Voting Blank Isn’t Enough to Free Palestine
Amid Israel’s genocide in Gaza, many pro-Palestine activists, leftist organizations, and Democratic politicians are urging people to “Vote Blank.” But to free Palestine, we need a direct confrontation with the capitalist state, and a political force independent of the capitalists.
Carmin Maffea
May 9, 2024Solidarity Encampments Spread to Universities Worldwide
The student movement in the United States has inspired encampments globally to denounce repression and support the fight for Palestinian liberation.
Kyle Thibodeau
May 9, 2024University of Michigan Campus Protestors Are Keeping the Focus on the Genocide in Gaza
Ryan McCarty
May 8, 2024Israel Begins Horrific Ground Invasion of Rafah, Reminding Everyone that Ethnic Cleansing was Always the Point
Sou Mi
May 8, 2024Statement: The People’s Art Institute Denounces Chicago Police Attack on Student Encampment
The Peoples Art Institute
May 7, 2024The Student Revolt for Palestine
Jimena Vergara
May 6, 2024Argentina’s Far-Right President is Once Again Advancing Legislative Attacks on Workers
Samuel Karlin
May 4, 2024Specters of Vietnam in the pro-Palestinian Movement
The reemergence of the student movement raises echoes of the past that help to articulate key aspects of the direction of the movement against the genocide in Palestine. Here we consider a few links between today and the movement against the war in Vietnam.
Daniel Alfonso
May 12, 2024The Bipartisan War on Immigrants Is Heating Up
Towards the elections in November, Biden and Trump have both made immigration a central issue for their campaigns, showing the central role the crisis at the southern border is for U.S. imperialism – and the necessity for the American working class to reject the chauvinist divisions it imposes.
Sou Mi
May 10, 2024NYC Schools Chancellor Testifies in McCarthyist Congressional Hearings
Emma Lee
May 9, 2024Voting Blank Isn’t Enough to Free Palestine
Carmin Maffea
May 9, 2024Solidarity Encampments Spread to Universities Worldwide
Kyle Thibodeau
May 9, 2024University of Michigan Campus Protestors Are Keeping the Focus on the Genocide in Gaza
Ryan McCarty
May 8, 2024The Student Revolt for Palestine
Jimena Vergara
May 6, 2024“There Are No Separate Fights”: Interview with a Mexican Student at the UNAM Encampment for Gaza
We interviewed a participant of the student encampment for Gaza at the National Autonomous University of Mexico about democratic assemblies, anti-imperialism, and how Mexican workers and students are fighting to free Palestine.
Samuel Karlin
May 9, 2024Israel Begins Horrific Ground Invasion of Rafah, Reminding Everyone that Ethnic Cleansing was Always the Point
On Tuesday, Israel began its ground assault on Rafah, where over 1.5 million Gazans are sheltering after being displaced from their homes. The United States is continuing to enable Israel’s violence. The movement for Palestine still has the power to resist.
Sou Mi
May 8, 2024Argentina’s Far-Right President is Once Again Advancing Legislative Attacks on Workers
Samuel Karlin
May 4, 2024Nancy Fraser, Jacques Rancière, Silvia Federicci and many others say: Stop the Criminalization of Palestine Solidarity in France!
Révolution Permanente
April 26, 2024Against the Criminalization of Opinion and in Defense of Our Right to Support Palestine: We Must Stand Up!
Nathan Deas
April 23, 2024Occupy Against the Occupation: Protest Camp in Front of Germany’s Parliament
Erik de Jong
April 20, 2024U.S. Imperialism Is Pushing Tensions in the Middle East to a Boiling Point
Samuel Karlin
April 15, 2024NYC Schools Chancellor Testifies in McCarthyist Congressional Hearings
New York City schools Chancellor David Banks testified in the series of McCarthyist congressional hearings of educational administrators, which are falsely conflating the pro-Palestinian movement with antisemitism and pressuring administrators to take harsh measures against their students and staff.
Emma Lee
May 9, 2024Statement: The People’s Art Institute Denounces Chicago Police Attack on Student Encampment
The Peoples Art Institute
May 7, 2024The Student Revolt for Palestine
Jimena Vergara
May 6, 2024Unite All Workers for Democracy Statement Against the Repression of the Palestine Movement
UAWD
May 4, 2024To Achieve Black Liberation, Class Independence Is Key
A united, working-class party fighting oppression is our only hope for Black liberation.
Tristan Taylor
February 29, 2024Justice for Elijah McClain and All the Victims of State Terror
A second officer responsible for Elijah McClain’s murder has been acquitted. Let the fight for justice for McClain be something else that carries us into the streets.
