000 were driven from their homes or fled in terror following massacres of Palestinian civilians by Jewish militias.
- Foreign Interventions in Revolutionary Russia
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 All over Europe, the First World War had brought about a potentially revolutionary situation as early as 1917. In countries where the authorities continued to represent the traditional elite, exactly as had been the case in 1914, they aimed to prevent the realization of this potential by means of repression, concessions, or both.
- Foreign Policy for Sale: Greece's Dangerous Alliance with Israel
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 For a brief historical moment, Alexis Tsipras and his political party, Syriza, ignited hope that Greece could resurrect a long-dormant Leftist tide in Europe. A new Greece was being born out of the pangs of pain of economic austerity, imposed by the European Union and its overpowering economic institutions a troika so ruthless, it cared little while the Greek economy collapsed and millions of people experienced the bitterness of poverty, unemployment and despair.
- The Forgotten Socialist History of Martin Luther King Jr.
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 King believed that a multiracial working-class movement was required to overcome the failings of capitalism.
- A 14-Year-Old Girl Forced Alone and at Night Into the Gaza Cage. Another Routine Mishap for Israel's Occupation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 How did a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who has never set foot in the open-air prison of Gaza find herself being dumped there by Israeli officials alone, at night and without her parents being informed?The terrifying ordeal a child realising she had not been taken home but discarded in a place where she knew no one is hard to contemplate for any parent.And yet for Israel's gargantuan bureaucratic structure that has ruled over Palestinians for five decades, this was just another routine error. One mishap among many that day.
- Foxconn: The Myth and Reality of the Welfare Queen
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Social scientists who have studied the welfare system before and after the Clinton era welfare "reforms" have exposed the notion that women on public assistance were "welfare queens" as a myth.
- Fragmented Power: Portugal in Revolution, 1974-1975
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In Portugal the underground Armed Forces Movement's long-planned coup d'etat to bring down the Estado Novo regime was a success; however it was relatively short-lived despite the modest intentions of its organizers. This article takes a look at the popular initiatives that brought Portugal to the brink of a socialist revolution and why it failed.
- Free and Accessible Transit Now
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Transit is a critical issue for many people in Toronto, as in all major urban areas. More is at stake than reducing traffic congestion and gridlock. Free transit opens the door to a broader transformation of urban life and the current social system. Our 'Red-Green' vision is socialist, based on the working class, environmentally just, internationalist, and transformative.
- #FreeSiwatu!
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Siwatu-Salama Ra, an activist, was arrested in Detriot for felonious assault despite the fact that Siwatu-Salama was acting to defend herself and her family.
- From Catholicism and the working class to communism and Marx
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Garvey describes his childhood growing up in a Catholic community in New York and explains how Marx and Marxism were episodically present in the later periods of his life but first engagement with them was not nearly as deep as it needed to be. He asserts that in the 1960s Marx and Marxism that were on offer in the world of political practice were, more often than not, caricatures. What was needed in 1968 and beyond was not simply more Marx but a different Marx. At the end, he sketchs out some ideas of what a different Marx might have been and what difference it might have made.
- From Moral Outrage to Moral Panic: the Limits of Public Rage
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 There has been forceful break from the culture of silence that has long protected men from being held accountable for their misdeeds. While rage emerges against male sexual abuse, some progressive feminists have raised concerns that this movement may slip into 'moral panic' and a possible conservative, neo-puritan anti-sex campaign.
- Fruits and perils of the 'bloc within': The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 3)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The most advanced experience of Communist alliance with national revolutionists occurred in Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) prior to the Baku Congress. However, it was not mentioned at the congress, even though one of its architects the Dutch Communist Maring (Henk Sneevliet) was present in the hall. Maring had been a leader for many years of revolutionary socialist Dutch settlers in Indonesia, who had achieved the remarkable feat of transforming their group into one predominantly indigenous in leadership, membership, and programmatic orientation. The key to success had been a close alliance with a mass national-revolutionary organization of the type described by the Second Congress, called Sarekat Islam.
- The future of the Nakba
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 If the Nakbas most salient features are the theft of Palestinian land and the expulsion of the Palestinians from their land, and subjecting the lands that could not be stolen and the people who could not be expelled to systematic control and oppression, then, it would be most inaccurate to consider the Nakba as a discrete event that refers to the war of 1948 and its immediate aftermath. Rather, it should be historicized as a process which spanned the last 140 years, beginning with the arrival of the first Zionist conquerors to colonize the land in the early 1880s. In addition, Israeli leaders continue to regale their own people and the world with assurances that the Nakba is not just a past and present process of dispossessing the Palestinian people of their lands and expelling them, but rather one that must continue to preserve the future survival of Israel. The Nakba then turns out to be not just a past event and an ongoing process in the present, but a calamity that has a decidedly planned future ahead of it. If so, what might that future be?
- Miriam Garfinkle 1954 - 2018
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Obituary for Miriam Garfinkle, who died on September 15, 2018.
- Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating operations against Gazas largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless. In the meantime, Israel has subjected Gaza to a merciless illegal blockade. What has befallen Gaza is a man-made humanitarian disaster. Based on scores of human rights reports, Norman G. Finkelstein's new book presents a meticulously researched inquest into Gazas martyrdom. He shows that although Israel has justified its assaults in the name of self-defense, in fact these actions constituted flagrant violations of international law.
- Gaza medic killed by Israel as she rescued injured
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Israeli occupation forces shot dead a volunteer medic and injured dozens of people as they continued their indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians taking part in Great March of Return protests in Gaza for the 10th consecutive Friday. Razan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar, 21, was helping treat and evacuate wounded protesters east of Khan Younis when she was fatally shot on Friday evening. She was about 100 meters away from the boundary fence with Israel at the moment she was shot and was wearing clothing clearly identifying her as a medic.
- Gaza: Who or What Has a Right to Exist?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at Norman Finkelstein's book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom", which investigates the Israeli attacks on Gaza such as Operation Cast Lead (2008-09), the Mavi Marmara (2010), and Operation Protective Edge (2014).
- Gazan Gandhis: Gaza Bleeds Alone as 'Liberals' and 'Progressives' Go Mute
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Tens of thousands of protesters, raising Palestinian flags continue to hold their massive rallies across the Gaza border. Despite the high death toll and the thousands maimed, they return everyday with the same commitment to popular resistance that is predicated on collective unity, beyond factionalism and politics.But why are they still being largely ignored? It is politically convenient to criticize Palestinians as a matter of course, and utterly inconvenient to credit them, even when they display such courage, prowess and commitment to peaceful change.
- Gender, Race and Marx's Whiskers
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Roediger juxtaposes James and Marx quotations and discusses the iimplications for how Marxs limits and his forward motion regarding race and gender might be understood together.
- Gentrification and Class Struggles in Barcelona, Spain: Interview with Etcétera Collective
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In an interview with the Barcelona-based collective Etcetera, the processes of urban development in one of the fastest gentrifying cities in Spain and their implications for potential movements and struggles are examined.
- The Geography of Marxism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 David Harvey is a geographer and a Marxist. A collection of his works titled The Ways of the World was recently published in paperback. A collection pulled from his writing and lectures, the works are insightful, both in their approach to the world and the manner in which he combines geography and Marxism.
- Getting to Marxism in Wisconsin and Iowa
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Dave Ranney recounts his experiences during the 1960s which led him to accepting Marxism. He emphasizes his experinces in Southeast Asia during the 1960s which exposed covert Americian military action in the region. Other formative experiences include those as an university professor in Wisconsin and Iowa where he witnessed and joined campus movements.
- GI Coffeehouses Recalled: a Compliment From General Westmoreland
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The New York Times has published an op-ed piece by historian David Parsons about the coffeehouses started near US bases during the War in Vietnam.
- Gideon Levy: A Voice of Sanity from Israel
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In spite of a systemic policy of demonization, Israeli journalist and human rights activist Gideon Levy continues denouncing the Israeli government and the crimes against Palestinians.
- The "Gilets Jaunes" Seen From My Workplace
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Due to the insular and ambiguous nature of social media, the Yellow Vests movement may spark political unrest but probably won't lead to real social revolution.
- Gina Haspel's CIA nomination demands the United States account for its history of torture
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 President Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel to head the CIA has stirred objections from many quarters. Dorfman recounts the impact of state sanctioned torture in Chile.
- Girls Reduced to Being Repositories of Communal and Religious Identities in Kashmir
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The rape and ruthless murder of an eight-year old girl in Jammu province underscores the brutal gender violence that is a consistent feature of the political thuggery that grips the subcontinent.
- GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of Choice
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 One of the myths perpetuated by the pro-GMO (genetically modified organisms) lobby is that critics of GMOs in agriculture are denying choice to farmers and have an ideological agenda. The narrative is that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies, including GM crops. But GM agriculture is not 'feeding the world', nor has it been designed to do so. The choice for farmers between a technology based on broken promises and conventional non-GMO agriculture is no choice at all.
- Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a firestorm among employees of the technology giant when they learned of Google's involvement.
- Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Google has admitted that its option to "pause" the gathering of your location data doesn't apply to its Maps and Search apps which will continue to track you even when you specifically choose to halt such monitoring.
- Google's 'Smart City of Surveillance' Faces New Resistance in Toronto
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A plan to develop 12 acres of the valuable waterfront just southeast of downtown Toronto by the government agency Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs, owned by Googles parent company Alphabet Inc. has sparked concerns about privacy and lack of public consultation. A recent slew of resignations from its board has made these concerns increasingly urgent and public.
- Government Mass Murder
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 "This is not an assault." Twenty-five years ago, that was the lie blaring over government loudspeakers as the FBI and the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) carried out its plan to obliterate the Branch Davidians, an integrated group that formed as a breakaway from the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Orchestrated and overseen at the highest levels of the Clinton administration, the 19 April 1993 assault outside Waco, Texas, engulfed the Branch Davidians Mount Carmel commune in an inferno that killed over 80 people, including some two dozen children.
- The Great British Empire Debate
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Malik discusses the complex issues of British colonialism, its many painful legacies and how it should be dealt with in such fields as academia and politics.
- Grieve the Beloved Children: Israel and the War on Children
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A discussion of Israel's tactics in its campaign against Palestinians, which includes the use of deliberate provocation to incite retaliation, and the disturbing reality that results in large numbers of children's deaths.
- Gun Control in Old East Germany
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In Communist-run East Germany weapons and ammunition were strictly controlled. Rifles, though privately-owned, were locked up at the hunting clubs, usually connected with the forest rangers' home and station.
- Haiti: An Example of Fake News by Omission
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The main problem with the mainstream media today, as in the past, is not 'fake news' but what is left out of articles dealing with controversial issues.
- Harvey's Toxic Aftermath in Houston
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Wingard exposes the enviromental devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey. The hurricane caused chemical spills and explosions which Wingard says forecast a pending enviromental crisis.
- Helping drought-stricken farmers requires recognising global warming and planning
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 All of NSW has now officially been declared to be in drought, and 57% of Queensland has officially entered its sixth year of the current drought (though there has been little real change from when 88% was declared to be in drought in March 2017).Droughts keep getting worse, and the changing climate means they will continue to do so.The Coalition's "solutions" start with denying that climate change is real.
- Herbicides undermine antibiotics, threaten medical care
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A New Zealand study adds to the body of evidence that industrial herbicides, not intended to be antibiotics, can have profound effects on bacteria, with potentially negative implications for medicine's ability to treat infectious diseases.
- Here's how we stopped a brutal, inhumane and barely legal charter flight
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Helen Brewer describes how she, and 14 other activists, broke into Stansted Airport on the 28th of March 2017, and blocked a mass deportation charter flight due to send 60 people to Nigeria and Ghana -- a forced removal which threatened to place migrants in extreme danger.
- Here's what war with North Korea would look like
A full-blown war with North Korea wouldn't be as bad as you think. It would be much, much worse Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the chilling logistics and devastating loss of life a full-blown war between the USA and North Korea would cause.
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Fictions and Facts
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The New York Times reported that year, Many historians believe the bombings [of] Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, which together took the lives of more than 200,000 people, saved lives on balance, since an invasion of the islands would have led to far greater bloodshed. Many historians, perhaps; but not that many.
- Historical Subjects Lost and Found
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Looking at the legacy of Marx in the West Indies.
- A History of International Women's Day in words and images
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An online history of International Women's Day, which includes visual materials and numerous photographs from each decade.
- Honduras: U.S. Support for Repression & Fraud
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The US has supported the illegitimate election in Honduras. The people continue to resist despite deaths, disappearances and incarcerations by the military.
- How a backwards shirt led to a lesson in kindness for P.E.I. kindergarten class
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Students show their support for one of their own.
- How Apple is Paving the Way to a 'Cloud Dictatorship' in China
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Apple Inc. is set to hand over the operation of its iCloud data center in mainland China to a local corporation, but Apple has not explained the real issue. With the move a state-owned big data company controlled by the Chinese government will have access to all the data of its service users in China; this will allow the state apparatus to jump into the cloud and look into the data of Apple's Chinese users.
- How Big Pharma Infiltrated the Boston Museum of Science
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Mental illness is a highly stigmatized, life-long condition, that millions do not even realize they have and only a pharmaceutical drug can fix says Pharma and its operatives.
- How can environmental activists use social media? Part 1
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Environmental activists and NGOs spend a considerable amount of time Facebook posting and Tweeting. But the best use of social networks is about what you want to achieve. Alessio Perrone spoke to some experts in the field and gives some tips about how to use platforms successfully to promote social change
- How can environmental activists use social media? Part 2
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Environmentalist activists and major NGOs all spend a considerable amount of time on social media - as an immediate and direct connection to the public. But to what effect?
- How can environmental activists use social media? Part 3
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Has Twitter jumped the shark? Is Facebook now MySpace? Should environmental activists bother with social media - and does the Cambridge Analytica scandal mean we should boycott?
- How Canada could use the Saudi quarrel to help the Middle East - and itself
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Saudi Arabia's overreaction to Canadian criticism on human rights provides an opportunity for Canada to rethink Middle East policy. Such a policy, based on universal human rights, would greatly benefit not just Saudi Arabians but those in the broader Middle East, and also Canada.
- How the 'free' media dupe us on climate change
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Commentary on a segment of Al Jazeera's programme The Listening Post on why climate scepticism persists only in what it terms the "Anglosphere media", that is, those in the United States, UK, Australia and Canada.
- How Labour's Campaigns Attempted to Make the Political Personal
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The basic techniques of convincing people on the doorstep are not different to those of convincing friends or workmates. However, election canvassers have typically gone door-to-door telling voters what the party's policies are. The British Labour Party's new approach, developed by Momentum, emphasized listening to people and identifying their key issues.
- How Neoliberal Fundamentalism Helped Make Trump President
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A common, headache-inducing media narrative has surfaced since the election in 'mainstream' liberal U.S. publications they can no longer trust, such as The Washington Post or New York Times: that the true decline of U.S. democracy, the true dominance of U.S. corporate power in public life, and the true deterioration of the 'American Dream' has at last begun to arrive with the victory of Donald Trump.
- How Not To Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 This essay refutes conceptions of what working class really means by reactivating fundamental Marxist insights about class formation that have been obscured by decades of neoliberalism. The author argues that the key to developing a sufficient understanding of the working class is the framework of social reproduction.
- How Palestinian women led successful non-violent resistance
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Two women share their stories of how they peacefully protested during both Intifadas and challenged Israel's occupation.
- How the EU's principled pragmatism sows strife in the Middle East
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at how the European Union is creating greater instability, distrust, and casualties like Jamal Khashoggi, by trading fundamental values such as human rights for more practical avenues coined as "principled pragmatism".
- How the Guardian aided the anti-semites
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Who do you help when you censor a cartoon depicting Israel's well-documented war crimes against Palestinians and do so on the grounds that the criticism of Israel is anti-semitic? The answer is: you help anti-semites.
- How the Guardian became the West's Pravda
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Cook says that the British newspaper The Guardian has become a mouthpiece for the establishment.
- How the internet 'punishes' Palestinians
Tech giants Google, Airbnb and PayPal accused of shaping false narratives with policies in Palestinian territories. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Multinational tech companies, including Google, Facebook and PayPal are being accused of complicity in rights violations and in shaping false narratives with regard to policies in Palestinian territories.
- How the System Got Trumped: Cambridge Analytica's Electoral Psyops Campaign
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Available from Cinema Libre Studios, "Trumping Democracy" provides the key to understanding how we have ended up with the most unpopular president in history.
- How the UAW Can Make It Right
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Aswar discusses how the UAW lost the vote at the Nissan plant in Mississippi and proposes that Organized laboUr adapt Opertaion Dixie to move forward.
- How They Sold the Iraq War
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The war on Iraq won't be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold: it was a propaganda war, a war of perception management.
- How To Be A Reliable 'Mainstream' Journalist
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A commentary on what is required to be a 'good' and 'reliable' journalist for the mainstream Western media.
- How to create an ecological society
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of the book "Creating an Ecological Society: Towards A Revolutionary Transformation" by Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, which addresses different aspects of the debate on the politics of the environment.
- How to Start a Nuclear War
The increasingly direct road to ruin Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A chilling look at the security measures and processes behind the U.S. nuclear weapons system. The article examines how safeguards and procedures have evolved, including more recent efforts to curb the President's absolute authority to push the button.
- How to Use Critical Thinking to Spot False Climate Claims
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 This article outlines ways to address common climate-contrarian arguments, all of which contain errors in reasoning that are independent of the science itself.
- Huawei executive's arrest provokes anti-US protests in China
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The arrest of a Huawei executive in Canada has led to a wave of anger in China, in a move perceived to undermine China's increasingly dominant position in advanced technology. On Chinese social media comments denounce the arrest and call for the executive's immediate release as well as a boycott of Canadian brands.
- Hue Back When: the Bloodbath in Vietnam Was Us
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at Mark Bowden's book "Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam", which provides a two-sided perspective on a particularly tragic moment in the Vietnam War.
- "I Really Don't Care, Do U?" the Mendacity of Evil
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 While Americans consider themselves well above the authoritarianism and atrocities of such regimes as Nazi Germany, the author takes a look at some disturbing connections and similarites with the United States.
- ICE: The making of an American Gestapo
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Justin Akers Chacón, author of Radicals in the Barrio and co-author with Mike Davis of No One Is Illegal, takes an in-depth look at the troubling history and practices of a government agency that more and more people are calling to be abolished.
- The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long Ago
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Should the media include positive editorial content secretly paid for by major corporations, as London's Evening Standard newspaper has begun doing, according to new revelations? Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read?
- The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long Ago
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read? But here's a seditious idea. Would that be such a bad thing? Maybe it would better if we were far more wary of the corporate media and began to think of it chiefly as a sales platform selling us an ideology harmful to our individual welfare and that of our societies.
- 'If I don't come back, call my lawyer': Practical solidarity for people
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A recommendation of practical steps to help people facing the threat of detention, and the importance of standing in solidarity with others who are dealing with a hostile environment.
- If John Bolton Is Right, Pearl Harbor Was Perfectly Legal
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Michigan attorney Kary Love explores the legal basis for a pre-emptive attack on North Korea by the USA.
- If only we could revive the fruitful tension between Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
Reflections on Dr Kings death have overlooked how his liberal universalism and Malcolm Xs separatism gave each other strength Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2018 Kenan argues that conflict averse approach to activism blunts the edge of contemporary social movements for change.
- If We're on the Left, How Come We're Still Here?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Andrew Levine looks at why the Left is largely ignored by Trump's more radical followers and pundits.
- The ignorant, repressive attack on Frank Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at Frank Loesser's 1944 song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" and the social forces which have aggressively pushed the new 'Puritanism' that seeks to have the song banned.
- Illegal logging: An organized crime that is destroying Latin American forests
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A recent report indicates that Illegal wood trafficking is the most profitable crime against natural resources, and allows other crimes to flourish, including deforestation, labor exploitation, land invasions, tax evasion, document forgery and state corruption.
- Illegal logging: An organized crime that is destroying Latin American forests
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Illegal timber trafficking is a complex type or ogranized crime that involves other crimes such as tax evasion, labor exploitation, and land invasion. Countries in Latin America need to work together to fight this crime.
- Immigration and Cultural Loss
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 While immigration has brought major changes in the physical character of British cities and in the rhythm of social life, it is not alone in driving social changes nor is it even the most important driver of social change.
- In Middle East Wars It Pays to be Skeptical
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In the context of Western air strikes on alleged Syrian biological weapons sites on 14 April, 2018, the history of the bombing of the Abu Ghraib baby milk factory in 1991 underscores the need for permanent scepticism towards claims by U.S. and Western governments that they know exactly what is happening on the ground in Syria.
- In Run-Up to Vote to End Yemen War, MSNBC Remains Totally Silent
MSNBC outflanked from the left by Breitbart Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Johnson expresses concern about the lack of MSNBC coverage of the role of the USA in the conflict in Yemen since 2015.
- Indian Country: The Situation is Bleak, But Not Hopeless
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Discusses how even though issues such as the Dakota Access Pipeline have received lots of public attention people are unaware of how Indigenous dispossession is deeply ingrained in the fabric of the US.
- Indian Country: The Situation is Bleak, But Not Hopeless
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A discussion of Stephanie Woodard's book "American Apartheid: The Native Struggle for Self-Determination and Inclusion" and looking at how present-day colonial practices impact Native people in the US.
- India's Freedom Struggle Influenced by Marxism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In India Marxism has influenced revolutionary figures to varying degrees. As inequality rises a renewed interest in Marx that engages local philosophies could invigorate a proletarian movement.
- Indigenous Sovereignty & Socialism
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018
- Industrial accident claims three lives in Leduc, Alberta
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the troubling indifference to the alarming statistics on worker fatalities, and the lax occupational health and safety regulations that are designed to protect employers and permit the further expansion of company profits.
- Inside Google's Effort to Develop a Censored Search Engine in China
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Google analyzed search terms entered into a Beijing-based website to help develop blacklists for a censored search engine it has been planning to launch in China, according to confidential documents seen by The Intercept. Engineers working on the censorship sampled search queries from 265.com, a Chinese-language web directory service owned by Google.
- Institutionalizing Intolerance: Bullies Win, Freedom Suffers When We Can't Agree to Disagree
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 As America has become ever more polarized, and those polarized factions have become more militant and less inclined to listen to -- or even allow for the existence of -- other viewpoints, we are fast becoming a nation of people who just can't get along. Here's the thing: if Americans don't learn how to get along--at the very least, agreeing to disagree and respecting each other's right to subscribe to beliefs and opinions that may be offensive, hateful, intolerant or merely different--then we're going to soon find that we have no rights whatsoever (to speak, assemble, agree, disagree, protest, opt in, opt out, or forge our own paths as individuals). In such an environment, when we can't agree to disagree, the bullies (on both sides) win and freedom suffers.
- Intellectual Property Regime Undermines Equity, Progress
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Developing countries must reject the intellectual property rights regime imposed on them by powerful foreign monopolies in recent decades.
- International Women's Day
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The annual day for recognition of and struggle for women's economic, social and political rights.
- Intersectionality is a Hole. Afro-Pessimism is a Shovel. We Need to Stop Digging, Part 1 of 2
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Dixon argues that intersectionality - or, rather, its interpretation by the so-called "US left" - decenters class struggle in its effort to equalize oppressions.
- An interview with Mike Leigh
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Working on the film, there were people of various generations, from their twenties to people of my age, from the area, who said, 'I didnt know about this.' And yet the massacre was widely reported and is a famous and significant, seminal event in the history of democracy in Britain, the labour movement, etc., etc.
- An Interview with Norman Finkelstein: "I'm Not Betraying the Legacy of My Parents in Order to Make Myself Palatable."
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Norman Finkelstein is among the leading scholars on the Israel-Palestine conflict in the United States. His work primarily focuses on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the Nazi Holocaust. For decades, he has advocated for a two state solution on the June 1967 borders, a "just solution to the refugee question," an end to the Israeli settlements in Palestine, the deconstruction of the border wall, the right to clean water, and an end to the occupation, the Gaza blockade, and the use of force against the Palestinians.
- Iran: Compulsory veiling is abusive, discriminatory and humiliating; end the persecution of women for peacefully protesting against it
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Amnesty International criticizes Iran's compulsory veiling laws, arguing that they are not only harmful to women, but fundamentally unconstitutional.
- Iranian police arrest 29 women over protests against compulsory hijab
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Iranian police have arrested 29 women in the capital, Tehran, after they protested against a law that makes wearing the hijab compulsory.
- The Irishmen Who Fought in the Last Great Battle Against Spanish Fascism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An account of the numerous Irishmen who were killed, injured, captured and who simply disappeared while volunteering to fight against the rising fascist tide during the Spanish Civil War.
- Is There a Gig Economy?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A data-heavy analysis questioning whether 'gig-economy' precarious jobs are indeed growing rapidly as reported.
- Islamic State in Ukraine: A Christmas present from the West
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The report in British newspaper the Times, that Chechen Islamists, many reeling from defeat in Syria and Iraq amongst the alphabet soup of fanaticism, had indeed arrived at the war front in eastern Ukraine, woke me up from any Christmas torpor.
- Israel Commemorates Nakba with Mass Murder at the Gaza Fence
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 On the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" that resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and the theft of their lands, homes, and even their household possessions, the message today was clear: the Israeli state is prepared to maintain its apartheid state by any means necessary. The catastrophe for the Palestinians was the birth of Israel and was celebrated by the Israeli state with tear gas, bullets and the blood of Palestinians.
- Israel deliberately provoked the latest violence in Gaza, but you won't learn that in the NY Times
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The Times breathlessly and at length recounts Israeli anxiety over the limited attacks from Gaza: "Sirens blared again;" "cellphones were buzzing with alerts of incoming rockets."
- Israel deliberately provoked the latest violence in Gaza, but you won't learn that in the NY Times
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The Times breathlessly and at length recounts Israeli anxiety over the limited attacks from Gaza: "Sirens blared again;" "cellphones were buzzing with alerts of incoming rockets." The Times has a reporter in Gaza, Iyad Abuheweila, but the paper had nothing to say whatsoever about how Gazans were reacting to being under assault. Maybe their cellphones were also buzzing, and their children were also afraid?
- Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 Josh Ruebner draws on personal anecdotes and reflections, historical documents, and legal analyses to answer one of the most pressing issues in international affairs today: is Israel a democracy or does its separate and unequal treatment of the Palestinian people render it an apartheid state?
- Israel is arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A report on Israeli weapons and training being provided to anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi soldiers in the Ukraine.
- Israel Is The Real Problem
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Elite power cannot abide a serious challenge to its established position. And that is what Labour under Jeremy Corbyn represents to the Tory government, the corporate, financial and banking sectors, and the 'mainstream' media. The manufactured 'antisemitism crisis' is the last throw of the dice for those desperate to prevent a progressive politician taking power in the UK: someone who supports Palestinians and genuine peace in the Middle East, a strong National Health Service and a secure Welfare State, a properly-funded education system, and an economy in which people matter; someone who rejects endless war and complicity with oppressive, war criminal 'allies' such as the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
- Israel rolls out the welcome mat for Europe's neo-fascists
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The recent visit to Israel of a dominant figure in Italy's right-wing coalition government, is the latest in an increasingly open alliance between the Israeli state and resurgent forces of the far-right and neo-fascism in Europe.
- Israel steps up its war on mixed marriages
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The Israeli government has long funded various efforts to try to prevent romantic relationships between Jews and non-Jews, both inside territories it controls and around the world. But a new program confirmed this month by the tourism ministry takes Israel's war on families of mixed religion or ethnicity to a new level.
- Israeli army razes home of prominent Palestinian activist
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The Israeli army has demolished a residential building owned by a prominent Palestinian activist, whose six sons have been imprisoned by Israel. The building, owned by Latifa Abu Hmeid, is located in the Amari refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.
- Israeli forces 'deliberately killed' Palestinian paramedic Razan
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Probe by Israeli rights group B'Tselem concludes that intentional fatal shot was fired at the Palestinian paramedic.
- Israeli Government Fears Palestinian Cameras
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A report on a Bill by the Israeli Knessett that would criminalize the filming of Israeli soldiers in Palestine, with a proposed five year jail sentence for offenders.
- Israeli minister threatens to destroy Gaza "once and for all"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 As Israel bombed it dozens of times in the past day, a senior Israeli minister has incited the total destruction of Gaza.
- Israeli spyware being used to monitor Indonesian LGBT community, religious minorities
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the company and spyware product that is used by various institutions to monitor the activities of the LGBT community and religious minority groups in Indonesia.
- Israelis Just Keep Killing People, Stealing Land
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The recent killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by Israeli sharpshooters following the "The Great March of Return" is outlined, as well as the ongoing futility of Israel's policy and actions against the self-governing Palestinian territory whose population are forced to live under dire conditions.
- Israel's 'nation-state law' parallels the Nazi Nuremberg Laws
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Israel's new 'nation-state' law follows in the footsteps of Jim Crow, the Indian Removal Act and the Nuremberg Laws.
- The Italian Long 68
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Taddeo describes how the charateristics of 1968 continued in Italy passed 1968 and his subsequent participation in various movements. He explains that with the struggles of 1977 and the repression that followed, one can say that the social ferment begun in Italy in 1968 had exhausted itself.
- "It's Killing the Student Movement": Canary Mission's Blacklist of Pro-Palestine Activists Is Taking a Toll
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Canary Mission, a website that compiles dossiers on Palestinian rights advocates and labels them racists, anti-Semites, and supporters of terrorism has taken a toll on activists' mental health and their ability to engage in free speech and public advocacy on Palestine.
- It's Time for America to Reckon With the Staggering Death Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Researchers strive to count the casualties of American wars but are faced by a lack of political and military accountability and a seemingly apathetic public.
- It's Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Cockburn argues that economic sanctions impose collective punishment on the general population rather than targetting the people in power.
- Jackson Rising: At Last, a Real Strategic Plan
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Moser reviews Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi.
- Jan and Carrol Cox, Political Activists
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Obituary for Jan and Carrol Cox, long-time activists from Illinois.
- Janus and My Ode to Capital
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Looking at Marx and how to make him relevant to people through 40 years of teaching Capital.
- Jeff Bezos' Quest to Find America's Dumbest Mayor
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Baker questions the wisdom of cities offering online-retailer Amazon tax and infrastructure incentives to host the company's second head quarters.
- Joel Kovel (1936-2018)
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Obituary for psychiatrist, teacher and author Joel Kovel.
- John Pilger's speech at Sydney rally to free Julian Assange
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2018 Video by Cathy Vogan & Liam Kesteven (https://www.facebook.com/liam.kesteven), for Politics in the Pub. http://politicsinthepub.org.au
- Joyless in Zion
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Israel is held in contempt by much of the western world, and Israelis know it even as they get down to the hard business of shooting border-crossers. The New York Times did a piece suggesting that Israelis have a conscience about the violence they poured forth at the Gaza border, and they hope that it was the right thing to do. But Gideon Levy says they have lost their conscience; and that was my impression too from interviewing Israeli Jews in West Jerusalem. I talked to 20 people. Every one expressed support for the killings. There was simply no dissent.
- Just Transition: Let Detroit Breathe!
A talk by William Copeland Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 William Copeland presents the campaign, Let Detroit Breathe. The campaign's prinicipal aim is to help Detroiters win their right to breathe clean air.
- Just When You Thought 'Russiagate' Couldn't Get Any Sillier
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The lawsuit against the Trump campaign, the Russian government and WikiLeaks is simply the latest version of what the DNC has been doing since 2016, which is trying to fob blame for its loss of an election it should have won.
- Justice for Hassan Diab and the Unbearable Banality of Evil
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Deutsch examines the case of Dr. Hassan Diab - a sociology professor and Canadian citizen who was accused of bombing the Rue Copernic Synagogue - and uses it to critique international and domestic justice systems.
- Justice Kennedy and the Myth of the Legal Neutrality
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The enduring myth in America that law and politics are separate is put into question at the end of 2017 with 5-4 decisions upholding President Trump's travel ban, the striking down mandatory public sector union fees, and the resignation of Justice Kennedy.
- Karl Kautsky: From Pope to Renegade
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Once recognized as "The Pope of Marxism" for his popularization and systematization of Marxist ideas, Kautsky fell into obscurity following the Russian Revolution. In recent revival of interest in his politics, in both academia and on the political left, raises questions about the meaning of Kautsky's orthodox Marxism and about what a renewed revolutionary left should adopt from it as their own.
- Karl Marx in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Looking at how Marx's theories can explain today's global crisis.
- Karl Marx: Revolutionary Heretic
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A celebration of Marx as a thinker who constantly adapted his ideas and thinking.
- Kenya's 'Erin Brockovich' defies harassment to bring anti-pollution case to courts
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Phyllis Omido is leading a landmark class action demanding a clean-up and compensation from a lead-smelting factory accused of poisoning local residents - including her own son.
- Kidnapper Trump as Symptom
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The current plight of asylum seekers in the United States and the traumatic separation of children from parents at the southern U.S. border, is the most recent American policy that is racially motivated.
- A Killer Dies, a Teacher Lives: George H.W. Bush v. Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The obsequious praise of the life and legacy of the now deceased mad-dog killer George H. W. Bush (1924-2018) contradict the reality of his actions during his life and presidency.
- Killing Children: From Ireland to Palestine
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The most tragic casualty in a conflict is that of a child, the most disturbing casualty in a conflict is that of a child killed purposely. In Palestine there is a disturbingly tragic high rate of children killed by those sporting the uniform of Israeli armed forces.
- Killing Gaza
A documentary film about life under siege Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2018 Independent journalists Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen documented Israels 2014 assault on Gaza during the war, and chronicled its horrific aftermath. As they waded through the rubble of Gazas destroyed border regions, they turned a camera onto the survivors of the slaughter and let them speak for themselves. Dan returned, week after week, to capture on film the daily struggles of the people of Gaza as they suffered through one of the worst winters in recorded history, and then weathered the sweltering summer heat without electricity and -- in many cases -- without homes. While giving voice to the pain of a people under siege, Cohen and Blumenthal also highlighted Gazans inspiring acts of creative resistance, from painting to break-dancing to literature, that allow them maintain their humanity in the face of deprivation and war. Yet this film is much more than a documentary about Palestinian resilience and suffering. It is a chilling visual document of war crimes committed by the Israeli military, featuring direct testimony and evidence from the survivors.
- "Killing Gaza" captures culture of resistance
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Watch Killing Gaza, absorb the atmosphere of siege and listen to the testimonies of the trapped. You might then understand why so many chose to rush the gates.
- Killing Mosquitoes: The Latest Gaza Massacres, Pro-Israel Media Bias And The Weapon Of 'Antisemitism'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The most recent brutality against Palestinians, and brazenness with which the killings were carried out, is yet another demonstration of the Israeli contempt for the people it tried to ethnically cleanse in 1948.
- The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66,
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018
- Korea: What the Generals Aren't Telling You
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Hamilton points out that the 24 nuclear power stations in South Korea represent high risk targets in a retaliatory attack from North Korea.
- The Kurdish Crisis in Iraq and Syria
Against the Current vol. 192 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In discussion of right of self-determination for the between 28 and 35 million Kurdish people in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran, the author considers the current polticial landscape.
- Labor's Last Stand
Unions must either demand a place at the table or be part of the meal Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The slow degradation of workers' rights through the use of the courts has led to a weakening of negotiated power of unions and the retreat of organized labour.
- Language for Resisting Oppression
Review of Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Review of the Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left by Ian Parker.
- The language of the unheard
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A book review of "A People's History of Riots, Protest and the Law: The Sound of the Crowd" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) by author Matt Clement.
- Latin America Crises and Contradictions
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Detailed review of a collection of essays on Latin America.
- A Lavish Bollywood Musical Is Fueling A Culture War In India
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Review of the controversial 2018 Bollywood film "Padmaavat". Qureshi summarises the politically charged campaign of misinformation and resulting sectarian violence that has dogged its release.
- Lawsuit accuses DC police of collusion with far right
An advocacy group has filed a lawsuit alleging that police broke protocol by working with a far-right organisation. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Federal prosecutors and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, DC, colluded with far-right groups in cases against anti-Trump protesters, a recently filed lawsuit alleges.
- James Laxer - Canadian iconoclast 1941-2018
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Obituary for the prominent campaigner, author and academic James Laxer, who passed away February 23rd 2018.
- The League of Assad-Loving Conspiracy Theorists
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 So the global capitalist ruling classes' War on Dissent is now in full swing. With their new and improved official narrative, "Democracy versus the Putin-Nazis," successfully implanted in the public consciousness, the corporatocracy have been focusing their efforts on delegitimizing any and all forms of deviation from their utterly absurd and increasingly paranoid version of reality.
- The Left Has Better Things to Do Than Watch Liberals Scratch Their Heads
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Drawing from author David Harvey's work "The Ways of the World", Munson examines how Liberal-democracy has changed when the nucleus of capitalism shifted in the 1970's from the production of goods to the production of 'signs'. He further examines how 'neo-liberalism' is now grappling and adjusting in the era of Trump.
- Left-Wing Disaster Relief Efforts Spread Goodwill for Socialism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at some of the disaster relief initiatives by left-wing groups in the United States, as well as the disconnect that seems to underscore a number of issues with the state's disaster relief efforts.
- Lenin and the Bolshevik Party: A revolutionary collective
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The Russian Revolution of 1917 clearly reveals the complexities of Bolshevism Lenin's party as a revolutionary collective.
