Opal Lee is a writer.
British politics exploded into chaos again with the news that the Queen will shut down Parliament on Boris Johnson’s request. The move is aimed at preventing MPs from stopping any no-deal Brexit — another sign that Britain is headed for a general election fought against the backdrop of Brexit psychodrama.
Meek Mill is finally free. But his case, depicted in a new Amazon docuseries, shows the urgent need to challenge the criminalization of poverty and the class society that jailed him in the first place.
To save the planet, a Green New Deal has to transform our entire society. Part of that transformation must include the deconstruction of our system of mass incarceration.
The war on Bernie Sanders carried out by the Washington Post is unfair, dishonest, and never-ending. As long as Sanders stands with workers in opposition to the bosses and billionaires who own the media, he can expect more of the same treatment.
Popeyes’ new chicken sandwich is great. The fast food industry’s labor practices are not. Under democratic socialism, the entire working class would benefit from the spoils of such culinary delights.
Uber and the Kochs aren’t often mentioned in the same sentence. But the rideshare company has joined the far-right billionaire-funded operation on a libertarian crusade to destroy public transit.
Unlike in the Nordic countries, workers in the US can be fired for virtually any reason. Bernie Sanders wants to change that — because no boss should have dictatorial power.
Birthright Israel pretends the occupation does not exist and manipulates Jewish heritage and identity into support for an apartheid state. I’ll never go on Birthright, and neither should you.
The political revolution needs mass protest mobilization. But to be completed, it will also require a radical reconstruction of the United States’ undemocratic political institutions.
The foreign policy establishment is responding to Trump-era brutalities by demanding more, not less, aggression and empire.
The life and times of Smedley Butler.
Stefan Bertram-Lee was an internet leftist. And then they went to Rojava and got a gun.
The way to cut military climate emissions is to scale back the United States’ enormous empire. Elizabeth Warren has no plan for that.
Eighty years of American nuclear weapons policy.
A. Philip Randolph called for a March on Washington to force President Roosevelt to abolish Jim Crow in the war effort, and shaped the trajectory of the postwar left.
Though their time as a band was brief, the Monks represent a “what if” of the convergence between GI resistance and the 1960s counterculture.
The United States has 800 military installations in dozens of countries around the world. They all must be dismantled.
Despite underfunding, the Veterans Health Administration is the United States’ largest health care system. And it could be the foundation of a truly socialist alternative to private care.
The GI Bill is proof: if people have access to education and the means to live, they’ll create meaningful art.
In 1992, the Cold War was over. But the Defense Department was already planning for the next one.