Carmin Maffea
November 15, 2023Black Struggle and Revolution, from Brazil to the U.S.
Letícia Parks
October 1, 2023The Jacksonville Shooting and the Far Right
Tatiana Cozzarelli
September 1, 2023Mississippi Investigating If Cop Shooting 11-year-old Crime Victim Was OK
Daniel Nath
June 27, 2023#AllthatsLeftPod: Three Years Since the George Floyd Uprising:
Left Voice
May 25, 2023Federal Charges of Political Activists Show the Racist and Repressive Nature of the Capitalist State
Tristan Taylor
May 17, 2023The New Labor Movement and the Need for Anti-Imperialist and Class Independent Politics
The rise of labor in the US has put the working class at the center of national politics. It deserves class-independent politics free of the capitalist constraints of the Democratic Party.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
April 19, 2024Palestinian Liberation and Permanent Revolution
Jimena Vergara
April 19, 2024Inside Amazon: Exploitation and the Fight Against Capitalist Dystopia
Josefina L. Martínez
April 19, 2024Youth in the U.S. Rise Up in Solidarity with Palestine
Jimena Vergara
November 18, 20231923: The Revolution Was Possible
Emilio Albamonte
November 14, 2023When History Failed to Turn
Doug Enaa Greene
November 14, 2023Unite All Workers for Democracy Statement Against the Repression of the Palestine Movement
Statement from UAWD, a caucus of the UAW, against the repression of the Palestine movement
UAWD
May 4, 2024Healthcare Workers Stand in Solidarity with the Student Movement against Repression and for a Free Palestine
In response to the repression that university students have faced in the last weeks, we urge healthcare workers and their unions around the world to sign a solidarity letter against repression and for a free Palestine.
Mike Pappas
May 2, 2024City University of New York Workers Announce Wildcat Sickout After NYPD Arrests Over 100 of Their Students and Colleagues
Left Voice
May 1, 2024All Out for Gaza and against Police Repression on May Day
James Dennis Hoff
May 1, 2024Let’s Make a Historic May Day for This Historic Moment
Tatiana Cozzarelli
April 28, 2024Our Unions Can Tip the Balance for the Campus Palestine Revolt
Jason Koslowski
April 28, 2024Healthcare Workers Need to Defend the Gaza Solidarity Encampments
Mike Pappas
April 27, 2024Specters of Vietnam in the pro-Palestinian Movement
The reemergence of the student movement raises echoes of the past that help to articulate key aspects of the direction of the movement against the genocide in Palestine. Here we consider a few links between today and the movement against the war in Vietnam.
Daniel Alfonso
May 12, 2024Robert Habeck Wrote a Play Praising a Right-Wing Mass Murderer
Germany's Green vice chancellor strikes many as an idealist who has been struggling with the tough realities of government. Yet before he was a national politician, he wrote a play that opens a window into a dark soul.
Nathaniel Flakin
December 1, 2023Fact Check: Did German Leftists Try to Bomb West Berlin’s Jewish Community Center in 1969?
Nathaniel Flakin
November 29, 2023#AllThatsLeftPod: A Brief History of Anti-Zionist Jews
Left Voice
November 16, 20231923: The Revolution Was Possible
Emilio Albamonte
November 14, 2023When History Failed to Turn
Doug Enaa Greene
November 14, 2023Does the State of Israel Protect Jews from Antisemitism?
Nathaniel Flakin
October 31, 2023Trans Day of Visibility 2024: Organize With the Working Class Against The Far-Right
Trans Day of Visibility this year comes in a context of an insurgent far-right. To defeat this right we will need to rely on our own power and join with the working class.
Sybil Davis
March 31, 2024Berlin Police Attack an Anti-Imperialist Feminist Demonstration on March 8
On International Women's Day, there were numerous demonstrations in Berlin, including: a union demonstration, an anti-imperialist demonstration, and a supposedly "leftist" demonstration in solidarity with Israel. As you would expect, police only attacked one of the three.
Nathaniel Flakin
March 14, 2024The Working Class Must Fight for Trans Rights
K.S. Mehta
March 11, 2024Rise in Forced Pregnancies Shows the Need for an Independent Movement for Abortion Rights
Molly Rosenzweig
December 19, 2023Women’s Liberation in Revolutionary Russia
Wendy Z. Goldman
October 1, 2023Berlin Has a New Pride Demonstration That Cops Hate
Nathaniel Flakin
July 30, 2023Trans Liberation and Socialist Revolution — A Debate with the IMT
Sasha Frost
July 29, 2023Davos and the Melting World Economy
The rich elite are meeting in Davos to discuss the challenges facing humanity in 2024, like climate change and AI. But any proposed solutions are driven by the aim to sustain the world capitalist order.