- Lenin and the Tsarist Duma
A review of August H Nimtz, Lenins Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels through the Revolution of 1905: The Ballot, the Streetsor Both Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Donnelly reviews Nimtz's two volume account of Lenin's pre-revolution electoral strategy and summarises the thesis that Lenin's critique of reformism in parliamentary democracy was rooted in the conclusions of Marx and Engels.
- Leon Rosselson on Gaza
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In Gaza the slaughter was premeditated and calculated. The snipers were primed to kill. They had their orders. They used the protesters, men women, children, for target practice. According to the latest reports, 109 Palestinians??including children, one an 8 month old baby -- have been killed and over 6,000 wounded, including nearly 1000 children. The wounds were particularly debilitating because Israeli soldiers used dumdum bullets which expand when they enter the body. The bullets used are causing injuries local medics say they have not seen since 2014. The entrance wound is small.The exit wound is devastating, causing gross comminution of bone and destruction of soft tissue.
- Less Than Fundamental: the Myth of Voting Rights in America
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The story of voting rights in America is one of exceptionalism. In 1787 when the US Constitution was drafted the right to vote was absent from the text.
- Lessons from James Baldwin
Review of James Baldwin: The FBI File; Against the Current vol. 192 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of James Baldwin: The FBI File, a novel edited by William J. Maxwell which sets out an interpretive frame,through which readers may study his excerpts his file from the FBI.
- The Lessons of the World Cup for our Victim Culture
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 That we are living in an age of victim culture is well-exemplified by an article recently published by the CBC suggesting that minorities "feel apprehensive about heading into the wild because they don't see themselves reflected in the outdoor industry and media." The underlying premise is that a paucity of representations of members of these groups constructs the outdoors as a kind of "unsafe space" of which people from these communities ask, according to the African-American author of a book called The Adventure Gap, James Mills, "'Do I belong here? And if somebody believes that I dont belong here, will they do something to harm me?'"
- Let Us Now Praise Infamous Animals
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In medieval Europe (and even colonial America) thousands of animals were summoned to court and put on trial for a variety of offenses, ranging from trespassing, thievery and vandalism to rape, assault and murder. The defendants included cats, dogs, cows, sheep, goats, slugs, swallows, oxen, horses, mules, donkeys, pigs, wolves, bears, bees, weevils, and termites. These tribunals were not show trials or strange festivals like Fools Day. The tribunals were taken seriously by both the courts and the community.
- Letter to the Editors
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Georgakas responds to the book review of Finally Got the News in a previous issue of the journal. He was disheartened that pertinent political and artistic seeds that directly fed that period have been neglected.
- A Liberal Pillar Of The Establishment - 'New Look' Guardian, Old-Style Orthodoxy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Respected liberal media like the New York Times and Guardian are key battlegrounds in the relentless elite efforts to control public opinion.
- Liberal Totalitarianism and the Trump Diversion
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Baraka warns against enthusiastic embrace of the FBI as a "neutral political force populated by people of unreproachable character" in light of their well documented history of politically motivated targetting of civil rights activists.
- Liberation of Dalits: Key to Indian Workers Revolution
Review of Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Ants Among Elephants is both a family memoir and a political history.
- License to Kill
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Halimi places alleged Russian involvement in the attempted assasination of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the context of routine extrajudicial killings by the wider inernational security services.
- Life without Limits: The Delusions of Technological Fundamentalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In a routinely delusional world, what is the most dangerous delusion? This delusion is not limited to one country, one group, or one political party, but rather is the unstated assumption of everyday life in the high-energy/high-technology industrial world. This is the delusion that we are -- to borrow from the title of a particularly delusional recent book -- the god species.
- Linking class and gender theory
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A detailed review of "Social Reproduction Theory" an essay collection edited by Tithi Bhattacharya. Contributors include Nancy Fraser, Salar Mohandesi and Emma Teitelman, Susan Ferguson, Carman Teeple Hopkins, Serap Saritas Oran and Alan Sears.
- Lissa Lucas Dragged Out of West Virginia House Judiciary Hearing For Listing Oil and Gas Contributions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Mokhiber's article summarizes the case of political candidate Lissa Lucas, whose testimony against a bill "that would allow companies to drill on minority mineral owners' land without their consent" was censored by the court.
- 'A Load Of Tosh' The BBC, 'Showbiz News' And State Propaganda
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 BBC News reporting on international relations, with particular reference to 2017-2018 tensions with Russia, relies heavily on state propaganda.
- Local Autonomy: A Key to Protection of the Ecosystem
Apo Island's Protected Landscape and Seascape Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In his book, The Plundered Seas, Michael Berrill called the Grand Banks and Georges Bank maybe the saddest story of overfishing.Berrills solution was the management of Large Marine Ecosystems.
- Lockheed Martin receives bloody images instead of cool weapons photos in failed Twitter campaign
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The world's largest defense contractor fails miserably in a social media campaign asking Twitter users to send them an "amazing photo" of a Lockheed Martin product.
- The Logic of Human Survival
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Review of a Marxist look at the concept of the Anthropocene.
- London Pub Crawl with Karl Marx
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An account by Wilhelm Liebknecht of an incident which occured during a 'beer trip' -pub crawl- between Karl Marx, other Germans, and some Englishmen.
- Lopez Obrador in Mexico: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The newly elected President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has been described by some in the U.S. as a radical socialist, however this article explains that he has already back-peddled on important pre-election promises.
- Made-in-China fake news overwhelms Taiwan
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Since 2016, when Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was elected as Taiwan's president relations between Taiwan and China have been increasingly strained. In parallel, a series of fake news campaigns have captured Taiwanese media, with experts tracing several of these stories back to China.
- The Making of C.L.R. James
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A short, positive review of a graphic novel about CLR James.
- The Making of Corporate Empire
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Review of a book covering Henry Ford's "ethos of the assembly line" and how his racist views shaped it in different places.
- The Malevolent Hypocrisy of Selective Sanctions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at why the US government is steadfast in its support of the Saudi dictatorship no matter what criminal excesses may be perpetrated by the Riyadh regime, while on the other hand it is determined to punish other countries like Cuba and Venezuela with severe economic sanctions.
- Manifesto of Indian Farmers
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Adopted by an assembly representing the farmers of India, the manifesto outlines Indian farmers convictions, principals, concerns, rights and calls on the parliament of India to hold a Special Session to address the agrarian crisis by passing and enacting the two Kisan Mukti Bills and address additional demands.
- Marc Lamont Hill's Detractors are the True Anti-Semites
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Temple University's administration announced the unsurprising news that it has found no grounds to punish or investigate Professor Marc Lamont Hill for his speech on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Yet, the university's Board of Trustees felt compelled, nonetheless, to issue a statement further maligning Dr Hill, albeit indirectly this time.
- Martha (Marty) Quinn, 1939-2018
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Obituary for Martha Quinn, a founding member of Solidarity.
- Marx at 200; Capital at 150
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Holmstrom discusses the relevance of Marx's Das Capital in understanding modern and historical economic systems. Specifically, she looks at the themes of exploitation, gender, race and capital.
- Marx, Engels and the National Question
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A historical look at the role of class and nation-states in socialism.
- Marx in 1968 in France
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In a personal essay, Coleman describes his personal experiences in France from 1966-1968. He highlights significant number of Marxists teaching in both high schools and secondary settings. Furthermore, he discusses how the working class perceived in the Marxist far left, Trotskyist and Maoist press before May 1968.
- Marx in 1968: Report on a Journey
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Harvey Goldman discusses his intellectual jounrey during the 1960s in relationship to Marism. As a member of SDS, Goldman was engaged actively in student activism.
- Marx and the "International"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A rebuttal of the idea of Marx as Eurocentric and a white supremacist.
- Marx is dead, long live Marx!
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Duran describes 1968 as an an "ideological revolution which unquestionably affected the dominant revolutionary ideology, Marxism, and here begins my contribution, which I will divide into two large sections: an account of the situation in Spain, and then the rebirth of Marxism, and why we can say: 'Long live Marx!'"
- Marx and Marxism in Berkeley in 1968
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Setting context by describing the early twentieth century political landscape in Berkeley, Goldner continues to describe his experince as a student at UC Berkeley by discussing local, national and international contexts for my encounter with Marx in Berkeley, 1968.
- Marx and Organization
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Lause examines Marx's involvement in different organizations and argues that he seems never to have had a problem not being in an organization -- not because he accorded organization no importance, but rather that the importance he accorded it depended entirely on the demands of the class struggle around him.
- Marx Turns 200: A Mixed Gift
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A mixed but detailed review of a biography of Karl Marx. The author likes the Life material but has problems with the treament of the Works.
- Marxism, class and revolution in Africa: the legacy of the 1917 Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 This article assesses the influence of 1917 on African liberation movements and explains how it influenced struggles against and beyond colonialism.
- The Marxist and the Gamers: Reading, Fortnite, and My Students' Identities
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A school teacher reflects on the differences he sees in his students from past generations, notably the many young people who are avid online gamers.
- A Marxist History of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 A short history of capitalism by a history professor at University of Manitoba
- A Marxist History of Capitalism (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A book review of Henry Heller's "A Marxist History of Capitalism" which restores class struggle to a central place in explaining how capitalism arose and grew, and can eventually be overcome.
- Marx's Capital as Organizing Tool
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A guide to how the left could use Marx's Capital as a text for organizing.
- Marx's Ecology: Recovered Legacy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Löwy says that while mainstream ecologicail theory has been dismissive of Karl Marx, serious research in recent decades has recovered some of his very important insights on ecological issues.
- Mass Incarceration
New Jim Crow, Class War, or Both? Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, Lewis analyzes racial and class disparities in incarceration.
- Massacres and Morality
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 What can one say about the morality of Israeli soldiers who shoot unarmed protestors, and then are caught on camera cheering their kills? And how do we judge the civilian population of Israel, many of whom openly support and cheer their soldiers as they go about their work of killing Palestinians? And what can we say about the political leaders of other countries, Canada say, who sit down and smile and make deals with officials of the Israeli government at the very moment that the killing is going on?
- The May '68 Events and Revolution in the West
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The political explosion fifty years ago in May 1968 in France has become a key historical marker for the Left. In an outburst of political revolt, workers seized factories and students occupied universities bringing France to a halt in a series of massive general strikes.
- Me Too's Misguided Pursuit of Equality: Drop the Spirit of Vengeance and Defend Dignity Instead
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 With Me Toos focus where it is, on mans injury to woman, the capitalist for-profit system can wash its hands. Eyes glued to salacious details are off the oppressive economic order that has over time erased our cultures, communities and is set to destroy all life on the planet.
- The Meaning of Heritage in an Age of Identity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A discussion of the meaning of heritage in the current age of identity politics, and why there is a need to reject the nativist, or clash of civilizations, and the multicultural approaches to heritage.
- Media Panic Over the Stock Market Plunge
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The media continue to be in a panic over the drop in the stock market over the last few weeks. Fortunately for political pundits, there is no expectation that they have any clue about the subjects on which they opine. For those more interested in economics than hysterics, the drop in the market is not a big deal.
- Memoir From the Underground
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of the film "Memoir of War", directed by Emmanuel Finkiel, a semi-fictional memoire of writer Marguerite Duras who lived under a facist regime in Vichy France.
- #MeToo for All Women
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The #MeToo movement exposed systems that abuse and silence of women. It's important to note that these systems are not just individual professions or university administrations but they are enabled by the larger system of capitalism.
- The #MeToo Revolution Edtorial
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The editors ask whether the #MeToo Movement will be different than other moments in which sexual abuse was revealed, and propose that organized labour can play a role in ensuring harassment-free work enviroments.
- Microfinance or Debt Trap? What the Poor Don't Know
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Qazi's article outlines how poorly designed microfinance initiatives harm rather than help low income borrowers.
- Midian Farm
Resource Type: Film First Published: 2018 From 1971 - 1977, Midian Farm was a back-to-the-land social experiment created by a community of urban baby boomers from Toronto. Part of the youth counterculture movement during a period of social and political re-imagining, its utopian vision eventually collapsed. More than four decades later, filmmaker Liz Marshall unearths a transformative piece of family and Canadian history.
- A Mighty Voice for Peace Has Gone Silent: Uri Avnery, 1923-2018
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A brief article in commemoration of Israeli human rights activist Uri Avnery, who died in Tel Aviv at the age of 94.
- Military 'Service' Serves the Ruling Class
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Military veteran and peace activist Will Griffin comments on the military campaigns in which he participated, and why he believes that military service ultimately serves noboby but a minority ruling class.
- Mining History Written in Blood
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Domestic coal mining history above and below ground lives on the pages of Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction edited by Wess Harris (PM Press, 2017). The anthology unpacks the industry, people and communities of a coal-rich region, amplifying relevant class and gender issues over a century.
- Missing Children: The Pottery Barn Rule Revisited
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 If one in five American parents couldn't figure out where their kids were, most people would rightly see the phenomenon as a crisis and a national scandal. Grandstanding prosecutors with visions of gubernatorial campaigns dancing in their heads would conduct mass parental perp walks. Legislators would boost their presidential aspirations by co-sponsoring legislation requiring universal implantation of GPS trackers at birth.
- "Mr. Boston": Meet the Man Who Secretly Helped Daniel Ellsberg Leak Pentagon Papers to the Press
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Interview with historian Gar Alperovitz. Alperovitz has revealed for the first time the key role he and a handful of other activists played in helping whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leak to journalists the Pentagon Papers -- a 7,000-page classified history outlining the true extent of the U.S. invasion of Vietnam.
- MLK: To the Promised Land
Charles Williams interviewing Michael Honey Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Interview with Michael Honey author of the study, To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice.
- Modernity and Negations
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Finkel reviews The End of Jewish Modernity and What is Modern Israel? He says they offer complementary perspectives on some of the tragedies confronting todays world, and their historical backgrounds.
- The Moral Economy of the Iranian Protests
Beset by inequality and corruption, Iran's provincial working classes are revolting against the revolution's broken promises Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the root causes of the widespread protests that have been taking place, primarily in provincial towns, throughout Iran. Persistent unemployment and inflation, overdue wages and pensions, environmental degradation, and ponzi schemes are a far cry from the social justice vision that animated and united the revolutionary forces of 1979.
- Moroccan Catastrophic Convergence
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The convergance of injustices in Morocco - climate change, neoliberalism, political suppression - make for a completely untenable situation. This could make people hopeful since it makes radical change the only possibility.
- Mozambique won't be Mato Grosso
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A popular movement centred on a small farming village in northern Mozambique has, for the moment, halted an attempt to move to cash-crop monocultures mainly for export.
- Mozambique's farmers battle to keep land in Nakarari
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Parenti and Liberti examine the Nakarari community's ongoing resistance to commercial agricultural planning.
- Mueller Indictment - The "Russian Influence" Is A Commercial Marketing Scheme
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An explanation of why the U.S. Justice Department's indictment is based on a misunderstanding of the commercial activities of a Russian marketing company in U.S. social networks.
- My Experiences in 1968 in Working-Class Turin
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Lepore recounts his experiences growing up in 1968 in working class Turin. He highlight the influence of the newspaper, Lotta Comunista, its developed Marxist approach and his subsequent involvement with, and then commitment to, that group.
- My Longest Day: How World War II Ended for My Family
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An essay excerpted from Hans-Armin Ohlmann's memoirs, which recounts his experiences growing up in Germany during the Second World War.
- Myron Perlman, Z"L: Working-Class Jewish Radical
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Memorial for Myron Perlman, union carpenter and social justice activist.
- Nanking Massacre
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A summary of the massacre at Nanking (Nanjing) , which occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937. During this period soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army perpetrated horrific atrocities, and murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000.
- The NED's Useful Idiots
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 On Friday, June 8, 2018, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow augmented her nightly Russiagate fetish by extolling the merits of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), telling her huge audience that the NED, created in the 1980s by the Ronald Reagan administration, still does the "non-partisan hard work around the world, of promoting small D democracy and promoting the institutions of civil society that any culture needs in order to have a functioning democracy."
- A New COINTELPRO?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Malik discusses the revelations that the FBI is targeting Black Lives Matters and what Justice Department head Jeff Sessions calls Black identity extremists as well as the response to open racism and how to move forward.
- New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018
- A New Economic Model for the South: Ditch Corporate Welfare and Fund Agricultural Co-ops
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A report from the Institute for Policy Studies, titled "Agricultural Cooperatives: Opportunities and Challenges for African-American Women in the South," makes the case that redirecting governmental support from corporate welfare to agricultural co-ops could provide an alternative vision for economic development in the Southern United States.
- New maps of land destruction show why caravans flee Central America
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A new map developed at the University of Cincinnati illustrates the extent of worldwide land degradation, including the deforestation that is now forcing migrants to leave Guatemala and Honduras.
- A New Native-Led Strategy for Fighting Keystone XL
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Sacred crops planted by the Poca represent another legal barrier for the construction of the Keystone pipeline, as its intended path must now cross sacred historic sites owned by a sovereign tribal nation.
- New Orleans' History of Struggle
Review of Development Drowned and Reborn; Against the Current vol. 192 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of Development Drowned and Reborn which is a novel by Clyde Woods.
- A New Politics? Movements, Power and Transformation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Hilary Wainwrights latest book, A New Politics from the Left (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press), represents a timely appeal for a democratic, participatory, and bottom-up political transformation.
- The New Poor People's Campaign
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Though there has been progress in electoral politics since the days of MLK this success leaves many people behind. The New Poor People's Campaign seeks to create a grassroots movement to counter that.
- The New York Times' Second Assassination of Razan at-Najjar
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 On 1 June 2018, an Israeli assassin poised along "the largest concentration camp ever to exist" killed 20-year-old paramedic Razan al-Najjar. On 7 June 2018, the New York Times assassinated her a second time. It surely does not surprise that the Times provides yeomans service for Israeli hasbara.
- Nicolas Calas: The Trotskyist Time Forgot
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A lengthy, detailed look at modern Trotskyist poet Nicolas Calas (1907-88).
- The Nightmare of Neoliberal Fascism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Henry A. Geroux gives his analysis on such subjects as fascism and white nationalism in the age of Trump, and the state of higher education in a time of Neo-liberalism.
- 1917 and the Colonial Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Solenberger discuss the 1917 Russian Revolution and the subsequent spead of the communist movement internationally. He focuses on the conditions which led to the rapid spread of its ideas and how in 1920 the movement went from being on the offense to defence.
- The 1970s: Finally Got the News!
Charles Williams interviews Brad Duncan Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Interview with Brad Duncan, editor of Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979.
- The niqab represents a pernicious ideology and its spread should worry us all
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the controversial niqab and similar veils, and why they are so concerning.
- No Exit
The ongoing abuses of Australia's refugee policy Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A first person account of the refugee crisis in Australian detention centres. At great expense the Australian government holds detainees offshore in crowded camps, many of whom are stranded and living under deplorable conditions.
- No Fare Is Fair: A Campaign for Free Public Transit in Toronto
Why Do We Need Free Transit? Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Public transit should be a right for everyone in Toronto. Using subways, buses, and streetcars shouldn't require paying fares, or user fees, that penalize riders with lower incomes.
- No matter how it appears, Trump isn't getting out of Syria and Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Trump's plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Syria don't reflect a large change in US foreign policy. US troops are only a small part of the forces currently deployed there and they will probably be replaced with mercenaries paid for by oil monarchies.
- No Remorse: Reflections on Radical "Purism"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Street justifies his critical commentary on the disappointing presidency of Barrack Obama and the standard neoliberal manipulation of campaign populism and identity politics in service to big-money. He also takes a cynical look at the DMC, another party of corporations, as well as Bernie Sanders and what a Sanders Presidency might have looked like.
- No Spirit Of Liberty - The Salisbury Case, Corbyn And The Need For Dissent
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at recent 'Mainstream' media coverage, notably the Guardian and BBC, which has been instrumental in presenting a misleading image of Prime Minsiter May as a stable leader, and yet presents Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in a much less flattering light.
- No such thing as socialist Zionism
The historic contradictions of the Zionist left are being played out in the death throes of Meretz, writes Tony Greenstein Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Greenstein discusses the historic contraditions associated with Labour Zionism and explains why the term 'Socialist Zionist' just cannot exist.
- No Trump, No Clinton, No NATO
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Murray explains why the notion that those who do not want Clinton in power are therefore supporters of Trump is intellectually risible and politically dishonest.
- Noam Chomsky: Moral Depravity Defines US Politics
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An interview with Noam Chomsky where he discusses the political parties' lack of focus on crucial issues. Though made hopeful by young progessive candidates winning in the midterms, electoral politics should not be the focus for radical political change.
- Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A brief look back at the life and work of world reknowned linguist, philospher and social activist Noam Chomsky, who turns 90 on December 7, 2018.
- Norman Finkelstein and Dr. Mads Gilbert
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2018 A discussion with professor and author Norman Finkelstein about his book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom".
- Not My Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The Women's March is not immune to the same forces that have confronted the political left in the U.S. for decades. The larger women's movement itself, that sprang from the antiwar movement and civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, carried flaws along with its development that are not new to left political movements in the U.S.
- Notes on Terminology
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at common and popular terminology and 'labeling', especially in the media, which at times is not only inaccurate and misleading, but also diminishes or softens the severity of an event.
- NPR Runs IDF Playbook, Spinning Killing of 17 Palestinians
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The article looks at the NPR reporting on the killing of 17 palestinians, which follows a pro-Israel bias that dates back for years.
- NYT op-ed describing Israel as a place of refuge is missing the word, Palestinians
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A rebuke by author Levine to the New York Times op-ed written by Susan Silverman titled "How Did Israel Become A Place of No Refuge?".
- The October Revolution: Its Necessity & Meaning
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Mandal examines the necessity and meaning of the October Revolution.
- 'October Song' - A challenging portrayal of the Russian Revolution
Review of Paul Le Blanc, October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy, 1917-1924 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review 'October Song,' Paul Le Blanc's book about the Russian revolution. Detailed with excerpts and criticism.
- Of a Type Developed by Liars
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Porton Down scientists are not able to identify the nerve gas as being of Russian manufacture, and have been resentful of the pressure being placed on them to do so. Porton Down would only sign up to the formulation "of a type developed by Russia" after a rather difficult meeting where this was agreed as a compromise formulation.
- Off the Map: Disabilities and Just Mobility
People with disabilities who rely on local public transit are getting squeezed between gentrification and austerity. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An examination of the tensions between investment driven public transit improvements and displacement of less affluent residents; with particular reference to people with mobility issues or disabilities.
- The Official Fake News
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Emmanuel Macron, who was comfortably elected to the presidency, has instructed his parliamentary majority to provide him with a law against 'fake news' during election campaigns. The law would be a selective halt to the the dissemination of information with dangerous consequences.
- Oil Industry Cleanup Costs Vastly Exceed Alberta Governments Estimates
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Transcript of interview with Regan Boychuk of Reclaim Alberta on the cost to clean up after Alberta's tar sand industry.
- Oliver Law, the Lincoln Brigade's Black Commander
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 General Colin Powell was three months old when at 33 tall, broad-shouldered Texas African American Oliver Law, became the first Black Commander of an American Army.The date was June 12, 1937.Law was selected by a committee of three white officers to lead this integrated army.Heard of Colin Powell but never heard of Oliver Law? Hardly surprising. Laws not mentioned in school books or social studies classes, and has yet to find a place in most college texts or history courses. But Law made his mark on world history in June 1937and for very good reasons.
- The Omega Principle: A vicious circle of fish, cattle and capitalism (Book review)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of Paul Greenberg's book "The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet", which examines how the fishing industry that plunders the seas for tiny fish is supporting unsustainable industrial agriculture.
- On 'Bullshit Jobs'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of the book "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory" by anthropologist David Graeber, which provides a classification for the many forms of employment, some which he deems not only meaningless and unfullfilling, but ultimately harmful to society.
- On the 'Duty to Protect'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 On April 14, 2018, U.S.-British-French forces launched a missile strike on alleged Syrian chemical weapons facilities, citing as justification the 'duty to protect'. Finkel make it clear that this attack was illegal under international law.
- On Economic Madness
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A mostly positive, informative review of "Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason" by David Harvey.
- On Justice And Vengeance
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018
- On Militancy, Self-reflection, and the Role of the Researcher
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Researcher Jared Sacks examines and questions methodologies of social movement researchers through a self-reflective investigation into his own experience and work.
- On Nakba Day Palestinians in Gaza explain why they joined the 'Great March of Return'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Palestinian refugees in their own words, on the 70th anniversary of the creation of Israel. In the context of the 2018 opening of the USA embassy in Jerusalem.
- On our way to the moon? A snapshot of feminist marches which shook the world.
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The authors tell the story of the Midsummer's day 1908 'Votes for women' Suffragist rally and the March 1971 Women's Liberation Movement Demonstration in Hyde ParK, London.
- On Purpose, In Kabul
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Amid years of fighting and war profiteering the Afghan Peace Volunteers (APV) forge ahead with impressive work that demonstrates what needs to be done to rebuild the war-torn and economically devastated country.
- On Resistance: BDS and Israel's Declining Support Among Diaspora Jews
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Like its predecessor movement decades ago in South Africa, assessing the success of BDS against Israel today necessarily rubs up against the tension between Israeli Hasbara (propaganda) and its reality as an effective organizing tool against it throughout the world.
- On the "Transformation Problem"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Further discussion of Marx's "transformation problem." References a previous column reviewing Fred Moseley's "Money and Totality."
- On the nature of change
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The first in a series of articles exploring how dialectical systems thinking can direct change making. The 'On the Nature of Change' series will have three clear sections: 'The Philosophers' will examine a philosophical theory of change, and how this has developed and evolved over time. The second, 'Interpreting the World', and will apply this theory to three fundamental areas: the self, the team, society. Lastyly, 'Changing the World', will present clear ways in which this theory of change can be practically applied.
- The 'One Democratic State Campaign' program for a multicultural democratic state in Palestine/Israel
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 As the Leonard Cohen song goes, ":everybody knows" the two-state solution is dead and gone. Zionisms 120-year quest to Judaize Palestine to transform Palestine into the Land of Israel has been completed. Every Israeli government since 1967 has refused to seriously entertain the notion of a genuinely independent and viable Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel.
- One Hundred Years, "We" Past and Present
Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of Steve Bloom's epic poem about the Russian Revolution.
- 100th Anniversary of 1918 Australian & New Zealand Surafend Massacre Of Palestinians
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look back at the premeditated massacre of male Palestinian villagers by Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the village of Surafend and a nearby Bedouin camp, which took place on December 10, 1918. The massacre has been largely ignored but serves as an allegory of settler colonialism.
- Open and Hidden Horrors
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Before Trump's December 6, 2017 recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, American aggression and its results were apparent in the Middle East and Africa.
- Organizing Workers Strikes Against War and Repression
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A Brief History of Labour Strikes Against Imperialist Wars and Reaction
- The other side of Gaza: Swimming, canoeing and 'trying' to be a child
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Here in Gaza, I want to tell this story. To show our audience a piece of a normal life, away from Hamas, or Israel's "terror" rhetoric, away from the diplomatic efforts, the political bargaining, away from the weekly Friday protests. Just show you something normal.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
What are we eating? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2018 What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else. For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished. How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food? A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
Hearts and Minds: How do People Change? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2018 How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2018 This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
Their Interent or Ours? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2018 The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018
Massacres and Morality Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2018 In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line, at home or abroad. The issue also questions the morality of those who either support, or keep silent about, the violence of the oppressor.
- The Other Whisper Network
How Twitter feminism is bad for women Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Katie Roiphe takes a closer look at the #MeToo movement, particularly the use of Twitter and social media which can dangerously be used to rouse extremes in a similar way that Trump has energized his supporters.
- 'Our Rivers are Black with Coal' - living with Siberia's mines
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the aggressive coal mining industry in Siberia where local opposition and human rights are ignored, and indigenous communities and ecosystems are being destroyed.
- Over 90% of the world's children breathe toxic air every day
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the WHO report on "Air pollution and child health: Prescribing clean air", a study of the heavy toll of both outdoor and household air pollution on the health of the world's children, particularly those living in low and middle-income nations.
- Painting a false picture
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of the book "The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media" by Greg Shupak.
- Pakistan / Gilgit-Baltistan: Advocate Ehsan Ali, a symbol of political sanity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In Gilgit-Baltistan, one of the most politically sensitive regions of Pakistan, the author explains why it is important to recognize and support people like Ehsan Ali, who is a vocal human rights activist and a symbol of interfaith harmony.
- Pakistan, hostage of the religious - The radical left in resistance
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Radical leftists strive amid fundamentalist hostility in Pakistan where blasphemy is a serious charge with its roots in colonial religious divisions.
- Pakistan: Teachers and Farmers Protests Brutally Crushed in Sindh
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 On December 25, 2017, primary, secondary and high school teachers in Karachi held a defiant protest against the Sindh government due to its refusal to provide them with permanent jobs despite having agreed to do so in 2014. The provincial government is refusing to honor its agreement even after forcing teachers to pass a rigorous examination conducted by the National Testing Service and the University of Sindh.
- Pakistan's blasphemy laws The Supreme Court, Asia Bibi and the laws' historical background
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A description of a blasphemy case in Pakistan. Also includes a history of blasphemy laws going back to British India.
- Parkdale tenants' campaign blames real estate agent for loss of rooming houses
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at 'displacement realty' in the Parkdale area of Toronto, where the selling affordable homes at inflated prices pushes new landlords into forcing out old tenants in order to increase rents.
- The Patriarchal Stranglehold
Book review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of the book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne.
- PayPal censors journalists who criticize Israel
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Under apparent influence from Benjamin Weinthal, PayPal chose to close down the account of the French online publication Agence Media Palestine. Such a move constitutes censorship as it denies journalists the means to raise money for their work and freedom to express ideas.
- The PCP in the Portuguese Revolution 1974-5: crisis, state and revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 How did the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), loyal to the Soviet Union deep into the second half of the 20th century, react to a social revolution in 1974-5? The moments are rare when we can study workers' revolutions in a European country where the Communist Party had a decisive influence. I argue here that the revolution happened despite the party, not because of it. The USSR wanted above all to maintain the equilibrium of the Cold War, and Portugal was, in the division made at Yalta and Potsdam in 1945, in the NATO sphere. The PCP was faithful to that policy.
- William A. Pelz
Obituary Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Obituary for labour history scholar and activist William A Pelz.
- Peterson unmasks stitch-up of TV interviews
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Jonathan Cook on Jordan Petersons recent interview with Channel 4s Cathy Newman.
- Plastic plague intensifies on remote southern islands
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at a report titled " Marine plastics threaten giant Atlantic Marine Protected Areas", which examines the alarmingly high concentrations of plastic on southern Atlantic islands and throughout the food chain.
- The Plot to Attack Iran
How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 A summary to the US war against Iranian democracy and the complex situation in the Middle East.
- Police Broke Into Chelsea Manning's Home with Guns Drawn - in a 'Wellness Check'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A video recording of a 'wellness check' by police in Maryland, USA, shows police officers arriving with weapons drawn. The incident sheds light on a very disturbing police procedure and whether law enforcement should be called at all as first responders in matters of mental health.
- A Political Education and Militant Intervention Before, During and After May 68
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In the context of the Algerian War for independence, Charroussart discusses his political education and activism before, during after 1968 in relation to Marixsm.
- Popular Front Counter-Memories
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Ehlers reviews Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Transnational Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War by Benjamin Balthaser.
- Portrait of an Icon
Review of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical by Judith E. Smith.
- The Power of Story, the Evidence of Experience
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Review of a book of oral histories of migrant farmworkers.
- The Power Struggle in Catalonia, or the Staging of a Tragicomedy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 One, a consolidated power, is the Spanish state. The other, an emerging power, drives the project to create a state of its own, a project promoted by nationalists and pro-independence currents. These include a fraction of the divided system (PdeCat, erc and cup) and some social organizations (the Catalan National Assembly, Omnium Cultural and some trade unions) -- with the support of an important part of society.
- Preservation Acts
Toward an ethical archive of the web Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 But they began to wonder what it meant to take an ephemeral object -- destined, after days and weeks, to sink to the bottom of an ever-shifting pile -- and render it permanent. It wasn't hard to see how an archive of civil disobedience could become a tool of government surveillance.
- President Trump's War Crime is Worse than the One He Accuses Assad of
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The single most important thing that happened Friday night when the US military on President Trump's orders launched a wave of over 100 cruise missiles against Syria was that once again the US violated the most profound international law of war: initiating a war of aggression against a nation that posed no threat, imminent or otherwise, to the US or its allies.
- Pret-A-Patriarchy on "modest" fashion
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 "Modest" fashion is a fast growing industry with companies like Dolce & Gabbana, H&M, Marks and Spencer, DKNY, Zara and others all rushing to cash in. But while more choice is undoubtedly good, I have a problem with the labelling.
- Privatization is Killing Us: Dispatches from the Capitalist War on Society
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at various sectors of society that are suffering under privatization in the United States- including education, the prison system, healthcare, and the environment.
- Privatizing the IRS
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The headline in the New York Times on January 10, 2018, a few short days before Congress decided it was easier to shut down the government than to legislate, announced that the I.R.S. "paid $20 million to collect $6.7 million in Tax Debts." At first blush the reader assumed this was a story that had somehow crept into the newspaper by mistake and escaped the attention of the articles editor. The reader who thought that could be forgiven for being surprised at seeing the story. That is because that story had appeared in the New York Times and other publications on two earlier occasions.
- The Progress of This Storm
Nature and Society in a Warming World Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other.
- Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Reality
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 A look at how corporate media distort the news. Uses recent examples such as the Scottish Independence referendum.
- Public Spaces, Private Control
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the commercialization of public spaces in Britain and elsewhere in the industrialized world, where gentrification and increasingly troubling privatization of public spaces goes largely unnoticed by a populace caught up in the day-to-day grind of living.
- Punching the Clock
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An excerpt from David Graeber's book "Bullshit Jobs" published by Simon and Schuster. Graeber, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, looks at the existence of meaningless work and the psychological and societal harm that results.
- Québec solidaire reviews the election and maps campaign on climate crisis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Meeting in Montréal December 7-9, 2018, Québec Solidaire reviewed elections results, adopted a proposal to prioritize the issue of climate crisis, and held a discussion on how to prepare an internal debate on "secularism and religious signs."
- Quiet, Please! The Latest Threat to the Big Wild
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the growing problem of noise pollution in Glacier National Park in Montana, where each summer helicopters carrying tourists fly low over the landscape.
- Race and the Logic of Capital
Review of Class, Race, and Marxism Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of Review of Class, Race, and Marxism by David Roediger.
- Racial Terror & Totalitarianism - Book Review
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination by Vaughn Rasberry.
- The radical Robert Burns
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 For many people the only association they have with the work of Robert Burns is singing Auld Lang Syne at New Year celebrations or at annual Burns Supper events. The real Burns, the radical, revolutionary Burns, is rarely even hinted at in these events. Instead what we have is a sentimentalised, romanticised portrayal of Burns as what Henry Mackenzie called "that heav'n taught ploughman". MacKenzie was a lawyer, novelist and editor of The Lounger magazine in which he reviewed Burns's work. Burns admired some of Mackenzie's work; indeed one of his favourite novels was his Man of Feeling (1771). Mackenzie, however, was scornful of Burns's use of vernacular Scots "which greatly damps the pleasure of the reader".
- Rage Against the Machine: A War vs. Consensus
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 As it stands now, even if the unlikely liberal wet dream of a Trump impeachment actually comes to pass, the theocratic Mike Pence will simply assume office. No doubt cities like New York and Boston will initially erupt in celebration. But should it really be that long before the realization dawns that the real work remained ongoing?
- Raising Consciousness About The Color of Law
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America" by auther Richard Rothstein, and how racial segregation is the underlying cause of much of the country's social and economic problems.
- Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia - Book Review
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Review of Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll. Review discusses history of Appalachia as well as previous literature on the subject.
- Readings: Intersectional Black Activists
Domestic Worker Organizers, 1960s-1970s Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A brief history and suggestions for further reading on 1) Black women fighting for labor rights for domestic workers, 2) Callie Houses's struggle for reparations 3) Sojourner Truth and her fight for emancipation and suffrage for Black women.
- Reality check: Croatian uniform virtually identical to...
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Some media reports are ga-ga that the Croatian team will be wearing its red and white checkered uniform in the 2018 World Cup final on Sunday against France. Far from being innocent or fashionable, this is ominous. By allowing this uniform to be worn, FIFA is emboldening the Croatian fascists and their European allies such those in Ukraine.
- Rebel Without a Clue: Autonomy and Authority in the American Public School
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The high school dropout is a revolutionary without having recovered the sense of dignity of failure, in a system of authoritarian control. Blaming the dropout is to blame the victim of institutional abuse of power exercised within youth indoctrination centers carrying the misnomer, school. Is it possible that the problem is mainly systemic and not due to the personal faults of the dropout? Is it possible that the education system itself contributes to young people dropping out of high school? Is it possible that capitalism is the root cause?
- Red Fawn Fallis and the Felony of Being Attacked by Cops
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The tackling, arrest and imprisonment of female protester Red Fawn Fallis near a Dakota Pipeline construction site is another example of corporate and government abuse of power. When it comes to women dissenters, particularly of black or indigenous dissent, US authorities have a significant history of intimidation and punishment.
- Reflections on Chomsky's Voting Strategy: Why The Democratic Party Can't Be Saved
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Nick Pemberton explains why his opinion is different from that of Noam Chomsky on the matter of third party voting during US elections.
