NAACP Calls Biden to Halt Weapons Shipments to Israel

The NAACP calls on President Biden to draw the 'red line' and indefinitely end the shipment of weapons and artillery to the state of Israel. It is one thing to call for a ceasefire, it is another to take measures necessary towards liberation for all.

The Billionaires Have Captured Donald Trump

Desperate to avoid prison—and needing cash to win reelection, so he can pardon himself—Trump is selling his administration’s domestic and foreign policy to the highest bidder. He is traveling from billionaire to billionaire, with hat in hand....

Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers

Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort.

The Criminalization of Solidarity

Georgia’s sweeping, political application of conspiracy law echoes tactics that shattered the left a hundred years ago, when the government targeted socialist parties and militant unions with laws against criminal syndicalism, espionage, and sedition

June 6, 2024 - Reader Comments, Resources, Take Action

Reader Comments: Trump No Longer Invincible; Mexico: ¡Viva La Presidenta!; The Sympathizer on Hollywood’s Vietnam War Stories; Leonard Peltier Parole Hearing June 10; Feminist Foreign Policy for Peace; Webinar: Organizing, Collective Action, the NLRB

The Republican Id

Rather than visiting red-state diners, reporters ought to journey to the venerable conservative message board where the talk after the Trump verdict was nihilistic and bloody.

Israel, Russia, and International Law

National impunity is not inevitable, at least if people and governments of the world are willing to take the necessary actions.

Asylum-Seekers at the Border: ‘We Cannot Return’

People at the border reel after hearing about Biden’s order and consider the CBP One app, where they can go and what’s next

The Anti-War Left Makes Inroads in Israel

Standing Together’s national field organizer Uri Weltmann discusses the growing peace movement inside Israel, confronting far-right extremists seeking to disrupt humanitarian aid going to the Gaza Strip, and the left’s recent electoral breakthroughs

Global Left Midweek – June 5, 2024

Irish reunification in the age of the EU
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Culture

poetry

Memorial Day

Joe Zaccardi
For California poet Joe Zaccardi our holiday of memory brings back wartime scenes of flying and hope of rescue.

books

Ladders Last a Long Time

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite London Review of Books
A collection of essays by Raphael Samuel, the late historian who was one of the intellectual founders of the New Left in the United Kingdom.

Labor

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From the Community | Freedom of Speech Is a Labor Issue

Jason Beckman, Sophie Jean Walton and Chloé Brault The Stanford Daily
The right to protest and just cause for discipline are fundamental principles that unions seek to protect. Recent arrests and suspensions of graduate workers at institutions across the United States highlight the importance of this right.

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Southern Worker School Charts Course for Power

Southern Workers Assembly Southern Workers Assembly
Nearly 200 rank and filers who are developing a movement of workers in the South gathered in Charlotte, NC on May 17 – 19 for the 2024 Southern Worker School.

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Enabling Dictatorship and Destroying Democracy

Muhammad Hidayat Greenfield The Bullet
External and internal threats to the nation – real or perceived – always played a crucial role in the enabling of dictators and the establishment of authoritarian regimes.

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Newsflash: Inequality in Neoliberal America

DAVID SCHULTZ Counter Punch
Photo of a sign on a post that says PEOPLE OVER PROFIT A new report provides perhaps the best detail we have so far on the economic and social consequences of neo-liberal economic policies in America. 

Friday nite video

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Following Harry the Film

“Following Harry” is an intimate documentary film that follows 96-year-old civil rights icon Harry Belafonte as he continues his mission of social justice