Michael Roberts
January 17, 2024The Debt Ceiling Agreement is an Attack on the Working Class and on the Planet
Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy’s deal to raise the debt ceiling is a handout to the military industrial complex and an attack on the working class and the planet. Rather than just raising the debt ceiling, a relatively standard practice that allows the U.S. to pay the bills for spending that already happened, this debt ceiling deal caps discretionary spending on everything but “defense” and fast-tracks the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
June 3, 2023First Republic Bank: The Case for Public Ownership
Michael Roberts
May 3, 2023Biden’s Proposed Budget Nothing but Empty Promises
Molly Rosenzweig
March 31, 2023Geopolitical Tensions Increase amid Growing Economic and Political Crises
Sou Mi
August 21, 2022‘Don’t Pay UK’ Campaign Gathers Steam as Energy Bills Continue to Rise
Jorge Remacha
August 19, 2022The Global Economy on a Roller Coaster
Esteban Mercatante
July 13, 2022The Imperialist History Behind the Maui Fires
At the center of the latest climate change disaster is the long and ongoing struggle for water and land rights for Native Hawaiians.
Emma Lee
August 22, 2023International Tribunal: Mexico’s Maya Train Constitutes Ecocide and Ethnocide
The Tribunal for the Rights of Nature ruled that, by undertaking the Mayan Train megaproject, the Mexican state has committed crimes of ecocide and ethnocide.
Axomalli Villanueva
August 4, 2023A New Film Shows How to Blow Up a Pipeline — But Would That Save The Planet?
Nathaniel Flakin
June 6, 2023Biden Won’t Stop Climate Change
M. Carlstad
May 9, 2023Norway: Thousands of Youth Demonstrated against “Green Colonialism”
Matthew Walters
May 1, 2023Police Story on Forest Defender Tortuguita’s Death Was a Lie
M. Carlstad
April 29, 2023A Chemical Plant Just Poisoned Philadelphia’s Water: A First-Hand Account of the Crisis
Jason Koslowski
March 27, 2023Declaration: End Imperialist Intervention in Haiti, Solidarity with the Haitian People
The “Multinational Security Support Mission” announced by the United States marks a new imperialist-colonial intervention in Haiti by the United States, the UN, and their allies.
Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International
March 17, 2024Declaration: Stop Israel’s Airstrikes and Military Intervention Against the Palestinian People
Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International
October 10, 2023FT-CI Summer Schools in Europe: More than 1,000 Young People and Workers Discuss the Challenges of Building Revolutionary Currents
Josefina L. Martínez
September 14, 2023Declaration on the Migrant Crisis: Socialists From the U.S., Mexico, Venezuela, and Costa Rica Denounce Anti-Immigrant Policies
Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International
May 16, 2023Reflections on the Peruvian Uprising
Matías Busi
April 7, 2023University of Michigan Campus Protestors Are Keeping the Focus on the Genocide in Gaza
For the past two weeks, the encampment at the University of Michigan has been a site for collective learning and broad public information campaigns.
Ryan McCarty
May 8, 2024Statement: The People’s Art Institute Denounces Chicago Police Attack on Student Encampment
On May 4, the administration of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) sent Chicago Police Department (CPD) and SWAT police to attack a student encampment. We republish the encampment’s statement recounting the events and denouncing the repression.
The Peoples Art Institute
May 7, 2024Echoes of Resilience: Even Beyond Gaza Palestinian Families Are Torn Apart
A Palestinian Nurse From the West Bank
April 30, 2024Occupy Against the Occupation: Protest Camp in Front of Germany’s Parliament
Erik de Jong
April 20, 2024Rutgers Faculty Denounce Silencing of Pro-Palestine Speech at Universities
Rutgers Faculty for Justice in Palestine
April 19, 2024South Korea’s Legislative Election: A Loss for the Right-Wing President, but a Win for the Bourgeois Regime
Joonseok
April 18, 2024Workers at Google Fired for Standing with Palestine
Left Voice
April 18, 2024What “The Daily” Gets Right and Wrong about Oregon’s Move to Recriminalize Drugs
A doctor at an overdose-prevention center responds to The Daily, a podcast produced by the New York Times, on the recriminalization of drugs in Oregon. What are the true causes of the addiction crisis, and how can we solve it?
Mike Pappas
March 22, 2024