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With Washington and Moscow, Part 7

With Washington and Moscow, Part 7

The fossil fuel industry is responsible for the worsening climate impacts you see in the news. Today, we look at the insidious, silent killer of the climate crisis: heatwaves.

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In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and the Struggle of Academic Freedom Edited by Michael Atzmon, John Cheney-Lippold, Gary D. Krenz, Melanie S. Tanielian Michigan Publishing: Disobedience Press, 2026, 198 pages, $24.95 paperback. AMID MOUNTING AUTHORITARIANISM on U.S. college campuses in the last few years, lessons from America’s history of anti-left, anti-socialist state… Continue reading Remembering a Resister

The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America By Mark Whitaker 448 pages, Simon & Shuster, May 2025, $31 hardcover. i?The Last Year of Malcolm X and edited other speeches and writings of Malcolm X for the party’s publishing house Pathfinder Press. I knew George and we had many discussions… Continue reading Malcolm as Revolutionary and Icon

Teamster Rank and File Power, Bureaucracy and Rebellion at Work By Samuel R. Friedman First edition: Columbia University Press, 1982. New edition: Routledge, 2026, 314 pages, $61.99 paperback. DID YOU KNOW that in the 1950s and 1960s, members of Local 208 of the Teamsters union in Los Angeles won substantial power on the job, and… Continue reading The Rise and Fate of a Movement

The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide to American Fascism By Sue Coe and Stephen F. Eisenman OR Books, 2025, 180 pages, $23 paperback. WITH MY OWN youth rapidly fading, I am not the target audience for Sue Coe and Stephen F. Eisenman’s The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide to American Fascism. Still, the title conjured up images… Continue reading Fighting Fascism: An Unequal Guide

Across the United States tent encampments set up by students in solidarity with the victims of Israeli bombing in Gaza were forcibly destroyed. “Campus free speech” is a cynical right-wing mantra while imposing political repression and intimidation. JIM WEST THE MOST RECENT assault on U.S. higher education did not begin with Trump’s second inauguration in… Continue reading Past to Present and Possible Futures(1)

ABRA QUINN WAS a lifelong socialist; she was involved in organizing social movements from anti-apartheid and Central America solidarity to the antiwar movement. She died in her home in San Leandro, California, in October 2025, after a recurrence of endometrial cancer. She is deeply missed. One of Abra’s legacies as a socialist is her unique… Continue reading Abra Quinn (1966-2025)

SINCE DONALD TRUMP returned to office, a series of shocking far-right disasters have snowballed. These include open violations of international law under the banner of “anti-drug” operations, a “decapitation strike” to intervene in Venezuela and arrest President Maduro, along with threats to seize Greenland, and launching his “excursion” in Iran. His pursuit of racist policies… Continue reading U.S. vs. China Hegemony in Taiwan

Democratic Socialists of America–backed challengers for Congress have already notched three wins in primary elections this year. In Colorado’s elections tomorrow, Melat Kiros is hoping to join the growing bloc of socialists on Capitol Hill.

I’ve lived In Tracy for 30 years. I’ve watched our town grow from a handful to more than 100,000 residents. Yet, when I logged onto energy.gov to research the government’s plan to restart industrial-scale plutonium bomb core production, I read that the nuclear weapons location in our backyard, Site 300, is a “remote experimental testing facility.”

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Hundreds of workers across Mexico who provide rides and deliveries through apps held a two-hour work stoppage last month demanding fair rates, an end to unjustified deactivations, and ultimately a collective labor agreement with app giants like Uber.

Electrifying everything sounds like the obvious path off fossil fuels, but it requires critical minerals we can’t source quickly enough. Alternative technologies and interventions can cut emissions faster, cheaper, and without mineral bottlenecks.

Pharmacy benefit managers sit at the center of a four-way transaction between patients, insurers, drug manufacturers, and pharmacies. They’ve figured out how to skim profit from every single one of those relationships, explains Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

Billionaire wealth has doubled in five years, and there’s a growing movement to tax it. But there’s a problem: the fate of a national wealth tax may ultimately hinge on a few words buried in an arcane passage in the Constitution.

The growing sovereign citizen movement reflects an America that has lost faith in its democratic institutions.

Leading historian Omer Bartov has called Israel’s crimes in Gaza a genocide. In an interview, he explains that Zionist radicalization is rooted not just in recent events but also in fundamental choices made when Israel was created.