- Remembering Ireland's Great Famine
A review of Black '47 a soon to be released film about the famine in Ireland Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The Irish film, Black 47 (Director Lance Daly) is about the worst year of the catastrophic Irish famine and is set in the west of Ireland in 1847. The story centers around an Irish soldier, Feeney (James Frecheville), returning from serving the British Army in Afghanistan only to find most of his family have perished in the Famine or An Gorta Mor (the Great Hunger) as it is known in Gaelic.
- Remembering Italy's Cervi brothers amid far-right surge
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The Cervi brothers in Italy are famous for leading the local peasant resistance against Benito Mussolini's rule. Today, Adelmo Cervi is still a leading voice against the rise of far-right populist parties in Italy.
- Remembering the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look back at the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of April 13, 1919, where British colonial forces opened fire on peaceful Indian protesters. The massacre stands as a pivotal moment in Indian history that laid bare the true face of British Imperialism.
- Remembering Joanne Landy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Farber recalls the life and work of Joanne Landy. She is remembered as a supporter and organizer for a radical democratic politics opposed to oppression and exploitation throughout the world.
- Reply
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A reply by the author of "Money and Totality: A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marxs Logic in Capital and the End of the Transformation Problem" to two previous responses to his book.
- Report From Southeast Asia
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A general commentary on work and economic conditions in parts of Southeast Asia, and possible comparisons with the ferment in Eastern Europe prior to 1917.
- Reproductive Justice in an Age of Austerity
Book review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Reviews of two books about reproductive rights.
- Resistance is life: Mehmet Aksoy's last letter to his family
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A tribute authored by family and friends to Mehmet Aksoy, a hero of Kurdistan and the internationalist struggles against capitalism, colonialism and fascism.
- Rethinking community organising
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Building a just, sustainable future will require transcending traditional community organising models. Working through existing institutions within the current system is not good enough.
- Rev. Edward Pinkey Freed after 30 Months
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Michigan's Supreme Court has ruled that Berrien County Prosecutor improperly charged activist Rev. Edward Pinkney with five felony counts of election forgery.
- Revealed: The Saudi death squad MBS uses to silence dissent
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The MEE reveals information from a Saudi source with intimate knowledge of the Saudi intelligence services, about a death squad that operates under the guidance and supervision of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
- Revised NAFTA Shows Every Sign of Being Another Trump Scam
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement between the US and Mexico, a deal intended to force Canada, which has the strongest regulations, into signing on disadvantageous terms. Dolack explains why any new NAFTA will undoubtedly be a windfall for multi-national corporations at public expense.
- Revising Class: Lumpen in Literature
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Review of Ragged Revolutionaries by Nathaniel Mills. Marxist analysis of depression-era African-American literaature by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Margaret Walker.
- Revolutionary Optimism: Journeys in Radical Politics Past and Present
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2018 On the "Reality Asserts Itself" program of The RealNews network, Prof. Leo Panitch is interviewed by host Paul Jay. Discussion topics include his political leanings, the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, the UK Labour Party, and whether radical change is indeed possible.
- Revolutionary Rojava: An polyethnic, feminist and anti-capitalist experiment
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A history of the Democratic Federation of North Syria as a beacon of hope in Syria's 8-year-long civil war.
- The Rewilding of Humanity?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 John Davis looks back at the exploitation of the wilderness, where urban dwellers are now alienated from the natural world that once surrounded them, and wonders whether we can ever return and live in a more natural and balanced state.
- "Right to Try" Is a Cruel Farce
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Drug companies want you to think they're providing glimmers of hope to terminally ill patients. Don't believe them.
- Right-wing coup or popular revolt? The April 2018 Nicaraguan uprising examined
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Description of a report on the causes of the April 2018 conflict in Nicaragua.
- The Rise of the Intellectual Pornstar
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Once only found in society's margins, the pornography industry has developed into a multi-billion dollar business that is branching into the mainstream. The article explains that the industry, while still controversial, increasingly comments on the social problems of today and pushes for reforms in areas that other large industries are scared to.
- Russia and the War Party
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A critical look at the book "Russian Roulette", by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, which examines alleged Russian interference in the 2017 U.S. election.
- "Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists"; Against the Current vol. 194
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In October 1864, Marx drafted the inaugural rules for the International Working Men's Association (First International). Its opening lines were a hymn to freedom and self-activity: "the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves."
- Sacrificing Gaza: The Great March of Zionist Hypocrisy
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The Great March of Return is a startling, powerful expression of Palestinian identity and resistance. Thousands of Palestinians have come out, bravely and unapologetically, to say: We refuse to remain invisible. We reject any attempt to assign us to the discard pile of history. We will exercise our fundamental right to go home. They have done this unarmed, in the face of Israels use of deadly armed force against targets (children, press, medics) deliberately chosen to demonstrate the Jewish states unapologetic determination to force them back into submissive exile by any means necessary. By doing this repeatedly over the last few weeks, these incredibly brave men, women, and children have done more than decades of essays and books to strip the aura of virtue from Zionism thats befogged Western liberals eyes for 70 years.
- The Saga of a City Rising
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Positive review of a collection of essays about Black organizing in Mississippi. The review focuses on two of the essays with two "key takeaways."
- Sanitized Radicals: Whitewashing 20th Century Socialists
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at some of the 20th century's most inspiring leaders, whose socialist views have been conveniently ignored by the Right and the mainstream American media.
- Say 'I Love You'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A commentary on the issue of gun violence in schools in the United States, and the current lack of leadership which narrowly places blame on the shooter rather than tackle the more complex issues and policies which could make a difference.
- Say No to 'Hardening' the Schools with Zero Tolerance Policies and Gun-Toting Cops
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The last thing the school system needs is harsher penalties and armed guards which turn students into 'inmates'. Schools in the Unites States are already heavily policed, with School Resource Officers (SRO) funded by the Deptartment of Justice, and harsh penalties for kids as young as 4-5 years old.
- School Shootings: Who to Listen to Instead of Mainstream Shrinks
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Clinical psychologist Bruce Levine discusses the prevailing cynicism and hopelessnes among young people in the United States -- about their country and their future. In particular the article focuses on troubled young people who have lost any connection with adults and view the world as an uncaring place, and are commonly prescribed medication such as anti-depressants.
- A search for roots and connections
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The post-third-way Labour Party is trying to encourage its many new activist members, especially among the young, to turn the party into a social movement.
- Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 Food production in the age of climate change and corporate control.
- Separating Migrant Families Is Barbaric. It's Also What the U.S. Has Been Doing to People of Color for Hundreds of Years.
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the root of the current human rights crisis at the southern border, a crisis based primarily on racism and bigotry which has driven many American policies throughout the nation's history.
- Seven Forbidden Words: On the Uses of Censorship
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In December 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) moved to take ideological control of the agency's budget-writing process. A Trump appointed official presented a directive to the agency's departments listing seven words that were not to be used in budget preparation.
- Sex and the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The philosophy of the October Revolution contained radical ideas around sexual politics which have been forgotten today. Drawing parallels to today's issues on gender and sexuality could help a new generation get into radical labour politics.
- Sex, Scandals and Power
#MeToo Mania and the Democrats' "Resistance" Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A wide range of behavior -- including flirtation and innuendo, a vulgar text or a crude joke, not to mention unpleasant sex -- is being lumped together with real crimes of coercion and assault. Those called out for sexual impropriety, no matter how trivial, how unproven or how long ago, run the media gantlet, are declared guilty and their careers ruined.
- She's Planting the Seeds of Indigenous Food Sovereignty
How Jessie Housty feeds the growth of her Heiltsuk culture and community Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the efforts of Jessie Housty, an Indigenous woman from British Columbia, who is helping to change the diet of her community that is overwhelmingly dominated by industrial food products.
- Should Communists ally with revolutionary nationalism? The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 2)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 But how would the proposed alliance of workers' and national uprisings be effected? This strategic issue was addressed in the Cominterns Second Congress, held in Moscow 9 July-7 August 1920.
- "Show Me Your Papers!" Roundups, Checkpoints and National ID Card
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 With the government empowered to carry out transportation checks to question people about their immigration status within a 100-mile border zone that wraps around the country, you're going to see a rise in these "show your papers" incidents. That's a problem.
- Siege and resistance in Gaza For more than 10 weeks...
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Toufic Haddad, an activist, academic and author of Palestine Ltd: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory, spoke to Omar Hassan about the meaning of the protests and what next in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.
- Siloed Thinking, Climate, and Disposable People
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Judith Deutch takes a look at the human side of the climate disaster and the constricted way of thinking about it, as even those who do recognize anthropogenic climate change still do not examine a range of critical interactions.
- The Simulation of Democracy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The global capitalist ruling classes have been stuck with "democracy" ever since, or, more accurately, with the simulation of democracy.
- Single Payer: What Will It Take to Pass It?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Single payer healthcare needs to be implemented in a universal, sweeping move. Incremental changes will only impede progress.
- The Skripal Poisonings and the Ongoing Vilification of Putin
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Pinning the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter by a nerve agent on the Russian state makes little sense, and is an attempt by the West to futher villify Putin who actually had little to gain by ordering such an action.
- Slavery and Capitalism
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of a collection of essays about the economics of American slavery.
- Socialist Register 2019
Volume 55: A World Turned Upside Down? Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 Since the Great Financial Crisis swept across the world in 2008, there have been few certainties regarding the trajectory of global capitalism, let alone the politics taking hold in individual states. This has now given way to palpable confusion regarding what sense to make of this world in a political conjuncture marked by Donald Trumps Make America Great Again presidency of the United States, on the one hand, and, on the other, Xi Jinpings ambitious agenda in consolidating his position as core leader at the top of the Chinese state.
- The Socialists of the Prairies
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Proyect talks about the arrival of the Prairie Trilogy at the Metrograph Theater on Friday, July 27th. The trilogy consists of three documentaries made in 1978 by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson about the radical movement in North Dakota during the heyday of the IWW, the Socialist Party, and the Nonpartisan League (NPL).
- Soros & the £400k Question: What constitutes 'foreign interference' in democracy?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The news that US billionaire Soros donated £400k to an anti-Brexit group came on the day that YouTube said they found no evidence of Russian interference in Brexit.
- South Sudan archivists fear loss of historical texts
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 South Sudan doesn't have a museum, so thousands of archival documents are sitting in a small building in the capital, Juba, waiting for a national archives to be built. The project will also need the help of international donors to get off the ground, and the ongoing conflict has made it difficult to secure funding.
- The Soviets and Tsarist Debt
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A history of the Soviet's refusal to honor Tsarist debt afterthe 1971 revolution. Looks at the effect on Russia up to and after the end of the USSR.
- Stansted 15: British Activists Who Stopped Deportation Charter Flight Convicted of Terrorism Charge
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at a group of fifteen activists who prevented a deportation charter flight from leaving Stansted airport in the UK by securing themselves around the aeroplane, and were subsequently found guilty of a terrorist offence.
- Starving and Bombed Children of Yemen Seek Entrapment in Flooded Thai Cave
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 While the world was gripped by media coverage of trapped Thai boys in a flooded cave, hundreds of thousands of children were killed and suffering in other parts of the world -- yet received little or no attention. This article examines what this tells us about ourselves and geopolitics.
- State of the UAW
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Since the 1979-1981 economic crisis, when the UAW convinced its members to make concessions to the Big-Three, auto-workers have been losing benefits, wages and programs. Feeley discusses the current state of UAW focusing on its leadership.
- Stop Whining and Start Organizing
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A commentary on the state of the labour movment in the United States, which has been in a marked decline since the 1950's. Lindorff discusses why unions are vanishing, loss of membership, disassociation with the Democratic party, and the changes needed to reorganize and enforce workers' rights.
- Struggle for equal rights for Palestinians is 'right choice,' and will lead to 'significant exodus of Jews' - Henry Siegman
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Everyone should read Henry Siegman's long piece in the National Interest on the "Implications of President Trump's Jerusalem Ploy." Siegman is a great leader because he has bucked the American and Jewish establishment, of which he is a member, to declare that the two-state solution is dead and buried. He is also a prophet inasmuch as he is counseling American Jewry to give up its attachment to Zionism as a dead letter, no different from a Christian state here, and so prepare itself for a future in which Israel is isolated as a pariah state and there is a "significant exodus of Israels Jews." His words are astounding because Siegman, a Holocaust survivor now in his late 80s, was himself a Zionist, and head of the World Jewish Congress. His bravery in renouncing the animating political faiths of his life-- it's inspiring.
- Struggling for Justice
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Mainly postive review Keith Gilyards biography of organizer, educator, cultural worker and Black Left feminist Louise Thompson Patterson.
- Studying Marx
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Buhle discusses how often participants in "The Movement" were not formally educated in Marxism but rather held self-studies conducted individually and in groups.
- The suffering of surrogacy: A veteran feminist spells it out
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation Dr Renate Klein takes on the surrogacy industry with plenty of sass and hard evidence. A dogged feminist academic and publisher for over thirty years, her critique of neoliberal capitalism is always underpinned by an authentic concern for womens wellbeing and a focus on patriarchal structures. She never fails to point out the power differentials. She completely rejects surrogacy in all its forms.
- Superunknown: Scientific Integrity Within the Academic and Media Industrial Complexes
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Mattis provides an analysis of the competing priorities of scientists, funders and the media that together, create a perfect storm of "unscientific science".
- Supreme Toxicity -- Confirmed
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Editorial about Brett Kavanaugh, the U.S. Supreme Court and the hopefulness of grassroots movements like #metoo and BLM spur people to take action.
- Surveillance Self-Defense
 Resource Type: Website First Published: 2018 Modern technology has given those in power new abilities to eavesdrop and collect data on innocent people. Surveillance Self-Defense is EFF's guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.
- Surveillance Self-Defense
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A guide on how online surveillance works and the various tools and techniques the public can use to help protect themselves from spying.
- Suspect in Lahore blasphemy case fighting for his life
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A Christian resident of Lahore says he attempted suicide as interrogators forced him to perform oral sex on cousin.
- Suspect in Lahore blasphemy case fighting for his life
A Christian resident of Lahore says he attempted suicide as interrogators forced him to perform oral sex on cousin. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Christians and other minorities, who make up about two percent of Pakistan's 207 million population, are disproportionately targeted by blasphemy laws, which prescribe a mandatory death penalty for anyone found guilty of "defiling the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad". There is increasing violence associated with the laws, with at least 74 people killed in attacks motivated by blasphemy accusations since 1990.
- Syria: The Assad regime - a response to Marcel Cartier
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A response to Marcel Cartier's article "Vanguards of Humanity: Why I support Afrin & the Rojava Revolution", which denounces the Turkish invasion of Afrin and calls for solidarity with Rojava. While author Slee agrees with the call for solidarity, there is disagreement with some fundamental points in Cartier's article.
- The Syrian Observatory: Funded By The Foreign Office
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The UK funded a project worth £194,769.60 to provide the 'Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' with communications equipment and cameras.
- Syria's Disaster, and What's Next
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Detailed description of Syrian crisis as of July 2018.
- System change means dismantling patriarchy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at patriarchy and the sexual division of labour, and why gender justice is fundamental for meaningful environmental justice, and moreover how grassroots, anti-capitalist feminism is key to system change.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Coates represents the neoliberal wing of the black freedom struggle that sounds militant about white supremacy but renders black fightback invisible. This wing reaps the benefits of the neoliberal establishment that rewards silences on issues such as Wall Street greed or Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and people. The disagreement between Coates and me is clear: any analysis or vision of our world that omits the centrality of Wall Street power, US military policies, and the complex dynamics of class, gender, and sexuality in black America is too narrow and dangerously misleading. So it is with Ta-Nehisi Coates worldview.
- Taking on the Far-Right Menace
An Interview with Mark Bray Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Diana Feeley and David Finkel interview Mark Bray, author of The Anti-Fascist Handbook and professor at Darmouth College. Bray answers questions about his book, facism, tracking the racist right and tactical issues.
- Taking the World to the Brink of Annihilation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Western neoconservatives and hawks are driving the international situation to increasing tension and danger. Not content with the destruction of Iraq and Libya based on false claims, they are now pressing for a direct US attack on Syria.
- A Tale of Two Atrocities: Douma and Gaza
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Compare the intense media coverage of an alleged Syrian chemical attack to the near silence accorded the horrific civilian massacre perpetrated by Israeli soldiers in Gaza, at the very same time.
- Tax Havens and the Other Paris Agreement
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Paradise & Panama papers, Canada & red herrings, and the international agreement on tax havens with "enough loopholes to drive a fleet of Ferraris through"
- Thailand: Junta orders pro-democracy leaders charged with inciting rebellion
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The junta has ordered seven of the most prominent pro-democracy activists charged with crimes including sedition after they launched a protest campaign calling for general elections to be held in November.
- Thankstaking in the Trumpfederacy: Terminate the Tribe That Aided the Pilgrims
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the hostile climate that exists under the Trump Administration for America's first peoples. The article looks at the further erosion treaties and protective laws, and the belief among indigenous communities that the administration's policy is a return to 'termination'.
- Their Internet or Ours?
Introduction to the April 21, 2018 issue of Other Voices Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 What happened to the Internet? The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
- Theorizing the Soviet Bureaucracy
Review of Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of the book: Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy by Thomas M. Twiss.
- There Is a Coordinated Campaign to Suppress Criticism of Israel
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Israel's human rights violations are accompanied by U.S. efforts to stifle dissent.
- These Activists Blocked Migrant Deportations. Now They Face Life Imprisonment in the U.K.
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Fifteen activists who blocked a plane deporting migrants are being charged with laws intended for terrorists. The use of charter flights for deportations is one of the issues they raise.
- 'They stole the beach' - the major mafia that almost nobody wants to talk about
The building boom in China and worldwide demand for consumer goods containing ilmenite has enriched criminals who specialise in stealing san Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Increasing demand for sand has led to targeting of sandy beaches by organised crime. Community members who speak out or protest the destruction of beaches are often victims of intimidation, harrassment and violence.
- 13 protesters against copper plant in India killed after police open fire
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Public protests at the copper smelter plant of Sterlite Industries in the town of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu, India, were met with police fire during the last two days, with 13 protesters killed and and hundreds injured.
- 'This is murder': French islanders want Paris to own up to poisoning their land with pesticide
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean want France to take responsibility for polluting their land with a toxic pesticide. This article looks at the effects of Kepone, also called chlordecone, on the people of the islands, who now suffer from alarmingly high cancer rates and fertility problems.
- This Is Why Carrots Cost More Than Twinkies
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An examination of the role of Government-subsidized crop insurance, farm loans, tax credits, agricultural research and education, as well as environmental and public-health exemptions for farming, on the cost of food production and how that transfers to the consumer.
- Though Invisible to Us, Our Dead Are Not Absent
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A reminder that the world is a beautiful place, and we must save it by listening to the voices of those who have passed, who instilled us with life, love and the spirit of resistance.
- Thousands march in Ukraine to mark Nazi collaborator Bandera's birthday
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Some 6,500 people across Ukraine took part in marches on the first day of the year to mark the birthday of Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist leader considered a hero in the country despite his violent past and history of collaboration with the Nazis.
- Thousands of Palestinians and Israelis Chant: 'No to the nation-state law, yes to equality'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Palestinian flags were seen held high during a demonstration in which tens of thousands of Arab Palestinians and Israeli Jews marched on Saturday, in Tel Aviv, to protest against the controversial Jewish Nation-State Law.
- A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration from the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union - 1962-1974
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 A Threat of the First Magnitude reveals the untold story of the FBI informants who penetrated the upper reaches of organizations such as the Communist Party, USA, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Union and other groups labeled threats to the internal security of the United States.
- 'Time is Running Out,' American Petroleum Institute Chief Said in 1965 Speech on Climate Change
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In 1965 the president of the American Petroleum Institute discussed the effect of CO2 in the changing the atmosphere and the role specifically of the petroleum industry in causing climate change. More than 50 years later the science on this has become stronger but messaging from the industry has softened.
- Time magazine honors journalists facing repression - but snubs Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year' award for 2018, which did not list any journalist who exposed state secrets or government misconduct in the United States, nor whistleblowers from Israel, Egypt, India or any of the NATO countries.
- The Tip of the Iceberg: My Lai Fifty Years On
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018
- To overcome climate paralysis, unite for system change
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at how to break through the climate paralysis that has led to the environmental crisis that mankind is currently facing. Wallis indicates that by having identified who the enemy is, we know who our potential allies are- the other 99%.
- To stop migration, stop the abuse of Africa's resources
Europe should tackle migration not by deploying troops, but by curbing economic abuse and destablisation. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 On January 17, Italy's parliament approved the deployment of up to 470 troops in Niger to combat "irregular migrant flows" and the trafficking of people towards Libya, and, from there, to Europe. A number of other European countries are pursuing similar policies, including France, Germany, and Spain.
- 'Today is one of the most tragic days in the history of the Jewish people: one American Jews response to the Gaza massacre
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In this open letter to the Westchester Israel Action Committee by congregant Howard Horovitz, Horovitz asks "When will we stand up, as human beings, as a committee and as a Temple, to condemn the massacre of Palestinians on the Gaza border?"
- A Tool to Combat Washington's Middle East Wars
Book review: "The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State have Conspired to Vilify Iran" Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A Review of Dan Kovalik's book "The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State have Conspired to Vilify Iran", which provides a concise overview of US imperial conduct since WWII and the disturbing hypocrisy and deceit of the US Government and media.
- Top 10 Civil-Rights Songs
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Upon the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., some of the more popular civil-rights songs are remembered. The article includes online links to music videos.
- Toronto does not need to hire more police officers
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 As you contemplate the push by the Toronto Police Association to have more police officers hired, remember that the issue is not the need for more officers, but featherbedding.
- Toronto's film industry grows, but at what cost?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 While high profile film productions are increasing in Toronto, the article questions whether taxpayers are getting good value for the billions of dollars of public money being invested into the film industry's expansion in the city.
- Toward a global strategic framework: The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 1)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The revolutionary activists who founded the Communist International (Comintern) in 1919 had little contact with movements for national and colonial liberation outside Russia. Nonetheless, only a year later, in July 1920, the Comintern adopted a far-reaching strategy for national and social revolution in dependent countries, later termed the anti-imperialist united front.
- Transformation Problem Unraveled
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Review of "Money and Totality: A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marxs Logic in Capital and the End of the 'Transformation Problem'" by Fred Moseley. Burkett provides a summary of the details of Moseley's theory.
- The Trials of Africa and the Real Dr. King They Want Us to Forget
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s views beyond those emphasized by the mainstream media, where he pushed beyond 'liberal' America and his strong anti-war and global solidarity values were unapologetically linked to the fight against racism and poverty.
- Triumph and Tragedy
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Le Blanc's sympathies with the Bolshevik project are clear, but this is no apologia. On the contrary, grounded in material and intellectual evidence, it is a work that helps us better understand the factors that shaped the choices the revolutionary leaders made and the alternatives paths that might have been open to them.
- The Troubling Link Between Attacks on Immigrants and Repression of Labor
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the targeting of immigrants and its connection to attacks on labour movements, and how it leads to disturbing increases in violations of civil liberties.
- Truckers Spend the Holidays Driving Too Much for Too Little Pay
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the diminishing compensation provided to truck drivers, and why the trucking corporations get away with paying so little.
- Trump & the Fed: US Shadow Bankers About to Deepen Control of US Economy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 What's sometime referred to as 'shadow bankers' have been running the economy and drafting US domestic economic policy since Trump took office. 'Shadow' banks include such financial institutions as investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, insurance companies, finance companies, asset management companies, etc. They are outside the traditional commercial banking system (e.g. Chase, Bank of America, Wells, etc.) and virtually unregulated. Shadow banks globally now also control more investible liquid assets than do the world's commercial banks.
- Trump, the NYPD and the People We Call 'Animals'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the reckless use and dissemination of de-humanizing pejorative language, notably by President Donald Trump and some police agencies in the United States, which has consequences for the public who interact with police and for society as a whole.
- Trump and Science
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Although Trump is called anti-science he simply continues a trend that started with Reagan. Calling him anti-science can mask how his policies and tactics are rational ideologies in the service of neoliberalism.
- Trump threat to cut Palestine aid could 'unravel Oslo'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 US President Donald Trump's threat to withdraw aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) would deprive Washington of its influence on the body, and could cause the Oslo accords to unravel, analysts say.
- Trump's Amoral Saudi Statement Is a Pure Expression of Decades-Old 'U.S. Values' and Foreign Policy Orthodoxies
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Donald Trump's statement that the US would continue business and diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi may be blunter than people are used to but it is standard operating procedure of American policy.
- Trump's Protectionism: A Great Leap Backward
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 US Presidents, European leaders and their academic spokespeople have attributed China's growing market shares, trade surpluses and technological power to its "theft" of western technology, "unfair" or non-reciprocal trade and restrictive investment practices. President Trump has launched a 'trade war' raising stiff tariffs, especially targeting Chinese exports designed to pursue a protectionist economic regime.
- Trump's War on Children is an act of State Terrorism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 State terrorism comes in many forms, but one of its most cruel and revolting expressions is when it is aimed at children. The Trump administration has detained more than 2,000 children, and the numbers are expected to grow exponentially in light of Trump's refusal to change the cruel policy.
- The Truth About "Trailer Trash"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 "Trailer trash" remains one of the last unquestioned relics of political incorrectness in our nation. As a toxic slur, the "trailer trash" brand works to stigmatize an entire category of people marginalizing them from mainstream society.
- 'A Turtle is Worth More Alive Than Dead'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Various participants at the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference in Kenya discuss ways they can sustainably economically benefit from the local environment.
- Twitter closes down my account for 'hateful conduct'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Several Twitter accounts with pro-Palestinian content have been suspended. At the same time those making explicit threats against them have been found not to violate Twitter's terms of service.
- Two Powerful Films on Indonesian Mass Terror
Film Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Short review of two films about Indonesian genocide.
- 2018: When Orwell's 1984 Stopped Being Fiction
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A commentary on The Guardian's news story "Revealed: UK's push to strengthen anti-Russia alliance". Cook questions facts and the terminology used in the Guardian article, a form of 'journalistic fraud', which promotes the UK government's policy towards Russia.
- Typewriters Still Smoking? An Interview with Underground Press Maven John McMillan
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An Interview with Underground Press Maven John McMillan, who is an associate professor of history at Georgia State University in Atlanta, with degrees from Michigan State and Columbia, and the author of the best book about the underground press. Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America (Oxford University Press)
- Uber? Taxis? Or Plan C? How to Get Ride Hailing Right
BC could show the world a non-profit model that beats oligopolies Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at 'ride-hailing' and why it should be run on a non-profit basis as a co-op or other non-profit model.
- Uber Used Clandestine Technology Tool To Thwart Police Raids
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Uber uses a number of technological tools for tax evasion, undermining competition and monitoring customers and drivers.
- UN Security Council Rejects Proposal for Investigation Into Syria Chemical Allegations
Russian envoy urges US, allies to refrain from attacking Syria Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A UN Security Council resolution proposed by Russia has been voted down, with Western nations fighting against it. The resolution would've called for a formal investigation into the alleged Syrian chemical weapons attack on Saturday.
- Unions Should Go Big on a Green New Deal for Canada
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Canada's unions need to play a much larger leadership role on climate change, not just because it deals with economic policies directly affecting members but also because it will be difficult to get where we need to go without them.
- Unit 731: How Leaders of Japan's WWII Germ Warfare Unit Ended Up Working for the US
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the post-war collaboration between the United States and members of Unit 731, a germ warfare branch of the Imperial Japanese Army that conducted horrific and lethal experiments on Chinese civilians and Allied prisoners.
- The Unjust Prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation Five
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Miko Peled, in "Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five," his exhaustive study of the U.S. government's case against five defendants from a friendless minority, demonstrates how American justice has deviated so far from Blackstone that the courts can convict a hundred innocents for one who is guilty.
- Unprecedented Cruelty Against Immigrants and Their Children
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Recently White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly backed up the policy when he explained that, "the children will be put in foster care or whatever." This comes at the same time as a new report revealed that there are some 1,500 undocumented children, who have been placed by federal authorities in homes of "sponsors," and are now missing in the system. No other country has a policy of separating families who intend to seek asylum.
- An Unrepentant '68er's Life
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Review of an autobiographical book by May 1968 figure Daniel Bensaïd.
- UNRWA Does not Perpetuate the Conflict, the Conflict Perpetuates UNRWA
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In January, without warning, Donald Trump refsued to pay $305 million of his country's $365 million commitment to UNRWA. UNRWA, the UN agency serving Palestinian refugees, remains $200 million short of the funds it needs to provide humanitarian services for five million people, including 2/3 of the population of the Gaza Strip.This is not really a story about under-funding UNRWA. This is about the people who strenuously seek to eliminate it.
- Up Against the Ivy Wall: the Columbia Insurrection at 50
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 "My plan was to major in English and become a professor," she writes in an essay titled "Stopping the Machine" that's collected in A Time to Stir: Columbia '68, a new 438-page book (Columbia, $35) which is edited by filmmaker Paul Cronin. Rosahn explains that at the start of the protests, she was a "leftish Democrat" and that in the course of the rebellion she became "a devoted student radical."
- An Updated and Improved Marxism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An article that criticizes the stubborn immersion in the past by current Marxists and left wing intellectuals, and to comprehend activism and set goals in the twenty-first century requires a revision of the Marxian conception of revolution.
- An Urban Teacher Union Epic
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Swerdlow reviews A Fight for the Soul of Public Education: The Story of the Chicago Teachers Strike. She suggests that the 2012 Chicago teachers strike can be used as a model to persuade the public that public employees and their labour organizations benefit society and lead to effetive change.
- Ursula K. Le Guin - Rest in Power
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Obituary celebrating Le Guin's contributions as a community activist, a fighter for feminism, peace, freedom of speech, access to knowledge for everyone, and radical democracy in addition to her literary acclaim.
- US bombs continue to kill in Laos 50 years after Vietnam War
US dropped two million tonnes of bombs on Laos at height of Vietnam War. Why are cluster munitions still killing? Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the problem of unexploded US bombs in Laos which have killed tens of thousands of people since the end of the war, and continue to kill and maim dozens annually.
- US Isn't Leaving Syria -- but Media Lost It When Possibility Was Raised
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The US military exists to fight wars. It is the most heavily armed, most violent organization in the world. Saying that it should continue to occupy Syria, and most of the mainstream media do, is a way of saying that the war in that country should continue. In fact, its a call for escalation of that war.
- US J20 defendants: 'Waiting is part of the punishment'
The first six people have been acquitted, but the 188 remaining Inauguration Day defendants have yet to go to trial. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Alleged anti-fascist protestors, controversially arrested at the 2017 US presidential inauguration, await trial and or sentencing in 2018.
- US 'Outrage' Over Slaying of US Residents Depends on the Nation Responsible
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 This article takes a look at the reasons why the US media managed to be outraged at the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia's government, yet there was no such reaction when Israel killed Furkan Dogan, a 19-year-old American citizen.
- US plastic waste is causing global environmental crisis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A recent ban in China, which normally takes in the largest proportion of US plastic waste, has left the US dumping plastic in other over-burdened countries, while waste still continues to pile up in the States. US plastic scrap exports dropped by almost a third in the first six months of 2018, as waste firms struggled to find a home for their plastic scrap.
- US, UK and France 'Inflicted Worst Destruction in Decades on Raqqa'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Amnesty International reports that air and artillery strikes by the US and allies inflicted devastating loss of life on civilians in the Isis-held city of Raqqa. It is a report that contradicts claims by the US, Britain and France, that they precisely targeted Isis fighters and positions during the four month siege.
- Venezuela: Maduro survives assassination attempt -- but journalism doesn't
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Venezuela was rocked on August 5, 2018 by an attempt to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro during a public event, using drones armed with explosives.But as more details of the attack became available, mainstream media coverage sought to sow doubt on the events, using words such as "apparent" or "alleged". It focused on the government using this "alleged" event to step up repression.
- Venezuela: US Imperialism Is Based On Lies And Threats
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 First-hand report of a delegation to Venezuela from the US. They say the coup is weak and the Venezuelan people are strong and Maduro has their support.
- A very British coup: The spies who went out to the cold
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Former British MP George Galloway comments on the revelation that subcontracted work from MI5 and MI6 targeted not only Russia but also smeared British politicians whom they perceived to be "pro-Russian"; those smeared include not only himself but Jeremy Corbyn and others in his party.
- Video: IJV and CJPME tell Israeli trade Minister Eli Cohen and the Canadian Trade Minister to #EndApartheidTrade and divest from the Israeli-Canadian arms trade
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2018
- Viktor Orban, Trump and the Populist Battle Over Public Space
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The Hungarian legislation and the turmoil caused by Trump's moral equivalencies reveal how politicized space is not a distracting side effect of populist politics; rather, public space treated as a symbol of national identity is a defining characteristic of populism.
- Violet McNaughton: the Mighty Mite Reformer From Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Violet McNaughton deserves recognition as one of Canada's greatest and most formidable adult educators and co-operator of the twentieth century bar none
- The voice of Hobsbawm
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at how the work and ideas of influential British Historian Eric Hobsbawm made an entry into the Indian intellectual scene, as well as his involvement in two crucial political and intellectual debates in Brazil that cemented his reputation there.
- Want to Fix Foster Care? Ask Kids Who Have Been Through the System
Innovative report co-researched by youth from care focuses on importance of relationships Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A report called Relationships Matter for Youth "Aging Out" of Care, co-researched by youth from care, focuses on what truly matters to the young people who are in the system and notably on the importance of building relationships.
- The War Against "Fake News" is a War on Us
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Barely a day passes without a new development in the war on social media -- that is, the war on us. Today, it is a report that Twitter has emailed hundreds of thousands of its users, warning them that they shared "Russian propaganda".
- War is just f**king wrong
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Jacobs explains the underlying capitalist imperative of waging war.
- War, lies and censorship
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Damon cautions news consumers that there is precedent for dissemination of government propaganda in the Anglo-American mainstream media when leaders are preparing to take part in military action.
- The Wars of Rich Resources
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Review of Bolivia's mid-20th century conflicts over resource extraction.
- Washington using legal cover to conceal economic banditry
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The arrest of a Chinese telecom executive in Canada on behalf of the US is an abuse of the legal process and international law to pursue American economic interests. China's anger resonates with similar grievances against the US felt by Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and even American allies in Europe.
- Water Wars: El Salvador Social Movements Resist Water Privatization
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the efforts of Salvadoran social movements which have unified in an urgent effort to counter the right-wing's most recent push to privatize El Salvador's scarce water resources.
- The Weaponization of Social Media
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 How the online environment and social media is being used as a political weapon, notably through the use of 'Bots'.
- Welcome to Arivaca: Where residents want anti-migrant militia out'
Many in this Arizona border town want armed vigilantes, who've vowed to round up undocumented migrants, to leave. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Many in this Arizona border town want armed vigilantes, who've vowed to round up undocumented migrants, to leave.
- West's failure to act will be cause of the next Gaza massacre
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Jewish Israelis celebrate, and governments around the world stand by passively, as Israel massacres Palestinians in Gaza. Inaction by Western governments ensures that Israel will feel embolded to commit further massacres in the future.
- What are we eating?
Introduction to Other Voices, January 21, 2018 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else. For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished. How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
- What Brett Kavanaugh Really Learned in High School: Make the Rules, Break the Rules and Prosper
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The accusations against Kavanaugh may be an open question but his behaviour in handling them proves he is unfit for the Supreme Court. This is reinforced by his previous evasiveness about his role in the Bush administrations torture policy which called his integrity into question long before Christine Blasey Ford made her accusations.
- What Fascism is, and Isn't
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 By examining historicial fascist movements, Oppenheimer delineates what is and isn't fascism and also explores the common themes between the alt-right and its fascist predecessors.
- "What followed horrified us beyond our wildest imaginations": an eyewitness account of the Bangladesh student protests
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Like other high school students, Abdul Karim Rajib, 18, and Dia Khanam Mim, 17 had many hopes and dreams for their lives. One had hoped to become an army officer, the other, a banker. On July 29, 2018, around noon, the two teenagers were killed in the streets of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, by three buses speeding against each other for no reason other than to arrive first and cram as many passengers into their already overcrowded interiors, for maximum profit.
- What if Ida B. Wells Depended on Facebook?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The work of Ida B. Wells, the crusading journalist who forced Americans to pay attention to lynchings and human rights abuses, is a reminder why we need a tax-dollars-funded, and journalism focused, commitment to public media.
- What is Organizing?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Morgan reviews the history of Organizing in the USA and provides advice to activists on how to organize in an inclusive, constructive, way.
- What 'News' Media in U.S. And Allied Countries Never Report
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Newsmedia effectively ban reporting corruptness of newsmedia -- even of media that stand on the opposite side of the political divide.
- What the Attack on Marc Lamont Hill Tells Us
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Destruction is the Zionists' strategic goal and the attack on Marc Lamont Hill and others like him is dictated by the tactics they have chosen to use toward that end.
- What would you do if soldiers dragged your son out of bed in the middle of the night?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 After more than half a century of occupation, most Israelis can no longer imagine themselves in the place of the Palestinians. But if we cannot imagine what it is like to live under occupation, we must at least confront its brutal reality.
- What You Don't Know About Abolitionism: An Interview with Manisha Sinha on Her Groundbreaking Study
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Manisha Sinha draws attention to the role of Black abolitionists in ending slavery in the USA in her book: The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition.
