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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, (...)
“…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 (...)
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 (...)
Review of Inside the Second Wave of Feminism Boston Female Liberation, 1968-1972 An Account by Participants by Nancy Rosenstock Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2022, 202 pages, hardback and paper.
INSIDE THE SECOND Wave of Feminism is a small volume packed with big ideas and activities shared by a (...)
Review of His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice By Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa Viking, May 2022, 428 pages.
I PARTICIPATED IN the popular uprising for racial justice after George Floyd was murdered by a white Minneapolis cop on May 25, 2020. I (...)
The left – in Canada and internationally – has not responded in a coherent way to Russia’s assault on Ukraine.
The Social-Democratic left, such as Canada’s NDP, is sympathetic to Ukraine’s resistance but largely fails to dissociate itself from the government’s political support for the neoliberal (...)
Painting depicting Muhammad receiving his first Quranic revelation through the Angel Gabriel included in a Persian manuscript written by Rashid al-Din, a famous 14th-century Muslim vizier and historian. (Edinburgh University Library) [for copyright reasons, we cannot reproduce it here] (...)
There is an ongoing debate within Democratic Socialists of America on the question of Ukraine. Many individual DSA members and chapters have upheld the basic socialist principle of international solidarity, that a nation and people subject to foreign aggression have the fundamental right to (...)
More than 60% of US faces winter weather warnings, with temperatures drastically below normal in many places
Freezing temperatures engulf US causing widespread travel disruption – video report
A wild winter storm enveloped much of the US on Saturday, bringing blizzards, freezing rain, (...)
To: The Board of Trustees, Hamline University
We are an international group of scholars and students, Muslim and non-Muslim, specializing in Islamic History, Islamic Studies, History of Art, Islamic Art History, and allied fields in the arts and humanities writing to express our outrage that (...)
Fair warning: this is a seriously misguided and disorienting book, even though useful in a certain sense. It’s useful for some background material it presents, but (as we’ll see) in a severely one-sided way – and important for what it reveals of the impasse of a U.S. peace movement in facing a (...)
THE SMOKE HAS cleared, or more accurately thickened, over the U.S. midterm election results. The result of the Georgia Senate runoff means that Democratic control of the Senate (51-49) will become a bit less razor-thin. Has the crisis of “our democracy” passed? Not by a long shot.
The rightwing (...)
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