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Recent ZNet
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Coffey: The Limits of Excellence
August 20, 2016
A feminism based on lionizing hyper-successful women obscures the unjust structures that need to be dismantled
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Richardson-Price: The Fight for a Six Hour Workday
August 20, 2016
To fight for a reduction in working hours is not to take a stand against labor itself, but against the compulsion towards work that is unnecessary, and for its replacement with something better
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Cockburn: A Battle to the Death in Syria
August 20, 2016
One reason the war continues is that many participants still have a lot to gain by fighting on.
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Law: Private Prisons Are Far From Ended: 62 Percent of Immigrant Detainees Are in Privatized Jails
August 20, 2016
Private prison corporations will continue to control 46 immigration detention centers that detain nearly 25,000 people (or 62 percent of the country's 33,676 immigrant detainees) on any given day
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Aziza: Ending private prisons at the federal level marks a major movement victory
August 20, 2016
Over the years, a broad coalition of activists have joined the movement, many taking aim at private prison companies’ bottom line
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Feffer: The Globalization of Trump
August 19, 2016
Looking for a place to escape from President Trump? You're running out of options
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Fisk: The Shias are winning in the Middle East – and it’s all thanks to Russia
August 19, 2016
Just as Erdogan has become pals with Putin, the Turkish and Iranian foreign ministers have been embracing in Ankara with many a promise that their own talks will produce new alliances
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Thekaekara: Has the Dalit uprising in Gujarat given birth to a movement?
August 19, 2016
There has never been such a concerted show of Dalit strength
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Sinwell: The Spirit of Marikana
August 19, 2016
The rise of insurgent trade unionism in South Africa — an excerpt
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Moberg: Fight for $15 Organizers Tell SEIU: We Need $15 and a Union
August 19, 2016
At a time when the labor movement is especially vulnerable, unions need to avoid any grounds that could cost them public support—especially in a campaign as promising and crucial as the Fight for $15
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Boggs: Hillary and the War Party
August 19, 2016
A Clinton presidency, which seems more likely by the day, can be expected to stoke a resurgent U.S. imperialism, bringing new cycles of militarism and war
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Brooks: Future Fighters Go to the Mat for Black Lives
August 19, 2016
The Future Fighters are building a bridge between their union’s struggle for economic justice and their community’s struggle for racial justice
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August 19, 2016
Interview on the election
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Benjamin: ‘There will be a hawk in the White House’
August 18, 2016
There are no illusions this time, like there were with Obama. So let’s get started building a new anti-war movement, one that is diverse, intergenerational, and closely linked with other key struggles
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August 18, 2016
The question is not, are we in a world war? The question is, will we fight back? And if we do, can we actually defeat an enemy as powerful and inexorable as the laws of physics?
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Hallinan: Dangerous Seas: China & The U.S.
August 18, 2016
Simple demographics are shifting the balance of economic and political power from Europe and the U.S. to Asia
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Sturgis: A strike at the heart of the prison-industrial complex
August 18, 2016
Date on which prisoners across the U.S. are planning to strike over being forced to...
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August 18, 2016
The United States keeps rushing more weapons to Saudi Arabia as it uses them
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August 18, 2016
The fake grassroots campaign run by grouse shooters is just one instance of the way democracy is being bypassed
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Cohn: US Targeted Killing Rules Conflate Legality and Politics
August 17, 2016
Under the guise of increased transparency, the administration has revealed partial information about its targeted killing program. But much remains classified. And what we do know does not comply with the law
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Lazare: Milwaukee’s War on Black People
August 17, 2016
Sheriff David Clarke is declaring war on the black youth his city has failed
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Biehl: Review: A Road Unforeseen — Women Fight the Islamic State
August 17, 2016
“Any movement for real transformation must make the demands of women central,” argues Meredith Tax in her book on the Kurdish women’s struggle.
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Swanson: How to Get Yourself Named “Pro-Assad”
August 17, 2016
Will those who have thus far believed that bombing by only one of those parties or the other is evil come to grips with the evil in bombing conducted by the pair of them?
