Recent ZNet

Tributes — including from countless organizations calling themselves progressive — are routinely evasive about the anti-militarist ideals that King passionately expressed during the final year of his life

In 2020 Cuba confirmed a total of 12,225 coronavirus cases and 146 deaths in a population of 11.2 million, among the lowest rates in the Western Hemisphere

India’s organized political formations must choose between meeting the ruling onslaught on its own anti-intellectual turf or striving to forge a politics that appeals to a dormant awareness enslaved by the fake charm of the cult

A ‘major setback’ was the recurring term in many news headlines reporting on the outcome of Israel’s general elections of March 23

“We need a people’s vaccine, not only to protect people in the world’s poorest countries, but to ensure that people all over the world who’ve already been vaccinated aren’t put at risk again.”

The debate over policing in the wake of Floyd’s death will last beyond Chauvin’s trial and has already been shaped by what happened last May in Minneapolis

It seems like the height of capitalist exploitation to make precarious workers more precarious and assuming they’ll be willing to do just about anything to keep their jobs

On Trans Day of Visibility, we look at the wave of anti-trans laws being enacted across the U.S., with dozens more anti-trans bills making their way through state legislatures

A Structuralist Approach To Predatory Global Capitalism And The Challenge of Reform

Amazon ambassadors were trained to defend Jeff Bezos and clap back at Bernie Sanders under a program codenamed “Veritas”

Mail-in ballots for the hotly contested battle to unionize 5,800 workers are due on Monday. Some experts are predicting a victory while others are unsure

We have proven to ourselves once again that solutions are there to be seized

Wielding a pivotal Senate seat at a moment when the Biden administration is prepared to spend trillions on fixing the climate, West Virginia is now in a position to make huge demands of the Democratic Party

“People who spend their careers studying our economy are in widespread agreement that climate change will be expensive, potentially devastatingly so.”

The unionization efforts at Bessemer are bigger than just Amazon. In this dispatch from the ground, Uber drivers, healthcare workers, and young Birmingham residents stand in solidarity

The New Border Politics of the Biden Era Are Actually Ancient History

Challenging the Politics of Isolated Incidents

The USA is a country where health insurance for medical and mental health care is a function of socio-economic status

If we want to win big, we will need to take collective risks. To do that, we need to build structures that strengthen our relationships with one another, educate each other on what is possible when we organize, and develop the leadership of many more people through escalating campaigns

Residents are tired of being the city’s dumping ground, so they are fighting back

Brazil’s president Bolsonaro continues to deny the Covid crisis, as Lula’s return to politics creates shockwaves from the favelas to Wall St.

Three weeks ago, on Friday, February 26, 2021 Mumia Abu-Jamal called Pam Africa. Mumia told her that he was certain he had COVID-19; that he was having difficulty breathing as well as chest pressure and pain

On March 29, Centers for Disease Control finally extended its moratorium on evictions for non-payment of rent from March 31 to June 30, 2021

The exclusion of Palestinian perspectives points to “an omission that is quite telling about asymmetric relations of power and domination and how some liberals still try to make decisions that deeply affect us, without us.”

U.S. policy might help create a more serious challenge by confrontational and hostile acts that drive Russia and China closer together in reaction

The white, male, militarist culture of violence isn’t inevitable. It’s a societal choice. Let’s switch

Management Studies conjured up the hallucination of being similar to real academic subjects like geology, mathematics, philosophy and sociology

The COVID-19 pandemic demands that all nations cooperate to vaccinate the entire global population—a goal that can’t be achieved using the usual rules of which countries win and which ones lose

“This is definitely the most significant labor struggle of the 21st century”

On Sunday afternoon in Birmingham, Alabama I went canvassing for the Amazon union. The support for the union was overwhelming. The whole community is backing these workers

Many progressives are ignoring U.S. aggression around the world despite its involvement in many wars and expanding arsenal of nuclear weapons

Here’s all I ask regarding the project of keeping the promise to end the endless wars: End a fucking war. That’s it. Pick one and end it. Now

With the triumph of the far-right in Israel, the backing of “peace partners” in the Gulf, and no likely obstruction from the White House whoever its occupant, the Palestinians have become a non-issue

People who want to end the nightmare of nuclear destruction that has haunted the world since 1945 should consider widening the popular appeal of nuclear weapons abolition by strengthening the UN’s ability to provide international security

Appointed in the final days of Trump’s presidency to remove all US troops from Afghanistan, Douglas Macgregor tells The Grayzone how military leadership undermined the withdrawal and pressured Trump to capitulate

“We will not allow Trump’s handpicked Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to slow down mail delivery, cut hours at post offices, and sabotage the Postal Service”

In the 1920s and ’30s, a summer schooloffered a visionary example of worker ed that emphasizes class struggle and worker empowerment.

“It takes much more than definitions to effectively dismantle antisemitism. But if governments and institutions feel the need to endorse a definition, the JDA is undoubtedly a far better option.”

A global police state is emerging in response to poor and working class uprisings around the world; William I. Robinson’s new book reveals its architecture

“This is clear voter suppression, clear racism, a clear manifestation of white supremacy. Georgia is going backwards instead of forwards.”

So Why Does Biden Seem Intent on Enriching Private Insurance Companies?

The buying power of rich people can drive prices upwards so that poor people cannot afford things. This is most noticeable with property

We hope that the Minister can commit to a genuine and democratic working relationship with Abahlali, other democratic formations and the poor people of South Africa and the working class in general

Subtitled ‘how devotion to our jobs keeps us exploited, exhausted and alone’, Sarah Jaffe’s book explores one of neoliberalism’s most insidious slights of hand

How can the weapons industry seem to smash or buy off everything standing in its way, whether it’s reason, precaution, or spending limits?

No Bang, No Whimper, No Victory

Residents near the proposed site already live with more toxic air pollution than 99 percent of the United States

Workers Are Already Preparing for the Next Fight

“It’s the right thing to do. It’s massively impactful. It’s popular.”

Bessemer, Alabama’s police chief has confirmed that off-duty officers have been hired by Amazon to act as “security” for the BHM1 facility in the middle of a historic and intense union drive