Moroccan rapper El Mahdi Lyoubi, aka Mehdi Black Wind, was arrested this month on charges of defaming the king in his lyrics. The trumped-up charges reflect the monarchy’s trouble coping with the youth revolt expressed in last year’s GenZ 212 movement.
The Cockroach Protests Are Reviving India’s Ailing Democracy
India’s “Cockroach” youth movement has now forced the resignation of the country’s education minister. What began as a single-issue protest mobilization has broadened into one of the biggest challenges Narendra Modi has faced in power.
College-Educated Workers Occupy Key Nodes of the Economy
The part of the rise in class consciousness and organizing by college-educated workers that we should pay closest attention to is that it’s happening in expanding industries that are strategic for organizing like health, education, and social services.
Ottawa Has Stuck By the Charity Behind the Nazi Gaffe
Canada’s Victims of Communism monument included proposed honorees from the Waffen-SS, the Ustaša, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. The charity that supplied the names is still helping shape the memorial’s next phase.
India’s “Cockroach” Protest Movement Faces State Repression
After weeks of ignored demonstrations, thousands of students, alongside parents, teachers, and supporters from across India marched on Parliament to press their demands. They were met with tear gas, police violence, and detentions.
American Freedom Was Built on Endless Conquest
The Founders made expansion the precondition of American freedom. We must find an alternative.
Jonathan Chait’s Atlantic essay claims the Democratic Socialists of America has betrayed the legacy of its founder, Michael Harrington. It gets DSA’s history, and what the organization is today, wrong.
Mamdani Is Right. Netanyahu Belongs Behind Bars.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani charged Benjamin Nentayahu with genocide, said he is unwelcome in New York City, and called for his arrest. Two years ago, that would have been unimaginable. Going forward, it should be a litmus test.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: A Dissenter’s View
I know I’m in the minority here. I really did try to like it. But Christopher Nolan has taken the wiliest, most delightful hero in Western literature and turned him into one more Nolan sad sack, trudging guilt-stricken through a gray and godless world.
Pushed Face to the Ground, Abderrahim Fakir Couldn’t Breathe
Abderrahim Fakir died of suspected lung compression after several minutes pressed to the ground by Italian police. The killing has shone a light over police impunity, just months after a new law helped shield officers from prosecution.
Yes, We Really Should Abolish the Senate
The Right recently lost its mind over the socialist proposal to get rid of the US Senate. But socialists are right to call for the abolition of a deeply undemocratic political institution.
Mainstream economics cannot accept the concept of contradiction that is foundational for Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism. David Harvey explains why we need the Marxist perspective if we want to make sense of capital’s latest mutations in the age of AI.
Critics of AI Aren’t Anti-Tech Extremists
Recent US intelligence documents hype up the threat of “anti-tech violent extremist activity” against data centers. Casting protests as ideologically extreme is a shortcut to silencing critics of AI and removing democratic constraints on Big Tech.
Ontario Is Gutting a Pillar of the Labor-Capital Settlement
Ontario’s latest workers’ compensation bill restores some long-overdue benefits with one hand while quietly dismantling core protections with the other. In doing so, it’s undermining the century-old bargain at the heart of the workers’ compensation system.
The Soviet Crisis Was Predictable. Its Outcome Was Not.
The Soviet collapse in 1991 was so sudden and comprehensive that it came to seem inevitable. New work by historians of the USSR asks whether the system’s crisis could have ended in reform of its structures rather than disintegration.
Claire Valdez Plans to Take the Labor Movement to Washington
Claire Valdez argues that worker power is built through organizing unions on the shop floor. Days after winning New York’s 7th District Democratic primary, she returned to the labor fights she says elected office should serve.