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July/August ZMag
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Vivas: What Remains of All Our Outrage?
However, real change does not come about only through conquering institutions, but through gaining support from a mobilized society. What remains of all our outrage? A regime in crisis, not ready yet to fall, but ready to be reconfigured
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Winship: All The Presumptive Nominee’s Men
You will know our presidents and presidential candidates by the company they keep
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Street: Hillary Clinton’s Not-So-Strange Right-Wing Bedfellows
Democratic Hillary Clinton supporters got churlish when they heard media...
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Chaffee: Upcoming Events for Progressives
EVENTS SOCIALISM – The Socialism Conference is scheduled for...
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Pimentel: HISTORY HANDBOOK: Seeing Red: Nixon and the Presidential Election in Chile, 1970
That Nixon facilitated the ousting of Allende via collusion with the Chilean military and Allende’s political enemies comes as no surprise to students of the American war in Vietnam
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Wise: How Trump Uses Race to Divide & Conquer
August 15, 2016
The Trump campaign is just the latest in a centuries-long strategy of rich whites duping poor whites into channeling anger toward people of color, rather than the elite
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Giroux: Trump and the Enablers of American Authoritarianism (2/2)
July 23, 2016
'Lesser evilism' is the wrong way to frame the elections - it's about what's better for the strategic interests of an independent people's struggle
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Rasmus: Labor Uprising in France
July 17, 2016
Massive labor actions have been roiling France, as unions protest the policies of the nominally Socialist government
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Harrison: Wikileaks: Interview with Investigations Editor Sarah Harrison
July 16, 2016
Interview on the case of Julian Assange, the findings of the UN working group on arbitrary detention, national security, international law and how one can support whistleblowers
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Nutt: The real harm of the global arms trade
June 24, 2016
In some parts of the world, it's easier to get an automatic rifle than a glass of clean drinking water
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Recent Blogs
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Emersberger: Quiz: Can you tell the Daily Mirror from the Daily Mail?
August 19, 2016
Here’s a very brief quiz for readers of the UK...
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Our Future Environment
August 14, 2016
Green Time TV Our Future Environment by Don Fitz We...
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Khan: Religious beliefs versus rational thinking
July 31, 2016
Nasir Khan, July 31, 2016 From a Humanistic point of...
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Khan: Kashmir, Palestine and my Facebook Friends
July 26, 2016
Nasir Khan, July 26, 2016 At present, I have about...
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Wittner: Superpowers Are Violent Powers
July 17, 2016
If asked to identify the world’s superpowers today, most people...
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Khan: Kashmiris Right to Determine Their Future Is the Only Solution to the Kashmir Conflict
July 16, 2016
Nasir Khan, July 16, 2016 Today Professor Raj Bhat, himself...
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Preparing for Danger
July 16, 2016
Green Time TV Preparing for Danger by Don Fitz Many...
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Khan: Brtual Indian oppression continues in Kashmir
July 15, 2016
Nasir Khan, July 15, 2016 The partition of India in...
Being Left
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Highlighted Content
Chomsky: Global Struggles
Thekaekara: Dalit uprising
Fisk: Shias winning
McKibben: Under attack
Lazare: Milwaukee’s War
Wallerstein: ANC Slipping Away
Shiva: Free people
Bennis: Mass Displacement
Biddle: Pokemon Go’s CEO
Albert: Our Revolution!?
Elijah: Behind Bars, Too
Feffer: Don’t Dumb Down
Shiva: False promises
Billet: Right to the City
Johnstone: Hiroshima
Emanuele: Liberal Activism
Shalom & Albert: Election Q/A
Prashad: Bombs Away
Contributors: BLM Program
Hahnel: The US Left
Cole: Global Switch to Solar
Falk: Genocide?
Bello: South China Sea
Bacon: River Turned Yellow
Brownstein: Diverse Left?
