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It is no secret to anyone paying attention that the Trump régime is determined to stamp out political dissent as part of its bid to dismantle what formal democracy remains in the United States. And just because Donald Trump did leave office without being forcibly removed after losing the 2021 presidential election — likely due Read more
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Screen capture from CBS News posted to X. + The opposition to Netanyahu prevailed in the Israeli elections by winning 67 seats to the Netanyahu bloc’s 53. But Netanyahu may yet prevail because of the opposition coalition [ . . . ]
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Although any country that challenges domination by United States corporate or military power will inevitably be the target of a sustained demonization campaign, the lies consistently issued in a torrent against Venezuela [ . . . ]
What exactly is the Democratic Socialists of America? It’s not a vanguard party or revolutionary socialist organization. It’s not a single-issue movement. It carries out a lot of electoral campaigns, but it’s not a political party like the Democrats or Republicans. It has some similarities with labor unions, or at least the NYC-DSA chapter does, Read more
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From my memoir, COUNT TIME: The toe tag is next. Psychologically for me this is the most difficult part. Now this cold and lifeless body has a name. Up until this point, I have been telling myself that the body is an object that needs to be moved. I start to ask questions. Who was this Read more
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If a book has Revolutionary in its title, it’s perhaps appropriate to go topsy-turvy and begin a review of it with a conclusion (Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis’s The Revolutionary Origins of Language is a wonderful book). As for Origins, the beginnings of an urgent present sense, they will go to the end. Dedicated to […]
In this episode of Counterpunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Nasser Mashni, Palestinian-Australian activist and president of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network. The son of a generation of Palestinians displaced by the ’48 Nakba, Mashni shares stories of growing up in the Palestine Liberation movement in the Australian diaspora and the growth of the movement since the 1970s. Unphased by relentless smear campaigns and lawsuits, Mashni emphasizes the breadth and depth of the movement, which unites Aboriginal Australians, Jews, unionists, queers, churchgoers, and others to advocate for Palestinian rights and challenge Australian complicity in the Gaza genocide.
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In this episode of Counterpunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Nasser Mashni, Palestinian-Australian activist and president of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network. The son of a generation of Palestinians displaced by the ’48 Nakba, Mashni shares stories of growing up in the Palestine Liberation movement in the Australian diaspora and the growth of the Read more
This week on CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk with Cole Rockarts about their new book Fired Up About Unions, published by Between the Lines. Cole is a labor educator, organizer, and writer. They have worked in public- and private-sector unions in Canada and the US since 2016. Cole will be kicking off their Read more
This is part two of our series with Palestinian solidarity activists from Malaysia. Dr. Fauziah Hasan and Azra Banu of the Asia Pacific Women’s Coalition for Al Quds and Palestine discuss the importance of consisent, coalitional efforts to support Palestinian women. Dr. Fauziah sailed on the Women’s Boat to Gaza in 2016 and again on Read more
Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Norma Hashim and Dr. Nazari Ismail from the Hashim Sani Center for Palestine Studies at Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur in this two-part podcast with solidarity activists from Malaysia. Hashim and Dr. Ismail share reflections on almost two decades of grassroots organizing with BDS Malaysia and Viva Palestina Malaysia. They Read more
