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A Certain Schizophrenia

August 8, 2026 Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News. , , , ,
The Democratic Socialists of America have been feeling their oats of late, what with Zohran Mamdani’s election to the mayoralty of New York last year and a succession of D.S.A. victories in primaries across the country since then. On Tuesday another Democratic Socialist won a primary, this one in Michigan for a U.S. House seat. What right-thinking person does not wish these people well? But where is all this going? We all want to hear the plan. You have on the one hand reports that all these oats the D.S.A. is sowing have conventional liberals and mainstream Democrats in a state of high anxiety.

Social Power Is Built Before It Is Seen

August 7, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. , , ,
From the Bengal famine of 1943 to the election of the Left Front government in 1977, the communist movement in West Bengal, India, patiently built its strength among workers, peasants, refugees, students, and cultural workers. Through campaigns for food and land, the building of trade-union power, refugee mobilisation, and resistance to state repression, the left did more than win immediate demands: it created institutions of struggle, trained generations of organisers, and developed a political culture in which the grievances of different sections of people could be understood as part of a common struggle.

Democratizing Training For Nonviolent Resistance

July 13, 2026 Jamila Raqib and Alia Braley, Waging Nonviolence. , , , ,
At a time when democratic institutions are under attack, authoritarianism is resurgent, and communities around the world are confronting severe and overlapping crises, there is at least one reason for hope: people are organizing. They are organizing in neighborhoods, workplaces and places of worship, experimenting with alternative ways of meeting their communities’ basic needs, mobilizing in demonstrations, and, in many cases, refusing to cooperate with oppressive systems. The challenge people face today is not a lack of courage, creativity or commitment to the causes they care about.

We The People March On Washington

July 1, 2026 We The People 250 March, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
We The People 250 is a coalition convening a march on Washington on July 4, 2026 to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence. Bringing together movements and organizations from across the country, the march is a peaceful, people-powered stand against authoritarianism, demagoguery, and political violence. We the People is an affirmation of 250 years of struggle to bend this country toward justice and a clarion call that leaders in every party stop accommodating its demise. The coalition takes its name from the first three words of the Constitution: We the People.

This July 4, Celebrate That The People Are Supposed To Be In Charge

June 30, 2026 By Michael Chameides, Meg Bostrom, and Elaine Mejia, Inequality. Org. , , ,
Two hundred fifty years ago, Americans rejected monarchy. They rejected the idea that power should rest in the hands of one person, one family, or a distant ruling class. Instead, they enshrined an American promise: legitimate power comes from the people. Our Constitution opens with three words: “We the People.” As the country marks its 250th anniversary, that promise is worth remembering: in America, the people are supposed to be in charge. Indeed, every day we see neighbors working together to improve their lives, their communities, and the country.

Tyranny Or Revolution

June 2, 2026 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. , , ,
Mexico City — There are two ways to confront global capitalism. There are mass movements, especially strikes, which disrupt commerce and government to force the ruling class to create systems of justice and equality — albeit ones where capitalists retain significant power. The National Coordinator of Education Workers in Mexico (CNTE) — a grassroots union created in 1979 by dissident teachers — is currently attempting this in Mexico. It announced that if its demands for salary increases and job security are not met it will occupy public spaces and shut down the World Cup soccer matches scheduled to take place later this month in Mexico City.

The “Hitler Question” Should Never Justify War

May 21, 2026 Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, Waging Nonviolence. , , ,
Proponents of war and militarization often invoke common memories of Hitler and World War II to argue that we are now in a similar moment. Whether it is with Saddam Hussein in 2003, al Qaeda during the “war on terrorism,” Iran’s Supreme Leader in 2017, or Putin since 2022, a classic trope is to compare enemy leaders to the Nazis. In the lead-up to the Iran War this February, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham likened Iran’s religious leaders to Hitler and argued for regime change by any means.  It is only a matter of time before Hitler is invoked again to justify yet another war or yet more militarization. How can those who are uneasy with war and militarism prepare to counter such arguments?

The Future – Socialism – Is Possible And Necessary

May 15, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. , , , ,
In 2022, the roughly 10,500 citizens of the Pacific Island state of Tuvalu began to migrate not from one country to another but from their physical islands to the digital world. Faced with the prospect that climate change could make its low-lying territory uninhabitable in just a few decades, Tuvalu set out to become the ‘first digital nation’, building a three-dimensional record of its land, archiving its culture, and preparing digital systems of identity and governance so that it could continue to function even if its people are scattered across the world.

