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Locating Ourselves In The Wreckage Of Neoliberalism

June 11, 2025 Daniel Martinez Hosang and Colena Sesanker, The American Prospect. , , ,
This past March, as an unusually warm winter in Connecticut prepared to give way to spring, a morning crowd at the West Indian Social Club in Hartford milled about over blueberry muffins from Costco and cartons of Dunkin’ coffee. “Democracy School” was about to begin. At round banquet tables, nursing home workers nodded intently, listening to community college students describe the budget cuts they were fighting in order to keep their libraries open in the evening, so working students could find time to study. Child care advocates broke bread with Uber drivers, and learned about their efforts to win dignified wage and safety standards. College faculty like ourselves heard stories from renters facing eviction, and from undocumented parents struggling to win health care coverage for their families.

The Revolution Of Light And Korea’s Democratic Triumph

June 8, 2025 Simone Chun, Counter Punch. , , , ,
One of the most consequential missteps in US Korea policy under the Biden administration was the failure to engage with South Korea’s domestic political realities, particularly the widespread public opposition to President Yoon Suk-yeol’s increasingly authoritarian rule. By relentlessly propping up Yoon to serve Washington’s geopolitical agenda and its escalating Cold War posture toward China, the Biden administration not only ignored Korean public sentiment but also fueled domestic unrest. Domestic outrage against Yoon’s regime came to a head with his attempted imposition of martial law on December 3, 2024—a move that exposed the fragility of his position and deeply damaged Washington’s credibility in the region.

Where Is The Artificial Intelligence Safety Movement?

June 8, 2025 Cathy Rogers, Waging Nonviolence. , , ,
Whether or not we realize it, artificial intelligence is reshaping the world with breathtaking speed. Promoted as a panacea to cure diseases, revolutionize industries and tackle the world’s most intractable problems, AI is also quietly displacing workers, amplifying biases and creating surveillance systems pervasive and pernicious enough for any dystopian. As if that weren’t enough, there’s the prospect of super intelligent AI outpacing human control altogether. So where are the humans in all this? Where are the protests, the people out on the streets, the demands for safeguards, for oversight, for input from normal people?

Burkina Faso: They’re Not Vassals

May 31, 2025 Carlos Lopes Periera, Workers World. , , , ,
In the middle of April, the provisional government of Burkina Faso, led by Captain Ibrahim Traoré, announced that it had uncovered and dismantled a plot to “sow total chaos” in Burkina, in yet another “attempt to destabilize republican institutions.” The masterminds of the plot are said to have benefited from the help of neighboring Côte d’Ivoire, a veritable French neo-colony. In Burkina Faso, thousands of people demonstrated on April 30 in Ouagadougou and other cities in support of the government, which previously revealed that it had foiled a “great conspiracy” hatched in Ivory Coast and rejected interference by the United States of America.

Activists Mobilize In Colombia’s Cities In Support Of Petro’s Labor Reforms

May 20, 2025 Adriaan Alsema, Portside. , , ,
Supporters of Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro have organized the first community council meetings that seek to muster popular support for a referendum on labor reforms. Petro called on the people to organize the assemblies after the Senate sunk the referendum in what the government called a fraudulent vote on Thursday. In the same session, the Senate voted to revive the labor reforms that had been killed by its social policy committee in April. Cheered on by the president, dozens of supporters of the labor reform organized the first meetings in the cities of Bogota, Medellin and Cartagena over the weekend. Petro is expected to address tens of thousands of followers in Barranquilla on Tuesday.

A Language Of Blood Has Gripped Our World

May 16, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. , , ,
Over the past weeks, international focus has no doubt been on the escalation between India and Pakistan, which we will write more about once the dust settles. Though none of the armies crossed the border or the Line of Control, concern is nonetheless understandable: both countries wield nuclear weapons in their arsenal. Now, there has effectively been a return to the ceasefire of 1948, which has lingered in the decades since without a proper and full peace treaty. International attention has also rightly remained on the genocide in Palestine, with Israelis tightening the total siege on Gaza, perhaps as vengeance for Palestinians’ return to northern Gaza on 27 January 2025 in total defiance of the genocidal war.

Historic Martin Luther King Convention For Justice And Resistance

May 4, 2025 Michael Kramer, Workers World. , , ,
Newark, New Jersey - Over 250 people, representing over 250 New Jersey endorsing community groups, attended the historic Martin Luther King Convention for Justice and Resistance on April 26. Participants included members of Black churches, the Palestinian, Latine and Nigerian communities and labor unions, as well as veterans, tenants and environmentalists — just to mention a few. The People’s Organization for Progress (POP) organized the Convention, held on the campus of Essex County College (ECC) in Newark, New Jersey. It was chaired by POP Chair Lawrence Hamm. Professor Akil Kokayi Khalfani, Director of the Africana Institute, welcomed everyone to ECC.

