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Abolition Is a Project of Human Liberation That Must Be Ongoing
One of the most common misconceptions about prison abolition is that it’s “unrealistic.” However, in Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché’s new book, How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement...
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Over 100 Arrested at Columbia After Univ. President Orders NYPD to Clear...
Columbia University President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik on Thursday called on New York police to forcibly clear a student occupation on the lawn of the school, which had been dubbed the Gaza Solidarity...
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Senator Cardin Must Help End the Blockade of Cuba
Cuba is going hungry. The costs of food and other basic necessities are skyrocketing. Rolling blackouts periodically plunge the island into darkness. Parents struggle to find milk for their children....
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Gaza Solidarity Encampment Regroups Following Arrest of 108 Students at Columbia
On Thursday, April 18, a swarm of NYPD officers in riot gear arrested 108 students at Columbia University in an attempt to dismantle an encampment of student protesters demanding Columbia’s full...
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US Vetos Palestine’s Bid for UN membership
On 18 May the Security Council was seized of a resolution that would have granted UN membership to Palestine.Twelve members of the SC voted in favor of the resolution, while two countries – the UK and...
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The McCarthyist Attack on Gaza Protests Threatens Free Thought for All
With the encouragement of the state, universities from coast to coast are taking draconian steps to silence debate about US-backed violence in the Middle East. The Columbia University community looked...
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In a Historic Victory, Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Vote Union
In a watershed victory, workers at the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted tonight “UAW, yes!” The company’s sole non-union plant will finally join the rest of the world. “If Volkswagen...
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There Can Be No Critique
An earlier version of this essay was published in the Boston Review on Dec 13, 2023 with this version appearing on the Verso blog on April 16, 2024. Jodi Dean’s badly misinformed polemic against what...
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Are the Flat Tax Folks Winning — or Have They Already Won?
What makes an income tax “fair”? Right-wing lawmakers the nation over have a ready answer. To be fair, they tell us, an income tax needs to be “flat.” Their core claim: In an evenhanded tax system with...
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The Media is Advancing a False Narrative of ‘Rising Antisemitism’ on Campus...
What is the mainstream U.S. media’s greatest single distortion about the protests at Columbia University and elsewhere? Here’s the winner so far: the media is ignoring the fact that Jewish students are...
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House Passes $95 Billion Foreign War Bills
US lawmakers passed a raft of legislation containing some $95 billion in military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, also approving a bill that will allow Washington to hand Kiev assets seized from...
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The Irony: Israel’s Supporters use ‘woke’ Playbook to Censor Palestinian Voices
In recent years, a new line of attack has emerged from many pro-Israel groups, conservative commentators, politicians and activists – the idea that “wokeness” and oversensitivity to giving offence are...
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US House awards Israel $26 Billion so it can go on Killing or Wounding a...
The US House of Representatives voted $26 billion for Israel on Saturday to reward it for its ongoing war crimes against Palestinians. Some 58 members voted against the measure, including 37 Democrats....
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Palestinians as “The Others”
Throughout history, military empires have reduced their victims, their subjugated, and their abducted to a state of “The Others.” The political and mass media institutions usually follow suit by...
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How We Rebuilt the Young Democratic Socialists
Nearly two decades ago the Young Democratic Socialists (YDS), as it was then called, was on the brink of collapse. Our traditional social-democratic milieu organizing methods were failing us. As the...
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Isra Hirsi On the Resilience of Columbia University’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
On Wednesday, students at Columbia University and its women’s college, Barnard, pitched tents on the lawns at the school’s campus commons. They planned to stay until Columbia divested from companies...
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Students Sue Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for Silencing Black History
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is perhaps best known for the “Little Rock Nine,” the first Black students to walk through the school’s grand front doors. The year was 1957, three years...
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5 Reasons Why What Congress Just Did Does Not Help Ukraine
You may have heard that the U.S. Congress is finally doing the decent, moral, liberal, democratic, Democratic thing and aiding Ukraine. You may believe, as pretty much everyone I ask tells me, that...
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Debt, Dictatorship, and Haiti’s Crisis: It Has Not Always Been This Way
Social disorder. Prisons emptied of violent criminals by gangs looking to rebuild their ranks. Schools, hospitals, and pharmacies targeted for looting and frequently burned. Corpses left rotting in the...
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1964’s Freedom Summer Offers a Model for the Voting Rights Work We Need to Do
The day after I graduated from college, I jumped into a car with my roommate and another friend and headed south to Mississippi. We were in good spirits after graduation, but we were in a racially...
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