- What's it like for a social movement to take control of a city?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Ada Colau surprised many when she won the election to become mayor of Barcelona. The housing rights activist was part of a deep social movement aiming for participatory democracy. But this latest article from the Symbiosis Research Collective examines how winning the election was just the first step
- What's Kinder Morgan's Real End Game?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An ultimatum has been imposed by Texas based Energy Infrastructure company, Kinder Morgan,that they will cancel the Trans Mountain Pipeline Extension at the end of May 2018 unless clarity is provided by the government. Klein argues that Kinder Morgan knows that the pipeline is already doomed, due to external economic factors and Indigenous opposition.
- When America Downed an Iranian Airliner and Celebrated It!
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Every 3rd of July Iranians commemorate the killing of 299 innocent people, including 66 children, by the US Navy. Adding to the tragedy is the American attitude towards this catastrophic event.
- When Covering Up a Crime Takes Precedence Over Human Health: BP's Toxic Gulf Coast Legacy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 On April 20, 2010, BPs Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. Over the next 87 days, it gushed at least 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, creating the worst human-made environmental disaster in US history and afflicting the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
- When Worse is the Enemy of Bad
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The claim that all that is wrong with America is due to the malignant machinations of Putin is the most blatantly false, potentially disastrous bucket of bullshit ever inflicted by the matrix on this ignorant, credulous, propagandized people.
- Where Have All the Nazis Gone?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Thousands of "anti-fascist" protestors converged on the streets of the nation's capitol to deny a platform to (or just beat the snot out of) twenty or thirty racist idiots who were trying to assemble in Lafayette Square and stand around shouting racist slogans at each other.
- Where It All Began: The Dawn of 'Fake News'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 While today's political smear campaigns and propaganda have gotten more sophisticated and subtle, the underlying ethics remain as maggoty as ever.
- Where to Begin?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The rise of socialist-identified candidates like Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez are a hopeful resistance against the politics that resulted in President Trump. But people must organize outside of electoral politics to bring real change.
- Where's the Beef Stroganoff? Eight Sacrilegious Reflections on Russiagate
Street, Paul Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Street expresses his frustration with the US political establishment in light of the 2017-2018 FBI investigation into alleged foreign intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.
- The White World and Black Reality
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 White people on the left must deal with racism to create true solidarity and resist Trump's politics.
- Who is Afraid of Venezuelan Democracy?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 We are witnessing before our eyes a scenario of subversion and disqualification of Venezuelas democracy.
- Who Killed Marielle?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Marielle Franco, a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman, whose murder is still unsolved, was a thorn in the side of the right-wing, repressive government. The fight she fought continues through with people people she represented.
- Who profits from keeping Gaza on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe?
Keeping Gaza on the verge of collapse keeps international humanitarian aid money flowing to exactly where it benefits Israeli interests. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Economic researcher and journalist, Shir Hever shows that Israel benefits economically from its siege and oppression of Gaza.
- Who's Funding the White Helmets?
Reality Check Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2018 You've no doubt heard of the White Helmets, aka the Syria Civil Defense. They claim to be a neutral entity in Syria. They say they are just helping people caught in the middle of a civil war. But are they? Follow the money and you will find numerous ties to government funding from not only the U.S., but the U.K., Netherlands, Denmark and Germany. We untangle these ties to the White Helmets in a Reality Check you won't get anywhere else.
- Why "Coercive Diplomacy" is a Dangerous Farce
Offering to talk while threatening military force hasn't worked in 30 years. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In the context of rising tensions between the USA and North Korea 2017-2018, historian and journalist Gareth Porter, details the history of failure of "Coercive Diplomacy" as a tool in US foreign policy.
- Why Do Students Kill Their Class-Mates
Detachment, Isolation, Dehumanization, and Emotional Estrangement from Human Relationships Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A recently released phone video shot by 19-year-old Parkland, Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, reveals a cold, callus young man who claims to "hate everyone and everything."
- Why does the language of journalism fail indigenous people?
A journalist with indigenous roots reflects on the making of We Are Still Here: A Story from Native Alaska. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A journalist with Indigenous roots reflects on the difficulty of doing justice to the community she is filming a documentary about. Historical misrepresentation due to lack of cross-cultural understanding has led to a distrust of the media.
- Why Is Allergan Partnering with the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe?
Inside the bizarre world of patent law. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe has invested in a portfolio of patents, their status as a soverign-entity allows the holder to circumvent the "inter partes review" if a patent dispute is raised, increasing the value of their holdings.
- Why is Inclusive Mosque so Afraid of Secularism?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Secularism is merely a framework that separates religion from the state to ensure that religion cannot influence the state and public policy and impose itself on private lives. After all, not everyone in a given society is a believer and even if they are, they dont usually want the state to tell them how to believe. Only a secular framework can ensure the equal rights of all citizens before the law and not different rights for different categories of communalised groups. It is only a secular framework that can ensure one law for all via changeable laws made by people versus unchangeable divine laws imposed by clerics. It is a secular framework which can allow for multi-ethnic, multi-religious and plural societies and is a minimum precondition for the rights of women and minorities. It is a secular framework that can ensure freedom of conscience, including freedom of and from religion.
- Why It Just Makes Sense for the U.S. to Withdraw from the UNHRC
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Having withdrawn from the Paris Accord, and the Iran deal; having broken with the world to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital; having provoked allies and rivals with trade war-triggering tariffs and personal insults; having shocked the world with talk of a Great Wall to keep out Mexicans (paid for by Mexico).
- Why (Mostly) Men Trophy Hunt: a Biocultural Explanation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of several studies offering insights into the biological basis of human behavior, specifically trophy hunting, and the biologically responsive strategies for changing it.
- Why Ocasio-Cortez's Platform is So Great
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 By labeling her foreign policy platform "A Peace Economy," Ocasio-Cortez, using a phrase popular with the peace movement, makes the financial connection without shying away from the immoral and criminal and counter-productive character of war. The fact is that war endangers rather than protecting, erodes rights, militarizes police and society, destroys the natural environment, directly kills and injures and traumatizes and harms millions, and - on top of that - does the most damage through the diversion of resources from where they could do good.
- Why the food movement needs to understand capitalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 To fully appreciate the challenges we face in transforming our food system we need to explore the economic and political context in which food is grown, sold and consumed in the world today.
- Why There are Few Christians Left in the Holy Town of Bethlehem
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 This is the time of year when they have a chance to break out of an isolation enforced in concrete since Israel enclosed the town with a "separation wall" more than a decade ago.
- Why white supremacists and Hindu nationalists are so alike
White supremacy and Hindu nationalism have common roots going back to the 19th-century idea of the 'Aryan race'. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Many members of the so-called "alt-right" - a loosely knit coalition of populists, white supremacists, white nationalists and neo-Nazis - turned to India to find historic and current justifications for their racist, xenophobic and divisive views.
- Will The Conspiracy Against Trump and American Democracy Go Unpunished?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The American people do not realize the seriousness of the Russiagate conspiracy against them and President Trump. Polls indicate that a large majority of the public do not believe that Trump conspired with Putin to steal the presidential election, and are tired of hearing the media prostitutes repeat the absurd story day after day. On its face the story makes no sense whatsoever.
- Will We Ever See Al Jazeera's Investigation Into the Israel Lobby?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 So when am I going to be able to watch Al Jazeera's hard-hitting investigation into Israels powerful lobby in the United States? Remember Al Jazeera? The tough, no-holds-barred Middle East satellite channel that transformed Qatar into a media empire whose reports frightened dictators and infuriated potentates and presidents alike? Why, George W Bush once wanted to bomb its headquarters in Doha so it must have been doing something right. It even has an office in Jerusalem.
- William ('Bill') Pelz:
Againist the Current vol. 192 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In memoriam, Patrick M. Quinn and Eric Schuster discuss the life and contributions of William ('Bill') Pelz, a well-known socialist activist and prolific scholar in the field of European and comparative Labour History.
- William Blum: Anti-Imperial Advocate
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The late William Blum, former computer programmer in the US State Department and initial enthusiast for US moral crusades, who died December 2018, gave us various exemplars of this counter-insurgent scholarship. His compilation of foreign policy ills in Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, was written with the US as sole surveyor of the land, all powerful and dangerously uncontained.
- William Blum, Renowned U.S. Foreign Policy Critic, Dead at 85
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Obituary for William Blum with biographical information and links to his work.
- A Window on Inhuman Detention
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A first-hand account of the inhumane conditions of immigration detention by a Korean woman seeking asylum in the US.
- Without a Popular Movement We Don't Stand a Chance: Andreas Malm on Climate Change
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An interview with the author of "Fossil Capital and The Progress of This Storm", who says there are reasons to be hopeful but significant progress will require a global movement of unprecedented scale.
- Women in the Black Panther Party
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 While much that has been written about the Black Panther Party (BPP) is focused on the role of certain prominent male leaders, lesser known is that during peak membership women made up nearly two-thirds of the party. Leela Yellessety spoke to three authors of recent books that highlight the contribution of women in the Black Panther Party.
- Women-Led Radio Station Amplifies Voices of Indigenous Communities in Argentina
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 In the late 1990s several Indigenous women founded a radio station which continues to broadcast. It resists cultural subjugation and provides a voice to Indigenous people.
- Working Class Movement Must Be Independent
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A new chapter in the history of the South African working class was opened in Soweto on 21-22 July 2018, when representatives from over 147 South African working-class formations represented by 1000 delegates assembled to unite workplace and community struggles.
- The World Google Controls and Surveillance Capitalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Google's encroaching powers over our lives, to include the freedom of expression protected by most national laws, not to mention EU and UN Charters, around the planet today.
- World War I: Crime and Punishment
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Jacques Pauwels' The Great Class War is a contribution to the ideological front in the struggle for a world without wars, for in resetting the story of that war in the Marxist frame, he loosens our ties to idealist interpretations that obscure the class nature of wars, naturalize war as an inevitable part of life, and force us to assume and share a guilt that largely rests on the shoulders of a profiteering and exploitative class, which holds the power of decision making through its control of political, economic, military, police, and media powers and grants us a vote that is largely cosmetic.
- Worldwide "Moment of Madness"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at 1968 a legendary year in history. Analysis of how student- and worker-led revolts played out in different parts of Europe.
- Worldwide Wobblies Remembered
Book review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of the essay collection Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW.
- Worse than Obsolete: NATO Creates Enemies
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Twenty years' worth of "unintended" or "collateral" damage hasn't created friends in the war zones.
- The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 The Wrong Story lays bare the flaws in the way large media organizations present the PalestineIsrael issue. It points out major fallacies in the fundamental conceptions that underpin their coverage, namely that Palestinians and Israelis are both victims to comparable extents and are equally responsible for the failure to find a solution; that the problem is "extremists," often religiously-motivated ones, who need to be sidelined in favour of moderates; and that Israels uses of force are typically justifiable acts of self-defense. Weaving together the existing literature with new insights, Shupak offers an up-to-date and tightly focused guide that exposes the distorted way these issues are presented and why each is misguided.
- Yanis Varoufakis's Self-Incriminating Account of the Greek Crisis - Parts 3 and 4
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Yanis Varoufakis traces his collaboration with Alexis Tsípras and his alter ego, Nikos Pappas, back to 2011. That collaboration gradually broadened, starting with 2013, to include Yanis Dragasakis (who became vice-Prime Minister in 2015). There is a constant in the relations between Varoufakis and Tsípras: Yanis Varoufakis constantly argues for changes in the political programme that Syriza had adopted. Varoufakis tells us that Tsípras-Pappas-Dragasakis themselves clearly wanted to move toward an orientation that was different from, and significantly more moderate than, the one their party had adopted.
- Yemen's Turn
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2018 The Arab Spring, numerically strong but politically weak, failed to break this destructive dynamic. With the corpse of Arab nationalism in a state of advanced decay and the principal opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood, desperate for a deal with Washington, the 2011 uprisings were easily confiscated by the US to further its own aims in the region. Despite its many national peculiarities, the ruinous war in Yemen has to be viewed in this context.
- YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market "Solutions" to the Nation's Housing Crisis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Anti-displacement activists hate them. Tech firms and big developers love them -- and shower them with cash.
- You Can't Commit Genocide Without the Help of Local People
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 How do you organise a successful genocide in Turkish Armenia a century ago, in Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1940s, or in the Middle East today? A remarkable investigation by a young Harvard scholar focusing on the slaughter of Armenians in a single Turkish Ottoman city 103 years ago suggests the answer is simple: a genocidal government must have the local support of every branch of respectable society: tax officials, judges, magistrates, junior police officers, clergymen, lawyers, bankers and, most painfully, the neighbours of the victims.
- You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 A collection of memoirs from people who were part of Progressive Labor Party in the United States in the 1960s.
- Young protesters are defying Israel's blockade with scraps of paper and plastic
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Five years ago, the film Flying Paper documented the successful efforts of Gazas children to set a new world record for mass kite-flying. The children defied Israels blockade, which prevents entry of most goods, by making kites from sticks, newspapers and scraps of plastic.
2017
- Abbas fears the Prisoners' Hunger Strike
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is due to meet Donald Trump to discuss reviving the long-cold corpse of the peace process. Back home, things are heating up. There is anger in the West Bank, both on the streets and within the ranks of Abbas's Fatah movement. The trigger is a hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners.
- The Absurd Consequences of a "Right to Privacy"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 British MP David Daviss text messages poking fun at the appearance of a female colleague make him the latest whipping boy for those determined to root out sexism and misogyny in public life, the Daily Mail reports. Curiously, they also make him the latest poster boy for exponents of an expansive "right to privacy."
- The Absurdity of Saying "White Privilege'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Using rhetoric like "white supremacy" and "white privilege" is a way of stereotyping the whole of "white" people and lumping everyone into one group. This is the surest way to turn potential allies in the struggle for justice into adversaries; by doing so we end up perpetuating the very divides that the "system" depends on to splinter people apart.
- Academe's Poisonous Call-Out Culture
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 I cannot help thinking that something has gone seriously wrong when a scholar who is not transphobic or working against the interests of trans people, but, in fact, considering an important question, is labeled as "doing harm."
- Academic Bullying the Vacuum of Moral Leadership in the Academy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Workplace bullying is an increasing problem. Books are being written about it, and there is even a Workplace Bullying Institute. The problem isn't restricted to the business world. Books such as Faculty Incivility: The Rise of the Academic Bully Culture and What to Do About It, Bully in the Ivory Tower: How Aggression and Incivility Erode American Higher Education, and Workplace Bullying in Higher Education suggest that bullying is a particular problem among academics.
- Actually, I Am Anti-Police
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The I'm not anti-police stance would work if, and only if, police brutality could be separated from the nature of policing. But it can't. That's because the major purpose of policing is to maintain the supremacy of the ruling class.
- Adapt or Die: Millennials, Technology, and Net Neutrality
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Internet is changing the way we think, concentrate, and process information. Studies are showing the Internet is lowering our concentration because the Internet offers constant distractions. Its reducing our attention span, and its ruining our interpersonal communication skills. Basically this technology is dehumanizing us.
- Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Vials reexamines Adorno's Authoritarian Personality, F-scale, and their implications for a Trump America.
- African Migrants Bought and Sold Openly in 'Slave Markets' in Libya
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Hundreds of migrants along North African migration routes are being bought and sold openly in modern day 'slave markets' in Libya, survivors have told the United Nations migration agency, which warned that these reports "can be added to a long list of outrages" in the country.
- After Middle Eastern Wars End, the Medical Wars Begin
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 What are the wars doing to the health care infrastructure?
- Against imperialist regime-change intervention in Syria and the Middle East
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 David Bush has published an appeal for reasoned and informed discussion in Canada of the war and humanitarian disaster in Syria. Roger and Courneyeur write this essay as a contribution to the discussion David suggests be opened.
- Ahwazi Exiles Hold Four Massive Freedom Rallies in London, The Hague, Canberra, And Berlin
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Demonstrators hold flags of the region of Al-Ahwaz as they take part in a rally in support of the Ahwazi people in Iran, in Berlin, Germany, 21 April 2017. Dozens of demonstrators took part in the march striving for the recognition of this population and their human rights.
- Al Qaeda Is Attacking Major Syrian Cities with US Weapons -- but You Wouldn't Know That from the Media
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Norton analyzes media coverages of attacks linked to Al-Qaeda in the West to highlight how this emphasis on Muslim extremism is used to justify Islamophobia.
- Aliens, Antisemitism, and Academia
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Criticizing Enlightenment thought has become fashionable across the political spectrum. For the past several decades, more and more academics have called reason into question. This is especially true among left-leaning, postmodern, and post-structuralist thinkers. This coincides with one of the Alt-Rights primary tactics: adopting leftist rhetoric as cover for its racialist, nativist, and often misogynistic agendas.
- "All Power to the Soviets!" Biography of a Slogan
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An examination of the origins of the slogan "All Power to the Soviets" in its original context of Russia in 1917.
- 'All Power to the Soviets?' - Biography of a slogan
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The origins of one of the most famous slogans in revolutionary history: "All power to the Soviets!" in its original context of Russia in 1917.
- Allegations Against Russia Less Credible Every Day
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Swanson calls into question the US government-driven media accusations that the Russian government had direct involvement in swaying the 2016 US election for Trump, and exames the motivations behind these claims.
- Alternative Toronto: 1980 - 1995
 Resource Type: Website First Published: 2017 Published: 2018 A community archive and historical map of Torontos alternative cultures, scenes and spaces of the 1980s and early 1990s.
- American Rape of Vietnamese Women was Considered "Standard Operating Procedure"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Comparing testimony from Vietnamese women and American soldiers, Gina Marie Weaver, in her book Ideologies of Forgetting: Rape in The Vietnam War, finds that rape of Vietnamese women by American troops during the US invasion of Vietnam was a "widespread", "everyday occurrence" that was essentially "condoned", even encouraged, by the military, and had its foundation in military training and US culture.
- American/Russian Vladimir Posner on the State of Journalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A Russian journalist's views on the state of journalism.
- "American Thought": from theoretical barbarism to intellectual decadence
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Juraj Katalena argues that direct transposition of ideological frameworks developed in the specific cultural and economic context of the USA, to Eastern Europe (and other regions), is misguided.
- America's "Open Door Policy" May Have Led Us to the Brink of Nuclear Annihilation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The article takes a critical look at the potential outcome of North Korea's stigmatized relationship with the United States. It considers the role of US-produced propaganda against North Korea in relationship to the disparity between the militaries of the two countries.
- Amid the Tumult in Durham
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Peter Gilbert (a rights attorney) and his wife Elena Everett,a non-profit organizer, had their house searched by Sheriff's officers in Durham when nobody was at home. It had to do with a demonstration of some 200 on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017.
- Analyzing the Failures of Syriza
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Examines the failture of Syriza, The Coalition of the Radical Left, since their election in Greece.
- Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The U.S. government and the mainstream media have rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities, reports Robert Parry.
- Another Housing Bubble?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 This is an edited transcript from an interview on The Real News Network. Sharmini Peries interviewed Michael Hundson (author of J is For Junk Economics).
- Another peace activist, Raza Khan, goes missing in Lahore
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Raza Mahmood Khan, a Peace activist and social worker, went "missing" in Lahore on Dec. 2, 2017, shortly after he had organised a public discussion about a recent demonstration that ended in ignominious surrender to those seeking power in the guise of religion.
- Anthem Protestors Should Stop Mucking Around and Make Their Demands
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The "anthem protests" have gone on for two years now, but so far the players have not presented a specific set of demands.Why? Do the players simply want to use Sunday football as a platform for raising awareness of racial injustice and police brutality or is there something else going on here?
- The Anti-Empire Report #153
Cold War Number One: 70 years of daily national stupidity. Cold War Number Two: Still in its youth, but just as Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A comentary on current events in Russian and US relations which may be entering a new Cold War, as well as a look back at events through the Cold War period from 1948 to the 1980's.
- Anti-Racism at the Neighbourhood Level
Resource Type: Audio First Published: 2017 On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Rabea Murtaza, a member of East Enders Against Racism, a neighbourhood-based anti-racism group in Toronto. Podcast and article.
- The Anti-Empire Report #150
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Anti-Empire Report by William Blum.
- The Anti-Fascist Revolution
Remembering the Action Party, one of Italy's biggest anti-fascist partisan movements. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Over the last two decades, the Italian Resistance has been a subject of sharp public debate, with both political and historical efforts "radically to repudiate the role and significance" of anti-fascism in Italy's contemporary history. As Pier Giorgio Zunino wrote in 1997, "for the Italian history of the second half of the twentieth century, anti-fascism is the villain."
- Anti-Fascist Self-Defense: From Mussolini's Italy to Trump's America
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A conversation with Mark Bray, a political activist, historian and a lecturer at Dartmouth College and author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.
- Antifa in Theory and in Practice
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In recent weeks, a totally disoriented left has been widely exhorted to unify around a masked vanguard calling itself Antifa, for anti-fascist. Hooded and dressed in black, Antifa is essentially a variation of the Black Bloc, familiar for introducing violence into peaceful demonstrations in many countries. Imported from Europe, the label Antifa sounds more political. American Antifa looks very much like a middle class wedding between Identity Politics and gang warfare.
- Antifa in Theory and in Practice
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A masked vanguard calling itself Antifa, for anti-fascist, is just a variation of the Black Bloc, which is familiar for introducing violence into peaceful demonstrations in many countries. Imported from Europe, the label Antifa serves the purpose of stigmatizing those it attacks as "fascists", yet despite its imported name Antifa in the U.S. is basically just another example of America's steady descent into violence.
- Antifa is a 'major gift to the right
World-renowned academic prompts criticism for his comments about the anti-fascist movement in the wake of Charlottesville Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In the wake of the violent protests in Charlottesville and tension between white supremacists and anti-fascists, Noam Chomsky condemns Antifa militant tactics and suggests constructive activism based in education is more effective.
- AntiFa's Moral Superiority and the Potential for Left-Wing Unity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 On the tragedy at Charlottesville and its aftermath.
- Anti-Vax Propaganda Helps Measles -- Once Eradicated -- Spread Across the Twin Cities
Health officials expect the number of diagnoses to rise. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The anti-vaxxer misinformation campaign has led to yet another outbreak of a preventable disease. Minnesota's Department of Health has announced that 44 people in the state have been diagnosed with measles, a disease once eradicated in the United States. Forty-two of the cases are in children, most of them Somali-Americans who were never vaccinated. According to numerous sources, the outbreak is the result of a sustained anti-vaccination campaign.
- Antiwar.com vs. the Decline of American Journalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 What is the "alternative" media? If we look at the phrase itself, it seems to mean the media that presents itself as the alternative to what we call the "corporate media," i.e. the New York Times, the Washington Post, your local rag in short, the Legacy Media that predominated in those bygone days before the Internet. And yet this whole arrangement seems outdated, to say the least. The Internet has long since been colonized by the corporate giants: BuzzFeed, for example, is regularly fed huge dollops of cash from its corporate owners. And the Legacy Media has adapted to the primacy of online media, however reluctantly and ineptly. So the alternative media isnt defined by how they deliver the news, but rather by 1) what they judge to be news, and 2) how they report it. And thats the problem.
- The anti-Zionist Bund led the Jewish Resistance in Poland whilst the Zionist Movement abandoned the Jews
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Zionism and Israel's racist rulers have created a series of myths about how the only Jewish Resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland was from the Zionists. The role of the anti-Zionist Bund has been erased. In fact the Zionist movement in Palestine and the West abandoned the resistance including the Zionist component of that resistance.
- Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 A story of the caste system in India told through the autobiography of an untouchable woman.
- Any White Cop Can Kill a Black Man at Any Time
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Any white cop can kill a black man at any time and the cop will not go to jail, exemplified in the Jason Stockley, Anthony Lamar Smith case.
- Arab Spring: Against Shallow Optimism and Pessimism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Gilbert Achcar's Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising, and Joel Beinin's Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
- Archives As Activism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Last week was archives awareness week in Ontario, a week to raise awareness about what archivists do, what archives are, and just generally celebrate all of the good stuff associated with archives. In addition to general archives promotion this week it is also about the connection between archives and activism.
- Are Credit Rating Agencies America's Secret Fifth Column?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Rating Agencies and the Banks are part of an organized criminal enterprise that include our Justice Department and our Politicians.
- Are They Really Out to Get Trump?
Sometimes paranoia is justified Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Published: 2917 President Donald Trump and the firing of FBI Director Comey
- As the World Turned Upside Down
Left Intellectuals in Yugoslavia, 1988-90 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An account of the author's experiences and reflections meeting left intellectuals, primarily during conferences in Yugoslavia between 1988 and 1990.
- The assassination of the Rosselli brothers
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A summary of the ideology and actions of Carlo and Nello Rosselli, highlighting what led up to their assassinations and its aftermath.
- Assessing Togliatti
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Broder provides a historical perspective of Italian Communism, looking at longtime leader Palmiro Togliatti's concrete actions during his leadership and not just the party's Gramscian-inflected theoretical canon.
- Assuming Boycott
Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 A collection of essays and seminars that looks at the history of boycott and divestment within activism. Examines a variety of cultural and academic boycotts around the world.
- The Attack on Al Jazeera
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Since its genesis, Al-Jazeera has served as much more than a mere signpost of speech or thought... popular or otherwise. Its existence, alone, stands as a safety valve against those closed societies that embrace repression as so much a check against the light of day of which they fear. Al-Jazeera's availability throughout the Middle East changed its information landscape ... introducing a level of freedom of speech, on TV, that was previously unheard of in the region.
- Attica from 1971 to Today
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Interview with Heather Ann Thompson.
- Attica: The Revolt and Afterwards
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Heather Ann Thompson's Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.
- Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2017 Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock captures the story of Native-led defiance that forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet.
- Baby remains found in mass grave at ex-Irish orphanage
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Remains of children ranging from new-born to three-years-old discovered in the sewers of a former children's home run by the Roman Catholic Church.
- The Bait and Switch of Public-Private Partnerships
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 This being the age of public relations, the genteel term "public-private partnership" is used instead of corporate plunder. A "partnership" such deals may be, but it isn't the public who gets the benefits.
- The Balance of Probabilities
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Unlike the famous chemical weapons "attack" portrayed by the BBC in Saving Syria's Children, it does appear that in the latest incident at Idlib there was real horror inflicted by chemical attack of some kind. The question is who did it and why?
- Dennis J. Banks, Naawakamig (1937-2017) - Cofounder of the American Indian Movement
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Under cofounder of the American Indian Movement, Dennis Banks, AIM became the most powerful Native movement of the twentieth century, galvanizing indigenous people throughout the United States, Canada, and beyond.
- Banned Love: Trump, Pocahantas and the Lovings
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The author looks at the history of interracial relationships, from thier legalization 50 years ago, to their future during the Trump administration.
- Barry Commoner: Radical Father of ModernEnvironmentalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Biography of Barry Commoner, a scientist who laid the groundwork for what later become known as the environmental justice movement.
- Baum, Gregory - obituary
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Obituary for renowned Canadian theologian Gregory Baum, 94, who died Oct. 18, 2017.
- The BDS movement is about justice for Palestine
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The University of Ottawa Israeli Awareness Committee (IAC) blocked a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) resolution presented by the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO). The BDS movement is a call to action from Palestinians seeking justice and equality, while the IAC is a pro-Israel lobby group which works with the Israeli Embassy and others to promote the Israeli government to students.
- Be the Change: Six Disabled Activists On Why the Resistance Must Be Accessible
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Six activists, leaders, and advocates on how we can all move forward, whether on our feet, on wheels, or online -- plus a resource list.
- Beautiful Rising
Creative Resistance from the Global South Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Follow up to 'Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution', Beautiful Rising showcases some of the most innovative tactics used in struggles against autocracy and austerity across the Global South.
- The beginning of the end for identity politics?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 While the millennial lefts preoccupation with identity has not disappeared, the moralistic fire has grown dimmer.
- Bequests
Leaving a social justice legacy Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Many of us have made working for social justice a lifetime commitment. If you are thinking about leaving a legacy for social justice that will live on, you might want to consider leaving a bequest to Connexions in your will.
- Berkeley Republicans Hope More Left-Wing Riots Will Create "Pedestal" For Conservative Movement
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The students hosting conservative pundit Ben Shapiro at University of California, Berkeley this week say their fingers are crossed in the hopes for a left-wing protest that could amplify his message.
- A Better World in Birth
The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Michael A. Lebowitz' The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now.
- Beware the Poisoned Chalice
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In the aftermath of the recent (2017) UK election Jeremy Corbyn may be well poised to form a Labour government. But there would be huge risks in assuming office in a context of economic chaos.
- "Beyond Banksters" by Joyce Nelson
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A review of "Beyond Banksters: Resisting the New Feudalism" by Joyce Nelson.
- Beyond Neoliberal Identity Politics
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Neoliberal identity politics (NIP) is a great weapon on the hands of the privileged capitalist Few and their mass-murderous global empire.
- Big Business and Hitler
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 This book discusses the multiple multinationals doing business with Germany during the Second World War, including American companies such as General Motors, IBM, Standard Oil and Ford, which may explain America's late entry into the war and Hitler's support from powerful businesses despite the horrendous actions of the Nazis'.
- Big city war: NATO seeks concepts for waging urban conflict
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 NATO is asking outside contractors to pitch concepts on military operations in urban areas, admitting that the blocs forces are still unprepared for waging wars in big cities, including those lying close to the coast.
- Big Data is Accelerating Corporate Control of the Global Food Supply
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A summary of the report "Too Big to Feed: Exploring the Impacts of Mega-Margers, Consolidation and Concentration of Power in the Agri-Food Sector," published by The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems.
- The Big Lie About the Tax Bill: Why Bosses Will Never Raise Wages
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The big lie underlying the $1.5-trillion Trump/Republican Congressional tax bill is that Corporations will pass much of it on to workers in the form of higher wages, and to consumers in the form of lower prices.
- Biological Warfare: US & Saudis Use Cholera to Kill Yemenis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The US has supported Saudi Arabia and its allies in their aggression against Yemen, committing daily war crimes involving civilians, who are now suffering a cholera epidemic with more than 400,000 victims.
- The Biotech Industry Is Taking Over the Regulation of GMOs from the Inside
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 When a comprehensive evaluation of GMOs and the weaknesses of scientific risk assessment within the biotech industry is urgently needed, the chemical and biotech industries are forcing risk assessment in the opposite direction.
- The Birth of a Holiday
The late Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm recounts the origins of International Workers' Day. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The history of the fight, by the working class, for a holiday for the working class.
- Birth of a New Movement
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 I came back from the Women's March in D.C. exhausted but thrilled, convinced that we are seeing the birth of a new women's movement. Hearing about all the other Women's Marches around the world only confirmed that impression.
- Birth of the "Open Shop"
Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Chad Pearson's Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement.
- Birth of the Abolitionist Nation
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Manisha Sinha's The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition.
- The Black Lives Matter Response to Trump
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Our mandate has not changed: organize and end all state-sanctioned violence until all Black Lives Matter.
- Black and White
Images from the Archives of Liberation News Service Photographer Howard Epstein, 1968-1974 Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Black and White is a book of 32 evocative images of political conflict and confrontations in the streets taken by Howard Epstein when he was a photographer for Liberation News Service.
- A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Like Serge's extraordinary novels, A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems bears witness to decades of revolutionary upheavals in Europe and the advent of totalitarian rule; many of the poems were written during the "immense shipwreck" of Stalin's ascendancy.
- BLM: Challenges and Possibilities
From #BlacLlivesMatter to Black Liberation Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation.
- The Blue-Collar Hellscape of the Startup Industry
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The tactics and work environments at tech companies, including Amazon, show a disregard for the fundamental health, safety and humanity of low-tier workers, demonstrating what laissez-faire startup-styled late capitalism really looks like.
- Blueprint for a Progressive US: A Dialogue With Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In the Trump era, what would an authentically populist, progressive political agenda look like? What would a progressive US look like with regard to jobs, the environment, finance capital and the standard of living? What would it look like in terms of education and health care, justice and equality? In an exclusive interview with C.J. Polychroniou for Truthout, world-renowned public intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin tackle these issues.
- The Bolsheviks and Antisemitism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Antisemitism was found across the political divide in Russia's year of revolution.
- Borneo: Island Devastated, People Oblivious
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Borneo is now synonymous with mining and logging, as well as with terrible plantations that have already cannibalized most of the land. Nothing is being produced, but everything has been extracted.
- Bouncing Back Against the Corruption of Science in Capitalist Society
Part 2 of a 2-part series: The Role of Science in Capitalist Society and Social Change Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Part two in a look at capitalism and the role of science, and the strong evidence that science can be on the side of social justice and social change.
- Bounty Hunters
A clandestine war on wolves Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The centuries old killing of wolves has extirpated the species throughout most of the United States, yet there remains a strong anti-wolf lobby which continues to threaten even a modest recovery.
- Brazil: Amazon's Indians, rainforest under attack
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Attacks on Amazon Indians and on their land rights threaten vital areas of rainforest. FUNAI, the agency responsible for safeguarding indigenous tribes is being forced to withdraw due to underfunding, while Indians' attempts to assert their rights are met with state violence.
- Brazil: Government to abandon tribes to 'genocide' by loggers and ranchers
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Brazil's extreme right wing government is preparing to open up the rainforest territories of uncontacted indigenous tribes to 'free for all' development by defunding the protection they currently receive.
- Brazil: Increase in land killings as political crisis threatens Amazon
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Cuts to Funai, the agency meant to protect Brazil's indigenous tribes, have encouraged land barons to expand their land holdings into indigenous territories.
- The Breaking Of The Corporate Media Monopoly
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Alternative articles are being shared more widely online than the views of mainstream newspaper commentators. Discussed in relation to 2017 UK election.
- Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerillas, and Digital Ninjas
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Breaking the Spell offers the first full-length study that charts the historical trajectory of anarchist-inflected video activism from the late 1960s to the present. Video plays an increasingly important role among activists in the growing global resistance against neoliberal capitalism.
- A brief dictionary to help understand the US far right
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A break down of some of the most important phrases, terms and numerology that are used by the far right online.
- A Brief History of Mass Theft
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The process by which communal land and resources are appropriated by private wealth (or capital), and people are robbed of their self-sufficiency and thereby forced into a position where they have to sell their labour in order to survive, is called Primitive Accumulation. Today we might call this Privatisation, or in plain-speaking, Mass-Theft.The entire process of mass-theft took centuries to carry out in Western Europe and is often difficult to grasp in its entirety.
- Britain Refuses to Accept How Terrorists Really Work
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Self-interest is motive for the British government's portrayal of terrorism as essentially home-grown cancers within the Muslim community.
- Britain's Real Terror Apologists
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Despite a smear campaign to denigrate Britain's Labour leader as soft on terror, Jeremy Corbyn pulled of a remarkable achievement in the general election.
- The British Camps
Though it reached its horrific heights at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the British, not the Nazis, pioneered the concentration camp. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Today, the expression "concentration camp" evokes the horrors of Nazi Germany, conjuring up black-and-white images of Auschwitz and Belsen. But Germans were neither the first nation to make use of concentration camps nor the last.
- Broadband monopolies to censor Internet content
Behind the FCC plan to abolish net neutrality Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The recently released plan by the American Federal Communications Commission to abolish net neutrality has evoked mass opposition across the US and around the world.
- Broken Homes
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In East Jerusalem, home to 300,000 Palestinians, Israel has been using home demolition as a tool to control the population. Following what some have described as a "third Intifada" in 2015, Al Jazeera started monitoring the policy of home demolitions in occupied East Jerusalem and how it was being enforced -- 2016 was documented to be a record year. Al Jazeera presents an extensive month by month report with graphs, video and photographs.
- Bullied BBC? Alternative media returns fire on claims it's waging 'war' on the corporation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Alternative media accused of waging "guerilla warfare" against the BBC by its former political editor Nick Robinson say they are just providing balance to the 'biased' government-funded corporation.
- The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A review of the book, "The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers" by Joseph Hickman.
- Call Center Unions Build International Connections
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 One big issue in the three-day strike by 38,000 AT&T workers was the company's offshoring of jobs. To shine a spotlight on the issue and strengthen international solidarity, a group of union members visited the Dominican Republic a couple of weeks before the strike to meet the call center workers on the other end of that offshoring.
- Can You Say "Conflict of Interest"? Not at the UN
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Exposing the ways that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) allows oil giants to shape negotiations.
- Canada's Impossible Acknowledgment
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its final report in 2015 with ninety-four calls to action, and renewed hope that the nation would finally confront its darkest history with tangible action. This article looks at why this process has yet again stalled, one which repeats the cycle of promises and yet again does not deliver.
- Canada's State of Reconciliation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The brutal suppression of water protectors at Standing Rock, North Dakota and their ongoing resistance has also galvanized Canadian conversations about Indigenous land rights and environmental welfare.
- The Canadian Left and Israel
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Accusations of Left anti-Semitism may mask a more significant racism problem on the Left.
- Canadian William Grant Stairs: Killing Natives and Seizing their Land for Leopold II in Congo
A Brutal Part of Canada's Dark History in Africa Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 William Grant Stairs of Halifax played an important role in two expeditions that expanded Leopold II's profitable Congolese venture, one that included forced labour and ultimately resulted in millions of deaths.
- The Cancer in Blue: Cop Documentaries
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 John Ridely's film "Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992" is a 144-minute kaleidoscope of interviews and television news footage that climaxes in the riots that followed the acquittal of four cops who were captured on home video by a man named George Holliday as they were beating Rodney King with steel batons.
- Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A review of Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason Moore. The author examines how capitalism is innately destructive of its environment, but the solution is revolutionary socialist organisation says Graham-Leigh.
