New Future

As expressed through a march and rally in Dearborn, Michigan to end the blockade on Gaza, the movement for a free Palestine points the way towards a struggle for social existence free from exploitation and oppression.

We republish the text of a mass letter in defense of the “Fired Four” adjunct faculty dismissed from their positions at the City University of New York with “all appearances of an ideological purge” for their pro-Palestine activism outside of the classroom.

Andrew Hartman’s new book, Karl Marx in America, raises questions we’ll need to grapple with as a class, here in the death of neoliberalism.

The vote brings Israel closer to consolidating the colonization of the occupied West Bank and the entirety of the Palestinian territories.

Trump appears annoyed by Putin and has made a “U-turn” on Ukraine. Beyond his gangster-like rhetoric, the U. S. president once again proves himself unpredictable and unreliable. His Ukraine policy could become “Bidenized. ”

In a historic escalation, Columbia University has suspended nearly 80 students for participating in a teach-in. This attack — coordinated with Trump officials, Zionist trustees, and the NYPD — is part of a broader national crackdown on the growing student movement for Palestine. Students and workers must stand with the sanctioned students and demand full reinstatement.

On July 18, the NEA Board of Directors voted to ignore a vote by 7,000 NEA members to end ties with the ADL. Still, union members are celebrating the original vote as a major shift among the rank and file toward Palestine and pledge to move forward.

On this episode of the podcast, we discuss how the working class of Los Angeles is fighting back against attacks on immigrants.

On the Fourth of July, hundreds of people took to the streets in Mexico City to demand measures to regulate housing and end gentrification.

Thirteen Princeton University activists spent over a year fighting charges for holding a sit-in during the wave of Gaza solidarity encampments. On June 17, they successfully got the charges dropped. Aditi Rao described the experience of fighting the charges and how they’re continuing resistance to genocide in Palestine.

University administrators testified in a Congressional committee hearing which, through equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, sought to smear academic unions as antisemitic and demand harsher repression on campuses.

President Trump has reduced the deployment of National Guard troops from Los Angeles. But the fight against ICE and the Far Right isn’t over, and unions and community organizations need to step up.

The union representing faculty and staff at CUNY in New York City denounced attacks on academic freedom and called for the reinstatement of faculty fired for their activism. They linked congressional hearings on antisemitism to a broader effort to silence Palestine solidarity and progressive organizing on campus.

Tomorrow the House Education and Workforce Committee will hold yet another hearing on antisemitism at universities. The far-right politicians leading them don’t care about Jewish people, students, or education; they use these hearings to attack the Palestine movement, queer people, the Left, and universities.