It is ironic that those who most ardently declare their anti-imperialism are the same who believe there’s no subjectivity except U.S. subjectivity: no protest against states they deem anti-imperialist is possible without Washington’s approval, money, or agents spurring it on.
Abundia Alvarado is a co-founder of Mariposas Rebeldes and a member of the movement to protect Weelaunee Forest from the construction of Cop City. She is a Nahuatl and Apache trans femme migrant organizing between Atlanta and Tennessee. We spoke about Abundia’s life’s philosophy, its roots, and how it has shaped the trajectory of her organizing.
The far right has for the first time in a hundred years established itself as a force in the U.S. Congress. A group of just ten percent of the . . .
Dilar Dirik, The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice (London: Pluto Press, 2022)
On November 20th, Turkey launched Operation Claw-Sword, a large-scale campaign of drone attacks killing civilians and militants in the predominantly Kurdish regions of Syria . . .
As we build collective power with coworkers, negotiate with management, and make demands of employers, workplace democracy is a way of talking about having a say. But what does that mean?
A critique of the DSA International Committee’s stance on Ukraine
Putin could end this war today if he wanted. So could you and your comrades in arms if you refuse to fight or simply begin to go home.
If the scene that unfolded December 11 was part of an “invasion” frequently voiced by the U.S. right, it was a curious one, indeed: no battle between antagonistic armies was fought. Many of the “invaders,” were in fact children.
The government of Pedro Castillo didn’t really change many of the policies that came before, we did not find measures that have endangered those at the top, nor have they benefited those below. In the statements of the simple men and women of the mobilized populations we find a constant: The elite did not let Castillo govern because he was one of them. And they are right.
In this interview, Shane Burley, author of Fascism Today and Why We Fight, discusses their latest edited collection No Pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis, an expansion and extension of antifascist organizing and ideas.
It is a precious recognition that negotiations in the understanding of the current Russian government can only take place as a continuation of accumulating multi-layered lies, which appears to be the foundation of the public communication strategy of the Putin regime.
Achcar clarifies and expands his argument on the position the left should take on peace in Ukraine
A response to Jean Vogel’s critique of Achcar’s “For a democratic antiwar position on the invasion of Ukraine.”
A reply to Achcar’s “For a democratic antiwar position on the invasion of Ukraine”
More than just the lockdown, what motivates these protests is people’s sense of not being heard in a political system that so arrogantly disregards popular opinions.
Some basic principles for avoiding the twin dangers of favoring the aggressor and extreme nationalism.
Ukrainian feminists see themselves as part of the same struggle as that of Iranian women
A call for the release of a political prisoner in Nicaragua
Solarpunk is a literary and art movement which imagines what the future could look like if the human species were actually to succeed in solving the major challenges associated with global warming, from reducing global emissions to overcoming capitalist economic growth as the primary motor of human society.