- The Case for Haitian Reparations
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A history of France's exploitation of colonial Haiti, the aftermath of Haiti's independence, and the lasting social and environmental impacts, arguing for Haiti's recent demands of reparations from the French government.
- A Case Study in the Creation of False News
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Paul Craig Roberts discusses a classic case in the creation of false news.
- Catalonia: The Revolt of the Rich?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Catalonian rebellion, similar to Scottish separatism, is an uprising of the rich against the poor, the protests of a liberal society against the remnants of a redistributive social state.
- CBC Radio badly off track with too much personal storytelling
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 CBC Radio's wandering off into a journalistic sub-culture must be curtailed. At most, radio's schedule should include a couple of the storytelling programs.
- The Censorious Vortex of the "Flash News" Barons
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 For decades, the factors that decided what noteworthy stories would not find their way into print or on the air came down to the media's ignorance, laziness or from advertising restraints. For too long, the explosive material for good journalism in these and other areas had remained hidden in plain sight.
- A Century Later, Namibia Demands Justice From Germany for Its First Holocaust
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Between 1904 and 1908, German colonialists committed a holocaust against the Herero and the Nama, exterminating as many as 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama. Now Namibia is demanding reparations.
- The Challenge of Defining Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An examination of the ways fossil fuel subsidies are measured and why semantic arguments over definitions may be missing the point.
- Challenging Racism isn't Anti-Semetic
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Engler criticizes Canadians' willingness to defend the Jewish Defense League, even with their growing connection to white supremist groups.
- Changing minds on a changing climate
What Makes Climate Science Deniers Change Their Minds? Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Reddit commenters point to reasons they went from being climate contrarians to having confidence in mainstream climate science.
- The Character of the Russian Revolution: Trotsky 1917 vs. Trotsky 1924
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An analysis of the evolution of Leon Trotsky's views from 1917 to 1924.
- Chicago Teachers Settle Contract
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 While an almost 3-1 vote in favor is decisive, the vote against is significant in showing both dissatisfaction and anger among teachers. Who voted against the contract?
- Child Soldiers Reloaded: The Privatisation of War
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A look at private military companies, a multibillion-dollar industry, and how they recruit former child soldiers for military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Includes a link to the film by Mads Ellesoe.
- China Widens its Silk Road to the World
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 China's new 'Silk Road' initiative is a large-scale, multilateral development Asian project which has the potential to change the shape of the world economy.
- China's Ancient Labor Party
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Mozi was an outstanding thinker and what is more a militant, grounded on a well-defined program, who fought on behalf of the toilers in ancient China.
- Chinese neocolonialism in Africa
The Dragon eating the African Lion and Cheetah? (Part I) Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 China has literally invaded Africa with its investors, traders, lenders, builders, developers, labourers and who knows what else. The fancy phrase for that is win-win cooperation. The "cooperation" has opened up Africa as a source of raw materials for China and a dumping ground for cheap Chinese manufactured goods. It is Chinese neocolonialism.
- Choices Facing African Americans
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 For African Americans, this campaign against Russia (and North Korea, Iran) is a diversion from more central issues including the right to vote.
- Chomsky clarifies position on the cultural boycott of Israel
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Prof. Noam Chomsky makes the essential point: the presence of international artists in Israel is used by the government to cover up its occupation and human rights abuses.
- Christophe Guilluy, Le crepuscule de la France d'en haut: Book Review
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Le crepuscule de la France d'en haut, by Christophe Guilluy (2016).
- Chronicle of Black Detroit
Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination (Review) Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Herb Boyd's Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination.
- The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Author of three books on CIA operations, Valentines research into CIA activities began when CIA Director William Colby gave him free access to interview CIA officials who had been involved in various aspects of the Phoenix program in South Vietnam.
- CIA Chief Declares War on Truth
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Mike Pompeo made it clear that he has little regard for truth, for personal decency, or for the Constitutional protections for free speech or for the free exercise of religion. It was an altogether chilling debut for a spy agency head in a country that still imagines itself enjoying some basic freedoms.
- The CIA in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Edited excerpt from "The CIA as Organized Crime", by Douglas Valentine, detailing the CIA's activities in Ukraine and influence on political movements there.
- The CIA Reads French Theory
On the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural Left Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A recently unclassifed CIA documents reveals that in the 1980s, the agency had its analysts devote substantial time and resources to studying trends in French theory, and specifically, the work that writers like Michel Foucault, Jacques, and Roland Barthes were doing in undermining the Marxist left. The CIA saw this trend as beneficial to the maintenance of American power, and capitalism generally, because it undermind the idea that there could or should be fundamental revolutionary change.
- CIA sneak undetectable 'malicious' implants onto Windows OS - WikiLeaks
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Windows machines are targeted by the CIA under 'Angelfire,' according to the latest release from WikiLeaks' 'Vault7' series. The documents detail an implant that can allow Windows machines to create undetectable libraries.
- CIA wrote code 'to impersonate' Russia's Kaspersky Lab anti-virus company, WikiLeaks says
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 WikiLeaks published documents exposing the elaborated malware suite used by the CIA to hack, record and control modern hi-tech appliances worldwide.
- The CIA's 60-Year History of Fake News: How the Deep State Corrupted Many American Writers
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In this week's episode of "Scheer Intelligence," Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer interviews Joel Whitney, author and co-founder of Guernica magazine.Whitney's new book, "Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers," explores how the CIA influenced acclaimed writers and publications during the Cold War to produce subtly anti-communist material. During the interview, Scheer and Whitney discuss these manipulations and how the CIA controlled major news agencies and respected literary publications.
- Civil Rights Movement Is a Reminder That Free Speech Is There to Protect the Weak
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The importance of First Amendment rights is examined, and even while those rights do protect actions of the powerful, the author argues that it is ultimately the poor and powerless who beneffit from it's protection.
- Class and class struggle in China today
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An examination of the transformed economy in China and the consequent changes in class relations, and how the Communist Party has managed to maintain its rule.
- Class Dismissed: Identity Politics Without The Identity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In a capitalist society, work is at the core of identity, In the United States there are sharply divergent attitudes between professionals and the working class.
- Class, Party and the Challenge of State Transformation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An essay examining the challenges of changing the state and status quo following major crises of capitalism, and how the current neoliberal status quo has persisted through the various crises it has presented.
- Class, Race and Marxism
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Through the lense of Marxism, Roediger argues that racial divisions and the identity of whiteness are inexorably connected to capitalism and the logic of capital.
- Cleaning Toilets for Jesus
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An examination of the job-readiness program called Jobs for Life. Founded in 1996 in North Carolina, JFL is a global nonprofit organization premised on the belief that the local church is the ideal solution to unemployment and poverty.
- Climate Change As Genocide
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Is this what a world battered by climate change will be likeone in which tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of people perish from disease, starvation, and heat prostration while the rest of us, living in less exposed areas, essentially do nothing to prevent their annihilation?
- Climate Struggles and Ecosocialism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The hard right U.S. administration of Donald Trump has widened the terrain of struggle over climate change and, indeed, the entire array of environmental issues facing the ecology of North America and the working class movement.
- Clinton, Assange and the War on Truth
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An overview of an interview with Hilary Clinton by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to promote her score-settling book about why she was not elected President of the United States.
- Clinton lost because PA, WI, and MI have high casualty rates and saw her as pro-war, study says
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A new study appears to show that Hilary Clinton lost the battleground states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan in the 2016 presidential election because they had some of the highest casualty rates during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and voters there saw Clinton as the pro-war candidate.
- C. L. R. James and His Times
Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact and the Works of C.L.R. James Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Review of the Worldwrite documentary film Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact and the Works of C.L.R. James.
- CNN: "Russia is an Adversary, Ukraine is Not."
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Monday morning. David Chalian, CNN Political Director, on CNN's "New Day" program. News ticker: "How do Trump-Russia and DNC-Ukraine compare?" New Day co-anchor Alysin Camerota (former Fox anchor) puts the question to her Political Director. Chalian's mechanical reply: "Russia is an adversary, Ukraine is not."
- Coal Miners' Futures in Renewable Energy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 If President Trump wants to earn a rare legislative victory and take political credit for reviving hard-hit regions of rural America, he should take a close look at how one Kentucky coal company is creating jobs.
- A Coalition of Scientists Keeps Watch on the U.S. Government's Climate Data
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Via memos leaked to the press, rogue tweets, and unnamed agency sources, the public learned of growing pressure on federal employees to avoid sharing their scientific work. Meanwhile, small but significant changes to federal web pages hinted at the demise of former president Barack Obamas efforts to manage climate change.
- Colin Kaepernick: Patriotism and the Owning Class
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 National Football League player Colin Kaepernick takes a stand for human rights by kneeling during the U.S. national anthem prior to football games.
- Collateral Damage: U.S. Sanctions Aimed at Russia Strike Western European Allies
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Sanctions by the U.S. Congress which aims to distance relations with Russia may also have a crippling effect on European banks, particularly those in Germany and France.
- Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Introduction to the December 17, 2017 issue of Other Voices Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memories and the past. That's the nature of capitalism, especially the speeded-up hypercapitalism of today. The past is useless: profits are made by getting rid of the old and replacing it with something new.
- Colonialism Never Gives Anything Away for Nothing
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Decolonization is a violent phenomenon exemplified in Zohra Drifs memoir, "Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter."
- The colour-coded Israeli ID system for Palestinians
Israel's control over the Palestinian population is based on a system of colour-coded IDs in the occupied territories Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A look at the colour-coded system of Palestinian population control that has remained in place in Israel for five decades; it still affects everything from freedom of movement to family unity.
- Comey's Lies of Omission
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An examination of testimony by FBI Director James Comey, which pitted President Donald Trump against the powerful US foreign policy establishment that aims to punish the President for not being 'sufficienty hostile' to the Kremlin.
- A common treasury for all: Gerrard Winstanley's vision of utopia
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Gerrard Winstanley was the ideological force behind the Diggers, a left-wing movement during the English Revolution. The Digger movement of 1648-1650 arose out of the juncture of three processes, notably the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
- Community Organizing in Philly and New York
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A look back at the NY and Philadelphia community activist groups White Lighting, O4O, Standing Up Angry, Young Patriots, and what can be learned towards building compelling and viable alternatives to the Right.
- Comply or Die: the Police State's Answer to Free Speech Is Brute Force
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Forget everything youve ever been taught about free speech in America. It's all a lie.There can be no free speech for the citizenry when the government speaks in a language of force.
- A Comprehensive Map of American Lynchings
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A look at the practice of lynching in the United States through to the 1960's, where thousands of non-white Americans, mostly black, were killed in public acts of terror. A new map project called 'Monroe Work Today', named after the pioneering sociologist, shows that lynching was not limited to the southern states.
- Concrete, or beaches? World's sand running out as global construction booms
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A crucial component of concrete, sand is vital to the global construction industry. China alone is importing a billion tonnes of sand a year, and its increasing scarcity is leading to large scale illegal mining and deadly conflicts. With ever more sand fetched from riverbeds, shorelines and sandbanks, roads and bridges are being undermined and beaches eroded. And the world's sand wars are only set to worsen.
- Condemnation Grows for Bipartisan Attack on Free Speech Rights of BDS Supporters
Lawmakers urged to reject bill that would punish Americans for supporting boycotts of Israel Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A pair of bipartisan bills targeting boycotts of Israel and Israeli settlements appear to have widespread support in Congress, to the dismay of civil rights advocates who say the proposals are an attack on free speech.
- Confederate Monuments Down
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 For the rewriters, the Civil War became a "misunderstanding" (as Donald Trump echoes today) and Confederate generals and politicians were transformed into great Southern heroes and cultural icons. African-Americans were routinely humiliated, brutalized, and mutilated.
- Confessions of a (verified) Russia-linked Twitter Bot
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Twitter's defines any user who has "ever logged in, at any time, from Russia" as being "Russia-linked." This is taking the new McCarthyism to ridiculous levels.
- Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2017
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- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Filipino text
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- Connexions welcomes your support
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Your contribution to Connexions will help us preserve the memories, experiences, strategies, success, failures and visions of those who have worked for social justice over the years so that future generations can learn and be inspired by them.
- Consigned to the Memory Hole: The content of the DNC Leaks
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Examining the content of the DNC data leaks during the 2016 US elections, and the efforts by the Democratic party to distract from their content.
- A Consistently Erroneous Technology
A Magician in the Lab Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A look at the polygraph, or lie detector technology, and why it is unreliable.
- The conspiracy to censor the Internet
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The political representatives of the American ruling class are engaged in a conspiracy to suppress free speech. Under the guise of combating "trolls" and "fake news" supposedly controlled by Russia, the most basic constitutional rights enumerated in the First Amendment are under direct attack.
- Coopting the language of the left at the pro-life march on Washington
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Examining the use of left wing rhetoric by a participant of the pro-life match on Washington to justify right wing ideologies and policies, and the broader impliciations of such tactics.
- Corporate America Unmasked
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 While US public views seem generally favourable about American corporations, an extensive study by psychologist Dr. Gary Brumback concludes that leadership, particularly in large corporations, is found to be morally depraved and their organizations often dysfunctional.
- Could Punching Nazis Have Prevented Hitler From Taking Power
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 There have been repeated references to how Nazism could have been stopped by street-fighting, with almost no attention paid to the concrete socio-political conditions of Germany between 1920 and 1933. For many of those who think that physical force was the key to stopping Nazism, the viral video of Richard Spencer getting punched in the face was far more important as a guide to action than understanding the tragic history of the German left.
- Counter Mobilization: an Effective Response to Right Wing Speech
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 As the effects of the Great Recession linger, the ruling rich are making every effort to ensure that the working class bears the brunt of the economic crunch. In this atmosphere, elements of the extreme right feel emboldened to promote their reactionary wares. From the increasing visibility of right wing websites like breitbart.com, to well-publicized speaking tours by conservative ideologues like Milo Yiannopoulos and others, to former Breitbart editor Steve Bannon attaining the status of presidential advisor the message from the top is clear: racism, sexism and xenophobia will all be used to divide and oppress the 99%. Meanwhile, these same poisonous sentiments are used to divert attention from those actually responsible for and benefiting from the current crisis.
- Cowardly New World: Alternative Media Under Attack by Algorithms
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An insidious assault is underway against alternative media on the internet. Leftist and progressive websites have been suffering significant declines in traffic. Some have had online income sources cut. Many others have been publicly defamed. The only voices speaking the truth, says Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, are those on the fringes and we must amplify them however we can. Some suggestions: * Read/view alternative media stories and share them in whatever venues you can. * Stop consuming mainstream media and stop posting links to it. * Actively support alternative media by donating money, time or other resources. * Stop using Google as your search engine; I recommend DuckDuckGo. You will be surprised at how much you've been missing. * Become the media: take your own photos or video and write up stories yourself for whatever outlet will take your work, even if that's only your own blog.
- CRAC-PC: take the arms and the destiny of our lives in Guerrero, Mexico
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2017 A documentary on the CRAC-PC (Regional Coordinator of Communitary Authorities - Communitarian Police), a police force of community volunteers elected by regional assemblies, operating in the Guerrero state in Mexico.
- Creating a Socialism that Meets Needs
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 There is widespread and growing understanding that the current social order cannot continue without catastrophe occurring - yet we lack a vision of what might replace it.
- Creating an Ecological Society
 Toward a Revolutionary Transformation Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Because it aims squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Creating an Ecological Society is filled with revolutionary hope. Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, who have devoted their lives to activism, Marxist analysis, and ecological science, provide informed, fascinating accounts of how a new world can be created from the ashes of the old.
- A creeping quiet in Indian journalism?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 How a combination of government pressure, harassment by political activists, commercial actors including both advertisers and some media owners, is exercising a chilling effect on Indian journalism.
- The Crimes of Seal Team 6
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, SEAL Team 6 is today the most celebrated of the U.S. military's special mission units. But hidden behind the heroic narratives is a darker, more troubling story of "revenge ops," unjustified killings, mutilations, and other atrocities -- a pattern of criminal violence that emerged soon after the Afghan war began and was tolerated and covered up by the command's leadership.
- Cultural Appropriation and Secular Blasphemy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 On the controversies over 'cultural appropriation'.
- Cultural Imperialism and the Seeds of Catastrophe: Ripping Up The Social Fabric of India
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Foreign capital is dictating the prevailing development agenda in India. The aim is to replace current structures with a system of industrial agriculture suited to the needs of Western agribusiness, food processing and retail concerns.The plan is for a fraction of the population left in farming working on contracts for large suppliers and large chain supermarkets offering a diet of highly processed, denutrified, genetically altered food based on crops soaked with chemicals and grown in increasingly degraded soils according to an unsustainable model of agriculture that is less climate/drought resistant, less diverse and unable to achieve food security.
- Cutting Cords to Kurds: Facebook's Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The recent deletion and suspension of Facebook accounts of Kurdish supporters provides further troubling evidence that the popular social media company has been censoring the Kurdish resistance for the past five years.
- Dakota Access-Style Policing Moves to Pennsylvania's Mariner East 2 Pipeline
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Examination of the troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
- The danger of the white American liberal
What a team of 10-year-olds building a robot can teach us about sexism and racism in the US. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Liberal white American reaction to the sexism and racism exeplified in the Google manifesto and the killing of nine innocent people at Emanuel AME church in Charleston shows how remarkably how easy it is to condemn the evil other when we can use that to avoid facing our responsibility for the society we ourselves have created and work to maintain.
- The Dangerous Academic is an Extinct Species
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Nair analyzes current academia and the structures in place that prevent academics and students from putting forth ideas that challenge the status quo.
- Dangerous Grounds
Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases. Owned and operated by civilian activists, GI coffeehouses served as off-base refuges for the growing number of active-duty soldiers resisting the war.
- The Dangers of Salting Under Trump
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Johnson analyzes the legal rights that a labour union 'salt' has -- or doesn't have -- in the wake of the anti-union of the U.S. government.
- Davis Day: Coal Miners & Community Connection
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An historical look at tragic events in the Cape Breton coal mining community, highlighting mining companyies' greed that led to unrest and disaster.
- Dawn of "Total War" and the Surveillance State
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In its efforts to mobilize society for "total war," a still nascent corporate liberal state expanded its scope and authority and in doing so laid foundations and set precedents for the expansion of executive power and the rise of the national surveillance state.
- A Day in the Life of a Day Laborer
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A look at day labourers in Chicago, many who work precariously, under dangerous conditions and sometimes without getting paid.
- DEA Lied to Congress About Deadly Raid That Killed Four Hondurans, Government Report Says
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Drug Enforcement Administration repeatedly lied to Congress about fatal shooting incidents in Honduras, including the killing of four civilians during a DEA-led operation, according to a devastating 424-page report released today by the inspectors general for the State and Justice departments.
- The Dead Don't Rest
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Rodgers reviews two novels by Han Kang, "The Vegetarian" and "Human Acts", and analyzes their shared themes dealing with humanity's struggle against its own most destructive qualities.
- Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Martin Empson reviews an important book (DEAD ZONE: Where the Wild Things Were by Philip Lymber,Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) for activists, a frightening examination of the impact of industrial agriculture on the environment, and particularly biodiversity.
- Death of an Activist in Venezuela: In Memory of Orlando Figueroa
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Highlighting the death of a political activist in Venezuala by the utra-right, which uses brutality, murder and ecological destruction to pursue their goal of recuperating control over the oil producing nation.
- The Death of Liam Tumilson, an Irish Anti-Fascist in Spain
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Murphy commemorates the life of Liam Tumilson, who fought against facism in the Spanish Civil War.
- Debating the world revolution
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A review of "To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International", edited and translated by John Riddell.
- Debunking the 2 claims: anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, and BDS unfairly singles out Israel
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The author points out the falsehoods surrounding the two most common claims by those who oppose actions in support of Palestinian rights.
- The Decertification of Iran Speech: Refuting Trump
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Despite the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declaring each time it has reported - most recently in August 2017 - that Iran is in total compliance with its agreements in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Donald Trump has now carried through on his threat to decertify Iran.
- The Deep State Goes to War With President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 There is a real danger here that this maneuver could harshly backfire, to the great benefit of Trump and to the great detriment of those who want to oppose him. If any of the significant claims in this dossier turn out to be provably false -- such as Cohens trip to Prague -- many people will conclude, with Trumps encouragement, that large media outlets (CNN and BuzzFeed) and anti-Trump factions inside the government (CIA) are deploying "Fake News" to destroy him. In the eyes of many people, that will forever discredit -- render impotent -- future journalistic exposés that are based on actual, corroborated wrongdoing.
- The Deep State is the State
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Like all elements of the state, the so-called deep state exists to enforce the economic supremacy of US capitalism.
- Demythifying Native Americans
"All the Real Indians Died Off" And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's and Dina Gilio-Whitaker's "All the Real Indians Died Off" And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans.
- Depraved Treatment of Drug War Captives on US Coast Guard Ships
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Wessler provides details in an interview transcript on how the United States Coast Guard routinely subjects individuals alleged to be involved in the transport of cocaine between South America and Central America to such conditions.
- Deranged and Deluded: The Media's Complicity In The Climate Crisis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In an important recent book, the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh refers to the present era of corporate-driven climate crisis as 'The Great Derangement'. For almost 12,000 years, since the last Ice Age, humanity has lived through a period of relative climate stability known as the Holocene. When Homo sapiens shifted, for the most part, from a nomadic hunter-gatherer existence to an agriculture-based life, towns and cities grew, humans went into space and the global population shot up to over seven billion people.
- Despair is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Brockman lists various methods to prevent feelings of cynicism, frustration, and grief for social activists and to inspire renewed hope in their efforts.
- The Destruction of Inlet Beach
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 As Inlet Beach undergoes development to turn the site into a tourist vacation spot and with no support from the county government or develepment laws, the local community is slowly driven away.
- The Destructive Power Trips of Amazon's Boss
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Pointed criticism of online retailer Amazon and its Boss Jeff Bezos, whose practices include avoiding state taxes, erosion of traditional retail and small business, and undermining the tax base in communities.
- Detroit Radicals' Odessey
In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James & Grace Lee Boggs Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Stephen M. Ward's In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James & Grace Lee Boggs.
- Detroit's Rebellion and Rise of the Neoliberal State
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In 1967 hundreds of uprisings circulated across U.S. cities with unprecedented power and intensity. Almost always the provocation was racist police violence - ranging from arrests to beatings to shootings.
- Detroit's Rebellion at Fifty
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 From the days of the Marcus Garvey nationalist movement in the early decades of the century, to Malcolm X, revolutionary autoworkers and the Black Power movement in the 1960s, Detroit was front and center in debates on strategy and tactics to win Black freedom.
- Detroit's Underground Economy: Where Capitalism Fails, Alternatives Take Root
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Detroit's economic comeback is greatly overstated, while many residents survive through informal business arrangements and bartering.
- Dialectics and Difference: Against the 'Decolonial Turn'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 "Decolonial" criticism is an example of vogue academic approach, which can be grafted onto preexisting disciplines and practices with relative ease. Still further, in so doing, it offers the semblance of radicalism, because it appears to challenge the tacit erasures and hidden presuppositions of prior revolutionary perspectives.
- Did Scandal Tip the Balance?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In 2014 a rumor circulated in UAW plants even beyond the Detroit area that UAW Vice President General Holiefield had been "on the take." He suddenly resigned, his administrative assistant was let go and within months Holiefield died from cancer. Then silence.
- The Dirty Secret of the Korean War
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 There is a much darker denial at work in forgetting the specifics of history, and this unwillingness to honestly examine the Korean War is at the root of our ongoing conflict with North Korea.
- Disappeared on the Border: "Chase and Scatter" -- to Death
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The inhuman tactics used by US Border Patrol Agents against people corssing the border are causing untold numbers of migrants to die in the desert.
- Disaster at Arm's Length
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Grenfell Tower disaster in London exposes the class violence embedded in London's gentrifying neighbourhoods.
- Discovery of mass graves highlights bloody scramble for Congos resources
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Last week, a team with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights together with personnel from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) discovered scores of mass graves in Kasai Province, a south central region of the Congo currently wracked by bloody conflict between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) and Kamuina Nsapu, a local tribal militia.
- Disobeying Spain: the Catalan Referendum for Independence
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 On October 1, 2017, all across Catalunya ballot boxes were ripped from people's hands by masked police and a dangerous violence was unleashed, at random, upon some of the 2,262,424 people who stood in long lines to cast their vote. The repression dealt by the Spanish State to prohibit the Catalan Referendum, in every bloodied baton and ever rubber bullet, transformed the day from a question of independence to a question of democracy.
- Divine ecstasy of Nature: Selected Writings by John Muir
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A new collection of John Muir's (1838-1914) writings promises to inspire another generation to fall in love with wild nature, to care for it, to know that wilderness is not optional but central to our survival in the centuries to come. His words survive him. "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike."
- Do you know a community that might like a new newspaper?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 At least 171 media organizations in 138 communities closed between 2008 and this January [2017]. However, Canadian communities still should be able to have reliable newspapers. They need to explore creating community-controlled not-for-profit papers.
- Do You Socialists Have Any Plans?
Why we need socialist architects Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Bruce Lerro claims that the only way 21st century socialism is going to get any traction or respect from the working class is if socialists collectively develop blueprints for socialism: five years, ten years, fifty years down the road.
- Doctors in Denial
Why Big Pharma and the Canadian medical professionals are too close for comfort Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 A look into the disturbing relationships between medical doctors and Big Pharma, which has influenced what medical students learn and the interactions doctors have with their patients.
- Document Trove Details Bradley Foundation's Efforts to Build Right-Wing "Infrastructure" Nationwide
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Documents examined by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) expose a national effort funded by the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation to assess and expand right-wing "infrastructure" to influence policies and politicians in statehouses nationwide.
- Does Freedom of Speech Include Fascists?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 There are two concepts on how to deal with fascism. One is fighting; the other is running away.
- Dolores
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2017 Dolores is a 2017 documentary directed by Peter Bratt on the life of activist Dolores Huerta. The film focuses on Huerta's work to organize farmworkers in California to form the United Farm Workers (UFW), in alliance with such movements as the Chicano Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, LGBTQ social movements, and the late 20th century Women's rights movement.
- Don Draper Rules: Russian Ads and American Madness
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 So we've finally seen some of the social media ads which we are told skewed the entire election in 2016 and constituted a key part of the internet assault on America launched by Vladimir Putin's "troll army." Scary stuff blazoned across front pages and screen scrolls everywhere. But before going on, perhaps we should find out what makes a social media account part of Putin's invasion force? Well, according to Twitter, it is ANY account created in Russia.
- Donald Trump and the death of the two-state solution
The demise of the two-state has been evident for some time. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 At his meeting with the US President Donald Trump at the White House on February 15, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scored what in his eyes must be a spectacular diplomatic success: he got the new president to reverse the US' long-standing support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to give him a free hand to do more or less whatever he likes with the West Bank.
- Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life -- And He Isn't Going to Change After Charlottesville
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Consider the first time the president's name appeared on the front page of the New York Times was an article which pointed out that the Department of Justice had sued the Trump family's real estate company in federal court over alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act because of anti-black bias. Over the next four decades, Trump burnished his reputation as a bigot.
- Don't Call the Cops If You're Autistic, Deaf, Mentally Ill, Disabled or Old
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 When people entering the police service are trained to be military warriors instead of peace officers, tense situations involving some of our society's more vulnerable people will more likely end violently.
- Don't tell me that working-class people cant be articulate
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 When writing dialogue, the idea that a drug dealer must be portrayed as verbally hesitant is daft -- language is not a tool issued by the nobility.
- Double standards: Do all journalist lives matter?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Little attention is paid to reporters from the Global South who are killed, abused, or left stranded by foreign media.
- Down on the Seed: The World Bank Enables Corporate Takeover of Seeds
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Exposing how the World Bank's policies ignores and undermines farmer-managed seed systems and enables profiteering by agrochemical companies.
- Driverless Cars: Hype, Hubris and Distractions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The driverless personal car is quickly emerging without a legal, ethical and priorities framework, when priorities should be placed on safer, more efficient and less polluting means of transport.
- Drowning in the waste of Israeli settlers
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Several decades ago, the al-Matwa spring in Salfit city would often be crowded with Palestinians hiking in the valley and families picnicking alongside the clear, flowing stream. Now, however, the sewage flowing through the spring, the rancid smell that engulfs the valley, and the mosquitoes swarming the area have left the valley largely deserted.
- Dump the Guardian!
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Guardian has spent the last two years relentlessly attacking Jeremy Corbyn. Only recently has it changed its tune, perhaps worried that it has alienated too many readers. Corbyn's success has been despite the Guardian and the rest of the corporate media. The Guardian will now want readers to forget its propaganda war on Corbyn. We've compiled this list so they don't. Dump the Guardian!
- The Dying Days of Liberalism
How Orthodoxy, Professionalism, and Unresponsive Politics Finally Doomed a 19th-century Project Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 It's not a small thing that has fallen here, not merely the defeat of Hillary Clinton and Americans rejecting Obamas "legacy". We are dealing with a series of institutions, an expert class, and a network of political and corporate alliances, that is being shaken beyond repair. We are in the earliest days of a historical transition, so it's not clear what is coming next, and the labels that have been proliferating demonstrate confusion and uncertainty -- populism, nativism, nationalism, etc.
- Dylan and Woody: Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Daniel Wolff's 'Grown Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913.'
- Ear Hustle: Prison podcast tells of life in San Quentin
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Recorded in the historic San Quentin State Prison, the new Ear Hustle podcast paints a human image of life in lockup.
- East York Workers' Association
Connexipedia article Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The East York Workers' Association (EYWA) was an unemployment movement that developed during the Great Depression in the township of East York, Ontario.
- Ecologist Special Report: From fish to forests and conflicts to coffee ... how humans are affected by climate-driven species shifts
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Climate change has species on the move, with major consequences for biodiversity and human communities. Building resilience has never been more important and Indigenous Peoples are showing the way.
- Ecologist Special Report: Why mining and violence are inextricably linked
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The South African government is currently embarking on streamlining decision-making processes in mining. To many this sounds like more top-down decision-making at the expense of those communities that will have to host mines and paves the way for more violent conflict, warns Jasper Finkeldey.
- Ecology and value theory
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A review of Jason W Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital.
- The Economy of an Ecological Society Will Be at the Service of Humanity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 What would a truly just, equal and ecologically sustainable future look like? Why would it require a change in our economic system, namely the end of capitalism? Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams answer these questions in Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation.
- The Ecosocialism of Joel Kovel
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Joel Kovel has been a prestigious and best-selling writer on psychotherapy, a militant left activist from the middle 1960s onward, an eco-theorist and an explorer of the world just beyond our sense perceptions.
- Ecuadoreans Won't Back Down in Fighting Chevron-Texaco Over Amazon Oil Disaster
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A class-action lawsuit first filed in 1993 against Chevron-Texaco has taken its toll on the lawyers and Ecuadorean people seeking justice for environmental damage. Hope for justice and healing drives people to not give up.
- EducationSources.ca
Resource Type: Website First Published: 2017 Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Edward Snowden Has Some Advice for Donald Trump About Surveillance
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Emmons interviews NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden about Trump's skewed priorities.
- Election Con 2016: New Evidence Demolishes the Myth of Trump's "Blue-Collar" Populism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Evidence indicates that Donald Trump's popularity among working class voters had less to do with economic insecurity and more to do with embracing support for elitist, pro-corporate, and reactionary social agendas.
- Election Interference Hypocrisy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 While Canadian and Western media pursue Russian election meddling they ignore clear-cut Canadian meddling elsewhere, and the Unites States' long history of interference in elections around the world, including in Canada.
- Empire Abroad, Empire At Home
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The institutions and ideas U.S. elites used to project "full spectrum dominance" onto the global stage have eventually become part of the political order in the U.S. It is empire -- most of all -- that dooms democracy. As corporations have an insatiable drive for profit, empires have an insatiable drive for power.
- Empire of Destruction
 Precision Warfare? Don't Make Me Laugh Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A single word to summarize American war-making in this last decade and a half: rubble. It's been a painfully apt term since September 11, 2001. In addition, to catch the essence of such war in this century, two new words might be useful: rubblize and rubblization.
- Endarkenment: Postmodernism, Identity Politics, and the Attack on Free Speech
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Many today find the idea of free speech appallingan awful fact to those who believe in freedom, quaint as it sounds. Left-liberals agitate to prevent disagreeable expression. Their masked street allies physically attack those who engage in it.
- Endless Atrocities: The US Role In Creating The North Korean Fortress-State
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An overview of the history that informs North Korea's relations with the United States and "drives its determination never to submit to any American diktat".
- Enemies of the People
How hatred of the masses bridges our partisan divide Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 As we veer into a brave new age of right-wing populism, a restive mood of contempt for the masses has seized the opposition. Demoralized liberals, still reeling from the debacle of the 2016 presidential ballot, are salving their wounds with reveries of metaphysical superiority.
- Engels, Neanderthals and the origins of the family
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Based on concrete evidence from genetics and archaeology, Friedrich Engel's theories well over a hundred years ago are still relevant to current disputes about the origins of the human family.
- EnvironmentSources.com
Resource Type: Website First Published: 2017 Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- E. P. Thompson's Socialist Humanism
E. P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Cal Winslow's E. P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics.
- The erasure of Syrian voices in Western media
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Trapped between a police state and Al Qaeda, average Syrians explain why they fear regime change.
- Essential Debates at the Intersections of Science and Socialism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In the introduction to his new book "A Redder Shade of Green", Ian Angus says ecosocialism must be based on a careful synthesis of Marxist social science and Earth System science -- a twenty-first century rebirth of scientific socialism.
- Europe: Reactionary Working Class? "Could it be that the Left have failed their constituencies"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 There is no lack of condemnation and moralizing to those who go to the far right. An increasing number of commentators, however, are now beginning to suspect that the march of large groups of workers toward the far right can be an expression of protest against the prevailing social development. Not all have received the benefits from the globalization success story.
- Evicting the Underclass
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A Chinese government campaign to expel migrant workers from Beijing is designed to reap greater profits from urban land and reserve the city for elites.
- Evictions, trials as Russian Church claims property
With the resurgence of a Kremlin-endorsed monastery, islanders on Valaam have endured trials, evictions and arson. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 With the resurgence of a Kremlin-endorsed monastery, islanders on Valaam have endured trials, evictions and arson.
- Expansion of Renewable Energies in Mexico Has Victims, Too
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An account of the impact of wind and solar projects in the Yucatan state of Mexico on the nearby communities, in particular farmers, and the failures of the government to consult or inform the community on the environmental impacts and contract terms.
- Expert panel identifies unacceptable toll of food and farming systems on human health
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The UN Committee on World Food Security in Rome has today launched a new report examining the impact of chemical intensive, industrial food system on human health.
- The Extraordinary Lynne Stewart
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Remembering Lynne Stewart, who died on March 12, 2017.
- Eyewitness at Standing Rock
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Interview with Rebecca Kemble.
- The Facts Proving Corbyn's Election Triumph
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Corbyn has proved himself the most popular Labour leader with the electorate in more than 40 years, apart from Blairs landslide victory in 1997.
- Fair Play for Cuba Committee
Connexipedia article Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017
- Fake news about the Rojava revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Sharply different opinions have developed among the radical left in recent years towards the Syrian radical democratic movement led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) -- an initially Kurdish-based force which through a series of political and military struggles and alliances has recently formed the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, as a model for a multi-ethnic, non-sectarian, federal and socially just alternative for the nation and the region.
- Fake News about Venezuela: A Simple Recipe
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 "Journalists" who want to write fake news about Venezuela, or about any other country or group that dares to stand up to US imperialism, only need to follow this simple recipe: - Choose one or more countries/groups opposed to US imperialism - If available, have a former official, now being paid by the US government, make the accusations - Season well with doses of "war on terror" and/or "war on drugs" - Sprinkle with opinions of "experts" who work in DC think tanks or US-funded NGOs
- Fake news, echo chambers and filter bubbles: Underresearched and overhyped
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In the early years of the internet, it was revolutionary to have a world of information just a click away from anyone, anywhere, anytime. Many hoped this inherently democratic technology could lead to better-informed citizens more easily participating in debate, elections and public discourse.
- Fake News Inquiry: Old Wine in New Bottles
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A criticism of a recent investigation by the UK's Culture, Media and Sports committee into 'fake news' and public persuasion by false propaganda, describing the challenges of identifying or preventing the dissemination of fake news.
- Fake News on Russia in the New York Times, 1917-2017
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Fake news on Russia is a Times tradition that can be traced back at least as far as the 1917 revolution.
- 'Fake news' or free speech: Is Google cracking down on left media?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Left leaning progressive websites say they are being unfairly penalized by Google's efforts to stamp out fake news.
- Fake News: the Unravelling of US Empire From Within
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A war of opposing certitudes and denunciations is waged day to day between the long-ruling US corporate media and the White House. Both continuously proclaim ringing recriminations of the other's 'fake news'. Over months they both portray each other as malevolent liars.
- FAO: Plantations are not forests!
Since 1948 the UN's Food and Agriculture has been clinging to an outmoded definition of 'forests' that includes industrial wood plantations Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The FAO definition considers forests to be basically just 'a bunch of trees', while ignoring other fundamental aspects of forests, including their many other life-forms such as other types of plants, as well as animals, and forest-dependent human communities. Equally, it ignores the vital contribution of forests to natural processes that provide soil, water and oxygen.
- Fascism and the far right; twenty years on
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Author Dave Renton revisits his book Fascism: Theory and Practice, and examines how his perspectives would change if he was to think today about the same questions raised 20 years ago.
