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New York, the prisoners of the City Time
By Gilles Dauvé DDT21 June 2025 The prison has its mythology. The one we’re going to talk about, Rikers, is…
Environmental Protection Agency Workers Investigated for Defending Its Mission
By Jenny Brown Labor Notes July 10th, 2025 After signing a critical letter to their boss, 139 EPA workers were…
Ian Brennan on Tigray Tears: Siding With the Underdog
By Ian Brennan Afropop June 23rd, 2025 In 2020, war broke out between the Ethiopian/Eritrean federal government and the Tigray…
The Private Fiefdom as Planetary Project
By Raymond B. Craib LARB More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate…
What Everyone on the Left Should Know about Taiwan (at the Minimum)
By Ralf Ruckus Spectre Journal June 17, 2025 The political left is (potentially) a force to counter right-wing politics, resist…
Iran: The Things It Won’t Do to Say
If Thomas Friedman’s fairytale world of light-versus-darkness were to evaporate, less noble motives for U.S. and Israeli actions might be…
Social Self-Defense: From Protest to Contest
By Jeremy Brecher With its aggressive use of the military at home and abroad, the Trump administration appears to be…
Matthew Lyons – Three Way Fight on Essential Dissent
Essential Dissent This episode is a talk by Matthew Lyons, co-editor of Three Way Fight – Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism.…
Jeff Bezos and the Billionaire Invasion of Venice
Photo: Greenpeace. Venice, Italy. By Ian Brennan Counterpunch This weekend, the world’s third richest person, Amazon’s cento-billionaire Jeff Bezos, is…