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April 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – April 16, 2025

Global Left Midweek – April 16, 2025     April 16, 2025 xxxxxx A week for general strikes 24-hour strike in Athens, April 9, 2025. Credit, Al Jazeera   Greenlanders Respond to Trump Scientists Oppose EU Rearmament Nigeria Heats Up Citizens…

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April 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM

A New Plan To Fix Mexico’s Housing Crisis

A New Plan To Fix Mexico’s Housing Crisis     Ximena González April 11, 2025 Jacobin Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum wants to bring social housing back to Mexico City’s core. It may be the capital’s best shot at making affordability more than just a slog…

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April 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM

The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You

The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You     Thom Hartmann April 15, 2025 Common Dreams We are now in the midst of a outright coup against the Constitution, against the United States, and against our founding ideals. If we don't fight for and w…

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April 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Tax Day 2025: Your Tax Receipt

Tax Day 2025: Your Tax Receipt     April 15, 2025 National Priorities Project We compared taxes paid by the average taxpayer on a host of programs to the benchmark of our times — the price of a dozen eggs. In February 2025, the average price for a dozen egg…

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April 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Trump’s Trade War Is a Political Trap for Democrats

Trump’s Trade War Is a Political Trap for Democrats     David Sirota April 15, 2025 The Lever The president’s reckless tariffs are designed to goad his opponents into touting free trade and scoffing at the working class. , AP Photo/Aaron Favila, Po…

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April 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – April 15, 2025

Media Bits and Bytes – April 15, 2025     April 15, 2025 xxxxxx Media caught in Trump’s net , Columbia Journalism Review / Adobe Stock / Illustration by Katie Kosma   Trump Defies Court Order on AP Access Democracy Dies in Daylight The End…

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April 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Frantz Fanon’s Algerian Years on Film

Portside Culture Frantz Fanon’s Algerian Years on Film     An interview with Jean-Claude Barny April 7, 2025 Jacobin In French-ruled Algeria, Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and an active member of the National Liberation Front. A new movie portrays …

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April 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM

Today’s ‘Death Squad’ Dems Enable the Trump-Backed Slaughter in Yemen, Gaza, and Beyond

Today’s ‘Death Squad’ Dems Enable the Trump-Backed Slaughter in Yemen, Gaza, and Beyond     Stephen Zunes April 14, 2025 Common Dreams The truth is that a number of Democratic members of Congress, whom millions of people see as leading the resistance, actual…

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April 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM

This Week in People’s History, Apr 16–22, 2025

This Week in People’s History, Apr 16–22, 2025     xxxxxx What First Amendment? (2000), “Freedom Now in Vietnam” (1965), Saying ‘No’ to Colonialism (1955), If They Want War, Let Them Have It (1775), Impunity for Racist Threats (1965), McCarthyism Flops on Br…

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April 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Escape Trump's Trap: Act Like a University, Not Like a Business

Escape Trump's Trap: Act Like a University, Not Like a Business     Masha Gessen April 14, 2025 New York Times Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach by bringing education to communities. Create a…

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April 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Union & Immigrant Rights Group Join Forces To Fight Outrageous Deportation

Union & Immigrant Rights Group Join Forces To Fight Outrageous Deportation     Steve Morse April 4, 2025 Labor Rise “In his pursuit of the life promised by the American dream, Brother Kilmar was literally helping to build this great country. What did he …

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April 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM

How To Fight Trump’s Attacks on Farmworkers

Portside Culture How To Fight Trump’s Attacks on Farmworkers     David Bacon April 11, 2025 The Nation ICE is picking people up on warrants for detention across the country. ICE Director Tom Homan calls all undocumented immigrants criminals and there…

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April 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Is Claudia Sheinbaum the Anti-Trump?

