Across Europe, trade unions have a long history of making political demands for universal health care and benefits. The unique brutality of the US capitalist class bred a labor movement that has often limited itself to being a private insurance provider. Samuel...
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Progressive Comradeship During the Trump Times
I’ve noticed over the last couple of years younger progressive/revolutionary organizers using the word, “comrade,” to refer to other organizers. Is this a good idea? During the days of McCarthyism in the 1950s, and probably before then, self-righteous conservatives...
“Thou Shalt Not Kill”: The World’s Silence Is Complicity
I do not write from comfort. I write from the salt of grief. From the agony of watching the world orchestrate its distractions while an entire people are burned, buried, and erased. The world has failed the Palestinian people. Utterly and entirely. This is not a...
Lisa’s Bed
“Before I give you the grand tour,” says Gus, “put down those silly suitcases. Right over there, okay? This’s gonna be your bedroom for the next couple of weeks. Or longer, if you want to stay longer.” We look inside. On a king size bed there’s an old Nautilus...
Depiction of a Win-Win Relationship
It is often stated that China engages in win-win relationships with its partners. In Africa, in exchange for the commodities that China receives, the African country will have Chinese-built ports, airports, highways, railways. In addition, China will train local...
Blood and Ashes: Genocidal Deathscapes from Treblinka to Gaza
“He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? 20 He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right...
Le notizie di scienza della settimana
Le emoji nei messaggi, una possibile terapia per le malattie autoimmuni, il collasso della vegetazione globale: l’attualità scientifica, in breve. Leggi
“Thou Shalt Not Kill”: The World’s Silence Is Complicity
I do not write from comfort. I write from the salt of grief. From the agony of watching the world orchestrate its distractions while an entire people are burned, buried, and erased. The world has failed the Palestinian people. Utterly and entirely. This is not a...
Lisa’s Bed
“Before I give you the grand tour,” says Gus, “put down those silly suitcases. Right over there, okay? This’s gonna be your bedroom for the next couple of weeks. Or longer, if you want to stay longer.” We look inside. On a king size bed there’s an old Nautilus...
Depiction of a Win-Win Relationship
It is often stated that China engages in win-win relationships with its partners. In Africa, in exchange for the commodities that China receives, the African country will have Chinese-built ports, airports, highways, railways. In addition, China will train local...
Blood and Ashes: Genocidal Deathscapes from Treblinka to Gaza
“He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? 20 He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right...
La Russia rivendica la conquista di un villaggio nella regione di Dnipropetrovsk
La Russia ha rivendicato la conquista di una città nella regione di Dnipropetrovsk, nell’Ucraina centro-orientale, per la prima volta dall’inizio dell’invasione nel febbraio 2022. Leggi