New York congressman Jamaal Bowman has made a number of wrong decisions on Israel-Palestine. But socialists should criticize those errors without driving him away from the Palestine liberation movement and the Left.
Amnesty International has denounced Israeli rule over the Palestinians as a form of apartheid. But the British government is trying to outlaw the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign and stop it from using the same tactics that helped liberate South Africa.
Democratic socialist congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is under fire from the Democratic establishment for saying that support for Israel’s apartheid government is incompatible with progressive values. They’re livid that Tlaib is telling the truth.
Ken Roth, the ex-head of Human Rights Watch, recently had his hiring at Harvard vetoed by administrators. Because when it comes to criticism of Israeli apartheid, even a notorious friend of the powerful like Roth can’t get a pass from the establishment.
Laws across the United States are targeting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israeli apartheid. The Supreme Court is refusing to hear a challenge to those laws, even though they’re in clear violation of Americans’ First Amendment rights.
From the struggle for civil rights to opposing apartheid in South Africa and the war against Cuba, Harry Belafonte was a fighter for justice both at home and abroad.
Democratic socialist politicians like Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib are right about the violence in Israel and Palestine: we should both be mourning civilian deaths and calling for an end to the Israeli occupation.
Israel is mounting an indiscriminate assault on Gaza. To stop more deaths of Israelis and Palestinians alike, we must demand an end to the US government’s support for Israeli apartheid and occupation.
While some US unions and many labor activists are calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, most union officials are keeping silent. They're forgetting the old labor adage: “an injury to one is an injury to all.”
The US labor movement has a decades-long history of supporting Israel wholeheartedly, punctuated by moments of pro-Palestine actions by rank-and-file activists. As Israel wages its war on Gaza, those pro-Palestine moments are becoming increasingly common.
The story of the Congressional Black Caucus reflects the class contradictions of black politics in the post–civil rights era.
The trailers for Elysium promised a class-struggle masterpiece, but for all its triumphs the film's politics don't quite measure up.
Today, South Africans will likely reelect Jacob Zuma and his African National Congress. But the party of Nelson Mandela is losing ground.
Consensus decision-making has dominated social movements for forty years. Let's try something different.
The Knick sharply captures American health care's historic inequities.
The reparations demand survives as a parlor debate — it cannot address the real needs and interests of black workers.
The "alt-right" and Israeli settlers have a shared fervor for ethno-nationalism, Islamophobia, and racism.
My last years in the USSR.
South Africa needs more than a new leader: it needs a new vision, one that levels economic inequality and dismantles patronage systems.