Is Claudia Sheinbaum the Anti-Trump?     Michelle Goldberg April 4, 2025 New York Times Last year was a bad one for incumbent political parties and for women. One country, however, bucked all these trends: Mexico, where Claudia Sheinbaum, won the presidency …

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April 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM

Sunday Science: 50-Year-Old Bioweapons Treaty Is Dangerously Flawed, Researchers Say

Sunday Science: 50-Year-Old Bioweapons Treaty Is Dangerously Flawed, Researchers Say     Richard Stone April 4, 2025 Science Without enforcement mechanisms, the Biological Weapons Convention risks leaving the world “completely unprepared” A view fr…

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April 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM

UAW President Shawn Fain on Why He Supports Tariffs

UAW President Shawn Fain on Why He Supports Tariffs     Shawn Fain, David Sirota April 10, 2025 Jacobin In an interview, United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain argues that the era of “free-trade” deals like NAFTA has been a disaster for the US working clas…

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April 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM

No, President Trump, the Income Tax Wasn’t a Mistake. But It Was an Accident.

No, President Trump, the Income Tax Wasn’t a Mistake. But It Was an Accident.     Jesse Eisinger ProPublica While instituting the largest tariff increase in modern history, Trump claimed that the income tax was passed for “reasons unknown to mankind” and caus…

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April 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Leaked Data Reveals Massive Israeli Campaign To Remove Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook and Instagram

Leaked Data Reveals Massive Israeli Campaign To Remove Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook and Instagram     Waqas Ahmed, Nicholas Rodelo, Ryan Grim, and Murtaza Hussain April 11, 2025 Drop Site News A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that a…

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April 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Bond Vigilantes Are Now the Unchallenged Kings Thanks to a Feckless Congress and Reckless Trump

Bond Vigilantes Are Now the Unchallenged Kings Thanks to a Feckless Congress and Reckless Trump     Jeet Heer April 11, 2025 The Nation A president who bullies Congress kowtows to the bond market. A screen displays financial news on the floor at th…

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April 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM

There Were a Lot Fewer Television Writing Jobs Last Season, According to Writers Guild of America Report

Portside Culture There Were a Lot Fewer Television Writing Jobs Last Season, According to Writers Guild of America Report     Mary Kate Carr April 11, 2025 AV Club There were 1,319 fewer jobs in TV writing in the 2023-24 season. , Screensho…

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April 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Trump Signs Order Targeting Law Firm

Trump Signs Order Targeting Law Firm     Sam Levine April 9, 2025 The Guardian Order punishes Susman Godfrey, which helped Dominion Voting Systems get millions from Fox for 2020 election lies People walk past Fox News signs in New York City, in 202…

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April 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM

American Concentration Camps

American Concentration Camps     Brett Wilkins April 11, 2025 Common Dreams 'Dystopian' Trump Plan for Massive Expansion of ICE Detention Centers Exposed This February 7, 2025 photo shows the entrance to the CoreCivic Otay Mesa Detention Center in …

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April 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM

We Have a Moral Imperative To Reclaim America From the Extremists in Power

We Have a Moral Imperative To Reclaim America From the Extremists in Power     . William Barber II and Tope Folarin April 8, 2025 Newsweek We oppose the immoral budget priorities of this president and his allies in Congress. It's time for a new season of mor…

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April 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM

10 Organizing Principles for Defeating Trumpism 2.0

10 Organizing Principles for Defeating Trumpism 2.0     Arun Gupta April 1, 2025 Yes Magazine Organizing lessons I learned from movements for worker organizing, immigrant rights, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, climate justice, Palestine solidarity, …

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April 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Boycott Trump Regime Capital: Using AI To Improve Social Movement Design

Boycott Trump Regime Capital: Using AI To Improve Social Movement Design     Jonathan Michael Feldman April 6, 2025 The Global Teach-In Depending on their design, boycotts with proactive social investing can put pressure on the Trump regime and provide alter…

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April 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM

Friday Nite Videos | April 11, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | April 11, 2025     April 11, 2025 xxxxxx Who's Coming to the Bernie/AOC Rallies? Supercallousfascistracistsexistnazipotus – The Ultimate Parody! Trump's Chilling New Executive Orders. Desi Lydic Foxsplains Trump's 4D Tariff Chess Game. T…

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April 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM

Trump Is Stupid, Erratic and Weak

Trump Is Stupid, Erratic and Weak     Paul Krugman April 10, 2025 Paul Krugman's Substack Blog The tariff story so far is that Trump announced extreme policies, insisted that he would persist no matter what, then beat an ignominious retreat. In other words, …

