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Haiti: Reparations Yes! Deportations No!

Haiti: Reparations Yes! Deportations No!

The photo “UNIFA Event for Restitution” is credit: UNIFA The calls from Haiti have echoed around the world: “France, Pay Your Debt To Haiti!” Demonstrators from Haiti to France to San Francisco, London, Belize, and Jamaica have demanded that France pay for the ransom...

Labubu’s Rise Mirrors Declining Faith in US Leadership

Labubu’s Rise Mirrors Declining Faith in US Leadership

Labubu The Monsters Exciting Macaron series. Pop Mart. For decades, the United States has held a dominant geopolitical position, its soft power radiating through Hollywood blockbusters, Silicon Valley innovations, and democratic ideals. Yet, in recent days, a subtle...

I Ain’t Answering All That. Free Palestine!

I Ain’t Answering All That. Free Palestine!

Image by Stan Cox. Two things in America create “bipartisanship”: support for Israel’s apartheid regime and support for endless US war and intervention around the world. — Ali Abunimah, October 16, 2019. I live in the heart of the heart of the imperial core: Kansas....

Reform UK’s Curious Courtship

Reform UK’s Curious Courtship

Photograph Source: Hullian111 – CC BY-SA 4.0 Only months ago, Reform UK and Britain’s trade unions stood on opposite ends—ideologically and strategically. One championed deregulation and individualism; the other, collective bargaining and worker protections. But now,...

The Tragedy of Political Violence: It Works

The Tragedy of Political Violence: It Works

A shelter-in-place warning in downtown Minneapolis. Photograph Source: SavagePanda845 (Elliot F) – CC BY 4.0 The cold truth is this: political violence works. The assassination and attempted assassination of two Minnesota state legislators remind us again that...

Resistance Works

Resistance Works

Image by Jorge Stark. At a time when many may feel that good news has gone the way of the dodo, look no further than the homeland of that long-extinct bird — Mauritius — for a dose of encouragement. There, among the islands of the Indian Ocean, news can be found about...

Economic Well-Being in Today’s Political Climate

Economic Well-Being in Today’s Political Climate

The 2024 presidential election ushered in an extreme shift in political winds to an unanticipated degree. In the White House, the President issued a barrage of executive orders to dismantle economic regulation. His adviser, Elon Musk, unnerved workers by slamming...

How Trump’s Fascist Rhetoric Produces Political Assassins

How Trump’s Fascist Rhetoric Produces Political Assassins

Vance Boelter, Hennepin County Jail. Early Saturday morning, June 14th, 2025–the morning of Trump’s birthday gift to himself in the form of a military parade–Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were murdered in their Brooklyn Park home...