Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by LA BOTZ Dan
The contradictions of President Joe Biden’s foreign policy were on view both abroad and at home this past weekend. At the American Cemetery in Normandy, France, speaking on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the massive landing of 150,000 troops from the United States, Great Britain, (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
Donald Trump represents a kind of politics that has powerfully transformed political realities in the United States, a kind of politics labeled by some as Trumpism. This useful label helps us understand that regardless of what happens to Donald Trump – whether he finally goes to prison or once (…)
, by BARGHOUTI Omar, LAKHANI Nina
Omar Barghouti, who attended Columbia University in 80s, says student solidarity with Palestine has educated the world
Omar Barghouti speaks in Derry, Northern Ireland, on 27 January 2024. Photograph: George Sweeney/Alamy
The student-led protests demanding universities cut financial and (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
For the first time in U.S. history, a former president, Donald J. Trump, has been found guilty of having committed a felony, yet it appears that this will have little or no impact on the coming election. Republican politicians and Trump supporters have rallied round him. In fact, Trump claims, (…)
, by JONES Marian
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, women’s rights to abortion and, more broadly, to safe reproductive health care have been under attack. In response, women have organized at the grassroots to build local and state-wide coalitions to resist and defend their reproductive rights. Women’s resistance (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), the most conservative court in 80 years, has utterly discredited itself in the eyes of most Americans with its anti-democratic decisions, the corruption of some justices, and the identification of some with the far-right insurrection and attempted (…)
, by WALD Alan
IN A DEED worthy of the Theater of the Absurd, the University of Michigan (U-M) administration inaugurated its much-vaunted 2024-25 “Year of Democracy and Civil Engagement” program by pepper-spraying its most politically committed students in the face. This gratuitous act was part of a violent (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
What an inspiration the student movement in solidarity with Palestine has been. For three weeks students in American universities have organized peaceful demonstrations in support of Palestine, established encampments, and occupied buildings in the biggest movement of its kind in decades. The (…)
, by PILKINGTON Ed
Trump promised to 20 executives at Mar-a-Lago dinner to increase oil drilling and reverse pollution rules among other pitches
Donald Trump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign (…)
Holocaust scholar and pro-Palestine activist Norman Finkelstein expresses his support for the student protests, insisting on the importance of free speech and uniting the majority of Americans around solidarity with Gaza.
Political scientist Norman Finkelstein speaks about his book on Gaza at (…)
In a matter of days, dozens of Gaza solidarity encampments have sprung up on over a hundred university campuses across the U.S. It’s the biggest student movement since the anti-war protests that swept U.S. universities in the 1960s.
As encampments are erected across the country, students have (…)
, by MIAH Malik
WHAT IS GOING on with the safety of major airlines? United, Alaska, Southwest since the beginning of the year have had major incidents.
No fewer than six investigations are underway: mishaps of lost wheels, engine failure and the infamous door plug blowout in flight. Eight passengers have (…)
, by MOUSA Naim
College administrations across the U.S. have put themselves on the wrong side of history by cracking down on the groundswell of student activism.
Over the past two weeks, American university campuses from coast to coast have seen an explosion of pro-Palestine protests, all with roughly the (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Thousands of students at dozens of campuses across the United States participated in April and continue today to join in pro-Palestine protests leading in some cases to brutal police repression, arrests, and suspensions or expulsions from the university.
The protests began at Columbia (…)
, by EPP Julian
With calls for divestment spreading this past week, students share how dozens of U.S. colleges are cracking down on pro-Palestine demonstrations.
On April 17, students at Columbia University formed a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the campus’s East Butler Lawn calling for the school to divest (…)
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus antiwar and civil rights demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, the courts and the police.
Interrogations of university leaders spearheaded by conservative congressional (…)
, by LAKHANI Nina
About 300 people were detained near Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn home
Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the (…)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
Ever since Israel’s war on Palestinians and increasing destruction of infrastructure and mass killings of the population in Gaza, protests have developed on campuses.
The response of supporters of Israel’s war have charged that campus pro-Palestinian demonstrations are anti-Semitic. As the (…)
, by MIAH Malik
Here is the headline of the April 20 Chattanooga Times Free Press: “UAW wins at Volkswagen Chattanooga in breakthrough in South.”
The South has the lowest unionization in the country where so-called right to work anti-union laws make it hard to win elections and negotiate contracts. The (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
The United Auto Workers union won a tremendous victory for labor last week that has the potential to begin to restore the power of unions in America.
Workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted overwhelmingly on April 20 to join the United Auto Workers Union, a historic (…)
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