The footballing lives of Handala

Palestine solidarity gestures have multiplied in football—often referring to Handala, an iconic cartoon character and symbol of hope ~ Yann Dey-Helle, Dialectik Football ~ At MetLife Stadium in suburban New York, Wessam Abou Ali recently celebrated his second goal against FC Porto by posing with one hand behind his back and the other making the

Food Sovereignty as Resistance in Palestine

Food Sovereignty In the current situation, it is difficult to imagine the existence of agriculture and production in Gaza, where there is no security, peace, and much less arable land. After 20 months of violent attacks, more than 56,000 people have been killed. In the West Bank, however, agriculture is still a reality.

Class, memory, and Jewish anti-Zionism

Jewish radicals have long challenged the state project built in our name ~ James Horton ~ In view of the modern genocide the Israeli state is undertaking against the Palestinian people, it may not seem advisable or desirable to look at one’s own position in relation to it. It can feel self-centred to take a

Picking Fights: Seventeen Years of Organizing in the Seattle Solidarity Network

In the following reflections, which were originally published through Crimethinc, participants in the Seattle Solidarity Network share what they have learned in the course of 17 years of experimenting with tactics to fight against bosses and landlords. Original link: https: //crimethinc. com/SeaSol

Suspicions surround international legal trade in Galápagos iguanas

In 2013, when Sandra Altherr, co-founder of the German NGO Pro Wildlife, began looking into the reptile trade in Europe, she wondered why people paid thousands of euros for little-known reptiles whose trade wasn’t regulated by CITES, the international agreement on wildlife trade.

A Left Response to the Birth Rate Crisis

The Right uses falling birth rates to pose as defenders of family and future against demographic suicide. The Left can’t keep declining to comment. Instead, we should reframe the conversation to emphasize security and freedom over scarcity and coercion.

Roberto Zolho, conservationist who helped restore Mozambique’s wildlife following its civil war, has died at 65.

For a man who spent his life studying the movements of wildlife, Roberto Zolho was most at peace when not moving at all—drifting in a kayak down the Guacheni channels, pausing to admire an egret, a kingfisher, or a sunlit curve in the reeds.

Labor Must Defend MacArthur Park and the Immigrant Working Class

The Trump administration unleashed federal troops in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. To defend our migrant siblings and stop the administration’s anti-immigrant attacks, we need full unity of the working class, unions, and social movements.