What Do Authoritarians Fear Most?

April 13, 2026 Sarah van Gelder, Truthout. , , ,
Even before Donald Trump launched a war on Iran, his presidency had heightened the strain on millions of people in the United States struggling with high prices and precarious work. Now, as the U.S. and Israel escalate their violence in the Middle East, pressures at home are intensifying. Higher prices at the gas pump make the war-related surge in energy costs visible to all. Less apparent are disruptions to global fertilizer supplies resulting from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Combined with widespread drought and the impacts of tariffs, the fertilizer shortage could cut food supplies, worsening the affordability crisis and spreading food insecurity.

Can General Strikes, Mass Strikes, And People Power Uprisings Provide A Defense Against Tyranny?

January 11, 2026 Jeremy Brecher, Portside. , , ,
Jeremy Brecher’s report on social strikes is a timely contribution to the urgent conversations we must be
having in the movement regarding the probability that, to defeat MAGA authoritarianism, we will need these
kinds of mass actions that exert power through withdrawing cooperation and creating major disruptions.
Brecher draws from international experience and US history, and helpfully discusses laying groundwork,
goals, tactics, organization, timelines, and endgames of such mass actions. There is no doubt that, as MAGA’s authoritarianism and military invasions accelerate, we need a strategy to
push back.

The Antidote To Fear Is Courage

January 8, 2026 Azadeh Shahshahani and Stephanie Guilloud, In These Times. , , ,
A leaked Justice Department memo in early December outlined Attorney General Pam Bondi’s directive to the FBI to ​“compile a list of groups or entities engaged in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism.” In addition to establishing a ​“cash reward system” for information, the memo, first published by journalist Ken Klippenstein, lays out targets that include those who express ​“opposition to law and immigration enforcement,” ​“adherence to radical gender ideology,” ​“anti-Christianity,” ​“anti-capitalism,” and ​“anti-Americanism.”

Scientists: Public Engagement, Pressure Key To Reducing Nuclear Risks

December 30, 2025 Jon Letman, Truthout. , , ,
Faster, stealthier missiles, accelerated weapons development, and the threat of an unrestrained nuclear arms race, set against the backdrop of a withering arms control regime, point to a worsening global nuclear threat as 2025 comes to a close. On top of that, just before meeting with China’s leader Xi Jinping in October, President Donald Trump abruptly, and very imprecisely announced in a social media post, “Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.”

Government Shutdown: It Will Take A People’s Movement To Defeat Trump

October 1, 2025 Liberation News. , , , ,
A government shutdown appears highly likely in the coming hours. Despite last-minute negotiations, this dramatic development is coming to pass for one fundamental reason: The Trump administration and the right wing in Congress is determined to destroy working people’s access to healthcare. In a “government shutdown”, not every part of the federal government stops operating. ICE agents will continue to terrorize immigrant families. The Pentagon war machine will continue to threaten the world. The first programs to be imperiled will be vital lifelines like WIC or food stamps. Typically, shutdowns have been caused by Republican members of Congress who refuse to pass budget bills unless they include massive cuts to social programs.

Washington DC Residents Decry Trump’s ‘War On Poor People’

August 16, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. , , , ,
Several days after US President Donald Trump announced his takeover of the local police force of Washington, DC, federal forces have begun patrolling the streets of the US capital. The Pentagon announced Thursday, August 14 that all 800 National Guard troops President Trump ordered into Washington’s streets this week to restore “law and order” have now been deployed. Defense Department Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson said that in rotating shifts of 100 to 200 unarmed soldiers, the National Guard will assist Washington police and federal law enforcement by guarding monuments and federal buildings, conducting “community safety patrols,” and engaging in “area beautification.”

There Is No Revolution Without Revolutionary Consciousness

August 15, 2025 ELAPRE, Hood Communist. , , ,
A wind of despair blows relentlessly across the world. This wind of panic is the result of poverty and social inequalities. This has given rise to widespread wars that take various forms depending on the reality. Faced with the ravages of this phenomenon, Haiti is not spared (in fact, it is one of the biggest victims). Haiti is plunged into insecurity in all its forms: poverty, arms trafficking and trade, organ and drugs trafficking and a lack of transportation, all of which have plunged the country into total financial insecurity. For many, Haiti has never experienced such a chaotic situation in history. This critical situation is not without consequences for society. It forces the population to adopt a different understanding of life; many essential sectors in the society including the universities, the media, organizations and political parties, etc. have suffered an unprecedented state of discouragement.
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