Newest Activism

• Muna: The Palestinian Body Is Whole Once Again

  Palestinians disconnected from each other have struggled immensely to maintain a national project with clear objectives. Now, struggling together across the entire geography of historic Palestine, the Palestinian body is coming back together
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  Rey: ​The West is complicit in Colombia’s police killings

  The deadly violence by police and paramilitary groups against protesters in Colombia is made possible by the military aid of the government’s Western allies
• Mazza: Why I am not a climate doomist

  People power is changing the story
• Rebellion: The Power of One

  From Alaska to Israel, lone rebels are sitting in the streets. They are facing not only arrest but oncoming traffic, baffled onlookers, and potentially aggressive drivers
• De La Cour: Massachusetts Nurses Waging Longest Current Strike in the US

  The longest active picket line in the US is in Worcester, Massachusetts, where over 700 union nurses are entering their third month on strike. Their chief demand: safe staffing for patients
• Harwood: Wisconsin bill would cut funding to cities that defund the police

  Wisconsin’s legislature is largely dominated by Republican minded bodies, who blatantly disregard Black, Brown and Indigenous communities
• baseMjondolo: The Attack on our Movement Continues

  Another comrade appeared in court today on trumped up charges of conspiracy to murder
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  Prashad: Why One State in India Is Showing Promising Signs of Democracy

  Hunger can’t be eradicated by devotion. Only social action can eradicate hunger and hopelessness
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  Swanson: Anti-Democratic Tradition Is So Ubiquitous That Many Don’t Even Recognize It

  Interview on how the U.S. is a proudly and shamelessly corrupt oligarchy, reforming impeachment and how people can experience something bordering on democracy by engaging with their local governments
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  Nassar: Protests by Palestinian citizens in Israel signal growing sense of a common struggle

  What could result is a new type of Palestinian mobilization, one that belies the idea of a fragmented people and unites all Palestinian people in a joint struggle
• Goldberg: Eviction crisis looms as CDC moratorium hangs in the balance

  It is time to raise and expand the fight for housing as a human right
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  Kelly: Art Against Drones

  “Untitled (drone)” is meant to animate questions “about the use of drones, surveillance, and targeted killings in places far and near”
• Linstroth: The Tax Protests in Colombia

  As long as there are income disparities and class disparities in Colombia, and the pandemic continues to put people in financial jeopardy, the unrest will likely continue
• Capote: Colombia’s Leaders Want to Stain Their Country with the Blood of the Working Class

  In Colombia, the people are giving birth to a new country
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  Baschet: The “Zapatista invasion” has begun

  After months of preparations, a delegation of the Zapatistas has set sail from Mexico towards Europe. The “reversed conquest” has well and truly started
• baseMjondolo: eKhenana: A background provided in the context of the arrest of Mqapheli Bonono

  The achievements of the eKhenana Occupation have been extraordinary.
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  Nolan: AFL-CIO’s Commitment to Defending Police Unions

  The long-awaited draft report is an explicit rejection of calls for the labor movement to separate itself from police
• Hanrahan: “I want to find a way to win”

  Mumia knows that if it were not for the world shining a bright hot spotlight on prison conditions and access to medical care, he fears that he would not have survived
• Collective 20: 15 Theses on Liberation

  Can we forge a shared vision, a shared sense of and broad approach to strategy, a shared identity of struggle for short and long term aims?
• Cohen: Congressperson Jayapal Misses the Mark by Saying Biden Deserves an ‘A’ Grade

  To effectively confront the enormous problems facing our country and world, progressives need to soberly assess everything -- good, bad and mixed