- Fascism and anti-fascism in 1930s Manchester
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An account of the growth of fascism in Manchester in the early 1930s, and working class resistance to it.
- Fast food rights: organising the unorganised
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The experience from the examples of organising the unorganised both in the US and UK demonstrate that it is possible to develop union organisation; significant examples are discussed in this article, particularly in a British context.
- Fast and Furious: Now They're Really Gunning for Trump
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Allegations about President Donald Trump revealing highly classified intelligence are intended to bring him down.
- The FBI: Silent Terror of the Fourth Reich
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Lately, there's been a lot of rhetoric comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. The concern is that a Nazi-type regime may be rising in America. That process, however, began a long time ago.
- The FBI's Forgotten Criminal History
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The FBI has a long record of both deceit and incompetence. Five years ago, Americans learned that the FBI was teaching its agents that "the FBI has the ability to bend or suspend the law to impinge on the freedom of others." This has practically been the Bureau's motif since its creation in 1908.
- The FBI's Perjury Trap of the Century
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 John Brennan, Jim Comey, Sally Yates, Peter Strzok and a passel of deep state operatives -- all of whom baldly abused their offices, set a perjury trap designed to snare Mike Flynn as a first step in relitigating and reversing the voters' verdict.
- The FBI's Secret Rules
President Trump has inherited a vast domestic intelligence agency with extraordinary secret powers. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A collection of articles exploring the contents and implications of a cache of internal FBI manuals, offering a rare window into the FBIs quiet expansion since 9/11.
- Fear and Trembling in the Workplace
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Organized labour is desperately in need of a major facelift. The AFL-CIO needs to hire the best public relations firm in the land, pay them what they ask, do exactly as they say, and get busy educating the American public.
- A Few Things About Nonviolence: A Response to Yoav Litvin
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The goal of a true movement opposing American fascism should not be adrenaline-boosting brawls, it can only be the long and dedicated work of dismantling various engines of white supremacy within our socio-political landscape.
- Fighting Back for Survival
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The editors reflect on the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
- Fighting Fascism: the Irish at the Battle of Cordoba
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A history of the role played by Irish citizens who enlisted to fight against General Franco's fascist forces in Spain in 1936.
- Fighting for climate justice
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Climate change is a key factor in oppression of the poor worldwide.
- Fighting for Their Water and Their Lives, Communities Take Direct Action Against Barrick Gold in the Dominican Republic
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 People who live near the Pueblo Viejo gold mine iin Dominican Republic struggle to gain accountabilty from the Canadian-owned companies running it. Their environment has been poisoned and they want funds for 600 families to be relocated.
- Fighting Franco: the First Irish Casualties of the Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A brief biography of Tommy Patten and Jack Barry focusing on their involvement in the Spanish Civil War.
- Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Why Americans Hate Muslims
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Certainly, anti-Arab and Muslim sentiments in the US have been around for generations, but it has risen sharply in the last two decades. Arabs and Muslims have become an easy scapegoat for all of America's failed wars and counter-violence.
- Finance as Warfare: the IMF Lent to Greece Knowing It Could Never Pay Back Debt
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An interview with economist Michael Hudson, who argues that the International Monetary Fund provided loans to Greece with the deliberate intention that the country be forced to go into default and be forced to sell public assets and land.
- Finland: 100th anniversary of workers' revolution drowned in blood
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A look at the Workers' Revolution in Finland, a source of inspiration and a powerful example of the strength of collective struggle.
- First of Its Kind Study Shows 55,400 People Hospitalized or Killed by US Cops in a Single Year
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The authors of a study which examined police interactions with the public conclude that alarmingly high numbers reflect an "excess exposure" of people to police violence.
- The Flint Militants
Eighty years ago, the Flint Sit-Down Strike showed the power of a determined rank and file and a class-conscious leadership Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In 1937 hundreds of autoworkers seized two General Motors (GM) plants in Flint, Michigan, paralyzing the massive corporation's production line. The workers' new tactic - the sit-down strike - threatened to fundamentally change the balance of power between workers and management.
- Florynce Kennedy & Black Feminism
Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Sherie M. Randolph's Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical.
- Following the Levellers, volume One
Political and Religious Radicals in the English Civil War and Revolution, 16451649 Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 This book reinterprets the Leveller authorships of John Lilburne, Richard Overton and William Walwyn, and foregrounds the role of ordinary people in petitioning and protest during an era of civil war and revolution.
- A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Capitalism drives our global food system. Everyone who wants to end hunger, who wants to eat good, clean, healthy food, needs to understand capitalism. This book will help do that.
- Forest Service's 'Independent' Report on Atlantic Coast Pipeline Written by Pipeline Company Contractor
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The U.S. Forest Service recently published an assessment of the proposed Atlantic Coast pipeline, calling the report "independent." In reality the assessment was performed and written by none other than a contractor working for the pipeline company.
- The Fort Hood 43
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A history of the 43 infantrymen who refused to be deployed against protestors at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
- Forty Questions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An excerpt from Valeria Luiselli's book "Tell me How it Ends", a damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children in the United States.
- Fracking kills newborn babies - polluted water likely cause
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A new study in Pennsylvania, USA shows that fracking is strongly related to increased mortality in young babies. The effect is most pronounced in counties with many drinking water wells indicating that contamination by 'produced water' from fracking is a likely cause. Radioactive pollution with uranium, thorium and radium is a 'plausible explanation' for the excess deaths.
- Frantz Fanon: Decolonisation through revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A review of Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015); Lewis R Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015); and Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution (I B Taurus, 2016). The three books illustrate a renewed interest among activists and within academia in the life and work of Frantz Fanon. The three highlighted works demonstrate that Fanon has many lessons for current movements against racism, imperialism and capitalism.
- Franz Kafka: In His Times and Ours
Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Michael Lowy's Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer.
- Free Speech for the Right? A Primer on Key Legal Questions and Principles
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The rise in national attention to the "alt-right" and fascist-white supremacist protesters has raised questions about the parameters of free speech in America. When can free speech be limited, if ever? What are the implications of attempting to limit controversial speech? And what precedents has the Supreme Court set regarding free speech?
- Free Speech and Unsafe Spaces
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Malik criticizes "the blinkered, self-centred, indeed narcissistic, attitudes that shape much contemporary discussion on speech and its limits. Free speech, from this perspective, requires not a robust exchange of ideas but the validation of my views. I should have the right to denounce anyone I wish, but criticism of my views is a denial of my free speech. Vigorously defending oneself against criticism is to deny safe space for one's critics."
- Freedom for the Speech We Hate: a Legal Guide to Your Protest Rights
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A list of Constitutional questions and answers, including laws and guidelines for peaceful protesting, aimed at promoting the effectiveness of the First Amendment.
- The Freeland-Chomiak Connection: "It takes a village to raise a Nazi"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Sanders uncovers Chrystia Freeland's, the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, own personal and professional connection with fascist groups and publications.
- From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their will, censoring content that threatens their rule. But in the "democratic" west, it is being done differently. The state does not have to interfere directly -- it outsources its dirty work to corporations.
- From Left Radicalism to Radical Islamism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The current preoccupations of Islamic youth in Britian are much different from the anti-racist activism and political radicalism of the author's generation.
- From the Editors
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Beyond the specifics of the disagreements regarding the election results, it also became clear that political support for the Insurgent Notes project, as it had evolved within that small group was not as deep-seated as needed to allow for coherent decision-making about how we should proceed. We are in the process of forming a new editorial group that we hope will address that fundamental challenge.
- Fury at Azaria Verdict is Israel's Trump Moment
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Examining the popular reaction to the conviction in military court of Elor Azaria for manslaughter as demonstrating a deep social divide in the vein of Trump's election in the US and the Brexit vote in the UK.
- The Future Belongs to the Blasphemers
A message from ex-Muslims to mark International Blasphemy Day Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Some people believe that disagreeing with deeply held beliefs is hate. It is not. I want to remind you that many of the most powerful ideas, ideas that changed our world were once heretical. I want to remind you that many of the most radical thinkers and reformists in past eras were blasphemers against the established order of their day.
- Gaza's women of steel
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Gadzo interviews three different women in Gaza who have taken on difficult, yet culturally progressive, employment in the wake of the region's economic devastation.
- Gender segregation is humiliating and damaging
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The author looks at gender segregation, drawing on her own personal experiences in Iran but also in a broader context and the resulting psychological damage done to girls from a very young age.
- Gene Drives: A Scientific Case for a Complete and Perpetual Ban
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 One of the central issues of our day is how to safely manage the outputs of industrial innovation. Novel products incorporating nanotechnology, biotechnology, rare metals, microwaves, novel chemicals, and more, enter the market on a daily basis. The majority of products receive no regulatory supervision at all.
- The Genocide of the Rohingya: Big Oil, Failed Democracy and False Prophets
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the west for many years, she was made a 'democracy icon' because she opposed the same forces in her country, Burma, at the time that the US-led western coalition isolated Rangoon for its alliance with China.
- Gentrification Represents a Geography of Inequality
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 What does gentrification mean for the future of American cities? It means more than the arrival of trendy shops and expensive coffee. Peter Moskowitz intertwines human narratives with incisive analysis of the systemic forces contributing to America's crises of race and inequality, in How to Kill a City. Click here now to order this book with a donation to Truthout!The following is a Truthout interview with Peter Moskowitz, author of How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood.
- Geri Allen: A Tribute
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 By the time Geri Allen, the pianist, composer and Detroit native who died June 27, 2017 at the age of 60, arrived in New York City in 1984, she had finished one of the most rigorous formal educations then available for an aspiring jazz musician, and it showed
- The German Revolution (World Revolution for Beginners Part III)
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 It's really important to understand that the Nazis made real appeals to the working class, not very successfully, but they considered themselves to be a party that was for a workers' revolution, but for a German Workers Revolution. So, thats something often lost in translation when people just say "Nazis" or "National Socialists".
- Germany's Network Enforcement Act: Legal framework for censorship of the Internet
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 On October 1, 2017, the Network Enforcement Act took effect in Germany. Under the cover of a fight against "fake news" and "hate speech," it creates a legal framework for censorship of the Internet.
- Getting Assange: the Untold Story
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The witchhunt against Wikileaks founder Jullian Assange.
- Ghost Nation
An ethnic-cleansing campaign by the government threatens to empty South Sudan Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Reporter Nick Turse provides a first hand acount of his time spent covering a refugee crisis in Southern Sudan, where the government's Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) is committing atrocities that include mass rape, mutilation, torture, and the burning down of villages.
- The Ghosts of St. Louis Future
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Maxwell provides an analysis of the court decision by Judge Timothy J. Wilson's acquital of Jason Stockley, the white St. Louis cop charged with the first-degree murder of Anthony Lamar Smith (a 24-year-old African American).
- Gig Economy or Odd Jobs: What May Seem Trendy to Privileged City Dwellers and Suburbanites is as Old as Poverty
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2017 The rise of precarious employment is not a stimulus to "creativity" but a long-established way of explloiting the poor.
- Gilroy and Reed on Race, Class & Culture
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The common theme has been the way that those who call themselves 'progressive' or 'anti-racist' often draw upon ideas that are deeply regressive and rooted in racial ways of thinking; and that the consequences of identity politics and of concepts such as cultural appropriation is to bring about not social justice but the empowerment of those who would act as gatekeeprs to particular communities. The articles have inevitably drawn much hostility, especially from would-be gatekeepers, who insist that to challenge such ideas is to challenge antiracism, even to 'defend white supremacy'.
- Giving a Voice to Local NGOs in a Flawed Global Aid Environment
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Driven by wealthy donor countries, the global aid environment is flawed and unbalanced, and evidence suggests it is taking advantage of the regions they are supposed to be helping.
- A Global Matrix of Control
War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Jeff Halper's War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification.
- Globalization vs. Empire: Can Trump Contain the Growing Split?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A brief history of US policy supporting globalization and the growing divide it has created between US hegemony and global capitalism, and criticism of the Trump administrations capability to deal with the impacts of this divide.
- Globe and Mail promotes Controversial Mining Magnate
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 How close is too close when it comes to media outlets working with institutions set up by wealthy individuals to influence the news? The question becomes important to ask when Canada's "national newspaper" promotes a worldview paid for by one of the planet's most controversial mining magnates. The Globe and Mail's close ties to the Munk Debates and University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs should worry journalists and everyone who cares about foreign policy discussion in this country.
- God: A Human History - a rescue attempt by Reza Aslan
Book review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Gods and religions have caused so much distress that even those who have spent a lifetime apologising for and ignoring the doctrinal foundations of their abuses must make a rescue attempt.
- Good To Know You! - John Berger's ways of seeing
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A tribute to the life and work of John Berger, author of the influential 'Ways of Seeing'.
- Goodbye to Golden Rice? GM Trait Leads to Drastic Yield Loss and "Metabolic Meltdown"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 While proponents of Golden rice have blamed its failure to reach the market on "over-regulation" of GMOs and on "anti-GMO" opposition, the latest research suggests that problems intrinsic to GMO breeding are what have prevented researchers from developing Golden Rice suitable for commercialization.
- Google Is So Big, It Is Now Shaping Policy to Combat the Opioid Epidemic. And It's Screwing It Up.
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A snap decision by Google has begun to reshape the drug treatment industry, tilting the playing field toward large conglomerates-- the precise opposite outcome Google had hoped to achieve.
- Google's Eric Schmidt admits political censorship of search results
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Recent remarks by the Executive Chairman of Google's parent company confirm charges that the company has been deliberately altering its search algorithms and taking other measures to prevent the public from accessing information that is critical of the US government.
- Google's new search protocol is restricting access to 13 leading socialist, progressive and anti-war web sites
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 New data suggests that the implementation of changes in Google's search evaluation protocols resulted in a massive loss of readership of socialist, anti-war and progressive web sites.
- The Government Is Trying to Make It Impossible For Reality Winner to Defend Herself in Court
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Justice Department is engaged in a multi-pronged effort to hamstring Reality Winner's defense against charges of violating the Espionage Act behind cumbersome classification rules.
- Grasping Diversity, Embracing Democracy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Can Diversity Embrace Democracy? Can Democracy Acknowledge Diversity?
- The Great American Sex Panic of 2017
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 What interest of sanity or reason is served by this reckless lumping together of flicks of the tongue and forcible rapes into the single broad-brush term sexual misconduct, as though there is no important difference between an oafish pat or crude remark at an office party and a gang rape?
- The Great Power Shift: a Russia-China Alliance
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A significant powershift in the triangular relaionship between the US, Russia and China is occuring as Sino-Russian relations are improving.
- The Great Unraveling: Using Science and Philosophy to Decode Modernity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 All of this ecological destruction has been driven by Americas most popular exports: capitalism and imperialism. William Hawes talked about using science and philosophy to decode modernity.
- Greece mourns slain anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A self-professed Golden Dawn member stabbed leftist rapper Killah P to death in Piraeus on September 18, 2013.
- Green nationalism? How the far right could learn to love the environment
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Myths of a pagan past in harmony with nature have been a feature of green nationalism, from its beginnings through to the Anastasia ecovillages in contemporary Russia where - unlike their equivalent hippy communes found in the West - sustainable living is combined with a 'reactionary eco-nationalism'. Could it happen here too?
- The Green Party After the Election
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Until the Green Party has built a real power base of well-organized, dues-paying members and elected Green caucuses in city councils, state legislatures and the U.S. House, it will not be taken seriously in a presidential run by most media and most voters
- Grenfell Tower: A Disaster Waiting to Happen
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Grenfell tower disaster is a consequence of social housing policies dating back to the 1980's.
- Grenfell Tower fire: anger rising
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Four days after the raging inferno that criminally took the innocent lives of so many, survivors and friends and families of the missing are still not only without the support from the authorities that they need, but are suffering an unacceptable lack of information and coordination. It is fair to say, that despite the Tory insistence that all is hand and all that can be done is being done, in reality, all that is being done, is being done by community brothers and sisters and a wider volunteer force. Lacking a central command, people are being fed, clothed and comforted from within the community, organised by those of the community. And while the community has so far largely remained peaceful, united by loss and grief, anger is bubbling.
- Grenfell Tower Fire: Corporate Manslaughter in London
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A massive fire engulfed Grenfell Tower in the early hours of June 14th. Grenfell Tower is a 24-storey building of public housing flats in the North Kensington area of London. Over 600 people were believed to be inside the building and there are fears that the death toll, currently at 58, will rise to over a 100. This incident generated a wave of public anger over ignored safety warnings, an inadequate response from authorities, and most of all about the (housing) policies that safeguard corporate greed over the rights of the poor and working class, in this case their very lives. This was no accident it was corporate manslaughter.
- The Grenfell Tower fire could have been avoided: this government must be held responsible
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017
- Grenfell Tower: the Tragic Price of the Rolled-Back State
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The British state used to be better organised and effective, but self-interested denigration of the state over the past 30 years has helped erode these strengths, leaving authorities less equiped to handle emergencies such as Grenfell tower disaster.
- Guardian Sells False Image of an Open Jerusalem
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A Guardian essay on a new Israeli open-rooftops project in Jerusalem, part of a Season of Culture, sadly falls into a standard trap for feelgood articles of this kind. It fails to provide the main context for Jerusalem: that the native Palestinians live under a belligerent Israeli occupation that is ultimately trying to evict them from the city.
- The guardians of the Andean potato
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 More than 2,800 types of potatoes are known to have originated in Peru. The existence of these varieties can be attributed to the high value the Quechua people place on their cultural traditions and biological diversity.
- Guardian's day of shame, and the dark depths of liberal McCarthyism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The liberal 'resistance' to Donald Trump has revealed a service media now plumbing its own dark, reactionary depths. A Guardian editorial has welcomed back to public prominence none other than George W Bush. Even for the Blair-protecting, war-apologising Guardian, it's a landmark day of shame.
- Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth and Morality
Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Observations on Hannah Arendt's 1951 book "Origins of Totalitarianism" on the nature of Totalitarianism and the role of propaganda in its rise and support within societies.
- The Harmful Effects of Antifa
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An historic opportunity is being missed. The disastrous 2016 presidential election could and should have been a wakeup call. A corrupt political system that gave voters a choice between two terrible candidates is not democracy.
- Has the meaning of "organizing" been forgotten?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Rising inequality, US anti-union laws crushing organized labour south of the boarder, and the slow unrelenting decline of union density here in Canada has renewed the focus on labour union organizing. The response from the leadership of the movement has been focused -- rightly -- on changes to law regulating labour unions that make it harder to organize. However, changing labour laws will not undo the slow decline in union density alone. Unions will also have to actually go out and talk to workers, sign them up, establish a local, bargain a first agreement, and enforce those terms.
- HealthSources.ca
Resource Type: Website First Published: 2017 A web portal featuring information and resources about health, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Healthy soil is the real key to feeding the world
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Some of the more common myths regarding the modern agricultural industry are outlined, notably that large scale commercial farming provides higher yields and greater diversity of products. Indeed the author contests the coversation should move beyond conventional farming vs organic, and that it is regenerative farming practices that concentrate on soil health that will provide the best solution.
- Heatwave frequency rises twice as fast in the poorest countries
New research proves that the countries least responsible for global warming, those least able to adapt, have already been hit much harder by Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A feature of most statements about climate change is the use of the future tense: the poorest countries will be worse-hit than the rich ones. But new research shows that the predicted unequal climate future has actually been with us for decades. The poorest countries have already experienced twice as great an increase in extreme temperatures as the rich ones, and the gap has been widening for more than thirty years.
- Hegemony How-To
A Roadmap for Radicals Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Hegemony How-To is a practical guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about questions of power, leadership, and strategy.
- "Hegemony How-To": Rethinking Activism and Embracing Power
A review of Hegemony How-To: a Roadmap for Radicals, by Jonathan Smucker Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 "How many times, I wondered, had I favored a particular action or tactic because I really thought it was likely to change a decision-makers position or win over key allies, as opposed to gravitating toward an action because it expressed my activist identity and self-conception? How concerned were we really, in our practice, with political outcomes?"
- Here's the PR Firm Behind Your Energy America Front Group Pushing Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A newly formed front group called "Your Energy America" is pushing Dominion Energy's Atlantic Coast natural gas pipeline; evidence points to DDC Advocacy as the PR firm behind the group, which has known ties to the Republican Party.
- Here's why papers don't deserve support; money should go to committed Internet sites
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Governement funding should not go toward propping up mainstream print media, but rather towards access to information in communities where it is currently lacking.
- Hersh's New Syria Revelations Buried From View
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A look at veteran journalist Seymour Herst's latest investigation, which questions whether Syrian President Assad was responsible for another alleged gas attack at Khan Sheikhoun.
- The Hidden History of the SNCC Research Department
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 SNCC may have been the most important organization of the postwar civil rights movement. It grew out of the wave of sit-ins in 1960 and was guided initially by Ella Baker, the foundational organizer whose emphasis on bottom-up organizing and democracy deeply shaped SNCCs vision and methods.
- Higher Education for Hire
The Capitalist University: The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States since 1945 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Henry Heller's The Capitalist University: The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States since 1945.
- Hillary Clinton Just Told Five Blatant Lies About WikiLeaks
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 During an interview with ABC's Sarah Ferguson, while promoting her new book about her loss in the 2017 presidential election, Hillary Clinton told five lies about the WikiLeaks.
- Hippies, Yippies, Radicals and Pranksters
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Review of the book entitled "Did iT! From Yippie to Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, an American Revolutionary," by Pat Thomas.
- Historic Settlement Reached on Behalf of CIA Torture Victims
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Details on the legal settlement between the U.S government and the victims of a CIA torture program in 2002.
- Historic Speaker's Corner Becomes Site of Anti-feminist Silencing and Volence
Efforts to silence feminist speech have taken a violent turn Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The "What is gender" debate at the historic Speaker's Corner in London turned vitriolic and violent when opposing organizations accused the discussion of potentially inciting "transmisogyny."
- The History Channel Is Finally Telling the Stunning Secret Story of the War on Drugs
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The US government's involvement with the drug cartels is examined in a new documentary on The History Channel.
- History and Hypocrisy: Why the Korean War Matters in the Age of Trump
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The DPRK's recent missile test is a "provocation" according to US state sources. A provocation indeed. Firing things into the air that go bang is clearly not a nice thing to do. People really should ease up on things that explode. I mean somebody could get hurt.
- A history of American anti-immigrant bias, starting with Benjamin Franklins hatred of the Germans
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In the 1750s, the United States of America was not yet a country, but its trouble with immigrants already had begun. People of non-WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) descent were crossing the ocean to start new lives in the new world, and earlier Colonial settlers were none too happy about it.
- A history of American lynchings
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A soil collection project is commemorating the forgotten victims of lynching and helping to tell their stories.
- A History of Women's Rights in Toronto
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Whether they were marching in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington or commemorating International Women's Day, women in Toronto have a longstanding tradition of advocating for gender equality across Canada.
- Hollowing out democracy and law
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The recent actions of the Catalan government are not those of politicians respecting democracy. The reaction of the Madrid government, which criminalize political dissent, are equally disturbing.
- Honduras Since the 2009 Coup
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 As this is being written, news arrives of arrests and serious charges filed against 14 community members of a poor area of Choluteca for opposing land grabs to build a solar energy plant; 28 small farmers in the northern Agujn Valley criminalized for trying to keep and work their land; and 31 university students and three human rights defenders facing jail after government attacks on student protests in Tegucigalpa.
- Hope in Dark Times
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The most dynamic and emergent forces in U.S. politics today are on our side, and possibilities for a radical transformation of the system have not yet been foreclosed. Whether we make good on them is up to us.
- How American History Erases Mass Killings Against Native Americans
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In the wake of recent American mass killings, the author reminds us of mass murders of indigenous people in American history.
- How 'Antifa' Mirrors the 'Alt-Right'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Behind the rhetoric of the "alt-right" about white nativism and protecting American traditions, history and Christian values is the lust for violence. Behind the rhetoric of antifa, the Black Bloc and the so-called "alt-left" about capitalism, racism, state repression and corporate power is the same lust for violence.
- How are you going to pay for it?
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Debates on how government will pay for new programs suffer from a fundamental fallacy: the assumption that the government spends other people's money. It doesn't.
- How Big is My Tribe? The Crisis in Catalonia
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A look at recent divisive events in Catalonia, Britain and the US, proposing that we should really be concentrating more on important universal issues such as inequality, influence peddling, profit-only deregulation, and offshore tax havens.
- How Bosses Use 'Open Shop' Campaigns to Crush Unions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Chad Pearson's book "Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement" and Lane Windham's new book "Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970's and the Roots of a New Economic Divide", take a historical look at anti-union tactics through the 20th century, and demonstrate how Unions can regroup, reform and fight back.
- How Brazils Sex Workers Have Been Organized and Politically Effective for 30 Years
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In Brazil, sex work remains politically and socially contentious. But thanks to a staunch sex worker movement in the country, the people who actually do the work have made themselves key contributors to the debate.
- How Brazil's Sex Workers Have Been Organized and Politically Effective for 30 Years
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Sex workers in Brazil have been organizing for 30 years and have influenced politics to the extent that the government recognizes sex-work as an official occupation. They are celebrating the anniversary in part with an exhibit of photographs taken by sex-workers.
- How Churchill Broke the Greek Resistance
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 On May 8, 1945, Hitlers successors signed Germany's capitulation. By that point, Greece had already been liberated for six months. Across more than three years, the Greek people had waged a mass resistance against the fascist occupiers -- the Italians, the Bulgarians, and above all the Germans -- in which they had shown heroic courage in the face of a boundless terror.
- How climate scepticism turned into something more dangerous
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The motley array of candidates who ran for the Republican presidential nomination was divided on many things, but not on climate change. None of them was willing to take the issue seriously.
- How Culture Came to Appropriate Race
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Racism has historically played a major role in shaping adoption practices.
- How Did It Start?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Every serious debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raises the question: "When did it start?" Each side has its own date, proving that the other side started it.
- How Do We Organize A Hundred Million?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The strategic considerations discussed in this series of posts assumes that it will take a hundred million activist in the US and many hundreds of millions more worldwide to make revolution. Real politics begin where there are millions, many millions.
- How Financial Transaction Taxes Make the Economy More Efficient
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The efforts to implement a financial transactions tax (FTT) within the European Union (EU) seem to be finally coming to a head. While the EU is far from unanimous in support of a FTT, an effort to implement a joint FTT has been moving forward for the last six years under a provision that allows ten or more countries to act collectively.
- How French 'Intellectuals' Ruined the West: Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself.
- How Fukushima gave rise to a new anti-racism movement
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Shaw examines the rise in anti-discrimination social activism in Japan after the environmental disasters in 2011 and lack of support from the government towards its non-Japanese citizens.
- How I Learned Courts are Off-Limits to the 99 Percent
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Rall discusses the expenses of the American justice system that benefit large corporations and the wealthy.
- How Immigrants Built the American Left -- And Can Build It Again
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The energy and upheaval unleashed by the Trump administration's assault on Muslims, Latinos, and other immigrants, documented or not, has been directed toward a restoration of their rights and dignity, toward the family reunions and free passage into our country that have been happily broadcast from airports all across the country -- and rightly so. But if our ambitions are simply to restore the old status quo or even recreate a liberalized version of the policies extant under President Obama, then we will be selling short the possibilities inherent in this moment.
- How Imperialism Works Today
Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism's Final Crisis Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of John Smith's Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism's Final Crisis.
- How Inequality Kills
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Global March of Neoliberalism: The World Inequality Report 2018
- How Israel is digitally policing Palestinian minds
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Israeli authorities have been arresting and holding hundreds of Palestinians it accuses of fanning the flames of violence in the occupied West Bank and Israel.
- How Labor and Climate United Can Trump Trump
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Co-operation between labour and climate groups may be possible in the Trump era.
- How many British MPs are working for Israel?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Investigating the revelations that UK embassy staff in Israel are cooperating with Israeli political parties to influence UK policy making.
- How Media Bias Fuels Syrian Escalation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The mainstream U.S. media now reports as "flat-fact" the Syrian government's guilt in the April 4, 2017 chemical weapons incident, but the real facts are less clear and some point in the opposite direction.
- How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 As white nationalism and the so-called "alt-Right" have gained prominence in the Trump era, a bipartisan reaction has coalesced to challenge these ideologies. But much of this bipartisan coalition focuses on individual, extreme, and hate-filled mobilizations and rhetoric, rather than the deeper, politer, and apparently more politically acceptable violence that imbues United States foreign and domestic policy in the 21st century.
- How Paul Robeson found his political voice in the Welsh valleys
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Acclaimed stage actor, American football player, and political activist Paul Robinson became invovled with the Welsh mining labor movement in Rhondda Valley.
- How Propaganda Works to Divide Us
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Political propaganda employs the ideals of liberal democracy to undermine those very ideals, the dangers of which, not even its architects fully understand.
- How "Race Neutral" Policy Failed
Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review ofKaren R. Miller's Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit.
- How Right-Wing Extremists Stalk, Dox, and Harass Their Enemies
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 How neo-Nazis in the U.S use the online chatroom Pony Power to harass anti-facist activists.
- How Russia Became "Our Adversary" Again
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 How did Russia, which has been a capitalist state for a querter of a century, become "our adversary" to the United States?
- How Russia-gate Rationalizes Censorship
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Russia-gate hysteria has spread beyond simply a strategy for neutralizing Donald Trump or even removing him from office into an excuse for stifling U.S. dissent that challenges the New Cold War, reports Joe Lauria.
- How Seattle Voted to Tax the Rich
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Seattle further cemented its reputation as one of the most progressive cities in the U.S. last week, when its City Council passed a law to tax the rich, sponsored by socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant along with Councilmember Lisa Herbold.
- How the 1989 War on Manuel Noriega's Panama Super-Charged US Militarism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Manuel Noriega is dead at 83. He seems like a sad footnote to the last disastrous quarter century, but the December 1989 US invasion of Panama really was a permission slip for Washington -- led by both Republicans and Democrats -- to waste whatever potential benefits the end of the Cold War might have brought.
- How the aristocracy preserved their power
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 After democracy finally shunted aside hereditary lords, they found new means to protect their extravagant riches. For all the modern tales of noble poverty and leaking ancestral homes, their private wealth and influence remain phenomenal.
- How the Nazis Used Jim Crow Laws as the Model for Their Race Laws
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An interview with James Q. Whitman about his new book "Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law".
- How the tiny fishing village of Pugwash tried to stop a nuclear war
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Pugwash Conference in Nova Scotia, a gathering of leading scientists to help thwart nuclear war, is the inspiration for a new play by Vern Thiessen.
- How the UAW Lost at Nissan
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In early August, the UAW's union recognition campaign at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi ended in a disastrous 63% "no" vote - 10% greater than the loss at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee three and a half years earlier.
- How to Escape the Present
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A review of Naomi Klein's book "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need". Klein's focus is the global economy and the deeply flawed value system it creates, at the expense of people and the environment.
- How to Fight a Giant: Militant Labor Organizers Catch PepsiCo Off Guard
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The sudden closing of a factory by PepsiCo, the world's second-largest snacks producer, leaves hundred's of workers in Argentina without jobs or sucurity, resulting in a massive demonstration of solidarity for worker's rights.
- How Zionist terrorism determined Palestine's fate
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A book review on State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel, Thomas Suárez, Olive Branch Press (2017).
- Hue 1968
A Turning Point in the American War in Vietnam Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam.
- Human Rights: the Latest Weapon Against Venezuela
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Non-governmental organizations are using false information to charge Venezuela with "human rights violations." These are merely extensions of the US and western foreign policy apparatus, working as the local infrastructure that is necessary in regime change operations as well as a source for the media to build its biased narrative.
- Humans and Subhumans: Weill Cornell and the Death of the American Soul
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 All patients that walk through the door of Weill Cornell are put into two categories: the humans, who are deemed by Cornell to have "good insurance," and the subhumans, who are deemed by Cornell to have "bad insurance." If you fall into the category of the former, they will generally make a grudging effort to provide you with good care. If you fall into the category of the later, they will literally bend over backwards to see to it that you are provided with truly awful and atrocious care.
- Hurricane Harvey and the Dialectics of Nature
Houston is the city where capitalism's victory over nature is the most complete - and also where nature takes its ultimate revenge Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Proyect argues that historically the shortsighted nature of capitalism has led to natural disasters such as Hurricane Harvey. To understand nature, the ripple effects of its manipulation and to implement laws that protect it is in our only hope to prevent catastrophes such as Hurricane Harvey in the future.
- I Am Not Your Negro
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2017 I am Not your Negro explores the history of racism in the United States through James Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr, as well as his personal observations of American history.
- I wanted to understand why racists hated me. So I befriended Klansmen
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Daryl Davis befriended Ku Klux Klan members in order to gain some understanding of the organization, their beliefs and hatred.
- ICIJ Releases Paradise Papers Data From Appleby
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A look at data released from the Paradise Papers investigation, a global journalistic collaboration that exposed offshore deals of political players and corporate giants. A team of journalists explored a trove of 13.4 million records from two offshore firms and 19 secret jurisdictions.
- Identities and Solidarity
On Anti-Semitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of On Anti-Semitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice, published by Jewish Voice for Peace.
- Ideological Violence and Sociopathic Rage
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 How can we distinguish violence driven by ideology from sociopathic rage?
- Idylls of the Liberal: The American Dreams of Mark Lilla and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Social change is not made by noble heroes, even if they find themselves in the right place at the right time to take the credit. It is made by the commoners -- by those who remain nameless and faceless in the legends, and in the political ideologies of Lilla and Coates.
- If China Can Fund Infrastructure With Its Own Credit, So Can We
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 What the US could learn from China about funding infrastructure initiatives.
- If this is feminism...
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Part of the problem with the response to Tuvel's article is that some seem to feel that they are the only ones who have the legitimate right to talk about certain topics. At best, this is identity politics run amok; at worst it is a turf war.
- Imagining a New Social Order: Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin in Conversation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin discuss how the left can save the US from neoliberal excesses.
- Immanuel Kant on Electoral Interference
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Historically the United States has been far more inclined to engage in politcal interference than Russia.
- Immigration's Troubled History
Immigration and the Decline of Internationalism in the American Working Class,1864-1919 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Charles R. Leinenweber's Immigration and the Decline of Internationalism in the American Working Class,1864-1919.
- Impacts of mass coral die-off on Indian Ocean reefs revealed
Warming sea waters - caused by climate change and extreme climatic events - threaten the stability of tropical coral reefs, with potentially Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 New research by the University of Exeter shows that increased surface ocean temperatures during the strong 2016 El Niño led to a major coral die-off event in the Maldives, and that this has caused reef growth rates to collapse. They also found that the rates at which some reefs species, in particular parrotfish, are eroding the reefs had increased following this coral die-off event.
- Impeach the U.S. Constitution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 This article explains that democracy was the last thing the U.S. founding fathers wanted to see break out in the new republic, and the Constitution was carefully crafted by propertied elites to protect the privileged from the 'wicked' masses.
- Imperialism and the Logic of Mass Destruction
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 As throughout much of its war-obsessed history, the United States is currently engaged in military conflict or threatening such action across a broad contested terrain. In the cases of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, Washington has resorted to its familiar global modus operandi: sending off barrages of missiles and bombs, much of it hitting civilian populations and resources needed for their survival. Death tolls mount, the largest numbers lately in the protracted battle for Mosul. Heavier casualties are being visited upon non-combatants in Yemen, thanks to U.S.-backed Saudi aerial savagery.
- Import and Die: Self-Sufficiency and Food Security in India
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 While there are clear signs that India needs to achieve greater food self-sufficiency, there is also a World Bank-backed agenda for the future of India where the majority of farmers don't have much of a role.
- In Defense of Cultural Appropriation
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 It is just as well that Im a writer, not an editor. Were I editing a newspaper or magazine, I might soon be out of a job. For this is an essay in defense of cultural appropriation. In Canada last month, three editors lost their jobs after making such a defense.
- In India Any Social Activist Can Be Arrested, Charged And Tried - Sans Evidence - For Terrorism: Kobad Ghandy's Case - Part II - The Punjab Trial
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In a follow-up to an article detailing how Delhi's legal system was able to detain Kobad Ghandy in Tihar Jail for engaging in supposedly communist activities, this article discusses a separate attempt to prosecute Ghandy for his social activism.
- In Memoriam: Bobby Lee, Black Panther
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Hy Thurman remembers Bobby Lee.
- In Myanmar, Anti-Terrorism Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A brutal crackdown in Myanmar under the guise of anti-terrorism is really ethnic cleansing against a long-persecuted Rohingya minority.
- In Search of Los Angeles' Lost Socialist Colony, Llano del Rio
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In search of the ruins of Llano del Rio, a socialist colony founded in 1914 by Job Harriman, looking to create a utopian community.
- In search of the common good
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 This essay examines the historical change in the meaning and understanding of the 'common good', particularly between ancient times and the modern world, and also takes a look at the social and political changes of recent decades that have shaped how we look at the issue.
- In Search of the Lost Chord
1967 and the Hippie Idea Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 An extensive look into the social and cultural events that shaped 1967. Golberg touches on influencial musicians such as the Doors, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin as well as LSD, the Summer of Love and the Vietnam War.
- In Syria, Western Media Cheer Al-Qaeda
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Khalek criticizes Western media for their failure to report on attacks in Syria because to do so would highlight how the West has been responsible for prolonging Al-Qaeda's bloodshed.
- In the 19th and 20th centuries, Mexico proved that debt can be repudiated
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Mexico's past demonstrates that despite the domination of the major powers and international finance, a country can make major social advances.
