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Why the Far Right Rules Modi’s India
The rise of the far right is a global phenomenon. Perhaps nowhere is the far right stronger than in the second most populous country on Earth, India. There, the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, under...
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Ron Carey’s Lessons in Labor Movement Reform
Books about union presidents are usually penned by professional writers — either academic historians, labor journalists, or paid flacks. Past accounts of the life and work of labor organization chiefs...
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60 Years Since Coup, Brazilians Call on US to Declassify its Role
Today marks a solemn anniversary in Brazil: 60 years ago, the Brazilian military seized power from the government of João Goulart, marking the start of over two decades of military rule. Brazil’s 2014...
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The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers
Hitler is so fully imagined a subject—so obsessively present on our televisions and in our bookstores—that to reimagine him seems pointless. As with the Hollywood fascination with Charles Manson,...
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The Myth That India’s Freedom Was Won Nonviolently Is Holding Back Progress
If there is a single false claim to “nonviolent” struggle that has most powerfully captured the imagination of the world, it is the claim that India, under Gandhi’s leadership, defeated the mighty...
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Indonesia’s Nepo Baby Takes Charge
On September 16, 2023, fire at Indonesia’s National Museum swept through the roof and back wall, causing the building to collapse. It remains closed. Officially no one was blamed. Down the street from...
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These Stunning Images Show Palestinian Life Before the Nakba
Review of Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba edited by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro; foreword by Mohammed El-Kurd (Haymarket, 2024) The photograph almost...
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A Class Analysis of the Trump-Biden Rerun
By “class system” we mean the basic workplace organizations—the human relationships or “social relations”—that accomplish the production and distribution of goods and services. Some examples include...
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Building Global Labor Solidarity: Where We Are Today (Early 2024)
Encouraged by Flora Tristan’s exhortation—greatly amplified by Marx and Engels—“Workers of the World, Unite!” (Armbruster-Sandoval, 2013), activists have been encouraging workers to build international...
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A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender
The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to target thousands of Palestinian men in its bombing...
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Debt, Dictatorship, and Haiti’s Crisis: It Has Not Always Been This Way
Social disorder. Prisons emptied of violent criminals by gangs looking to rebuild their ranks. Schools, hospitals, and pharmacies targeted for looting and frequently burned. Corpses left rotting in the...
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NATO’s Never-Ending War: The 75-Year-Old Bully is Faltering
The western discourse on the circumstances behind the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 75 years ago, is hardly convincing. Yet, that over-simplified discourse must be...
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Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, Fifty Years Later
For forty years I have been writing an article about each decade of the revolution of April 25, 1974 that brought democracy back to Portugal after 48 years of dictatorship. The analysis of...
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Old Man World
Let one old man deal with two others. I turn 80 in July, which makes me just over a year-and-a-half younger than Joe Biden and almost two years older than Donald Trump. And, honestly, I know my...
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How Reaganomics Fueled America’s Homelessness Crisis
Back in 1967, a friend of mine and I hitchhiked from East Lansing, Michigan to San Francisco to spend the summer in Haight-Ashbury. One ride dropped us off in Sparks, Nevada, and within minutes of...
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Columbia, NYU, The New School…MIT, Tufts, Emerson… Berkeley, Chicago, Chapel...
I went to MIT, class of 1969. It is now 2024 not the late sixties, but rebellion for change is again in the air. I think it is just getting revved up. I can feel it. I’ll bet you can feel it too. And...
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Fifty Years Ago This Spring, Millions of Students Struck to End the War in...
“Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming, We’re finally on our own. This summer, I hear the drummin’ Four dead in O-hi-o . . .” —“Ohio,” Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (1970) President Richard Nixon prided...
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Remembering the Portuguese Revolution
On 25 April 1974 the junior officers of the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) released a radio communique: ‘The Portuguese armed forces appeal to residents of the city of Lisbon to remain in their homes and...
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If This is 1968 Over Again, More Popular Upheaval Is On The Way
Mass graves, the criminalization of dissent, systematic slaughter glorified as self-defense, resisting students making history. Yes, the current nightmare does seem reminiscent of 1968, the year...
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Being Jewish In a Time of Mass Hysteria
Hi, my name is Dan. My pronouns are he and him. I went to Hebrew school for a year when I was 10 and was bored out of my mind. I am REALLY outraged by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and want to see the hostages...
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Long Before Politicians Called to ‘Stop the Boats’, First Nations People...
Earlier this year, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of not supporting Operation Sovereign Borders – the military-led border security operation that has “closed...
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May Day May Have Been Obliterated from US History, But It’s Legacy Continues
May 1st is International Workers’ Day and was established as such in celebration of the struggle for the introduction of the eight-hour workday and in memory of Chicago’s Haymarket Affair, which took...
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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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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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Getting Old, Staying Young
I recently turned 77. That is old. I got many congratulatory messages. I found them a bit sad but not because I am undeniably well onto the downslope. Years go by, the slope changes. That’s the way...
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Frances Fox Piven Remembers Columbia, 1968
As the war on Gaza enters its seventh month of unrelenting destruction, students around the world are setting up encampments and occupying buildings to press their institutions to cut financial and...
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Reflections on Student Activism
I’ve spent most of my life as an advocate for a more peaceful world. In recent years, I’ve been focused on promoting diplomacy over war and exposing the role of giant weapons companies like Lockheed...
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My Grandfather’s Nakba
It was my first trip out of Gaza, and my destination was the city of Nablus in the West Bank to pursue my university studies. At the time the Oslo Accords were still somewhat in effect. That allowed...
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United Nations 3.0
It was in the embers of the unprecedented death and destruction of World War I, that the Allied powers at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 established the ‘League of Nations’ – the United Nations...
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US Labor Today and the Way Forward
The labor movement in the United States used to be respected and looked to for leadership; people cared about what positions labor took, watched when they mobilized, noticed the causes they supported....
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