Trump’s Attacks On Workers Meet Fierce Resistance

May 2, 2025 Madeleine Freeman, Left Voice. , , ,
International Workers Day usually passes by with little fanfare in the United States. But the tens of thousands of people who took to the streets on May Day across the country this year recalled the fighting spirit and radical legacy of the first May Day in Chicago. Immigrants rights and climate organizations, alongside the Left and thousands of people, joined the call of unions across the country to march against the authoritarian and anti-worker attacks of Donald Trump’s administration, showing that we don’t have to wait for the next election to reject the Far Right.

As Threat Of War Grows, Progressive Movements Urge Peace And Sanity

May 2, 2025 People's Dispatch. , , , ,
A week after the attacks on tourists in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in which 26 people were killed, the media frenzy and war mongering in the region continues in full force. The governments of India and Pakistan continue to announce new measures against each other, while internally seeking to repress anti-war and critical voices. In a latest move, Pakistan claimed on Tuesday, April 29 that its armed forces shot down an Indian surveillance drone (quadcopter) which was allegedly trying to violate the Line of Control (LOC) in Kashmir. Meanwhile, Pakistani officials claim that an attack from India is imminent.

Unleashing The 89% Of People Who Want Climate Action Could Lead To ‘Social Tipping Point’

April 23, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. , , ,
A whopping 89 percent of people globally want stronger action on the climate crisis, but feel trapped in a “spiral of silence” because of the mistaken belief they are in the minority, according to research. Experts say making people with pro-climate viewpoints aware that they are in the majority could unleash a social tipping point that could drive leaders to take necessary climate action, reported The Guardian. “One of the most powerful forms of climate communication is just telling people that a majority of other people think climate change is happening, human-caused, a serious problem and a priority for action,” said Anthony Leiserowitz.

Trump Exposes The Elite Classes

April 6, 2025 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
Institutions led by members of the ruling class theoretically have the power to oppose anyone who should dare to confront them, even if the confrontation in question is led by the president of the United States. Actions taken by Columbia University and the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison (known as Paul, Weiss), were stunning as they obsequiously met Trump administration demands to stifle protest and to provide pro bono legal services to conservative causes. Closer inspection of how these supposedly august institutions operate should end any questions about why they responded as they did.

A Strategy For Social Self-Defense

March 21, 2025 Jeremy Brecher, Strike. , , ,
French Prime Minister George Clemenceau once warned that “generals always prepare to fight the last war, especially if they won it.” Conditions in 2025 differ in many ways from those of 2017. Social Self-Defense against Trumpian autocracy in the new MAGA era will fail if it is simply a rerun of the first Trump Resistance. Its strategy will have to pay continuous attention to what the Trump regime is doing, how people are reacting, and what opportunities for action those developments open or close. Trump’s actions and popular response are highly unpredictable, so his opponent’s strategies will have to be highly flexible.

No One Is Coming To Feed Us

January 25, 2025 The Chronicles for Black Political Power. , , ,
It's January 2025, LA is burning, Richmond has no water, Helene survivors are getting kicked out of hotels by FEMA. The level of government response you grew up with is gone. This has left millions wondering; what is it going to take for Americans to say enough is enough? The missing piece of the puzzle is food. If we can't feed ourselves, we can't disrupt the system that feeds us. If we don't source our food locally, we won't fight to stay. We urgently need communities that can feed themselves while withholding labor, communities that trust and rely on each other, and communities that understand the vital importance of the land they're living on.

Panamanian Movements Vow To Resist Trump’s Threats

January 21, 2025 People's Dispatch. , , , ,
Panamanian movements have expressed their readiness to resist US President Donald Trump’s threats to Panama’s sovereignty. On January 20, as part of a mobilization of trade unions and social movements in Panama City in defense of the public pension system, they will also denounce the expansionist threats of Trump. At a rally in December, Trump said that the fees being charged at the Panama canal are too high and that if they did not come down, “we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to us, in full, quickly and without question.”

Running In Circles On Racial Justice

January 21, 2025 Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler, LA Progressive. , , ,
We keep running in circles when it comes to addressing racial justice in the US. This means that with every advance we almost come back to the same place and must fight the battles all over again. It doesn't mean that progress has not been made, but the progress retrogresses due to the immediate backlash that charges any advance to rectify past racial injustices as an affront to white people. At best there is an ebb and flow when it comes to rectifying the racial harms and damages of the past. Race history and the many initiatives to rectify past wrongs are more of a circle than a linear line.
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