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Demanding Accountability for Deadly Capitol Attack
Democratic Socialists of America IC expresses solidarity with the workers, peasants, and indigenous communities struggling against the forces of capital

The presidential offenses that are routinely considered unimpeachable — and therefore ultimately acceptable — tell us a lot about Congress. And about U.S. mass media. And maybe about ourselves
Isolation is part of the problem. The Proud Boys and similar groups have lived on a continent on their own making

A Reply to David Edwards

Radical feminism helped me understand how deeply patriarchy is woven into the fabric of everyday life and how central it is to the domination/subordination that defines the world
We understand grassroots democracy to be at the center of any true revolution: people governing themselves and producing their own life among equals
The highest court in the land does not represent the interests of the American people. It doesn’t have to be this way
Africa CDC Head Says Lack of Vaccines for the Continent Will Imperil World
A levy of just 1 percent on wealth over $1 billion would raise more than $2 billion per year to meet the state’s urgent social needs
Polls have shown that forgiving up to $50,000 in student loan debt is relatively popular among the public, though with some caveats that the forgiveness should be targeted
“We’re down here to fight for the people, to get them dignity, respect, and a living wage–not a minimum wage.”
Since India’s farmers protests began last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s far-right Hindu nationalist government has tried to violently suppress them, revealing how close “the world’s largest democracy” is to becoming an authoritarian state

Understanding the White Power Movement and Broader Political Landscape in the United States

People familiar with young climate activist may be more likely to act
Austin City Council voted Thursday to use funds slashed from the police budget to purchase a hotel that will provide permanent supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness

On Friday, the International Criminal Court found that it had jurisdiction to consider war crimes and crimes against humanity and the crime of Apartheid in the Palestinian territories

Disney World’s union workers, running out of federal aid, are banding together to keep each other afloat
The Caravan’s editors write that charges filed against them after covering protests are an ‘assault on free media’
Movement to unionize workers in Alabama faces tough opposition as the retail giant launches aggressive anti-union drive
What the long struggle against public housing privatization has shown above all else is that with the people united and organized to fight back, we can win

China doesn’t want to rule the world, but it does want to be the dominant power in its region, and it wants to sell a lot of stuff
The wild variety of grassroots organizers hoping to give the nudge to the senator all agree on one thing: The old ways won’t work
Nothing fundamentally new is happening right now. A part of Russian society is unhappy with Putin and his government, but that’s been a constant throughout his 20-plus year term
Improved Medicare for All would do away with the need for supplemental coverage and expand the services covered
17 scientists called for a World War II-type mobilization to prevent a future of mass extinction, declining health, climate-disruption upheavals and resource conflicts

There is no better time than now to address the ridiculous levels of wealth and income inequality in the United States. It can be done with ease through aggressive taxation of the wealthiest handfuls of individuals
Scholars on the Nazis and anti-Semitism have seen this before

I am cautiously daring to hope that Democrats are starting to realize that power exists only if you use it
No matter who wins the 55th Super Bowl, the big winners in our COVID-ravaged economy are billionaires — including dozens of sports team owners

The Pakistani government should never, under any circumstances and no matter the pressure, normalize with Israel
Gig economy companies and organized labor are at war over the future of work and the definition of “employee”
Anti-union forces around the country depend on Chicago’s editorial boards to blunt the force of the CTU, lest it inspire more teachers around the country
The congresswoman knows impunity for those who incited the Capitol attack just allows them to do the same, or worse, again. Impunity for the people who told the lie would amount to complicity in their conduct…
The long-term result of American Big Tech allying itself with the state to suppress Internet freedom will be its withering as users desert it
Decades of neoliberal policies have reshaped our world – but perhaps their deepest impact has been to corrode the bonds which underpinned society: replacing the collective with the individual
“Israel, as an occupying power, has a responsibility to provide vaccines to the Palestinian people,” the first-term congressman asserted in a letter to Israel’s acting consul general
Capitalism in Ecuador has been surviving the pandemic by increasing the exploitation of the working class and farmers

Despite the hollowing out of democracy, elections remain one front in the political contest, and in that contest, the left fights to summon a democratic spirit

“The Threat of Nuclear Weapons: Why Canada Should Sign the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty” Presented by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute
From frontline battles to large national mobilizations, tar sands resistance developed new tactics and organizing strategies
We could face another global shutdown from a new vaccine-resistant variant of the virus unless we successfully arrest the pandemic with an effective vaccine today
They did not come prepared to seek understanding, then act from that understanding
“I’m seeing too much hesitation. If they don’t deliver amid these multiple crises, then Republicans will storm back into power in 2022.”

Researchers worry the pandemic may have severe after-effects, with deaths of despair impacting more distressed and newly-vulnerable populations
“Eighty-three percent of the benefits of the Trump tax plan went to the 1% and large corporations… There was not one Democrat that voted for that bill.”
Biden halts U.S. support for offensive military operations in Yemen
The far right is dangerously obsessed with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow left-wing members of Congress. They deserve the Left’s solidarity
These violent, racist police cannot keep collecting paychecks while they brutalize working people.
This week in “Amazon is scum” news, on Tuesday the company reached a $61.7 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over a longstanding practice of stealing tips from delivery drivers