Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Policing is itself a kind of endless curfew. To the defenders of order, there are always fires that need covering because there is always disorder lurking in the populace, threatening to burn the system down.
A curfew is a form of incarceration. It is the police regulation and control of the (...)
In William Styron’s 1979 novel Sophie’s Choice, later made into a film that won Meryl Streep an Academy Award, a young Polish woman named Sophie Zawistowska arrives at Auschwitz with her two children. She begs a Nazi camp doctor not to send her kids to the gas chambers. He offers her a sadistic (...)
Unions must play a central role in the fight against police brutality. We spoke with a rank-and-file bus driver in Minneapolis who is organizing his coworkers to refuse to assist police in transporting protesters — because, he says, “an injury to one is an injury to all.”
The murder of George (...)
Ultra-violet light into the body and household disinfectants useful in killing the coronavirus ? School children know more about science than Trump does. Parents keep household disinfectants away from their children. Meanwhile, only one third of workers who applied for unemployment benefits in (...)
NOTE : It is too early to see what the impact of the corona virus pandemic will have on the Democratic primary elections. One election, in Ohio, was canceled on March 16, and others will be canceled in upcoming primaries. When, or if, they will be rescheduled is not known. The pandemic is (...)
Joe Biden turned out to be the big winner on Super Tuesday. While not all of the votes have been counted, Biden seems likely to end up with a majority. He is now positioned to do well in the rest of the primaries and is likely to come into the Democratic Party Convention with majority of (...)
The criminal negligence of the Iranian regime and military — shooting down a passenger airliner that had just taken off from their own Tehran airport — should immediately remind us of the dozens, if not hundreds of occasions when United States forces have caused the same kind of civilian (...)
There are two charges against Trump the Democrats in the House passed in their impeachment of the president. One is that he obstructed the impeachment investigation. The other is that he acted against the interests of the United States by withholding military aid to Ukraine in an attempt to (...)
Ocasio-Cortez is endorsing Sanders on Saturday because they share a vision of working-class politics. And that’s more important than tribalism
On the face of it, it’s not so surprising. A longtime democratic socialist runs an inspiring campaign for office around popular demands for economic (...)
The current impeachment inquiry into President Trump by the Democrats in the House of Representatives was launched by Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House. This marked a departure by her from her previous stance of resisting calls by the left wing of the Democrats (only “left” in the context of (...)
Christians in USA are increasingly protesting against Trump’s immigration policies and his politics of hate.
Holding pictures of migrant children who have died in US custody and forming a cross with their bodies on the floor of the Russell Senate Office Building, 70 Catholics were arrested in (...)
We are in the middle of a political upheaval on Israel/Palestine in the United States, and Americans who are concerned with Palestinian human rights live for these moments. They are the moments of potential change: When more tarnish is added to Israel’s image, and Americans get a clearer picture (...)
Nick Estes discusses the deep historical roots of the convergence at Standing Rock, why Indigenous peoples have taken a leading role in the climate justice movement, and why decolonization must be part of any left-wing agenda.
Booked is a series of interviews about new books. For this edition, (...)
How did we get from two decades of meteoric tuition increases to a moment where democratic socialist elected officials are pushing free higher education and complete student debt discharge? The short answer: organizing.
On June 24, Pamela Hunt stood at a lectern steps away from the Capitol. (...)
SOMEWHERE IN THE depths of his prodigious ignorance, it evidently dawned on Donald Trump that his national security advisor and the Secretary of State are pushing the United States toward war with Iran. That’s exactly the kind of ruinous conflict that Trump said he’d avoid when he became (...)
With the threat of eviction, solidarity activists in the Venezuelan embassy in Washington DC released a statement saying that eviction and arrests would be unlawful.
Solidarity activists have mobilized to stop the Venezuelan embassy from being taken over by Guaido’s representatives. (Popular (...)
Protest is telling the truth in public. Sometimes protest is telling the truth to a public that isn’t ready to hear it. Protest is meant to build a community, and to force a response.
I learned hope the hard way. It was a hot day in St Louis county near Ferguson, Missouri in September 2014, and (...)
The most important finding of the long Mueller investigation of Trump, that there was no collusion with the Russians to fix the 2016 election so that Trump would win, came as a shock to most liberals, progressives and even many socialists.
I’ve seen only one figure in the mass media who faces (...)
Two young Muslim women were elected to the House of Representatives in the 2018 election. Ilhan Omar is Black, and a refugee from war-devastated Somalia. Rashida Tlaib is of Palestinian descent, and has family living under Israeli oppression back home.
Both are outspoken supporters of the (...)
Capitalist-party politics in the United States remains in turmoil. There are investigations into Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia to steal the 2016 elections, as well as into his corrupt business practices on one side, and Trump’s mobilization of his white racist base on the other. (...)
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