Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
A Critique of Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies
Several years ago, I was sitting in a Lower Manhattan café with a friend, the journalist Arun Gupta, lamenting the state of the Left and how so many ostensible leftists had become little more than cheerleaders for reactionary politics. While (...)
ANOTHER BLACK MAN was murdered by police in a modern-day lynching in Memphis, Tennessee. The city is nearly 70 percent African American, including a Black female police chief.
What was unexpected and a surprise to many is that the police officers were all African Americans. Some asked how (...)
Black police officers can have bias against Black people – and act on it.
Once again, Americans are left reeling from the horror of video footage showing police brutalizing an unarmed Black man who later died.
Some details in the latest case of extreme police violence were gut-wrenchingly (...)
Unites States: Tyre Nichols’ death prompts calls for federal legislation to promote police reform – but Congress can’t do much about fixing local police
The severe beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, by five Memphis police officers – leading to his death three days later – has (...)
The Tempest editorial board and the Tempest Collective stand in solidarity with the family and communities of Tyre Nichols, who was murdered by police on January 7, 2023.
The horrifying video released Friday showing five Memphis police officers severely beating a defenseless and compliant Tyre (...)
Police in Memphis, Tennessee beat a 29-year-old Black man named Tyre Nichols on January 7 and three days later he died. The family had an autopsy done that found he died from extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating. The department fired the five officers involved in the shooting on (...)
Howie Hawkins is a retired Teamsters union warehouse worker, the US Green Party 2020 presidential candidate and an ecosocialist. Together with a range of other leftists, socialists, unionists and academics, he recently helped set up the Ukraine Solidarity Network (US). Hawkins spoke to Federico (...)
Taking into consideration the number of excess deaths caused by COVID-19 compared with pre-pandemic years is critical to getting an accurate accounting of the pandemic’s real toll.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020, a recurring topic of debate has been whether official (...)
Bill Fletcher, Jr. (Ukraine Solidarity Network) debated Medea Benjamin (Code Pink) last Sunday (Jan. 29) on the issue of Ukraine. The debate helped clarify some points, and raised some previously less clear issues.
Benjamin
Benjamin started off by saying how much she respected Bill Fletcher, (...)
Black people make up 13% of the population in the United States but represent 24% of those murdered by police.
More than 1176 people were killed by police in 2022, up from the previous year, making it “the deadliest year on record for police violence since experts first started tracking the (...)
“…new forces and new passions spring up in the bosom of society; but the old social organization fetters them and keeps them down.” Karl Marx
The recent shooting at a LGBTQ bar in Colorado once again brought to light the hate crimes that the LGBTQ community endures. Homophobia is certainly not (...)
As the left did in nearly all earlier cases of struggles for colonial liberation, so in this one too it should stand with the liberation movement.
The U.S. war against Vietnam provides a rather close analogy to the Russian war against Ukraine. An analogy, of course, is not an equivalence. (...)
Protestors on both sides of the abortion issue filled streets of major American cities in January as the anti-abortion movement held its annual March for Life demonstrations in Washington, D.C. and other cities, and the Women’s March, that began with Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, (...)
Fewer precautions, recent holidays and subvariants have driven rise but boosters, masks and other precautions are still effective
In the fourth year of the pandemic, Covid-19 is once again spreading across America and being driven by the recent holidays, fewer precautions and the continuing (...)
Seven thousand nurses struck two of New York City’s largest private hospitals, Montefiore and Mt. Sinai on January 9. Saying that they were “exhausted and burnt out” because of staffing shortages, and with their contract expired on December 31, the nurses maintained huge, spirited picket lines in (...)
Ukraine aid, like the war itself, is a point of contention on the international left. Supporters see aid as essential for Ukraine’s defense against an imperialist invader. Skeptics regard it as a giveaway to the war industry at best, a fig leaf for the US empire at worst. The dilemma is that (...)
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 Republicans in Congress now has the power to disrupt and paralyze the lower house. The last time a group with links to violent organizations and (...)
The United States faces a complicated immigration crisis. The current crisis revolves around Title 42, a regulation invoked by former president Donald Trump to expel migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. While President Joe Biden has recently attempted to ended Title 42 expulsions, the rightwing (...)
Workers have filed the most union petitions since 2015 and the number of strikes have surged, but whether this turns into a sustained increase in membership rates is still unclear.
Workers organized and took to the picket line in increased numbers in 2022 to demand better pay and working (...)
The world crisis revolving around the war in Ukraine has a deep influence in US politics. This makes understanding that war all the more important.
In January, the fascist-linked Republican Party will take power in the US House of Representatives. They will use this power to try to stop US (...)
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