Shireen Akram-Boshar: For nearly two months, Israel has been waging a genocidal campaign against Gaza. During that time, hundreds of thousands of people have demonstrated globally in outrage at Israel’s genocidal bombardment of Gaza. In the Middle East in particular, protests have been massive, have faced state repression and have evoked memories of the Arab Spring Revolutions. For example, in Egypt protesters have marched to Tahrir Square for the first time since 2013. In Jordan, regime and security forces have prevented these protesters from reaching the border to show solidarity with Palest ..read more

Degrowth in broad terms rejects capitalism’s ever-expanding aggregate production and consumption, which is both socially and ecologically destructive and ultimately catastrophic for the planet.  In Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto, Kohei Saito aims to fuse degrowth and Marxism to “update our vision of the post-capitalist world” as a contribution to the struggles of global social movements facing the intertwined crises of capitalism, democracy, and ecology. First published in Japan, where it became a best-seller, Saito’s book taps into deep concern about runaway global heating and dire th ..read more

How many Palestinians have Israel shot, bombed, and starved in the last week or so? Not a lot of it has been in the news, because we’ve been distractedby “bigger” theatre: a “regional” conflict may be brewing. Let’s observe and analyze this bigger picture, while remembering that the ongoing genocide in Gaza is the real issue here, not Israeli and Iranian fireworks. At least 43 more Palestinians were killed and 62 others injured on April 13 in four Israeli massacres in Gaza. The next day another five Palestinians were killed “when the Israeli army shelled hundreds of displaced Palestinians tryi ..read more

It starts to surface in the South in April. It’s rare and synchronized. It has been alive underground for decades, preparing, growing stronger within the grassroots. They’ve already started calling it alien, a foreign invasion (bless their hearts), though clearly it comes right from our soil. No, it ain’t the aligned cicada brood, about to blanket the South (and beyond) in a manner that hasn’t been seen in two centuries. It’s unlikely to leave behind a fragile shell, or be crushed by boots or gone by summer. Yet something just as extraordinary is happening across the South: Thousands of worker ..read more

Dana Cloud: A few weeks ago, as you know, Biden and Trump both visited the Texas-Mexico border. Biden was selling his immigration bill that Trump encouraged Republicans to vote against. Even though Biden is pushing for more resources for border policing, Trump claimed (in his articulate way) that the U.S. is being overrun by the “Biden migrant crime.” Trump emphasized crimes committed by migrants. My perception is that his rhetoric of monstrosity regarding immigrants has a different tone from Biden’s, but do you think that they are essentially proposing similar controls? Aly Wane: Yes. I’ve be ..read more

In Argentina, deputies and leaders of the Frente de Izquierda y de Trabajadores – Unidad/Workers and Left Front – Unity (FIT-U) met on Wednesday, April 3, with the Cuban ambassador to Argentina, Pedro Prada, and other officials from the Cuban Embassy. This included the national deputies Myriam Bregman (from the Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas/Socialist Workers’ Party [PTS]), Romina del Pla (from the Partido Obrero/Workers’ Party [PO]) and Christian Castillo (PTS) participated on behalf of the FIT-U; the legislator for the Buenos Aires (CABA) Celeste Fierro (from the Movimient ..read more

On March 31, the surprise results of Turkey’s municipal elections completely transformed the political mood in the country. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost 15 out of the 36 cities it governed. The main opposition party, Republican People’s Party (CHP), gained 15 cities and won a plurality of the national vote with 37 percent. Last year, when most pollsters and analysts predicted his defeat in the general elections, Erdoğan devastated the opposition with a surprise victory. What has changed since then? Inflation in Turkey had been in the double digits f ..read more

One way we can think about tradition is who inspires us. Traditions of struggle against exploitation and oppression go back thousands of years. Think of peasant revolts around the world; the resistance of Indigenous people on Turtle Island (a term for North America mainly used by some Indigenous nations) that’s been going on since Europeans arrived; the resistance of enslaved Africans and their descendants; anti-slavery fighters like John Brown; the Industrial Workers of the World early in the twentieth century (a high point in the history of the working-class movement in the U.S.); and so man ..read more

In 2020, some 15 to 20 million people participated in the largest anti-racist protests in history in a sustained national rebellion that inspired international solidarity. But our political leaders–both Democrat and Republican–have retrenched and pursued racist law-and-order agendas. Black people remain three times more likely to be killed in a police encounter than white people. In this conversation held at the Socialism 2023 convention, Haley Pessin and Phil Gasper think through what it will take to build a lasting and effective struggle against the racist state. Haley Pessin: Confronting th ..read more

On February 1, around 100 people attended the Black Lives Matter and Palestine Solidarity Teach-In on Zoom. The event was sponsored by Black Lives Matter at School, Washington Ethnic Studies Now (WAESN), and the Seattle Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (SCORE). For educators and youth in the Seattle area, the Teach-In helped kickoff the local Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action which officially took place February 5-9. Participants felt the need to connect this year’s BLM at School Week to organizing to stop the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. The issue grew in urgency when the foll ..read more