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April 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM

The Israeli Army Is Facing Its Biggest Refusal Crisis in Decades

The Israeli Army Is Facing Its Biggest Refusal Crisis in Decades     Meron Rapoport 972 Magazine Over 100,000 Israelis have reportedly stopped showing up for reserve duty. While their reasons differ, the scale demonstrates the war’s waning legitimacy. …

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April 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM

The IP Laws That Promote Enshittification

The IP Laws That Promote Enshittification     Cory Doctorow April 11, 2025 Jacobin Laws included in trade deals protect US companies’ rent extraction schemes and stop us from fixing or improving our own devices — from phones and tractors to insulin pumps. Re…

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April 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Thanksgiving Among the Almond Trees

Portside Culture Thanksgiving Among the Almond Trees     Nels Goñi Christianson In the Black, In the Red: Poems of Profit $ Loss California poet Nels Goñi Christianson describes two ways of celebrating Thanksgiving. , Tim Barnhart / Charles …

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April 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Trump’s Tariffs Whiplash Is Open Corruption. He Admitted It Himself.

Trump’s Tariffs Whiplash Is Open Corruption. He Admitted It Himself.     Malcolm Ferguson April 9, 2025 The New Republic Trump posted a message to his followers just before pausing the bulk of his tariffs. He may have accidentally confessed to insider tradin…

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April 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM

We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid

We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid     Erwin Chemerinsky and Laurence H. Tribe April 9, 2025 New York Times Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants... If the governm…

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April 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Ten National Unions Call for Anti-Trump Resistance

Ten National Unions Call for Anti-Trump Resistance     Natascha Elena Uhlmann April 8, 2025 Labor Notes Ten national unions and dozens of locals representing more than 3 million members have issued a joint statement demanding the release of immigrant workers…

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April 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Why a Workshop on Antisemitism Is Accused of Being Antisemitic

Why a Workshop on Antisemitism Is Accused of Being Antisemitic     Nina Mehta and Donna Nevel March 31, 2025 Common Dreams In addition to a robust discussion of what antisemitism is, the curriculum also includes what antisemitism is not, distinguishing betwe…

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April 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – Apr.10 – Reader Comments: Trump Tariffs Tanked Economy; How Dems Can Win by Organizing From the County Up; Library Assn Sues To Stop Trump Cuts; New Resource – Black Federal Workers by State; Webinar-Labor and the Crisis of Democracy;

Tidbits – Apr.10 – Reader Comments: Trump Tariffs Tanked Economy; How Dems Can Win by Organizing From the County Up; Library Assn Sues To Stop Trump Cuts; New Resource – Black Federal Workers by State; Webinar-Labor and the Crisis of Democracy;     April 10, 2025 …

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April 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM

Trump Undone (Well, Partially Put on Hold)

Trump Undone (Well, Partially Put on Hold)     Harold Meyerson April 9, 2025 The American Prospect The president is compelled to delay his tariffs. The Republican Congress failed to do it, so the markets did. President Trump walks to board Marine O…

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April 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM

‘Organizing and Mobilizing Works’: Team Trump Reverses Social Security Phone Cuts After Uproar

‘Organizing and Mobilizing Works’: Team Trump Reverses Social Security Phone Cuts After Uproar     Jessica Corbett April 9, 2025 The Guardian "We sounded the alarm, and they're backing off," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. "But the fight's not over." P…

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April 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM

US Intensifies Crackdown on Peaceful Protest Under Trump

US Intensifies Crackdown on Peaceful Protest Under Trump     Nina Lakhani April 9, 2025 The Guardian Forty-one anti-protest bills in 22 states have been introduced since start of 2025, according to law tracker Palestinian supporters, including Mahm…

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April 10, 2025 at 5:25 AM

Vs. Trump’s Factory Fantasy: The Middle Class Won’t Rise Without Unions. Full Stop.

