Calling something “white socialism” actually weakens the left. It treats the multiracial working class as just a social problem, not as a group that can act politically. It focuses on moral identity rather than on working together. This leads to a kind of politics where the left cares more about staying pure than about winning. As a result, the left can’t respond to the current moment, because it has lost the tools it needs to understand what’s happening.
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Americans are among those who have volunteered to join Myanmar’s resistance to the military junta that took power in a 2021 coup. In this interview a young volunteer from California shares an account of what drove him to take up arms.
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The wars against Iran are the product of American imperialism; Israel and global Zionism, and the clerical/military/economic oligarchy of the Islamic Republic.
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All are invited to a conference celebrating the life and work of labor champion Tony Mazzocchi.
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This is an excellent book by historian Hafsa Kanjwal about the colonization of Kashmir that the Indian State has carried out since gaining independence from the British Empire and undergoing the tragedy of Partition.
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That people cannot afford their lives is the designed outcome of an economic system that hoards resources for billionaires, exploiting workers to insulate the overwhelmingly white ruling class.
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Kali Akuno—co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and a lifelong movement builder—is facing a serious and urgent health crisis. He needs immediate access to specialized cardiac care that he simply cannot get in Mississippi.
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The Israeli death penalty law issued on March 30, 2026 is a brutal and racist law, a codified tool of ethnic cleansing, a war crime, and a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.
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Recording of webinar sponsored by Haymarket Books & Ukraine Solidarity Network (U.S.).
Speakers:
Ashley Smith, member of the Ukraine Solidarity Network and the Tempest Collective. Co-author of China in Global Capitalism.
Frieda Afary, Iranian American librarian, translator and author of Socialist
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The U.S. government spent more money attacking Iran in the first two weeks than it did on military aid to Ukraine over four years.
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