Private power, public catastrophe
Pacific Gas & Electric is responsible for deadly California fires. It is trying get off through bankruptcy. What’s the only rational remedy?
Venezuela: Anti-communism spurs US push for regime change
This beleaguered country’s political and economic crises are not simple, but the primary culprit is U.S. imperialism.
The power of public workers revealed
Shop steward Steve Hoffman explains why public workers are central to the U.S. work force, and describes the history and current revival of their militant organizing.
In Kurdish Rojava: Syria’s imperiled freedom fighters
An excellent and rare description of the Kurdish people, their current autonomous region in Rojava, the role of feminism in the Kurds’ role of defeating ISIS, and an important analysis of Kurdish mixed political ideologies.
Women’s March 2019, a cautionary tale
How to deal with divisions while building a movement.
The FBI are still not the heroes. A feminist explains why.
Seattle Radical Woman organizer describes, from history and personal experience, exactly why the FBI is no friend to social justice activists.
Matamoros, Mexico: maquila workers rise up
Thrilling news about border workers defying major factories and corrupt union leaders, in the most important labor struggle in Mexico in many years.
Medicare for All: answer to US healthcare woes?
Dr. Steven Strauss explains the Democratic Party rumpus over healthcare, two of the main proposals, and what’s really needed.
Queer rights in Eastern Europe
Renewed attacks on LGBTQ community in Chechnya; Gay MP confronts the Polish right.
Seattle General Strike, 1919: “Nothing moved but the tide”
This salute to a proud general strike in the Pacific Northwest one hundred years go is chalk full of history, accomplishments, and lessons for militant unions today.
From anti-red to socialist
Nga Bui, daughter of Vietnamese refugees, on why she joined the Freedom Socialist Party.
High Voltage Women: pioneer tradeswomen who made history against relentless odds
Book review: The compelling story of trainees who put their bodies on the line to break into the electrical trades at Seattle City Light.
Wrenching and real — If Beale Street Could Talk
A moving love story, brilliantly acted, directed and musically scored, and deeply political.
Return of the Red Scare
Trump & Co. are preaching against socialism. They want another Red Scare? OK! Time for all good lefties to get fearsome.
Labor Weather Report: Workers press on, February 2019
CWA workers defeat union busting in NYC; South Korean hunger strikers win changes in safety rules for all workers; and United Electrical workers in Pennsylvania strike and win back their union status from a new, anti-union company owner.
The newest twist in criminalizing protest
South Dakota’s legislature passed a law that makes it a serious crime to protest oil pipelines.
Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic
It is legitimate and necessary to condemn Israel's oppression of Palestinians.
Trump’s tax cuts are only for the rich
What a superb argument for expropriating the criminally wealthy and spending public money on the public.