Halimi: Provoking Russia
Rosenberg: Big Pharma & Doctors
Brooks: Busting Myths
Hartung: Arms Business
Klein: Future to Believe In
Lund: Pedagogy of the Oppressor
Street: Political Correctness
The U.S. Presidential Election
Thekaekara: Dalit uprising
Boggs: Hillary and the War Party
Stein: Vote Green
Robin: No Decency
Rieder: Ethical Choice?
Albert: Our Revolution!?
Pacelle: Superbugs
Moody: Rank and File’s Paper
Zogby: Platform and Politics
Prashad: Trump vs Hillary
Hightower: Populist insurgency
Albert/Shalom: Thinking About Election
Hahnel: What Can We Learn?
Wetherell: Donald Comes to Town
Solomon: Open letter to Hillary
Buccola: What is My Duty?
Berkowitz: Riding Trump’s Wave
Staffers: Open Letter to Sanders
Staffers: Letter to Bernie
Glick: Build, Bernie, Build
Frank: Dems and Trump
Rensin: Support Bernie’s Supporters
Jealous: Vote Green?
Solomon: Clinton vs. Bernie
Albert: Answering Swanson
Swanson: Lesser Evilism
Glick: Course Correction?
Albert: We Need A United Left
Albert: Don’t Sell Out!
Glick: Open Letter to Jill Stein
Venezuela
Ellner: Unlikely Referendum
Albert: Miguel Rodriguez
Serrano: Venezuela’s Future
Telesur: US Sabotage
Sankey: Pink Tide?
Emersberger: Economic Bleeding
Albert: Venezuela
Buxton: After Chavez
Ellner: Boliburguesía Thesis
Pearson: Media Wars
Sullivan: Venezuela’s Crisis
Lebowitz: Building Alternatives
Dangl: Openings and Labyrinths
Weisbrot: Economic policy
Teruggi: Venezuela On Fire
Weisbrot: Left in Latin America?
María: Chavismo From Below
Weisbrot: Venezuela
Dominguez: Right Wing Majority
Mallett-Outtrim: How Bad?
Albert: Errors and Prospects
Albert: Venezuela’s Future
Albert: Responsibility Is Ours
Wilpert: Key Factors, Part 2
Ellner: Set the Record Straight
Wilpert: On Venezuela
Wilpert: Roots of Situation
Mallett-Outtrim: Wake up Call
Ellner: Chavista Government
Albert: Organize for Venezuela
Highlighted Israel/Palestine
Falk: Dreaming of Freedom
Zunes: Anti-Semitic?
Cook: Money Talks
Falk: AMEXIT
Falk: Smearing BDS Supporters
Baroud: Water as a Weapon
Baroud: Resistance Poetry
Hass: Sweep Palestinians
Baroud: The Paris Peace Gambit
Falk: Zionism, BDS, and the UN
Cole: Israel-First McCarthyism
Avnery: Day of the Rhinos
Hass: Vanquished History
Baroud: Roots of the Conflict
Prashad: Right to Exist?
Cook: Religious zealots
Baroud: Roots of the Conflict
Fernandez: Backward as It Gets
Greece & Spain
Rasmus: Looting Greece
Nichols: Spanish general election
Cutillas: What’s at Stake in Spain
Nichols: Podemos Left
Rasmus: IMF Exit Troika?
Savio: Punching Ball
Smith: ‘Everyone’s outraged’
Hunziker: Ugly Truth
Wallerstein: Spanish Drama
Rasmus: IMF and Troika Again
Hunziker: Greece Loses its Soul
Horner: Greek dock workers
Hallinan: Triumph or Trap?
Iglesias: Government of change
Varoufakis: On Greece...
Spourdalakis: Rekindling Hope
Milios: Austerity Unbroken
Nulman: Podemos
Vouloumanos: 1 Year Later
Rushton: Sea Change In Spain
Iglesias: Spain’s Socialists
Malaboca: Spain: insiders’ perspective
Vouloumanos: 1 / 2 / 3 /4
Albert: Greece Writ Large
Parecon / Parsoc
Recent Comments
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- Barry Wood on Milwaukee’s War on Black People
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