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“I’m astonished that in 2022 we’re still fighting over the right to abortion as healthcare and that it’s been turned into such a taboo.”

Please Help Znet           Source: Truthout We are living through a moment of great decline in the United States. The U.S.’s turn toward authoritarianism is evidenced by actions of the Trump administration and the GOP; the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol fomented by the big lie that former president Read more…

The Debt Collective has successfully pushed Biden to extend the pause on student loan payments. Now we’re organizing to make the White House cancel all student debt

Sinn Féin Wins Historic Victory in Northern Ireland Election

“Brazil will have the opportunity to decide which country it will be for the next few years, and for generations to come”

Despite attacks and threats against unions, labor activists are demanding better wages and working conditions

Please Help ZNet             Source: Amandla! What we are witnessing in the labour movement today is quite simply a tragedy. At a time when the working class is suffering as never before, leaders of Saftu are tearing the young federation to pieces. The working class needs this federation to strengthen Read more…

Transforming the university will require academics to do something we’re notoriously bad at: stop working

Please Help ZNet           Source: National Priorities Project Year after year, Congress approves massive funding increases to agencies that profile, jail, and deport immigrants. In the last two decades, spending on ICE and CBP more than doubled from $12 billion in FY 2002 to more than $25 billion in FY 2021. Read more…

Spectacular and mundane acts of everyday racism are normalized or simply not seen.

“The findings of the Commission on Human Rights are a vindication for the millions of people whose fundamental rights are being impacted by the corporations behind the climate crisis.”

Please Help ZNet           Source: TNI Photo by PradeepGaurs/Shutterstock   The Farmers Movement in India has inspired millions around the world who are fighting for justice, democracy and solidarity. The farmers held their ground in the face of threats, intimidation and relentless propoganda, and forced the Modi government to repeal the Read more…

That’s Amounted to Nothing

It’s been a good year for labor organizing at Starbucks

The following is excerpted from a new book, Don’t Think Of A Republican – How I Won A Republican Primary As A Lefty Progressive And You Can Too

“I feel sometimes that we’re up against this faceless money monster.”

Unionization threatens its low-wage model, but union busting hurts its public image as a supposedly progressive company

‘Catalangate’ has rocked Spanish politics

This right was not handed to women and other pregnant people. It was won through mass demonstrations, teach-ins, takeovers and sit-ins

Until we get better ventilation in shared indoor spaces, global vaccine equity, better rollout of Paxlovid, better rollout of boosting, newer vaccines, we are going to be in trouble

The Left and its allies must defeat the rats in the battle to preserve democracy and human rights

Please Help ZNet           Source: The Conversation The recent price increases hit large parts of the people in Albania hard – especially because the living conditions of most people have already been difficult. On the other side, few rich people in the country have accumulated enormous wealth. In the last month, Read more…

Please Help ZNet             Source: The Conversation The EU could ban crude oil imports from Russia within six months if a new round of sanctions is approved. Excluding a handful of countries, refined Russian oil products like petrol and diesel could cease to flow into the EU by the end Read more…

“No government,” said Bernie Sanders, “should be handing out corporate welfare to union busters.”

Robotic Dogs and Autonomous Surveillance Towers Are the New Wall

France’s Greens, Socialists, and Communists have joined a coalition supporting Jean-Luc Mélenchon for prime minister

Russia Sanctioned for Ukraine Occupation, but 4,000 new Israeli invaders of Palestinian West Bank merely “Opposed”

To nurture scientific discovery, universities and grant institutions must do a better job of rewarding failure

The end of Roe v. Wade will accelerate an existing effort to criminally punish people for their abortions, stillbirths, and miscarriages

Build Back Better is on the ropes. But other parts of a just transition are moving forward

Student debt disproportionately impacts Black and Brown Americans. It’s time to end this collective financial burden, and the president can do so with the stroke of a pen

It’s been a good year for labor organizing at Starbucks

Please Help ZNet           Source: Truthout The war of aggression that Russia has perpetrated in Ukraine has rightly generated widespread condemnation, both among Russia’s Western critics and the world at large. On the war’s obvious heinousness, almost all of the U.S. political spectrum is in agreement. However, opinions as to the Read more…

If there ever was a question of who is boss in Europe, NATO or the European Union, the war in Ukraine has settled it

And cost countries billions

“We want to elect MPs in a majority of constituencies to stop Emmanuel Macron from pursuing his unjust and brutal policies and beat the far-right.”

The struggle for dignity, for land and autonomy, continues to mean death. Our hearts are broken

If Palestinian refugees are removed from the list of political priorities concerning the future of a just peace in Palestine, neither justice nor peace can possibly be attained

It is important, at this ultrahazardous moment in global history and looming threat of catastrophic nuclear war, to understand a “few historical truths.”

Under finance capitalism, we can exert power by collectively leveraging not just our labor but also our debts

As the United States moves, terrifyingly, toward a Christian theocracy that has methodically and finally seized control of the Supreme Court, we must remain vigilant and take action

“People might look at us like we’re young, but I genuinely feel like we can make the most change,” said one Maine high school student. “Most of us are voting next year or this year.”

Please Help ZNet           Source: Globetrotter The North Atlantic media is entangled in an unprecedented information war. It is characterized by a relentless erosion of the distinction between facts and the manipulation of emotions and perceptions, between conjectures and unassailable truths. I saw this kind of information war in the United Read more…

Russia’s brutal invasion complicates the left’s decadeslong effort to untangle Europe from the U.S.-led military alliance

The war in Ukraine has altered the political balance in Europe and it is accelerating its militarization

Please Help ZNet           Source: Counterpunch The deepening current Ukraine Crisis is properly linked to the Russian aggression that commenced with a massive military attack against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and has continue to ravage the country since, including inducing a refugee flow numbering several million. There is a broad Read more…

A Resurgent Labor Movement Must Be Willing to Use It

The inflation panic is causing some Democrats to pivot from social spending to deficit reduction. That’s exactly the wrong approach

The following is excerpted from a new book Don’t Think Of A Republican – How I Won A Republican Primary As A Lefty Progressive And You Can Too

Elon Musk’s Twitter deal shows the risks of a digital town square in private hands