New Future

Israel claimed the intensification of bombing is part of a ground invasion meant to permanently occupy more parts of Gaza. The attacks have killed more than 300 people since Thursday.

The clash in Kashmir between the reactionary Indian and Pakistani regimes represents a new point of tension in an international situation polarized by the U. S. -China rivalry.

While domestically Netanyahu is treading carefully in order to keep his coalition united, pushing him ever closer to the "final solution, " externally he remains subject to the vagaries of U. S. foreign policy.

Capitalists and their representatives are freaking out because even one day of an NJ Transit strike would clearly show the world that nothing runs without workers.

On May 24, a large internationalist rally will be held in Paris. Organized by Révolution Permanente, the action will unite socialists from France, Argentina, the United States, Germany, Spain, and other countries to protest militarism, the Far Right, and genocide.

We denounce the brutality of the NYPD and the CUNY administration who put Brooklyn College staff, faculty, and students, protesters and non-protesters alike, in danger. We demand all charges be dropped and full amnesty for protesters.

As Trump’s second term crosses the 100-day mark, tens of thousands hit the streets for one of the largest May Day mobilizations in years. But the path forward depends on a united, independent working-class movement — not one tied to the Democratic Party.

Workers have completed their third week of protests in Panama, with growing momentum as more union and social sectors join in. Together with students and social movements, the workers are putting forward demands against the Mulino government and U. S. imperialism.

David Horowitz died a supporter of the Far Right, but also spent his youth as a champion of the revolutionary Left. Doug Greene offers an appreciation of Horowitz’s life, contributions to Marxism, and his sad political decline.

The jury trial of Christopher Schurr, a white police officer who killed Patrick Lyoya, a Black refugee from Congo, ended in mistrial. This is a travesty of justice that must be denounced.

Some sectors of the Left and activists in New Jersey have downplayed the significance of Ras Barakas’ arrest. Without sowing illusions that the Newark mayor’s campaign for governor can deliver for social movements, the attack on him must be opposed as part of the fight against the Far Right.

Amid a crisis within Bolivia’s governing MAS party and an upcoming election this summer, we interviewed a member of Left Voice’s sister organization in Bolivia. The discussion covers Bolivia’s place in world capitalism, how the MAS crisis reveals the limits of the Pink Tide, and the way forward for the country's workers, peasants, oppressed peoples, and revolutionary Left.

Sam Farber argues that the Left needs to reclaim the idea of progress, and that this means rejecting the ideas of the German-Jewish Marxist Walter Benjamin. But Benjamin has something urgent to say to us today that Farber overlooks: real progress comes only through organizing ourselves for revolutionary struggle — and abandoning the false hope of reformism.

Ras Baraka is running as the most left-wing candidate in NJ’s primary for governor, even getting arrested for protesting an ICE detention center. But anti-racist activists and workers in New Jersey won’t have our demands met by chaining our struggles to the Democratic Party.