Gezi Platform NYC is an alliance of activists that engage in actions to support public protests in Turkey.
Criminal defense lawyer Raphaël Kempf has repeatedly been counsel for defendants in French terrorism trials. He writes for Jacobin about how anti-terrorism cases from France to Israel have undermined the bases of due process.
Wesley Bell, who’s challenging Cori Bush in Missouri, dropped out of a race against Republican Josh Hawley to take on the Democratic congresswoman. Apparently, punching left with AIPAC’s support is a more appealing career booster than challenging the Right.
Why is Keir Starmer’s Labour Party reportedly agreeing not to introduce reforms to British media in exchange for the support of right-wing media baron Rupert Murdoch?
Conservatives say birth rates are falling because of a lack of old-fashioned respect for motherhood. Rather than enshrining women’s supposedly natural and essential role as mothers, we should place children at the heart of a politics that cares for everyone.
Deadpool & Wolverine’s cynical mocking of all things Marvel is its secret weapon. No wonder it’s making a killing at the box office.
Far from a novel form of populism, J. D. Vance’s appeals are indistinguishable from the economic vision of the 1970s John Birch Society.
Celebration of today’s economy reveals more about the class biases of journalists than it does about the daily realities of ordinary workers.
In medieval Bohemia, religious dissent against the Catholic Church developed into full-blown social rebellion. The radical Hussites put forward daringly egalitarian ideas and held out for years against seemingly overwhelming odds on the battlefield.
Behind Narendra Modi’s surprising electoral setback last month lay years of organizing by movements against his Hindu chauvinist agenda. One of those movements is working to forge unity between Muslims and Dalits against Modi’s efforts to divide them.
The 2012 trial of Russian punk band Pussy Riot was a scandalous case of censorship dressed up as preventing offense. Claims that US campus protests over Gaza represent “faith-based harassment” are doing the same thing.
Billionaire donors are pressuring Kamala Harris to fire Lina Khan, whose term as FTC chair has seen aggressive antitrust actions against tech giants. David Sirota interviewed Khan about her anti-monopoly agenda and the corporate efforts to shut it down.
Greece’s forced six-day workweek exploits workers and will leave the economy worse off in the long run. The policy, driven by economic pressures and an aging population, serves as a cautionary tale for global labor.
Repression of student protests in Bangladesh has killed almost 200 people. The protests began over the allocation of government jobs but developed into a wider challenge to a ruling party that’s out of touch and increasingly authoritarian.
A new study found the amount of pesticides used on farms was strongly associated with the incidence of cancer. It comes on the heels of substantial lobbying by the pesticide industry to limit its liability from lawsuits over their products’ health impacts.
Reactionary forces like AIPAC who want more death and misery in Gaza are going up against Rep. Cori Bush. Her reelection is a priority for progressive forces everywhere.
Much attention has been paid to the antidemocratic aspects of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a radical playbook for the first 180 days of a new Trump term. But few have focused on its plan to kneecap unions and attack workers’ rights.
Faced with the genocide in Gaza, most Western universities have responded with cowardly silence. Academia’s dependence on political sponsorship and weapons firms has muzzled its critical spirit and created a dismal culture of self-censorship.
Over the last two weeks, six migrants died trying to cross the English Channel. An aid worker at the French port of Calais writes on the political choices that condemn them to early graves — and the need for safe routes for people on the move.
Before Narendra Modi, there was Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Indian prime minister who spent his formative years promoting anti-Muslim hysteria. A new biography explains how Vajpayee smuggled far-right Hinduism into the political mainstream.
Anne Applebaum made her name on the Right, but conservatives’ illiberal turn created rifts between her and her former comrades. In Autocracy, Inc., she takes the side of liberalism against authoritarianism but misidentifies the causes of global disorder.