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US vs. China: Who Really Stands for Peace?
Thousands of innocent civilians are dying– men, women, children– being bombed to death as they sit in their homes. Thousands of Ukrainian and Russian men have been unwillingly drafted into the...
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The Colombian Left Has Every Reason to Condemn Israel
On International Workers’ Day, Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first left-wing president, announced that the country would sever diplomatic ties with Israel over its ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza....
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Sustainable Food Systems, Feeding Ourselves Across Europe
Brussels is currently not the most hopeful place for those wishing to see EU food systems in a fair, ecological transition. But hope is on the ground. Not waiting for the impetus to come from above,...
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Armenians in NYC Are Organizing for Palestinian Liberation
On April 18, as the death toll of Palestinians killed in Israel’s genocide surged to nearly thirty-four thousand, Columbia students, peacefully protesting the use of their grossly inflated tuition to...
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Starmer Smashed in Blackburn
The leadership of genocide enthusiast Keir Starmer – who is still supporting arms sales to Israel and the “Israeli right to self-defence”, who still refuses to acknowledge one single Israeli war crime...
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Students and Workers Take to the Streets on May Day for Palestine
On May Day, workers around the world mobilized for the liberation of Palestine. “This May Day, workers of the world are called to declare their solidarity with Palestine, to denounce the Israeli...
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Then and Now
I read an article in 2008. It recounted miraculous events and dynamics from four decades earlier. It asked, what happened to all that? What happened to the passion, inspiration, and outrage? What...
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New Era of Inequality: Billionaires Pay Less in Taxes Than the Working Class
Economist Gabriel Zucman’s analysis reveals a troubling milestone: U.S. billionaires now pay a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans, marking the first time this disparity has been...
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Tackling California’s Budget Crisis: Raise Taxes, Cut Programs, or Form a Bank?
In 2022, the state of California celebrated a record budget surplus of $97.5 billion. Two years later, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office, this surplus has plummeted to a record budget...
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Banned by Germany
Three weeks ago, I was banned from entering Germany. When I asked the German authorities who decided this, when, and under what rationale, I received a formal reply that, for reasons of national...
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Media Coverage of Campus Protests Focuses on Spectacle, Rather Than Substance
Protest movements can look very different depending on where you stand, both literally and figuratively. For protesters, demonstrations are usually the result of meticulous planning by advocacy groups...
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Organizers in UK Are Defending Asylum Seekers From Mass Deportations to Rwanda
When I first arrived in London from Sarajevo in 1993, it was hard to be a refugee. I was refused full protection in the UK despite the genocide happening in my country. But in many ways, things were...
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Students Demanding Divestment: You’re on the Right Side of History
The following are remarks I delivered on Saturday, May 4, 2024 at the 55-year reunion of the Stanford University antiwar movement, in which I participated. On April 3, 1969, an estimated 700 Stanford...
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Zach Shrewsbury Says His Senate Campaign in West Virginia Is About the Class...
When Barn Raiser first reached Zach Shrewsbury to interview the former Marine about his U.S. Senate campaign in West Virginia, he was trying to navigate the mountain roads of his home state amid a...
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Organizing the South: We Look Back To Move Ahead
The significance of the landslide victory by the United Auto Workers (UAW) at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, TN cannot be overstated. One of the greatest sources of hope for the labor movement in...
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Israeli Invasion of Rafah Appears Imminent After Evacuation Order
The Israeli invasion of Rafah appears to be imminent as Israeli forces dropped leaflets on the eastern part of the city, warning that “extreme force” will be used in the area. The Israeli military said...
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Donald Trump and O.J. Simpson
It was the jokes about Trump’s rumored flatulence in the courtroom that pushed me toward despair. And don’t think it was disgust with the subject matter either. After all, I’ve lived with teenagers and...
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Malaria is a Women’s Rights Issue
Walk into any community health centre and look at who is at the bedside of the patients. Women. Young girls who should be in school instead of tending to the sick. Young women who should be at work...
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Israel Wants to Destroy Gaza, Annex the West Bank: But What Does Gaza Want?
What is taking place in occupied Palestine is not a conflict, but a straightforward case of illegal military occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and outright genocide. Those who insist on using...
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Seattle 1934, Soviet on the docks
Rise like Lions after slumber– In unvanquishable number– Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you– Ye are many — they are few.’ -Percy Bysshe Shelley On the morning of May...
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