APRIL 17. 2025

Will Trump’s Attorney General Override the NLRB?

An anti-union trade association is urging the US attorney general to invalidate 15 previously decided NLRB cases. The group argues the AG can and should declare that certain board precedent is no longer binding, an unprecedented and illegal move.

Cambodia Is Still Haunted by the Legacy of the Khmer Rouge

Fifty years ago today, the Khmer Rouge took power in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Instead of rebuilding the country after a destructive US bombing campaign, Pol Pot’s movement plunged it into one of the last century’s most horrifying catastrophes.

From Carajás to Gaza: Peasant Struggles Are Global — To Defend Land, Water, and Territories for Life!

In March, La Via Campesina called on social movements and civil society organizations everywhere to hit the streets and push back against this violent, extractivist system that is fueling hunger, poverty, forced migration, wars, and ecological collapse. The response has been resounding.

Thousands at Philly ‘Hands Off’ March and Rally: ‘No Kings in America’

Philadelphia, PA — After a brutal stock market correction and new anti-trade tariff policies, more than 120,000 layoffs of federal workers, dozens of executive orders, and hundreds of immigrant arrests led by ICE, many Americans are reeling from political and financial upheaval caused by the Trump administration.

Lennon, Ono and the Leftists

Kevin MacDonald’s excellent new documentary shows John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the maelstrom of the early 1970s American counterculture in Nixon’s America.

APRIL 16. 2025

Action Committees: The French University Left Organizes against the Far Right

Increasing attacks by the Far Right in French universities has become dangerous for the student movement. Our comrades from Le Poing Levé (Fist Up) are calling for the creation of action committees to combat these attacks and turn universities into battlegrounds against the Far Right.

As You See Me, You Will See Yourself

Many people see the elderly as a burden, increasingly heavy because of their physical and mental deterioration

Israel’s designs for Jenin refugee camp are about more than just destruction

After being expelled, residents watch from afar as the army re-engineers the camp to inhibit resistance and undermine the right of return.

Africa’s growing cities are pushing birdlife to the brink

As urbanization reshapes global landscapes, ecological balance is increasingly at risk, especially in Africa. The primary drivers are rapid development and expanding human settlements, often without proper environmental considerations, posing a serious threat to birds and biodiversity and weakening ecological resilience.

End Slavery in Minnesota Bill Advocates for Fair Wages in Prisons

Minneapolis, MN — On February 25, 2025, the Minnesota Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee hosted a panel discussion on Ending Slavery in Minnesota led by Marcia Howard, Vice President of the Federation of Teachers Local 59 and ex-prison labor workers. According to panelists, an incarcerated worker makes $0.25-$0.

Still no trial over Argentina cyanide mine spill, 7 years after officials were charged

Seven years after an environmental administrator and three secretaries of the environment were charged with negligence that resulted in a toxic cyanide spill at Canadian miner Barrick Gold’s Veladero gold mine in Argentina, the case has still not gone to trial.

Plastic-eating seabird chicks show signs of organ failure and cognitive decline

For years, Jack Auty studied how inflammation in the human body drives diseases, ranging from stroke to sepsis to Alzheimer’s, at the Tasmanian School of Medicine.

Fake documents, real deforestation drive global trade in illegal Amazon timber

“Everyone does it. ” That’s how the representative of a sawmill described the practice of selling fake documents to illegal timber from the Brazilian Amazon as legitimate, a fraud known as timber laundering. The testimony was collected by a team from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a U. K.

What Will It Take for the Resistance to Win?

Expressing resistance is an important start. Now, we have to organize.

How Can The Left Tackle the Climate Crisis?

In his new book, writer Malcolm Harris considers the tools in our arsenal for stopping the worst case scenarios of climate change.

Baby colossal squid recorded for the first time in its deep-sea home

Researchers exploring the deep sea near Antarctica have made the first confirmed recordings of a colossal squid, the world’s heaviest invertebrate, in its natural environment. But the squid captured on camera was just 30 centimeters (12 inches) long — a baby. The recording was made by the U. S.

Australia’s Right Tried to Copy Trump. It’s Been a Disaster.

Australia’s right-wing Liberal Party is in freefall, while Labor — now the party of capital — is set to retain its parliamentary majority. It’s a historic transformation, rooted in the demise of Australian 20th-century social liberalism.

Beyond national liberation

A new book issues both an indictment of South Africa’s failed transition and a call to rebuild the left through climate justice, solidarity economies, and radical humanism.

Deterrence Theory

The United States is up to its ears in human rights violations in a place Americans know nothing about.

Peoples’ Summit towards COP30: Joining Voices for Climate Justice

We call upon organizations, networks, collectives, and social movements from various sectors to build the People’s Summit towards COP 30.