- In the Shadow of the Revolution
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2017 In the Shadow of the Revolution provides alternative perspectives on Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution. Through interviews with academics, journalists and socal activists the film helps explain the rebellion against the corrupt authoritarian government that created a catastrophe in Venezuela.
- 'Inappropriate Behaviour' - Michael Fallon, Yemen, And The 'Mainstream' That Is Anything But
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A look at 'mainstream' journalism, a product of corporate conformity and a deference to power that is anything but mainstream.
- India: Why are Suzuki automobile workers in jail?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Why are automobile workers being jailed for murder? The story at Maruti is a familiar one in India's industrial scene.
- Indigenous resistance: my fight for land and life in Colombia
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 On World Day of Indigenous Resistance, Wayúu woman ANGELICA ORITZ shares her experience as a human rights defender, living and fighting for the future of her community in the shadow of the largest opencast mine in Colombia.
- Indigenous Women: The Frontline Protectors of the Environment
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Indigenous women, while experiencing the first and worst effects of climate change globally, are often in the frontline in struggles to protect the environment.
- Industrial Production of Poultry Gives Rise to Deadly Strains of Bird Flu H5Nx
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Debunking the claims of industrial poultry producers that multiple outbreaks of bird flu are due to wild waterfowl, instead providing evidence that industrial farming practices are responsible for the outbreak.
- Ineffective 350.org divestment campaign should give way to direct corporate actions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 While 350.org runs a number of important campaigns, such as "Resist Trump's Climate Agenda" , there are serious questions about whether divestment campaigning is effective or whether it should be replaced by direct action campaigning.
- Informal Labour, Another Wall Faced by Migrants in Latin America
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A large proportion of the 4.3 million migrant workers in Latin America and the Caribbean survive by working in the informal economy or in irregular conditions. An invisible wall that is necessary to bring down, together with discrimination and xenophobia.
- Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
Book review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A review of Shashi Tharoor's book "Inglorious Empire", which is a scorching indictment of British rule in India and British imperialism in general.
- Inside Corbyn's Office
An interview with Matt Zarb-Cousin Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Jeremy Corbyns former press officer on sabotage within the British Labour party, his relationship to the media, and how Labour can close the polling gap.
- Inside The Scorpion
A Journalist's Ordeal in Egypt's Most Notorious Prison Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The story of journalist Mohamed Fahmy's experiences during their two-year confinement in an Egyptian prison.
- IntelligentSearch.ca
Resource Type: Website First Published: 2017 A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Interactive map of workers' councils (1917-1927)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 This article charts the spread of the workers' council movement in the ten-year period after the 1917 revolution in Russia.
- International Olympic Committee bans Russia from 2018 Olympics in political provocation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board announced Tuesday that it had decided to ban the Russian Olympic team from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.
- The Internet is Already Broken
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Nick Pemberton's article on the already broken internet.
- Introduction to the Inside/Outside Strategy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The inside/outside strategy (IOS) is an approach to organizing and movement building that emphasizes learning from and coordination with resistance movements and political positions you do not completely agree with.
- Iran: The Impact of October
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Russian Revolution had a profound influence on the revolutionary movement in the countries neighbouring the new Soviet Republic, and Iran was no exception.
- The Irish Dead: Fighting Fascism in Spain, 1937
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In the springtime of 1937, Spain was in the grip of civil war which flared as intense and as hot as the sun that hung over its skies. Of the many different nationalities that went to Spain to help the Republicans defeat the fascists, it was the Irish who proved to be a dominant force, but death stalked the men from the emerald isle and many of them did not see the end of that intensely hot Summer.
- The Irish Potato Famine Was Caused by Capitalism, Not a Fungus
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 While the blight did strike and take down most of Irelands potatoes, the truth is that Ireland was exporting more than enough food to feed everyone at the same time as the famine was happening.
- Is the Vault 7 Source a Whistleblower?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Historically, the criminal justice system has been a particularly inept judge of who is a whistleblower. Moreover, it has allowed the use of the pernicious Espionage Act an arcane law meant to go after spies to go after whistleblowers who reveal information the public interest.
- ISIS Church Bombings Kill 47 in Egypt
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Ditz details two recent ISIS attacks in Egypt targeting Christian churches and followers.
- Islamophobic U.S. Megadonor Fuels German Far-Right Party With Viral Fake News
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An American website, the Gatestone Institute, is peddling fake news focused on anti-immigration and anti-Islamic rhetoric that many fear will influence the upcoming German federal election.
- Israel and the A-Word
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Israel's apartheid foundations were laid in its dispossession of the Palestinians in 1948. They were reinforced by the immediate erection of colonial constitutional structures that cemented the exclusion of the colonised. Since then, Israeli law and policy has only deepened the state apparatus of separation and segregation, discrimination and domination. Over the years, countless activists, authors and artists, as well as leading anti-apartheid figures from South Africa, have referred to Israels particular brand of structural discrimination as akin to apartheid. In the last decade, international lawyers have also begun to do likewise, but with reference to the definition of apartheid under international law rather than by analogy to southern Africa.
- Israel Barring Palestinians From Entering for Medical Care Over Cellphones, Witnesses Say
Gaza women say they were turned back at border because they didn't have their cellphones, which were taken by Hamas. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Palestinians from Gaza attempting to enter Israel claim that Israel's Shin Bet security service has recently begun demanding they hand over their cellphones when being questioned and that those who refuse are barred from entering.
- Israel Continues Its Attack on Palestinian Freedom of Expression
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The arrest of a teenager for voicing an opinion on a social media site raises serious concerns over freedom of expression in Israel.
- Israel maintains robust arms trade with rogue regimes
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Israel's collusion with Myanmar's military is part of a pattern of military aid to rogue regimes that goes back decades, and reflects the importance of the arms trade to Israel's economy.
- Israel: Neither Democratic or Jewish
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 After 50 years of Occupation, Israel is neither democratic, nor Jewish.
- Israel put up a £1,000,000 bounty for Labour insiders to undermine Corbyn
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A second release from an Al Jazeera undercover sting operation has revealed the existence of a £1,000,000 plot designed by the Israeli government to undermine Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
- Israel Seeks 'Jewish' Non-Jews in Numbers Battle with Palestnians
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 With a shortage of Jews to defeat the Palestinians demographically, the Netanyahu government is considering a revision to the traditional rabbinical injunction that a Jew must be born to a Jewish mother -- opening the doors to a new category of 'Jewish' non-Jews.
- Israel Steps up Dirty Tricks Against Boycott Leaders
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The current obsession with the challnege posed by BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) reflects a changing political environment for Israel.
- Israel uses Palestinian land to illegally dump toxic waste
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Israel dumps unknown waste and military garbage in a disposal site in Kisan village, in the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli activists 'thought it nice' to hold BBQ near Palestinian hunger strikers
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In the face of increasing human rights abuses being committed towards Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, an Israeli right-wing group mocked the Palestinian mass hunger strike by hosting a BBQ outside a military prison.
- Israeli Soldiers Shut Down Media Outlets In The West Bank
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Israeli soldiers and secret security officers invaded media outlets in dawn raids in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The media outlets provide services to Palestinian TV stations such as Al-Aqsa and Al-Quds.
- Israeli torture of Palestinian children 'institutional'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Investigation of the practice of torture by Shin Bet interrogators, revealing the practice as systematic.
- Israel's Efforts to Hide Palestinians From View No Longer Fools Young American Jews
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The denial of Palestinian history by Israel is no longer accepted by many young American Jews, a community that is increasingly polarized by the issue.
- Israel's Ever-More Sadistic Reprisals Help Shore up a Sense of Victimhood
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Israel argues that a potential attacker can only be dissuaded by knowing his loved ones will suffer harsh retribution.
- Israel's New Cultural War of Aggression
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A few weeks ago my book Palestines Horizon: Toward a Just Peace was published by Pluto in Britain. I was in London and Scotland at the time to do a series of university talks to help launch the book. Its appearance happened to coincide with the release of a jointly authored report commissioned by the UN Social and Economic Commission of West Asia, giving my appearances a prominence they would not otherwise have had. The report concluded that the evidence relating to Israeli practices toward the Palestinian people amounted to 'apartheid,' as defined in international law.
- Israel's New Land Law: Clearing the Path to Annexation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Israeli parliament passed the legalisation law on Monday night, widening the powers of Israeli officials to seize the final fragments of Palestinian land in the West Bank that were supposed to be off-limits.
- Israel's New Travel Ban
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Weir calls attention to the bizarre state of affairs in which the recent Israeli travel ban denying entry to anyone supporting Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment against Israel is denied entry to Palestine as well as Israel. What right does Israel have, asks Weir, to decide who may or may not visit Palestine?
- Israel's Ploy Selling a Syrian Nuke Strike
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Evidence now available shows that there was no nuclear reactor in the Syrian desert, and that the Israelis had misled George W. Bush's administration into believing that there was in order to draw the United States into bombing missile storage sites in Syria.
- Israel's settlements: 50 years of land theft explained
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Today, between 600,000 and 750,000 Israelis live in these sizeable settlements, equivalent to roughly 11 percent of the total Jewish Israeli population. So why have these housing compounds caused so much rancour and been called a threat to the prospect of peace in the Holy Land? Follow this journey to find out.
- Israel's Slander Network
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The author responds to an article titled "Its Time to Talk About Yves Engler", which was written by a York University student affiliated to the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).
- Israels Terrible Problem: Two States or One?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Israel has created a terrible problem which it is incapable of solving. That is why it has always been the case that the United States must pretty much dictate a solution, but it is unable to do so, paralyzed as it is by the heavy influence of Israel and Americas own apologists and lobbyists.
- Israel's first trans officer helps with ethnic cleansing
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Queer and transgender activists protested an event featuring an Israeli soldier in Seattle on 5 April.The event was supported by the LGBTQ Commission, a body that advises city leaders on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.Two commissioners resigned in protest just days earlier, criticizing the groups participation as an act of pinkwashing. Pinkwashing is a public relations strategy that deploys Israel's supposed enlightenment toward LGBTQ issues to deflect criticism from its human rights abuses and war crimes and as a means to build up support for Israel among Western liberals and progressives.
- The Issue is Not Trump, It is Us
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Until real politics return to people's lives, the enemy is not Trump, it is ourselves.
- Istvan Meszaros: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In memorium to Istvan Meszaros, an excerpt of his writing shows how he was one of the first Marxists to identify the global environmental crisis as a central contradiction of late capitalism.
- Istvan Meszaros and Marx's theory of alienation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The article explains how alienation can only be overcome by collective action which challenges capitalist relations of production.
- "It Is Profitable to Let the World Go to Hell": Will Capitalism Doom the Planet?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Disaster, poverty and misfortune have become great ways to make a fortune. From Afghanistan to Haiti, Pakistan to Papua New Guinea, the United States to the UK, and from Greece to Australia, journalist Antony Lowenstein uncovers how companies cash in on organized misery.
- Italy 1980-81: After Marx, jail! The attempted destruction of a communist movement
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Charting the repression of Italy's 1970s extraparliamentary communist movement.
- It's Not Gonna Be Okay: the Nauseating Nothingness of Neoliberal Capitalist and Professional Class Politics
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Confronted with statements of concern and/or disgust over how they are giving the nation state away to an ever more neofascistic, white-nationalist Republican Party, "Indivisible" liberals say that "things are going to be okay" since their party will "win power back in 2018 and 2020." Paul Street begs to differ.
- 'It's okay to be racist in Israel'
An Israeli conscientious objector speaks out about racism and subjugation as the occupation enters its 51st year. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An interview with Sahar Vardi, a conscientious objector in opposition to Israel's policies in the Palestinian territories, who was sentenced to prison and detention for her defiance.
- It's Time for the Left to Ask "What Are We For?"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Sarah Jaffe interviewed Maria Poblet. Maria Poblet has been working in base building and community organizing in the Bay Area for 18 years, building Causa Justa Just Cause, a democratically held grassroots organization where she is currently transitioning out of the role of executive director.
- It's WMD all over again. Why don't you see it?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Todays frenzy over alleged use of poison gas in Syria is the 2017 version of Anthony Blairs WMD in Iraq. Why can you not see it? Did you think they would do it in exactly the same way again? You are being assailed through your emotions, to act first and think long after, and far too late.
- J is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Michael Hudson's new book covers contemporary terms that are misleading or poorly understood as well as many important concepts that have been abandoned -- many on purpose -- from the long history of political economy.
- Jacobin and ecomodernism: Two replies
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Two readers, David Schwartzman and David Walters, respond to criticism of Jacobin magazine's special issue on climate change.
- Jeremy Corbyn Accused of Being Russian 'Collaborator' for Questioning NATO Troop Build-Up on Border
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The armed forces minister for Britain's right-wing government, Mike Penning, accused Corbyn of being a collaborator with the Kremlin.
- Jeremy Corbyn Wants to Requisition Homes of the Rich for Fire Survivors - Like Churchill Did in WWII
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has a bold proposal to house the survivors of a devastating fire at London's Grenfell Tower apartment complex in empty luxury homes.
- A Jewish Atonement for Zionism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A review of Not by Might, nor by Power": The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism, by author Moshe Menuhin. Drawing from personal experience, the book is a methodical and chronological survey of Jewish nationalism.
- Jewish Currents goes to heaven, Jewish Currents goes to hell
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 A collection of writings, poems and images reflecting the traditions of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left.
- Jewish National Fund: Teaching Children an Exclusive, Religious/Ethnic Nationalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The JNF has produced puzzles and board games as well as organizing a Youth Summer experience program. According to JNF Canada's Education Department, the group "educates thousands of young people in Israel and abroad, helping them forge an everlasting bond with the Land of Israel."
- Jobs for Climate and Justice: A Worker Alternative to the Trump Agenda
A working paper from the Labor Network for Sustainability Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Jobs for Climate and Justice exposes and challenges the Trump agenda and proposes the kind of economic program we must fight for. It also offers examples of the great organizing efforts around the country led by working people that provide the foundation for the a transition to a just and climate-safe economy.
- Jobs and industry in the Hunter Valley: Context for a conversation about a Just Transition away from coal
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The development of employment opportuniteis outside the coal miniing industry is both possible and necessary.
- John Bellamy Foster answers five questions about Marxism and ecology
Can Marxism strengthen our understanding of ecological crises? The author of Marx's Ecology replies to a critic on metabolic rift, sustainab Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In the Anthropocene, we are faced with the eventual prospect, if society continues to follow the path of business as usual, of the end of civilization (in the sense of organized human society) and even potentially of the human species itself. But well before that hundreds of millions of people will be affected by increasing droughts, rising sea levels, and extreme weather events of all kinds.
- John Berger (1926-2017)
"He helped form a generation for whom he made it possible to discover a different, critical way of seeing" Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 John Berger's revolutionary insistence was that our reality could be seen differently, and altered by our intervention.
- Joshua Kurlantzick, A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA: Book Review
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Review of A Great Plaave a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA, by Joshua Kurlantzick.
- Journalism as We Knew It Is Never Coming Back
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Its old news that Donald Trump abuses reason, knowledge, decency and dark-skinned people. If you are paying attention, each one of his assaults on decency, intelligence and knowledge will feel urgent, ridiculous or both. Each day he threatens grave damage to actual human beings and the rest of Planet Earth, and each day he demonstrates his incapacity to do anything but inflict more damage.
- Journalism, History and War: Sit, Type and Bleed
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 There are millions of victims throughout the Middle East region, that cannot be understood or expressed through typical media narration: a gripping headline, couple of quotes and a paragraph or two by way of providing context.The price is too high for this kind of lazy journalism.
- Journalism and Pornography
Real crime is always organised Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 As long as we cannot name something that is bothering us, we have an enormous if not insurmountable impediment to action. The capacity for titillation, for erotic stimulation even with simultaneous pain, is enhanced by suspension of belief or cognition. This is what pornography does and it is also the function of compatible journalism.
- JournalismSources.com
Resource Type: Website First Published: 2017 A portal featuring news, articles, and resources about journalism, press freedom, free speech, censorship and related topics. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Journalistic Integrity: Allan Nairn vs. Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 I've been really upset since the inauguration and trying to cope with the emotions I am encountering daily. It is pretty obvious that a successful meme has been implanted in the progressive mindset that will have as much impact as the claim Ralph Nader gave the 2000 election to Bush. By this I mean that people are extremely pissed off at me for having backed the Green Party and Jill Stein and seem to say with almost a psychic vitriol that it is somehow my fault that Trump got elected. Didnt you throw your vote away on the Greens? Didn't you say awful things about Hillary?
- Journalists allege threat of drone execution by US
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Fearing assassination, Al Jazeera's Ahmad Zaidan and independent journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem file US legal complaint.
- The Journeys of Julia de Burgos
Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Vanessa Perez Rosario's Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon.
- Joy Kogawa in conversation with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Ulli Diemer spoke with Joy Kogawa in Toronto on March 14, 2017. Joy Kogawa is the author of Obasan, Gently to Nagasaki, and a number other works of fiction and poetry.
- Julius Nyerere: Legacy and defeated dreams in Tanzania
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Julius Nyerere is regarded as one of the greatest African political leaders. He was a visionary for African unity, socialist development and self-reliance in the aftermath of colonialism, and still commands great respect. Though much of his vision failed to materialise he leaves a legacy of ethnic and religious tolerance and peace in his East African country, Tanzania.
- The Just Society Movement
For the Poor by the Poor - A Model for Grassroots Activism Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Just Society Movement (1968 - 1972) was a short-lived but remarkably successful Toronto based grassroots social and political advocacy network run by and for Torontos poorest residents.
- Just Wait Until I Get Tenure
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A Facebook friend, Steven Salaita, recently wrote a post about academe arguing that tenure-track professors are kidding themselves if they say they will become more radical once they get tenure. I agreed with his post, and I made a long reply. Here, I incorporate what I said into a more coherent commentary.
- Kansas Is Punishing a Teacher for Following Her Church's Guidance to Boycott Israel
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 As part of her employment with a state program in Kansas a woman was asked to sign a statement proclaiming she not boycott Israel, a clear violation of her first amendment rights says the American Civil Liberties Union.
- Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, nature, and the unfinished critique of political economy
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 A re-evaluation of Karl Marx's views on ecology.
- Kenyans Forced Off Tea Highlands By British Colonialists Seek Justice
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Kericho -- One of hundreds of elderly Kenyans seeking to sue the British government for alleged displacement and torture by its colonial predecessor in 1934 to plant tea on their family land, in a case that could encourage other former colonies to press similar claims.
- The Killing of History
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Pilger examines Ken Burns' documentary about the Vietnam War and the ongoing revisionist history it presents, as well as the acquiescence of the American 'left' in the era of Trump.
- Killing 'Schizophrenics': Contemporary U.S. Psychiatry Versus Nazi Psychiatry
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In the United States in the earlier part of the twentieth century, there was widespread compulsory sterilization of those diagnosed with serious mental illness; and from the 1970s through the early 1990s, dehumanizing experiments that ignored the Nuremberg Code of research ethics were administered on this population by prominent American psychiatrists.
- Kathe Kollwitz
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The life of the German socialist artist Kathe Kollwitz.
- The Kurdish struggle - An interview with Dilar Dirik
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Dilar Dirik interviewed by George Souvlis.
- Labor's Schoolhouse
Lessons from the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The author recounts the Paterson Silk Strike, a 1913 labour dispute organized by mill workers and noted for its large size, duration, and non-violence. Central to the dispute was the requirement by overworked weavers to start running four large looms instead of two, an appropriation of technolgy for the bottom line which has particular relevance for us today.
- Land Day 2017: Israel's relentless land grab continues
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 As Israel resumes its settlement expansion with impunity, Palestinians have plenty to protest at this year's Land Day.
- Land and Racism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A look at the Jewish National Fund (JNF), an organization subsidized by Canadian taxpayers, and its exclusionary land policies.
- Language Wars
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Issues of language are examined, in particular the maintenance of power by a linguistic or political majority through imposition of linguistic norms and beliefs on a minority.
- Latin America: A Conservative Restoration?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 After a decade of the left's near-hegemonic control over government structures throughout Latin America, previously discredited conservative politicians who favour a return to the capitalist neoliberal polices of privatization and austerity are staging a comeback.
- Laughing on the Way to Armageddon
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Roberts argues that he real threat is not from foreign powers like Russia, but from corruption and power games within US politics, and the military/security complex that truly undermine democracy.
- Learn from Malcolm X
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 It's time to re-learn lessons from Malcolm in the Black community - nationalism and pride, solidarity and militancy, and a worldview that African Americans are part of a global community in struggle against the injustices of capitalism.
- Lebanon and Middle East: On the Hezbollah and fundamentalism - "We need a large movement from below!"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Interview with Joseph Daher on his new book on the political economy of the Hezbollah.
- The Left needs to "find common ground" with Evangelical Christians
 "There's no point arguing that it can't be done because the cultural differences are too great," says Chomsky Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A discussion between Noam Chomsky and Charles Derber excerpted from the novel by Derber entitled, "Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Democracy for Social Justice in Perilous Times."
- Left reformism, the state and the problem of socialist politics today
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The recent calls for the British left either to reclaim Labour (Len McCluskey) or to build a new party capable of emulating Syrizas successes in Greece (Ken Loach) demand serious consideration on these pages. At their core these proposals reflect a widespread desire, shared by members of the Socialist Workers Party, to fight the cuts, alongside revulsion at the Labour Partys failure to do so. They also reflect a genuine excitement across the left about the prospects for new left formations such as Syriza and Frances similar Front de Gauche.
- The Left/Right Challenge to the Failed "War on Drugs"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 More and more conservatives and liberals, from the halls of Congress to people in communities across the country, are agreeing that the so-called "war on drugs" needs serious rethinking.
- The left wing opposition in Italy during the period of the Resistance
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An account of the groups to the left of the PCI, during WW2 by independent Marxist historical researcher Arturo Peregalli. It was first published in 'Revolutionary History, Vol.5, No.4', and translated by Barbara Rossi and Doris Bornstein.
- Left-Wing Drexel Professor Who Opposes Free Speech Has His Curtailed
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Outspoken Drexel University associate professor George Ciccariello-Maher has been put on-leave by his employer, stiring the debate about academic freedom and free speech.
- Lenin and Luxemburg (World Revolution for Beginners, Part I
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Both of these people are great revolutionaries and there are libraries of books written about them. So in two hours, Im going to try to sort of summarize what I think is really important about them.
- Lenin's April Theses and the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In 1917 Lenin arrived from exile iin Petrograd, soon to give an outline of what were to be called the April Theses. Broadly, the theses can be summarised as follows: Only the overthrow of the provisional government and the fight for soviet power could secure a state of affairs that would bring bread to the workers, land to the peasants and peace to end the imperialist war.
- Leonard Weinglass in History
Len, A Lawyer in History: A Graphic Biography of Radical Attorney Leonard Weinglass Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Seth Tobocman's Len, A Lawyer in History: A Graphic Biography of Radical Attorney Leonard Weinglass.
- Lessons from New Orleans
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Interview with author Kristen Buras.
- Lessons in leftism: Pete Seeger and the black power movement
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The rise of "black power" led Pete Seeger to realize he had become a towering figure in a movement he didn't fully understand. The way he dealt with criticisms of him and his friends holds lessons for today.
- Let's Get to Work
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Instead of asking "What is to be done?", we could start with a different question: "What should I do?" As it turns out, the right-wing hecklers we've all encountered are half right: we should get jobs. And then we should do what we tell workers to do all the time: organize our workplaces. This tactic has a name and a history. It's called "salting." Salting has deep roots in the history of the labour movement and the Left.
- Letter From Mexico
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The editors of Insurgent Notes sent a couple of articles on Mexico from the Financial Times to our Mexico correspondent to check their accuracy. The following is his reply.
- A Letter from North America Our Migrant Crisis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 This is the third of Ernie Tates letters to Left Unity detailing and analysing the struggles against Trump as they emerge on the other side of the pond.
- 'Liberal' Libel Law: Still a Disgrace to Democracy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In the age of social media, our allegedly liberal libel laws might pose more of a threat to unfettered free speech than ever.
- Liberalism as Class Warfare
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Liberals, as guardians of the status quo, are class warriors on the side of economic mal-distribution and the immiseration of the labouring classes and poor for the benefit of the rich.
- Liberals Beware: Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An examination of the dishonesty in the New York Times' efforts to undermine President Trump, and broader criticisms of other tactics used by the liberal establishment to the same end.
- Liberals' Neglect of Hassan Diab a Scar on Canada's History
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An innocent Canadian citizen has been wrongly incarcerated by foreign powers and torn away from his family, but our country's leader seems unfazed.
- Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Explores the important, too often neglected left-libertarian currents that have thrived in revolutionary socialist movements. By turns, the collection interrogates the theoretical boundaries between Marxism and anarchism and the process of their formation, the overlaps and creative tensions that shaped left-libertarian theory and practice, and the stumbling blocks to movement cooperation.
- Lies That Capitalists Tell Us
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Counter-arguments against common beliefs of the benefit of capitalism.
- Life and Death After the Steel Mills
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In her study of a community devastated by industry's flight, anthropologist Christine Walley raises questions about how to create and support meaningful work in a postindustrial world. Steel mills were the economic backbone of many cities across the Midwest and Northeast until the 1980s. When the industry left, former workers not only took a hit economically -- they also felt displaced and suffered disillusionment and a loss of identity.
- Linguistic data analysis of 3 billion Reddit comments shows the alt-right is getting stronger
Taxonomy of Trolls Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The alt-right isn't one group. They don't have one coherent identity. Rather, they're a loose collection of people from disparate backgrounds who would never normally interact: bored teenagers, gamers, men's rights activists, conspiracy theorists and, yes, white nationalists and neo-Nazis. But thanks to the internet, theyre beginning to form a cohesive group identity.
- A Little Crooked House: Trudeau, Morneau, BMO & KPMG Inc
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Canada's Finance Minister Bill Morneau has recently reinvigorated his promise to crack down on tax evasion schemes, but how can we trust him when he is himself named in the Panama Papers?
- The Lobby: Young Friends of Israel
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2017 In the first of a four-part series, Al Jazeera goes undercover inside the Israel Lobby in Britain. We expose a campaign to infiltrate and influence youth groups, including the National Union of Students, whose president faces a smear campaign coordinated by her own deputy and supported by the Israel Embassy.
- London Terror Attack: It's Time to Confront Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In the UK people are dealing with the aftermath of yet another terrorist attack in which innocent civilians were butchered and injured, this time in London. It is time for an honest conversation about Wahhabism, specifically the part this Saudi-sponsored ideology plays in radicalizing young Muslims both across the Arab and Muslim world and in the West.
- The long ecological revolution
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Up until the rise of the ecological movement in the late twentieth century, the conquest of nature was a universal trope, often equated with progress under capitalism (and sometimes socialism). To be sure, the notion, as utilized in science, was a complex one. As Francis Bacon, the idea's leading early proponent, put it, "nature is only overcome by obeying her." Only by following nature's laws, therefore, was it possible to conquer her.
- The Longest Occupation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In the current maelstrom of imperialism and regional wars, Israeli military supremacy, Islamic fundamentalism and the destruction of whole societies and even civilizations in Iraq and Syria, the very possibility of any positive outcome sometimes seems remote.
- Looming Climate Catastrophe: Extinction in Nine Years?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Reports from the Arctic are getting pretty grim.
- The Looting Machine Called Capitalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment. In other words, capitalists make profits because their costs are externalized and born by others. In the US, society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.
- The Lost History of Antifa
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 72 years after the triumph over Nazism, we look back to postwar Germany, when socialists gave birth to Antifa.
- The Lost Traveller's Dream
A Memoir Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 A memoir of Kovel's first 80 years, from his early Jewish upbringing, his academic career, to his embracing of Marxist political economy and commitment to radical ecosocialism.
- Lynching Free Speech
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In Charlottesville, as in so many parts of the country right now, the conflict is over how to reconcile the nation's checkered past, particularly as it relates to slavery, with the present need to sanitize the environment of anything -- words and images -- that might cause offense, especially if it's a Confederate flag or monument.
- The Lynching of Ted Smith
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An account of the brutal slaying of Ted Smith, an African American teen who was burned at the stake by a mob of white men in Greenville, Texas on July 28, 1908.
- Lynne Stewart: 1939-2017
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Radical attorney Lynne Stewart died in Brooklyn on March 7, 2017 at the age of 77. The immediate cause was a series of strokes which, together with metastasized breast cancer, finally drained the life out of this tireless fighter for the oppressed. Lynne's death will be keenly felt by the incarcerated opponents of the U.S. government, for whom she fought until the end. Without her, the world is a lonelier, crueler place for these prisoners and their families.
- MA Stops Charter School Expansion
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Despite their $24 million, the charter forces - which in March had more than a 20-point lead in the polls - lost by an amazing 24 points, 62% to 38%.
- Macaroni & Cheese and Revolution
The Anarchist Cookbook Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Keith McHenry's and Chaz Bufe's The Anarchist Cookbook.
- Mad Marx: The Class Warrior
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster First Published: 2017
- The Madder Trump Gets, the More Seriously the World Takes Him
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The more dangerous America's crackpot President becomes, the saner the world believes him to be. Just look back at the initial half of his first 100 days: the crazed tweeting, the lies, the fantasies and self-regard of this misogynist leader of the Western world appalled all of us. But the moment he went to war in Yemen, fired missiles at Syria and bombed Afghanistan, even the US media Trump had so ferociously condemned began to treat him with respect. And so did the rest of the world.
- The Main Issue in the French Presidential Election: National Sovereignty
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The 2017 French Presidential election marks a profound change in European political alignments. There is an ongoing shift from the traditional left-right rivalry to opposition between globalization, in the form of the European Union (EU), and national sovereignty.
- Mainstream News And USA's Heroics In Vietnam
Why The Silence About The 7 Million Dead? Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An account of the media's role in suppressing information about US military actions in Indochina from the 1940s and onward, and how the same tactics persist in the present.
- Major Challenges of New Orleans Charter Schools Exposed at NAACP Hearing
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 New Orleans is the nation's largest and most complete experiment in charter schools. After Hurricane Katrina, the State of Louisiana took control of public schools in New Orleans and launched a nearly complete transformation of a public school system into a system of charter schools.
- Major study shows species loss destroys essential ecosystems
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Long term research by German ecologists proves that loss of biodiversity has "direct, unpleasant consequences for mankind."
- Making Nuclear Weapons Usuable Again
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A chilling look at the urge of both President Trump and key figures in the Pentagon to normalize nuclear weapons as a basic war-fighting tool in the American arsenal.
- The Making of the Muslim World
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Review of Christopher de Bellaigue's 'The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason', Cemil Aydin's 'The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History' and Tariq Ramadan's 'Islam: The Essentials'.
- Making Their Own History
A People's History of Modern Europe Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of William A. Pelz's A People's History of Modern Europe.
- Making Trump's America Ungovernable
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The goal of opponents, including those of the far left, should be to make the Trump presidency ungovernable. In that struggle revolutionary change is possible.
- Manifesto for the Green Mind
Jules Pretty sets out a plan to engage people with Nature and create more sustainable and enjoyable living for everyone. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Jules Pretty sets out a plan to engage people with Nature and create more sustainable and enjoyable living for everyone. The first call to action is: "Every child outdoors every day".
- Manufactured Consent
Power, Media and Thinktanks Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Corporations don't just shape our politics or economics, they also seek to change public opinion to serve their interests. Which corporations play the biggest role in shaping knowledge and news? What do they fund? Who do they represent? What role have they played in the rise of authoritarian populists? This infographic for State of Power 2017 exposes those 'manufacturing consent'.
- Marching for Science and Humanity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 On April 22, 2017 the March for Science took place in Washington DC, which I attended. It was a dreary rainy day that was lit up by the large crowd of scientists and concerned citizens gathered at the Washington Monument. The atmosphere was festive and defiant despite the weather.
- Market Uber Alles
Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Lester K. Spence's Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics.
- Martin Luther the Man-Devil
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A review of the book 'Manteuffel' by Danish author and public intellectual Peter Tudvad, a work of popular fiction that also takes on religious and social-political issues.
- Marx and Engels and the 'Red Chemist'
The Forgotten Legacy of Carl Schorlemmer Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 New studies of Marxs long-unavailable notebooks, now being published in the massive Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (Marx-Engels Complete Works), decisively refute claims that Marx was uninterested in the natural sciences or considered them irrelevant to his politics.
- Marx and Engels on ecology: A reply to radical critics
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A review of the book "Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique" authored by Paul Burkett and John Bellamy Foster, who respond to critics of ecological Marxism with a comprehensive examination of what the founders of historical materialism wrote and thought about mankind's relationship to the earth.
- Marxism 2.0: New commodities, new workers?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Ursula Huws, 'Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age' and Nick Dyer-Witheford, 'Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex'.
- Marxism, the Arab Spring, and Islamic fundamentalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 While Islamic fundamentalists are united by a reactionary worldview, the movements are not the same and must be approached differently. The Left must stake out an independent view based on democracy, social justice, equality, and liberation and freedom from oppression.
- Marxism and the Earth: A defence of the classical tradition
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A review of John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique.
- Marxism and the Earth: A defence of the classical tradition
Book review of Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Marxist analyses of the natural world have been the focus of intense debate recently, and the publication of any book that further explores what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels thought about the subject is something to be welcomed. John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett have proven track records of writing some of the clearest books on the subject, and while Marx and the Earth is not a specific response to some of their recent critics, it is an important defence of Marxs and Engelss original work.
- Marxism, feminism and transgender politics
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2017 An examination of feminism and transgender politics through a Marxist lens.
- Marxism: an Introduction to a Misunderstood Philosophy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An introduction to fundamental principles of Marxism, and and examination of how these principles have been misrepresented by dictators and war criminals, leading to widespread misunderstanding.
- Marxist and Feminist Interventions
Marxism and Feminism Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Shahrzad Mojab's edited volume Marxism and Feminism.
- Marxist Theories of the State Played out in Venezuela
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The implications of Marxist state theories developed by Nicos Poulantzas and Ralph Miliband are useful for framing issues related to leftist strategy in twenty-first century Venezuela.
- Marx's Capital at 150
History in Capital, Capital in History Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A look at Karl Marx's historic book 'Capital' Volume 1 on the 150th anniversary of publication, its historical significance and influence, and what it means for those who read the book today.
- Mass Incarceration, Prison Labor in the United States
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Federal Prison Industries (FPI) under the brand UNICORE operates approximately 52 factories (prisons) across the United States.
- Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Analyzing land policy, labour, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor.
- Media Promote Baseless Assertions By Government Officials Of Russian Interference As Facts
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The headline of a New York Times article published April 6, 2017, "C.I.A. Had Evidence of Russian Effort to Help Trump Earlier Than Believed," misleadingly implies not only that there was an effort by the Russian government to help Donald Trump win the American presidential election but that it is a settled fact that the CIA was in possession of hard evidence to that effect.
- Media Review: Fake News
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2017 Richard Seymour looks at the current debate around 'fake news'. What does the term refer to and is it as new as we think?
- MediaSources.ca
Resource Type: Website First Published: 2017 A web portal featuring resources about media and the media industry, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Memento Mori: a Requiem for Puerto Rico
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Puerto Rico is dying. Let those words sink in.Three and a half million people are without power, water, fuel, food, and support. This isnt some uninhabited atoll.
- Memo to Jacobin: Ecomodernism is not ecosocialism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Ian Angus challenges a left-wing magazine that promotes geoengineering, nuclear power, carbon storage and other techno-fixes as solutions to climate change.
- Memory Against Forgetting: the Resonance of Bloody Sunday
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The museum John guards is a physical manifestation of the moral necessity of remembering that days cataclysmic violence. An attempt to remember the silences imposed on peoples experiences by time and traumatised memory, and, most of all, murderous rampage. And of course, if those left behind do not remember who will? It certainly will not be the guilty.
- Message from the High Court: Carry on arming the Saudis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Campaigners are furious with a High Court decision in London allowing the UK Government to carry on exporting arms to Saudi Arabia for use against Yemenis.
- Mexican Journalists Say 'No to Silence'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In Mexico powerful entities -- ranging from government officials, to law enforcement, to drug cartel leaders -- routinely and systematically intimidate journalists and media outlets to prevent them from investigating state corruption and drug-related violence. Efforts to silence media often take place in the shadows, forcing victims to choose between self-censorship, forced displacement, or risking their lives for doing their jobs.
- Militant Hope in the Age of Trump
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Debates over whether Donald Trump was a fascist or Hillary Clinton was a right-wing warmonger and tool of Wall Street were a tactical diversion. The real questions that should have been debated include: What measures could have been taken to prevent the United States from sliding further into a distinctive form of authoritarianism?
- The Militarization of Canada: Chrystia Freeland's Budgetary Coup
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Canada is to increase military spending by 70% over the next ten years following Donald Trump's demand for NATO allies to increase defense spending to 2% of GDP.
- The Militarized Police State Opens Fire
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Police and government agents are often left out of the conversation on gun violence, despite being among the greatest purpotrators of gun violence in America.
- The Misguided Attacks on ACLU for Defending Neo-Nazis' Free Speech Rights in Charlottesville
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 You can fight fascism by employing and championing one of its defining traits: viewpoint-based state censorship. those who favor free speech suppression, or who oppose the ACLUs universal defense of speech rights, will create results that are the exact opposite of those they claim to want. Its an indescribably misguided strategy that will inevitably victimize themselves and their own views.
