Jacobin
- Shawn Fain: We Need a Political Movement for Workers
There’s a lot of uncertainty about what this moment holds for the working class. We’re in the middle of two massive transformations. One is in our economic system, where the rules of global trade are being upended, with huge implications for workers everywhere. The other major transformation is in our political system, where fundamental rights
- Unions, Not Just Factories, Will Make America Great
President Donald Trump and his defenders claim that his recent tariffs will usher in “a new Golden Age of American industrialization and prosperity.” As the president put it, “Tariffs are not just about protecting American jobs. They’re about protecting the soul of our country.” But there are two major flaws in this vision of a
- How War Changed Vladimir Mayakovsky
Yesterday marked the ninety-fifth anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s suicide. It is particularly significant today that World War I played such a key role in shaping him. This war led to the revolution in the former Russian Empire, which determined the poet’s future life — and death — as well as the history of his country
- Trump’s Trade War Is a Political Dilemma for Democrats
To tariff or not to tariff? Today’s tweet-length political discourse pretends this is a binary choice. President Donald Trump has pitched across-the-board import levies as a panacea to rebuild American manufacturing, while Democrats insist that Trump’s proposals are an attempt to crash the economy, and that their party should tout their opposition to all tariffs.
- The Call to Execute Luigi Mangione Is Indefensible
In December, Luigi Mangione was arrested for shooting health insurance executive Brian Thompson. Last week, Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, announced that she was seeking the death penalty. It’s a highly unusual announcement, since Mangione hasn’t even been indicted yet on a federal level. (He has been indicted in Manhattan.) By intervening in this high-profile
Shadowproof
- Shadowproof Is Shutting Down
After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is coming entirely to an end. The post Shadowproof Is Shutting Down appeared first on Shadowproof.
In These Times
Occupy.com
- Fearless Cities to Challenge An Age of Fear
In many European countries, the far right holds or shares power. Democracy is in crisis.
Current Affairs
Mother Jones
- A Youth Suicide Researcher Speaks Out Against Trump’s War on Science
Last week, a small group of protesters gathered on the steps of the flagship New York Public Library in Manhattan’s Bryant Park to “Kill the Cuts”—and stand against President Donald Trump’s crackdown on science. That crackdown, as my colleagues and I have previously reported, has been severe. In less than four months in office, the
- Meet the Miami Lobbyist Who Helped Bukele Seduce MAGA
Nayib Bukele is so popular with the US right that his refusal Monday to free a Maryland man with no criminal record mistakenly sent to a supermax prison in a foreign country was greeted by MAGA types as being, basically, badass. The Salvadorian president, who has dubbed himself “the world’s coolest dictator,” was already a
- Trump to the USA: There Is No Rule of Law
In the future, April 14, 2025, may well be recognized as a monumental day in US history. That is, of course, if there is honest history in the future. Because this is the day that President Donald Trump sent a clear message to the nation: There is no rule of law in the United States.
- Trump Keeps Falsely Claiming Ukraine Started the War With Russia
On Sunday night, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired an interview featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who once again deplored the fact that US officials have been promoting Russian disinformation about the war between the two countries. By Monday morning, President Donald Trump proved his point once more. Through a translator, Zelenskyy told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott
- The Real Reason El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele Cozied Up to Trump
Donald Trump’s deepening partnership with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, was on display as the two leaders rejected the idea of returning a man mistakenly deported by the U.S. and locked up in a Salvadoran mega-prison. Meeting at the White House, they indicated Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia would remain in Salvadoran custody despite a ruling
Dissident Voice
- Trump Posts Press Release with Fabrications
On April 15th, President Trump posted as “News” on his White House website, “These Sick Criminals Are Who Democrats and the Legacy Media Are Defending”, and opened: Brutal killers and rapists — all taken off our streets in just the past week thanks to the tireless work of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). If Democrats The post Trump Posts Press Release with Fabrications first appeared on Dissident Voice.
- Reflection on Ecuadorian Elections
The Black Alliance for Peace and Movimiento Afrodescendiente Nacional Ecuatoriano (MANE) reported back on the Ecuadorian presidential elections held on Sunday, April 13, 2025. Despite the fact the current president, Daniel Noboa, issued a last-minute decree (Decree 597) that sealed the northern and southern borders, intending to deny entry to international observers, the election team The post Reflection on Ecuadorian Elections first appeared on Dissident Voice.
- Purge, Purge, Purge Is the Word
So, I slip me a work out in on a local trailway and then decide to drop off a deposit at my bank. I spot a branch of my bank just down the way and think, cool, I’ll just pop in the drive-through. But there is no drive-through. I park and walk inside. There are The post Purge, Purge, Purge Is the Word first appeared on Dissident Voice.
The Progressive
- Two Radical Lives With Race at the Center
In 'An Ordinary White' and 'A Continuous Struggle,' racial consciousness spurs two very different paths into radical politics.
- Organizing for Change—Then and Now
An interview with Dhoruba Bin Wahad about the Black Panthers and movements of today.
- The Attentional Oligarchy
Trumpism thrives on the arms race for our eyes and ears. Chris Hayes knows how to get out of it.
Counterpunch
- MLK Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South w/ Jeanne Theoharis
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg talks to Jeanne Theoharis about her new book, "King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South," in which Theoharis argues that King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago—outside Dixie—was at the heart of his campaign for racial justice. Jeanne Theoharis is the author or co-author of thirteen books on the civil rights and Black Power movements and the contemporary politics of race in the US. Her biography "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" won a 2014 NAACP Image Award & the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. More The post MLK Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South w/ Jeanne Theoharis appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Bezos Versus Musk: Which Billionaire Will Trash Space the Most?
Amazon’s Project Kuiper is sending its first satellites into space. The company’s founder and executive chair, Jeff Bezos, seems keen to challenge all things Musk—including Elon's SpaceX Starlink system. The satellites in Amazon’s $10 billion-plus Kuiper Atlas project are being launched with the Lockheed Martin-designed Atlas V rocket, at Cape Canaveral’s Space Force Station. More The post Bezos Versus Musk: Which Billionaire Will Trash Space the Most? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Challenging Union Decisions About Politics Takes Rank-And-File Action
Every four years, like clockwork, our two major parties serve up presidential candidates whose commitment to the cause of labor is more rhetorical than real. This is most obviously true of conservative Republican courting of working-class voters. That venerable bait-and-switch routine reached its 21st century apex in the form of Donald Trump’s successful faux populist campaigns for the White House in 2016 and 2024. Post-election, his first and now second administration quickly displayed little interest in helping anyone other than Trump’s own billionaire class supporters. More The post Challenging Union Decisions About Politics Takes Rank-And-File Action appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
The American Prospect
Antiwar.com
- Standing at the Edge of the Iran War Cliff
Millions of people around the world were at the edge of their seats over the weekend, waiting to hear whether Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff’s indirect talks with the Iranian foreign minister would ratchet down tensions or would break down and bring on a major Middle East war. If it seems bizarre that the outcome … Continue reading "Standing at the Edge of the Iran War Cliff"
FAIR
- ‘They’re Doing Their Best to Turn People Who Have Not Committed Any Crime Into Criminals’: CounterSpin interview with Dara Lind on criminalizing immigrants
"They're taking far more sweeping, categorical actions toward people with fewer protections under current law, and it's harder to talk about those."
- Media Find Ways to Minimize Israel’s Murder of Paramedics
In the case of Israel, corporate media have institutionalized the practice of dancing around the straightforward statement of fact.
- Dara Lind on Criminalizing Immigrants
What can thinking, feeling human beings do now to protect fellow humans who are immigrants in this country?
