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What can today’s Activists learn from the Summer of Love and the New Left?

Ira Chernus | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - It’s the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. What better place to celebrate than that fabled era’s epicenter, San Francisco’s Golden Gate…

Have Syria’s Kurds invented a Democratic Neo-Socialism?

Dmitry Petrov | (OpenDemocracy.net) | - - In an effort to get through to the Syrian Kurdish autonomous region, I met kindred spirits and found out more about the political and cultural…

End of Blair Era in UK: Corbyn’s Left-Wing Policies win at Ballot Box

TeleSur | - - Labour leader's former foes give credit to his campaign platform. His years of being considered an outsider who didn't understand the British electorate now appear to be behind…

The Jeremy Corbyn response to Trump, May and Terror you won’t see on Corporate News

Jeremy Corbyn | (Video Clip) | - - Jeremy Corbyn | Terrorist Attack in London | criticism of May and Trump

Revival of Iraqi Communism among Youth alarms Shiite Militias

Mustafa Habib | (Niqash.org) | - - Last week’s kidnapping of seven activists in Baghdad could be another sign of increasing tensions between secular parties in Iraq and the country’s ruling religious…

Uh, oh: French Left can’t bring itself to Vote for Macron

TeleSur | - - TeleSUR spoke with two French voters to discuss Sunday's second-round presidential election in France and lesser evil voting. French voters are confronted with a difficult choice on Sunday's runoff presidential election:…

Can Progressives Mobilize to Save the Middle Class?

By James A. Haught | (Charleston Gazette-Mail) | - - The progressive vision for America -- to make life better for all families, not just the privileged elite at the top --…

UK: Labour’s Corbyn Says Could Halt Syria Airstrikes If Elected

TeleSur | - - Corbyn also said he would have to consider whether he would authorize a drone strike against the leader of Islamic State group to limit civilian deaths. The leader…

Can the Left Rebuild in the Deep South?

The Atlantic | (Video News Clip) | - - "Georgia’s sixth congressional district is a Republican stronghold—a Democrat hasn’t won in nearly 40 years. Jon Ossoff, a 30-year-old documentary filmmaker and former…

Are Progressives Suffering from Trump Fatigue?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Many progressives are suffering Trump exhaustion. The new administration has set the country back on so many fronts that it may not even…

Is the answer to Alt-NeoNazism Bernie’s Democratic Socialism?

TeleSur | - - Maria Svart of DSA speaks to teleSUR about how her organization is using Sanders’ vision to fight Trump and neoliberalism within the Democratic party. While the U.S. has…

“This Land:” The pro-Immigrant Radicalism of Lady Gaga and Guthrie at Half-Time

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - By beginning with Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" and then switching to Woody Guthrie's "This Land is your Land," Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta,…

The left’s response to Trump and US Neofascism must be international

By Sayantan Ghosal | (The Conversation) | - - With Donald Trump’s inauguration as American president, one more event considered by many to be beyond the realm of possibility has come to…

Is Trump the Shock America needs to Transition to Social Democracy?

David Graham Sweet | (Informed Comment) | - - Here on the “Left Coast” there’s much anguish & foreboding over the results of our recent election, and talk of “resistance.” I’m anguished…

Violence brought us Trump, but Nonviolent Protest will Stop Him

Kazu Haga | ( Waging Nonviolence ) What’s next? That is the big question facing this country after the election. And many people have been sharing their thoughts on that over social…

How can Progressives get through the Next 4 Years? Organize!

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Anti-Trump demonstrations have broken out all over the country in the wake of his surprise victory on Tuesday. Latinos are afraid he will…

American Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq outlive Anti-War Legend Tom Hayden, RIP

TeleSur | - - A prolific author of over 20 books, Hayden cut his teeth as a student activist against the U.S. war in Vietnam with Students for a Democratic Society. Veteran…

Now is the time to remember Bernie Sanders: Can a new Political Center yet Emerge?

Joseph Saltarelli | (Huffington Post) | - - “[Jill] to the left of me, [Hillary] to the right, Here I am, stuck in the middle with you” - Adapted from Stealers Wheel…

Dylan, the American Left, and What We have Lost

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Bob Dylan would no doubt be as distressed as the American corporate media to see an ideological interpretation of his 1960s anthems that…

Sarah Silverman to Bernie or Bust folks at DNC 2016: You are being ridiculous

NJ.com | (News Video Clip) | - - "Comedian and Bernie Sanders supporter Sarah Silverman took the stage along side of Al Franken to tell the crowd to unite and support Hillary…