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The shooting rampage in Buffalo, NY by the young racist/fascist that killed 10 Black people has filled me with mixed emotions
The U.S. may be alienated from Russia at the moment, but we still need to join each other as soon as we can in both disarmament and ecological initiatives
The Pennsylvania representative faced down millions of dollars in negative ads from pro-Israel groups and took on the Democratic establishment by running on a bold left agenda

Our cry should be “Move the money from war and destruction to the needs of people and planet!”
Despite setbacks, socialist candidates eked out victories in this week’s primaries

Eleven hundred workers who manufacture agricultural and construction equipment for CNH Industrial in Burlington, Iowa, and Racine, Wisconsin, have been on strike since May 2
Please Help ZNet Source: Liberation On May 10, the Detroit City Council adopted an ordinance providing for the right of tenants to legal representation while facing evictions. The ordinance was the product of a three-year struggle waged by the Detroit Right to Counsel Coalition, which is comprised of numerous tenants’ Read more…

The blood of a famous journalist, no matter how brave and experienced she was – and she was – is no redder than the blood of an anonymous high school student who was traveling home in a taxi full of women in this same Jenin a month ago

Please Help ZNet Source: Truthout Photo by Matt Gush/Shuttterstock Former president Jimmy Carter deemed the U.S. as having become “an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery” in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 2014 decision to strike down limits on campaign contributions, and the wielding of illegitimate authority within our Read more…
I have fought my entire life not to believe I am nothing. Not to believe I am stupid. To fight to believe I have a right to be here

The state’s new ban is the most extreme in the country, going further than Texas’s notorious S.B. 8 by banning abortion after fertilization
Throughout this trauma, capitalism has not been good to us
Reflecting on two years of Covid-19 and the challenges the British left will have to adapt to and confront
How Chile Drafted New Constitution to Rewrite Pinochet-Era Laws
The following are excerpts from a new book, Don’t Think Of A Republican – How I Won A Republican Primary As A Lefty Progressive And You Can Too
We are all walking wounded. A little sympathy and compassion is a place to start
S officials have openly admitted to “using information as a weapon even when the confidence and accuracy of the information wasn’t high”
In a single-day strike, the BEU strike won a three-year-long struggle

A British government prosecutor admitted in court this week that Palestine Action campaigners “forced the closure” of a factory owned by an Israeli weapons firm earlier this year

Generations have fought for these fundamental rights, and now is not the time to regress. No one is immune to this abuse of power, so all of us need to fight it

The Ukraine War, its complexities and global spillover effects, have not been adequately depicted by either political leaders or the more influential media
The dangerous, restricted unmanned fighter planes would be a major step up in the arms the U.S. is giving to Ukraine

Neither the formerly non-aligned of Europe nor the currently non-aligned of the Global South are interested in furthering Vladimir Putin’s imperial ambitions
U.S. Seeks Regime Change in Moscow

As the left increasingly focuses on electoral politics, a new framework is emerging for how candidates who win should partner with social movements
Democratic leadership and their corporate donors are now doing everything they can to destroy those progressives
The US, Britain, and other NATO countries don’t hold the same view
Across the country, millions of parents are desperately searching for baby formula. Why are we letting the private sector alone handle such a vital good?
Six workers at the Maple Street Starbucks in New Orleans why they’re fighting to unionize
“Today it was me, tomorrow who follows?”
Core questions of political strategy animate the debate roiling DSA. The whole Left has a stake in the outcome

White nationalist violence is escalating — and the leadership of this country refuses to do anything significant about it
Dramatic Interview from Ukrainian-Held Severodonetsk as Missiles Rain Down
What are the United States’ goals in the Ukraine war?

The Marcos-Duterte camp is currently gloating behind the façade of calls for “burying the hatchet”

Voters shrugged off an obscene amount of spending from super PACs to send a message to Democrats: Do something
Pennsylvania and Oregon election results from last night offer cause for hope for progressives: voters rejected the demands of oligarchs and Democratic elites
The company has already reportedly pushed back by trying to use union dues as a tactic to deter workers from supporting the union
“Esper’s revelations merely confirm that we’re dealing with a government—regardless of who is in office—that will go to extreme lengths to achieve its policy priorities”

Please Help ZNet O citizen, un-besotted by zeal, Un-fathered by the state, Between the heat wave And the hate wave Take your pick; Torched by the two now Smoulders the captive republic. Neither the all-out sun nor the bellowing Saint knows the pinch Of price rise. Once Read more…

Please Help ZNet Source: Labor Notes The company has billed itself as the everything store. Now Amazon is the throw-everything-at-them union-buster—trying every trick in the playbook to throttle worker organizing at its Staten Island warehouses in New York City. The union vote at a second warehouse, a neighboring sorting center known Read more…

Africa is responsible for less than four percent of historic global emissions – we are not the ones who caused this crisis. We want climate justice
Please Help ZNet Source: Democracy Now! In one of this year’s deadliest mass shootings, a white supremacist opened fire Saturday on a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, killing 10 and wounding three others. Eleven of the victims are Black. The 18-year-old suspect posted racist ideology Read more…
Make abortion normal again
In cities large and small, people came out into the the streets

“The judge seemed more concerned that these non-violent activists disrupted profits than the fact that the continued use of coal is causing irreparable harm to the planet”
It’s personal. And the U.S. is not better
Please Help ZNet On May 16, the Biden administration announced new measures to “increase support for the Cuban people.” They included easing travel restrictions and helping Cuban-Americans support and connect with their families. They mark a step forward but a baby step, given that most U.S. sanctions on Cuba remain Read more…