- 'Modi is God's gift to Pakistan security establishment'
Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif talks about shrinking freedoms, liberal voices and human rights in Balochistan. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Mohammed Hanif is a Pakistani journalist and writer. In an interview with Al Jazeera he talks about the shrinking freedoms in mainstream and social media in Pakistan, the role of liberal voices and the state of human rights in Balochistan.
- Monbiot Still Can't Admit Media's Core Problem
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 After more than two decades at the Guardian, George Monbiot has finally written a column in which he concedes that the entire British media has a problem, including its supposedly left-liberal elements like the Guardian.
- The Monopoly board of the city: Grenfell Tower - where was the HCA, government housing regulator??
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Homes & Community Agency(HCA) is the UK state regulatory body for social housing; its job is to monitor the performance, finances and provision of services of landlords. Missing from the media coverage of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster so far is any discussion of what relation the HCA has to this horror story of corporate murder.
- The Moral Corrosion of Drone Warfare
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Jerry Berrigan Brigade, named after Syracuse peacemaker Jerry Berrigan, were called to court for their nonviolent witness against drone warfare at the state-side drone base Hancock.
- More on the Red Chemist
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 More on the important role that the eminent chemist Carl Schorlemmer played in the development of Marx and Engels' understanding of the natural sciences.
- The Most Moral Army?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 War is the realm of killing and destroying. How is it possible to talk about a law of war when war itself breaks all laws? An army that trains its soldiers to kill, how can it demand from them to show mercy?
- Mothers and Children First
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An interactive report on mothers and child bearing in Bolivia where deaths are highest among indigenous populations. This report looks at the efforts by doctors, indigenous midwives and healers who are collaborating in what is being called 'intercultural health care'.
- Mourn Liu Xiaobo, Free Liu Xia
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Assessment of the death of Chinese political prisoner Liu Xiaobo, as well as the house arrest of his wife, Liu Xia.
- Mourn, Then Organize Again
Left Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Enzo Traverso's Left Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory.
- Murder at the Algiers Motel
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The following account is abridged from an anthology, Detroit 1967, just published by Wayne State Press. McGuire has uncovered material that hadn't previously come to light.
- The Murder of Kevin Cooper
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 I, Kevin Cooper, have been on death row in the state on California for 32 years, going on 33. I came to this place in May of 1985, and I have been fighting for my life ever since.
- Music education makes for a poor commodity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Privatizing the teaching of music into a commodity and decreasing attention spans is leading to poorer music education.
- My Coal Childhood: Lessons From Germany's Mine Pit Lakes
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A personal account of living near a coal mine in the Lausitz region of Germany, where extensive mining has severely damaged the environment and current 'solutions' are creating even further challenges.
- My Lai
Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Jones shows how pivotal the My Lai massacre was in galvanizing opposition to the Vietnam War, playing a part nearly as significant as that of the Tet Offensive and the Cambodian bombing. For many, it undermined any pretense of American moral superiority, calling into question not only the conduct of the war but the justification for U.S. involvement.
- My Stealthy Freedom: The Hijab in Iran and in the West
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An interview with Masih Alinejad, an outspoken critic of the forced hijab policy in Iran, about how the Islamic Revolution affected women, compulsory hijab laws, and her activism.
- Myanmar Rohingya Face "Textbook Example of Ethnic Cleansing"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 As hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State, thousands that remain in the country face mass atrocities at a scale never seen before.
- The Myth of 'Cultural Appropriation'
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Arguing that certain people dont have the right to tell certain stories is a distraction from the real menace: inequality.
- The myth of one Jewish nation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Zionism is an anti-Semitic creed. It was so right from the beginning. Already the founding father, Theodor Herzl, a Viennese writer, penned some pieces with a clear anti-Semitic slant. For him, Zionism was not just a geographical transplantation, but also a means of turning the despicable commercial Jew of the diaspora into an upright, industrious human being.
- The Nat Turner Rebellion and the Fight Against Slavery - Part 2
Black History and the Class Struggle Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Nat Turners 1831 revolt in Virginia tears apart the myth that there is no history of slave rebellion or resistance in colonial America or the United States. This is a lie often promoted by racist apologists for American slavery. But it is also untrue to think that the U.S. has a history of slave rebellions similar to the massive uprisings that convulsed the Caribbean, most notably the Haitian Revolution.
- The Nat Turner Rebellion and the Fight Against Slavery - Part One
Black History and the Class Struggle Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In 1831, American slaveowners learned what it means to have the fear of God put into them. In August of that year, an insurrection was launched by rebel slaves led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia. Before their suppression, the rebels killed up to 60 whites in the course of a few days -- the highest number to die in a slave uprising in the U.S. It was the unmistakable justice and vengeance of revolutionary terror. And it was met with the reactionary terror of the slaveowners.
- Nation That Says It Can't Afford Medicare for All Has Spent $5.6 Trillion on War Since 9/11
Because, as new study notes, wars force the question: "What we might have done differently with the money spent?" Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A new analysis offers a damning assessment of the United States' so-called global war on terror, and it includes a "staggering" estimated price tag for wars waged since 9/11over $5.6 trillion.
- Native Seeds Sustain Brazil's Semi-Arid Northeast
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 More than a thousand homes that serve as "seed banks", and 20,000 participating families, make up the network organised by ASA to preserve the genetic heritage and diversity of crops adapted to the climate and semi-arid soil in Brazils Northeast.
- Nature, Labor, and the Rise of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The nature of capitalism puts it at war with Nature.
- The Need to Radicalise the Bolivarian Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Through an interview with Jorge Martín, the secretary of the Hands Off Venezuela solidarity campaign, the events leading to the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela are examined.
- The Neoliberalism Order Begins to Crack
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Western ruling classes are now beginning to suffer political payback for 40 years of neoliberalism and nearly ten years of economic crisis.
- Netizen Report: Why Did YouTube Censor Your Videos? You May Never Know.
Global Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights ar Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Amid an apparent shift in YouTubes approach to monitoring for rules violations and staying in the good graces of advertisers, a wave of YouTube users have found their work either blocked or relegated to "restricted" mode in recent months.
- New group challenges role of Israel lobby inside Labour Party as effort to undermine Corbyn
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Jeremy Corbyn's recent declaration of support for the Palestinian cause came as sections of his party's establishment demonstrated that they are determined to undermine his leadership; the issue they have selected as his Achilles' heel relates directly to the debate about the Palestinians.
- New map records sites of Australia's colonial massacres
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Map is the first to detail evidence of more than 150 massacres involving almost every aboriginal clan between 1788 and 1872.
- New Report Shows Corporations and Western Governments Continue to Profit from Looting of Africa
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A recent report published by a coalition of African and British social justice organizations indicate that foreign corporations and governments continue to exploit the world's most impoverished continent.
- Newspaper Owned By Fracking Billionaire Leaks Memo Calling Pipeline Opponents Potential "Terrorists"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has produced a report titled, "Potential Domestic Terrorist Threats to Multi-State Diamond Pipeline Construction Project," dated April 7, 2017. The DHS field analysis report points to lessons from policing the Dakota Access pipeline, saying they can be applied to the ongoing controversy over the Diamond pipeline, which, when complete, will stretch from Cushing, Oklahoma to Memphis, Tennessee. While lacking "credible information" of such a potential threat, DHS concluded that "the most likely potential domestic terrorist threat to the Diamond Pipeline
is from environmental rights extremists motivated by resentment over perceived environmental destruction."
- 1965-1966: Files Reveal US had Detailed Knowledge of Indonesia's Anti-Communist Purge
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Declassified files have revealed new details of US government knowledge of and support for an Indonesian army extermination campaign that killed several hundred thousand civilians during anti-communist hysteria in the mid-1960s.
- No Ban! No Wall! No War?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The corporate media avoids connecting our wars to Trump's ban because war and empire is a matter of agreement among the political elites, an elite that the corporate media is very much a part of.
- No Laughing Matter: The Manchester Bomber is the Spawn of Hillary and Barack's Excellent Libyan Adventure
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The jihadi bomber in Manchester and miltants in the hotel massacre in Mali were direct products of American and Western regime change in Libya, a project that was executed by the Obama administration and spearheaded by Hillary Clinton.
- No, US Didn't 'Stand By' Indonesian Genocide - It Actively Participated
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Within the coverage of the newly declassified telegram that proves the US actively participated in the Indonesian genocide the media frames Washington as a passive onlooker rather than active participant. This not only lessens the government's culpability; it also tells readers that if the US is to be faulted, it's to be blamed for not doing enough. That's a handy attitude to cultivate for the next time you want to sell a "humanitarian" war.
- Noam Chomsky And The BBC: A Brief Comparison
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A recent interview with 88-year-old Noam Chomsky once again demonstrates just how insightful he is in providing rational analysis of Western power and the suffering it generates. By contrast, anyone relying on BBC News receives a power-friendly view of the world, systematically distorted in a way that allows the state and private interests to pursue business as usual.
- Noam Chomsky: Trump's First 100 Days Are Undermining Our Prospects for Survival
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 No recent US president has demonstrated such an overwhelming ignorance about governing as the current occupant of the White House. But is Trump's apparent inability to govern and conduct himself in a remotely conventional manner an innate character flaw or part of a well-conceived strategy aimed at a society that loves reality TV? In this exclusive Truthout interview, Noam Chomsky shares his views about the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
- Noam Chomsky: US Is the "Most Dangerous Country in the World"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Nuclear proliferation and climate change are subjects of acute concern in the current moment, driven into an all-out state of emergency by the new Trump administration. In this interview, Noam Chomsky discusses the media coverage of these two major issues, highlighting US tensions with Russia, Iran and North Korea, as well as discussing the recent US airstrike on Syria's Air Force base.
- Noise, the 'ignored pollutant': health, nature and ecopsychology
The sonic backdrop to our lives is increasingly one of unwanted technospheric noise, writes Paul Mobbs. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 For those who like to enjoy the natural environment, noise is something to be escaped from within the relative sanctuary of the landscape. These days that's getting harder and harder to accomplish. That's not only because of noise from all around - in particular from urban areas, roads and the increasing mechanisation of agriculture - but also due to the increasing level of air traffic overhead.
- The North Korea Standoff, Like the Cuban Missile Crisis, Exposes the Reckless U.S. Worldview
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The confrontation between the U.S. and North Korea has cooled off slightly with Kim Jong-un's announcement that, at least for the time being, he will not attack Guam with an "enveloping fire." A good place to start is with the repeated comparisons U.S. politicians have made between the situation with North Korea and the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962.
- Not by Bread Alone
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War focused on people's daily needs--who doesn't love hot, buttered toast? People in Spain were starving--they needed food. People--were homeless and needed homes; people were jobless and needed something to do; people were rejected from their communities needed to be included. Anarchists focused on these practical, attainable and above all human needs. And, these are the basic rights that should undergird all human social organizations.
- Notes on a factory uprising in Yangon
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Examination of a recent strike and riot at a Chinese-owned H&M supplier in Myanmar (Burma), looking beyond the headlines into its local context and broader political significance.
- The NRA's Latest Terrorist Attack on U.S. Soil
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 It's long past time to start understanding the giant mass shootings that have become part of the new-normal fabric of life in the United States as terrorist attacks on the U.S. populace conducted by the nations plutocracy through one of its key and rightward campaign funding, lobbying, and policy organizations -- the National Rifle Association (NRA).
- NSA's Cyberwarfare Blowback
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In May and June 2017, hackers took over thousands of computers around the world, encrypted their contents, and demanded ransom to decrypt them. They used tools developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) to exploit vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows operating system.
- The Nuclear Enterprise Is on Autopilot
CounterSpin interview with William Hartung on nuclear overkill Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Janine Jackson interviewed William Hartung about nuclear overkill for the November 17, 2017, episode of CounterSpin.
- Nuclear Weapons Ban? What Needs to be Banned Is U.S. Arrogance
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Nuclear disarmament will be possible only when leaders in Washington recognize that other peoples also have a right and a will to live.
- Nutrient Runoff is Killing American Waters and Voluntary Actions Aren't Working
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The ongoing causes and devastating effects of nutrient pollution on American lakes, bays and waterways is examined.
- Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister.
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The U.S. continues to massacre Yemeni civilians, both directly and through its tyrannical Saudi partners.
- Obama's Legacy and the Rise of Trump
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 So much has been written about why Donald Trump won the presidency and the anger of the white working class. White supremacists are overjoyed by his victory. Much less is written or discussed about the failures of liberalism and the Obama presidency for Blacks and other minorities who voted for Hillary Clinton as a lesser evil.
- Occupation captured
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Photos of Palestinian life and Israeli occupation in the West Bank city of Hebron.
- Occupy: The Fall of the Oakland Commune
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 For many people, the Occupy movement was an initiation into radical politics, an experiment in decentralized and nonhierarchical movement-building, and a glimpse at the possibility for a new kind of society. Yet the whole thing was over in just a few weeks -- a crisis quieted, a moment of hope extinguished.
- Of Hegel and Bernie Sanders
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 My concern is not with Bernie Sanders (basically a New Deal liberal) but with the social dynamics of the Sanders phenomenon. What is going on when we see a surge of mass support for someone who identifies himself (however inaccurately) with socialism? What is the social process driving this unexpected shift in political goals and ideas toward the left? What lies behind the re-entry of socialism into the mass vocabulary of political life?
- The Ohio Vote in November
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Donald Trump won Ohio because the total Democratic vote declined more than the drop in the total two-party vote, and significantly more than the Republican increase.
- Oil and Water
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A collection of articles charting how leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
- Oil's Deep State
How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 An insider's eywitness view of the oil industry, and how and why governments have failed to heed warnings despite substantial scientific evidence of global warming
- On Catalonia: Debates in the Greek Left
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Without the burden of self-censorship or "political correctness" on our backs, let us examine what the possible secession of Catalonia actually means and where it could potentially lead.
- On Hidden Cultural Corruptors
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The educational institution and military institution both purport to be a source of the nation's highest values, yet they often corrupt and bring out the worst qualities in American citizens.
- On Movement and Freedom
Tales of Enduring Transience Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Canada-based artist Gita Hashemi embarks on a ground journey from Germany to Greece along the so-called "Balkan route." In this written account Hashemi meets with others who are also on the move, as well as artists and activists who support freedom of movement and refugee rights. It is part of an art project called "On the Move" about freedom of movement.
- On the 800th Anniversary of the Charter of the Forest
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A Keynote Address, Delivered in the State Rooms at the House of Commons, 7 November 2017 about the Charter of the Forest.
- On the Extreme Margins of the Centennial of the October Revolution
 The Legacy of 1917 We Can Affirm Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The year 1917 is most closely associated with the Russian Revolution, but it is more important to locate that revolution in the global tidal wave of working-class struggle from 1917 to 1921 (continued up to 1927 in China), which the forced the end of the first inter-imperialist world war (1914-1918).
- On the Extreme Margins of the Centennial of the October Revolution: The Legacy of 1917 We Can Affirm
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The year 1917 is most closely associated with the Russian Revolution, but it is important to locate that revolution in the global tidal wave of working-class struggle from 1917 to 1921 (continued up to 1927 in China), which forced the end of the first inter-imperialist world war (191418).
- On the Grenfell Towers Fire
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Still working on things in relation to Grenfell as something that belongs to a more long-term development -- if you like, a culmination of so many cover-ups since the advent of brutalised Thatcherism as the neoliberal agenda unfolded during the last 40 years or so.
- On the Intolerant Left
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Julian Vigo's concern with the growing pattern of intellectual and political intolerance he's witnessed within allegedly progressive circles.
- One Half-Cheer for Trump?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 June 1, 2017, Donald Trump announced that "The United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord," setting off alarm bells and outraged protests in U.S. cities and around the world. We would suggest that under present circumstances, he chose the better - well, less bad - of the existing options.
- 100 Percent Wishful Thinking: the Green-Energy Cornucopia
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A growing body of research has debunked overblown claims of a green-energy bonanza.
- One Hundred Years of the Balfour Declaration
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Balfour Declaration then not only legitimized the Zionist project in Palestine and transformed it into a contender in international relations. It in effect precipitated the spread of Zionism among British Jews.
- One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Drawing from exclusive testimony, landmark historical scholarship, and stunning research, Andrea Pitzer unearths the roots of this appalling phenomenon, exploring and exposing the staggering toll of the camps: our greatest atrocities, the extraordinary survivors, and even the intimate, quiet moments that have also been part of camp life during the past century.
- One Palestinian Man's Mission to Make Urban Agriculture More Sustainable
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Urban agriculture is playing an increasing role in helping feed communities. The article and accompanying video introduces Salim Abu Naser, a proponent of sustainable agriculture living and working in Gaza City, Palestine.
- One Palestinian Man's Mission to Make Urban Agriculture More Sustainable
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2017 Video that introduces Said Salim Abu Naser, a proponent of sustainable agriculture living and working in Gaza City, Palestine, along the Mediterranean Coast.
- One State: Trump Has Reminded Palestinians What It Was Always About
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 For more than 15 years, the Middle East "peace process" initiated by the Oslo accords has been on life support. Last week, United States president Donald Trump pulled the plug, whether he understood it or not.
- One Taxi Driver's Story of Trying to Survive in the Age of Uber
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Since Uber and other "ride-share" businesses emerged in Chicago, the livelihood that once sustained one taxi driver's family of five has now virtually disappeared.
- One Woman Is Behind the Most Up-to-Date Interactive Map of Femicides in Mexico
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The interactive 'Femicides in Mexico Map' is a "citizen-led, civic, independent initiative based on open data which, using geographical coordinates, has been mapping cases of femicide since 2016.
- Only one bear in a hundred bites, but they don't come in order
Resource Type: Videotape First Published: 2017 Bob Bossin talked about oil tanks in a Youtube video
- Ontario man publishes coal-mining novel
William Pancoast recently published his fifth book, "The Road to Matewan." Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 William Pancoast likes to call his writing working-class literature for the working class. The Galion native recently published his fifth book, "The Road to Matewan." The novel includes history from a turbulent time in West Virginia history. The Battle of Matewan, also known as the Matewan Massacre, involved a May 19, 1920, shootout in Mingo County.
- An open letter from Jewish academics and elders to McGill's administration regarding false allegations of student anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 This letter was sent Nov. 13 to Principal Suzanne Fortier, Provost Christopher Manfredi, and Secretariat Board of Governors and Senate Maria Kontzidis.
- Open Letter to "Human Rights Defenders" on Aleppo
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Syria is the legitimacy of the interventionist policies of the U.S. and its "allies", Europeans, Turkey, and the Gulf states in that country.
- Open Letter to the People of the United States from Puerto Rico, A Month After Hurricane Maria
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An open letter to the people of the U.S., following the devastating effects of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico.
- The Ordeal of Hassan Diab
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Sociology professor and Canadian citizen Hassan Diab was wrongfully arrested and extradiated to France in 2008. To this day the Canadian government is silent on the events.
- The Ordeal of Migrants
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Migrants face prejudices, xenophobia and racism, besides bureaucratic obstacles that do not recognize their qualifications.
- An ordinary Labour member just gave the most moving speech of the party conference so far
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An ordinary member's speech to the Labour Party conference left the audience stunned. And it's one that everyone needs to hear, as the moving address reflects a crisis in the UK.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 22, 2017
Disobedience Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2017 Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey. Disobedience is the theme of this issue.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017
Race and Class Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2017 Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race. The relationship between race and class, in particular, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017
Public Transit Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2017 Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many of these struggles is the idea that transit should be free, that is, paid for not by fares, but out of general revenues. This is how roads are normally funded: their construction and maintenance are paid for by taxes, rarely by user fees. Free public transit by itself would not be enough, however. We also need good transit, transit that runs frequently and goes where people want to go.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017
April 1 issue Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2017 Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critically - and enjoy.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2017 What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
Resisting Injustice Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2017 In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
Public Safety Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2017 The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
Secrecy and Power Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2017 Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
Official Enemies Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2017 Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 9, 2017
Meeting the Challenge of the Right Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2017 Challenging the Right requires not only anti-fascist actions in the street, but organizing to reach those who may be attracted the the appeal of the Right and offering an alternative social vision. This issue of Other Voices offers a number of articles, books, and films offering different perspectives on meeting the challenge of the right.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2017 Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 11, 2017
Left Parties Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 2017 In recent years, there have been repeated attempts to build left political parties and coalitions, i.e. parties to the left of the established social democratic parties which have long become part of the neoliberal capitalist mainstream. Left parties have emerged out of mass movements in countries like Spain (Podemos), Germany (Die Linke), and Greece (Syriza). In Latin America, in the last two decades, left movements or parties have formed governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay. What these new left parties/movements have in common is a strategy of engaging in grassroots organizing and also running in elections. They all describe themselves as socialist, though in many cases their programs are more reminiscent of what social democrats used to advocate decades ago: reforms that would tame and manage capitalism rather than abolish it. Their ultimate vision may be a world without capitalism, but their immediate proposals are more modest and incremental, though still significantly to the left of the neo-liberal consensus.
- Over the River
Returning home to Flint Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Author Richard Manning returns to his childhood home of Flint, Michigan and recounts the city's decline from thriving industry into an economic depression, from which the city has never recovered. Flint is left with an eroded infrastructure, neighbourhoods rife with crime and public health emergencies, and the decades old question of how will it ever recover.
- Palestine: Another Desperate Cry for Help
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine (NCCOP) has just issued a final plea for help in the form of an open letter to the World Council of Churches and the ecumenical movement.
- Palestine Museum of Natural History
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Palestine Museum of Natural History provides testimony to the Palestinian attachment to the land, for preservation of plant and animal life, as well as cultural expression and identity to the Palestinian community.
- Palestinian Human Rights Defender Arrested for a Facebook Post
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Palestinian Authority (PA) is continuing its crackdown on free speech in the West Bank, this time arresting prominent Palestinian human rights activist Issa Amro for criticizing a journalist's arrest in a Facebook post.
- Palestinian, Jewish Voices Music Jointly Challenge Israel's Past
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Baroud analyzes how Israel has appropriated the Palestinian narrative of Al-Nakba to rewrite history and place the occupation of Palestine in a positive light.
- Palestinians have a legal right to armed struggle
It's time for Israel to accept that as an occupied people, Palestinians have a right to resist - in every way possible. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 International law recognises the fundamental rights to self-determination, freedom and independence for the occupied. For Palestinians that includes the right to armed struggle.
- A Partial Peace in Colombia
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Colombia's peace accord serves capitalist interests, but may also open new space for the grassroots left.
- A Partisan Mayor
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A look back at the "French Tito," partisan militant Georges Guingouin.
- The Pentagon Says One Civilian Died in Drone Strike on Syrian Mosque. Witnesses Say It Killed Dozens.
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A Pentagon review concludes that a missile strike only killed one person and was a legal attack on a legitimate target. The review did not include eye witness testimony which claims dozens of lives were lost as well as damage to a mosque.
- The People are Not the Enemy: Police Anarchy in America
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 With alarming regularity unarmed American men, women, children and even pets are dying at the hands of police who are trained to shoot first and ask questions later, yet government seems to do little to resolve this crisis in policing.
- People are radicalizing Venezuela's Revolution: An interview with Christina Schiavoni
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In this interview Christina Schiavoni, a researcher and food sovereignty activist, provides a different view of the life of the Venezuelan people than we normally get from the media. The interview covers food and health situations as well as on-going politics and people's participation in the politics.
- The People vs. Big Oil
Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Steve Early's Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City.
- People's History, Memory & Archives
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A gateway to resources on people's history and grassroots archives.
- A people's history of England
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A posting which attaches in pdf format the 1938 work by AL Morton outlining the most important turning points of British history.
- Peter Maurin's Vision for the Catholic Worker, an Idea Whose Time has Come
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Today it seems obvious that a return to the land, to a proper relationship with creation and to meaningful, productive work is integral to the aims of the Catholic Worker movement. For much of its history, however, since its beginning in 1933, this aspect of its founder's original intentions was relegated to the margins of an already marginal movement.
- Pharma Funded "Patient" Groups Keep Drug Prices Astronomical
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017
- The Philipinnes: War Against the Poor
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 President Rodrigo Roa Duterte is responsible for a so-called "war on drugs" that is costing thousands of lives and is increasingly concentrating power in his own hands.
- Philippines: Walden Bello on fighting fascism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Walden Bello at the National Anti-Dictatorship Conference, University of the Philippines, outlines the key elements of an anti-dictatorship program.
- Philippines: when the police kill children - Kulot, Carl, Kian...
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Murders of several teenagers in the Philippines suspected to have been killed as part of the government's war on drugs.
- The Plague of Nationalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Catalan nationalists insist that "self-determination" is an inalienable right and cannot be curbed by the Spanish Constitution. Well, then, why stop with an "autonomous community" as Catalonia is designated? Why dont provinces everywhere have the right to declare their independence? How about cities? Or neighbourhoods?
- The Plant Next Door
A Louisiana Town Plagued by Pollution Shows Why Cuts to the EPA Will Be Measured in Illnesses and Deaths Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 When the Environmental Protection Agency informed people in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, last July that the local neoprene plant was emitting a chemical that gave them the highest risk of cancer from air pollution in the country, the information was received not just with horror and sadness but also with a certain sense of validation.
- Playing Chicken: Discovering a Diverse Working Class in Trump Country
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Since the election of 2016, much has been written about rural working-class voters who helped elect Donald J. Trump to the presidency. Most of those stories have assumed that the rural working class is overwhelmingly white. But if we look at one of the most significant parts of the rural economy the poultry industry we get a different picture. Not only do we see more workers of color, we also see more exploitation and greater potential for resistance.
- Please Stop Chanting That 'We' Won the Popular Vote!
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 "We" didnt win the popular vote, because we weren't on the ballot. We are the ninety-nine percent.
- The Plot to Scapegoat Russia
How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 An in-depth look at the decades-long effort to escalate hostilities with Russia and what it portends for the future.
- Podemos, Catalonia and the workers' movement in the Spanish state
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Following a long period of electoral upheaval and failure of the left, it is argued that the two key areas where the Spanish ruling class could have been confronted was through the workers' movement and the pro-independence movement in Catalonia, both of which were not sufficiently addressed by the Podemos campaign.
- Poison in the Fields: Agriculture as Chemical Warfare
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Highly poisonous chemicals ( that were originally designed as weapons of war) have been allowed for many decades, under successive Government policies, to be sprayed on crop fields all over the UK, and with literally no protection at all for the many millions of rural citizens living or attending schools in the locality of such chemically treated areas. (In fact, there is actually no protection for rural residents and communities in the majority of other countries around the world either!)
- Poison Papers Snapshot: HOJO Transcript Illustrates EPA Collusion With Chemical Industry
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A commentary on the "Poison papers", chemical industry and regulatory agency documents and correspondence stretching back decades, which shed light on what was known about chemical toxicity and practices in the often-incriminating words of the participants themselves, and which still have implications for us today.
- Poland's Solidarity and Its Fate
Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution: Solidarity and the Struggle against Communism in Poland Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Jack Bloom's Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution: Solidarity and the Struggle against Communism in Poland.
- The police are not here to protect you
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 It is a liberal fantasy that policing exist to protect us from the bad guys, rather it serves more to manage and suppress those on the losing end of economic and political arrangements.
- The police are not here to protect you
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The police spend little of their time making arrests, and most crimes are not solved, writes Alex Vitale - their real purpose is social control
- Policing for Profit: Jeff Sessions & Co.'s Thinly Veiled Plot to Rob Us Blind
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Commentary on 'policing for profit', or civil asset forfeiture, which allows police and prosecutors to seize property and sell it to help fund agency budgets.
- The Politcal Economy of Fascism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 For all of the millions of words written about the fascist danger posed by Donald Trump, there are very few devoted to an actual analysis of fascist economics both as ideology and state policy.
- Political Prisoners Remain Behind Bars as Obama's Term Nears End
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In the last full week of Barack Obama's eight year tenure as President of the United States of America, dozens of political prisoners still sit in cages across the nation's prisons, rotting away as Obama consciously chooses not to exercise the power to simply free them with the stroke of a pen.
- The Political and Rhetorical Strategies of Martin Luther King
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 What we can learned from Martn Luther King about political and rhetorical strategy, as well as movement building and organizing.
- The Politics of a Punch: Richard Spencer and the Black Bloc
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Alt-right leader Richard Spencer was punched in the face by a man dressed in black bloc garb. Louis Proyect gives his interpretation of the punching incident.
- The Politics of Some Bodies
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Holly Lewis' The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection.
- The Politics of Terror Mirrors the Politics of Heroin
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 While terrorist activities of ISIS in the West are describes as blowback. a more sinister connection than guilt by association comes to the surface if we analyse Western elite behaviour elsewhere.
- Politics Without Politics
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Jonathan Smucker's recently published book Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals offers a flawed road map for rebuilding the Left.
- Lillian Pollak
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Activist, revolutionary socialist and writer Lillian Pollak died in New York City at the age of 101.
- Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South: An Interview with Historian Keri
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Historian Keri Leigh Merritt presents a comprehensive study of this malignant and overlooked aspect of slavery in her new book Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press). This is an interview with her.
- The Popular Front Didn't Work
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Communist Party's 1930s popular front strategy weakened the labour movement and empowered the Democratic Party, a strategy that would be even more destuctive to the socialist left today.
- The Popular Front Didn't Work
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 This article focuses on the recent growth of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Through a historical overview of worker's parties in the United States, the article discusses the party's vision for the future.
- Power and Protest: The Electoral Tactics of Leftist Social Movements
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The central difficulty for left social movements is determining electoral tactics that will enable them to win both in the short run and in the middle run. On the surface, it seems that winning in the short run conflicts with winning in the middle run.
- Power to the Soviets
Book Review of October: The Story of the Russian Revolution Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of China Miéville's October: The Story of the Russian Revolution.
- Preferred Conclusions -- The BBC, Syria And Venezuela
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In 2013, it was remarkable to see the BBC reporting claims from Syria on a daily basis in a way that almost always blamed the Syrian government, and President Assad personally, for horrendous war crimes. But as the New York Times reported last month, the picture was rather less black and white.
- The President of Honduras Is Deploying U.S.-Trained Forces Against Election Protesters
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, using the specter of rampant crime and the drug trade, won extensive support from the American government to build up highly trained state security forces. Now, those same forces are repressing democracy.
- Presidio mutiny
Wikipedia article Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Presidio mutiny was a sit-down protest carried out by 27 prisoners at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco, California on October 14, 1968. The stiff sentences given out at courts martial for the participants (known as the Presidio 27) attracted attention to the extent of sentiment against the Vietnam War in the armed forces.
- Pride parade in Vancouver rejects Iranian over veil float
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Iranian Shawn Shirazi and his group Cirque de So Gay were denied entry to the Pride Parade in Vancouver, Canada this year because their float criticising the veil was deemed to be 'culturally [in]sensitive'.
- Principles of Organizing
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Explores the culture of organizing, the challenging and confusing dialectical tension that is every organizers terrain: change and continuity, the personal and the political, ideals and interests, planning and opportunity, and the transitions from evolutionary to revolutionary forms of unionism.
- The Prisoners' Revolt: The Real Reasons behind the Palestinian Hunger Strike
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Gaza is the worlds largest open air prison. The West Bank is a prison, too, segmented into various wards, known as areas A, B and C. In fact, all Palestinians are subjected to varied degrees of military restrictions. At some level, they are all prisoners.
- The problem is more than integration
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Polls show that minorities, and Muslims in particular, have a greater attachment to Britain than does the population at large. They also show that nine out of ten Britons think that their community is cohesive, and local area a place where people from different backgrounds get on well together. According to Casey this figure has increased (from 80 per cent to 89 per cent) since 2003. Britons, in other words, have become more positive about social cohesion in the very period in which uncontrolled immigration has supposedly eroded peoples sense of community and belonging.
- The Problem Isn't Willie Pete, The Problem is War Crimes
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The problem with bombarding Syrian cities, or any populated areas, isn't just that it is being done with white phosphorous, it's that it is being done at all.
- The problem with identity politics
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An examination of identity politics, and how experience alone is an inadequate foundation from which to develop an analysis of oppression or to devise political strategies to end it.
- The Promises and Limitations of Radical Local Politics
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Steve Early's most recent book, Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of An American City (Beacon Press), describes the building of a what is very likely the most successful progressive political organization, The Richmond Progressive Alliance, in the United States, in Richmond, California, a blue collar city long dominated by Chevron Corp.
- Proof of concept: An insurgent left can achieve electoral success - even in Canada
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2017 The article looks at Vancouver's current political climate on the municipal level. Jean Swanson's recent support placed her in second place in a civic election, and demonstrates the city's shift to the centre - left.
- Propaganda, Fake News, and Media Lies
The Diabolical Business of Global Public Relations Firms Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The PRP industry has experienced phenomenal growth since 2001. In 2015, three publicly traded mega PR firms -- Omnicom, WPP, and Interpublic Group -- together employed 214,000 people across 170 countries, collecting $35 billion in combined revenue. Not only do these firms control massive wealth, they also possess a network of connections in powerful international institutions with direct links to national governments, multi-national corporations, global policy-making bodies, and the corporate media.
- Propaganda Feeds Fear and Loathing
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The disturbing and growing trend of misinformation in news reporting.
- Propaganda and Lies, Canadian Style
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 As Canadian politicians speak freely and with less accountability on international affairs, indiviuals need to educate themselves on international issues and through alternative sources of information.
- The Prophet: Deutscher's Trotsky
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Old Testament prophets belonged to a religious order devoted to the study of sacred texts, which they interpreted, and from which they proclaimed the obligations of the leaders of their nation to the people. From these scriptures they envisioned the coming of the Messiah, who would usher in an era of justice and goodwill toward men.
- Prosecution of Assange is Persecution of Free Speech
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 US authorities are reported to have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This overreach of US government toward a publisher is another sign of a crumbling façade of democracy.
- Protest Alone Won't Stop Fascism
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Desperate people are vulnerable to fascism, and the desperation is deepening: millions are eyeball deep in debt and 80% live paycheck to paycheck, while skyrocketing healthcare costs and rising rent heat up the social pressure cooker. It's this economic gut punch that the fascists hope to benefit from: as working people struggle to breathe the fascists hope to offer cheap, ready-made oxygen.
- PublicitySources.com
Resource Type: Website First Published: 2017 A web portal featuring publicity and PR resources, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Punitive Neoliberalism in Puerto Rico
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Examines current debates in Puerto Rico using two concepts, punitive neoliberalism and financial melancholia.
- Putting the Racist Flyers at University of Michigan in Context
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 On Monday morning, September 26, 2017, students arrived to the U-M campus to find racist flyers plastered in Haven Hall, Mason Hall, and several other buildings
- Quantitative Easing: the Most Opaque Transfer of Wealth in History
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Quantitative Easing, by 'injecting' money into the economy, was supposed to get banks lending again, boosting investment and driving up economic growth, but this has proven not to be the case.
- Quebec's Antifa movement on rise in response to growth of far-right groups
Left-wing activists grapple with tactics to fight racism, neo-Nazism Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A report on anti-facist groups and their roots in Quebec, and what they are doing to counter the rise of right wing nationalism in the province.
- Race and the Real California
The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Sarah D. Wald's The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl.
- Race v. Class? More Brilliant Bourgeois Bullshit from Ta-Nehesi Coates
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Coates is either flat-out lying or woefully ignorant when he argues that "the left" is disinterested in the big and significant problems of racial identity and racial justice. The longstanding legitimately Left progressive agenda addresses both race and class at one and the time. It does not accept Coates' false dichotomy between class and race.
- The racist worldview of Arthur Balfour
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A look at British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, whose Declaration of 1917 led to the expulsion of Palestinians.
- Radical Ruptures Emerging from Global Wageworkers
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The following notes were the basis of a contribution to the internationalist communist summer meeting organized by TPTG, Underground Tunnel and friends, July 1117, 2017, in Greece.
- Radical White Workers During the Last Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The long-lost story of anti-racist, radical white working class activism has been restored by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy in their invaluable book: Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times.
- Ragpicking Through History: Class Memory, Class Struggle and its Archivists
 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Our current conjuncture invites a renewed rethinking of two historical imaginaries: first, what is class memory? To ask this question is really to reopen a discussion on what is class struggle and, more specifically, how does our collective memorialisation of struggles past inform our relationship to struggle in the present. Second, and relatedly, who can be this struggle's archivist?
- Rahul Pandita's New India: A Hindutva India On the Ashes Of Democratic Secular India
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Shamsul Islam responds to the rise of the Hindutva in India and challenges their anti-Muslim propaganda.
- Rainbow Coalition or Class War?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Is there any reason to think that Redneck Revolt and the new Rainbow Coalition will turn out differently from the People's Party? American history shows that any political group, left, right or center, that fails to challenge in practice the white community and the institutions and patterns that maintain it will reinforce an identity that has led countless potentially progressive movements to ruin and whose capacity to do harm is by no means exhausted -- no matter how vigorously it denounces racism and capitalism and how many coalitions it enters with non-whites. Simply put, white people organized as whites are dangerous to the working class and to humanity, and white people with guns organized as whites are doubly so -- and this is true regardless of the intentions of the organizers.
- The reactionary, class nature of left Academia today
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Mellor challenges the idea that socialism is eurocentric and speaks to how capitalist exploitation and workers' resistance is fundamentally similar all over the world.
- Reactions to Manchester Bombing Show How Anti-Muslim Bigots Are 'Useful Idiots' for ISIS
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Following recent terrorist attacks in Britain, the article looks at anti -Mulsim backlash and how it is playing into the hands of ISIS.
- Reactions to Manchester Bombing Show How Anti-Muslim Bigots Are 'Useful Idiots' for ISIS
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 How hatred of Muslims is unwittingly an effective tool for ISIS |