Vs. Trump’s Factory Fantasy: The Middle Class Won’t Rise Without Unions. Full Stop.     Thom Hartmann April 9, 2025 The Hartmann Report Manufacturing jobs alone didn’t build postwar prosperity — organized labor did. And Trump is killing it... , …

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April 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM

A Brilliant History of a Weaponised Mantra

Portside Culture A Brilliant History of a Weaponised Mantra     Joe Moran March 27, 2025 The Guardian This fascinating book questions whether such a misunderstood ideal should be lauded as an end in itself. ,   What Is Free Speech? …

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April 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM

‘Trump and Musk Are Setting the Example’: How Companies Are Becoming Emboldened To Be More Anti-Union

‘Trump and Musk Are Setting the Example’: How Companies Are Becoming Emboldened To Be More Anti-Union     Steven Greenhouse April 7, 2025 Guardian As the White House carries out an anti-worker agenda, labor leaders fear corporate America could also grow more…

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April 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – April 9, 2025

Global Left Midweek – April 9, 2025     April 9, 2025 xxxxxx Hot war, cold war, trade war, class war Retirees confront violent police in Buenos Aires on March 12. Credit, Argentina Humana / X   Africa in the New World Disorder South Korea:…

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April 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM

Unions as a 21st Century Anti-Fascist Force

Unions as a 21st Century Anti-Fascist Force     Bill Fletcher Jr. April 8, 2025 In These Times Trump and his MAGA movement are conspiring with oligarchs to turn the U.S. into a rightwing authoritarian state. The labor movement can play a key role in fighting…

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April 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM

Breaking the Silence on Palestinian Armed Struggle

Breaking the Silence on Palestinian Armed Struggle     Ramzy Baroud - Romana Rubeo April 8, 2025 Counterpunch We asked Prof. Falk specifically about the Palestinian people’s right to defend themselves, and, specifically, about armed struggle and its consiste…

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April 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM

Over 4,000 Factory Workers Laid Off As Trump Tariffs Spark Economic Chaos

Over 4,000 Factory Workers Laid Off As Trump Tariffs Spark Economic Chaos     Alexis Sterling April 7, 2025 Nation of Change A wave of mass layoffs across the U.S. exposes the real cost of Trump’s trade war, as union leaders and lawmakers warn of deepening i…

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April 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Studio Ghibli Faces Its Biggest Villain Yet: An Ironic Onslaught of AI

Portside Culture Studio Ghibli Faces Its Biggest Villain Yet: An Ironic Onslaught of AI     Jacob Oller March 27, 2025 AV Club Hayao Miyazaki's environmentalist masterpiece Princess Mononoke returns to theaters while his style is stolen by AI. …

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April 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – April 8, 2025

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – April 8, 2025     April 8, 2025 xxxxxx That was the week that was , New York Times   Democracy’s Fate Will Be Decided at Work The Week That Was Inside the Deportation Flights States Sue to Defend Electora…

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April 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM

Elon Musk’s Goal Isn’t Efficiency — It’s a Liquidation Sale

Elon Musk’s Goal Isn’t Efficiency — It’s a Liquidation Sale     Meagan Day April 5, 2025 Jacobin The Department of Government Efficiency isn’t bumbling through an ill-advised reform effort. It’s deliberately sabotaging federal agencies to make way for privat…

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April 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM

This Week in People’s History, April 9–15, 2025

This Week in People’s History, April 9–15, 2025     xxxxxx Peddling Snake Oil from the Oval Office (2020), Refugees from the Great Dust-Up (1935), Jonas Salk, Lifesaver (1955), Fighting Racism for the Long Haul (1775), Ireland’s Prelude to Freedom (1920), Ge…

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April 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Two Immigrant First Amendment Heroes Separated by Three Centuries

Two Immigrant First Amendment Heroes Separated by Three Centuries     Dave Lindorff March 31, 2025 ThisCantBeHappening! Rumeysa Ozturk and John Peter Zenger are book ends to the history of the First Amendment — the one that guarantees freedom of speech, ass…

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April 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Can Marketing Magic Help Food Waste Disappear?

Portside Culture Can Marketing Magic Help Food Waste Disappear?     David Burrows March 18, 2025 JustFood.com Researchers from Minnesota State University Mankato showed that ‘storytelling’ combined with marketing tactics like coupons “significantly i…

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