On October 7, 2024
A year after October 7, In These Times contributor Yousef Aljamal reflects on the complete destruction of Gaza and the deaths of so many friends and family members.
Yousef Aljamal
A poem written before the author's death in an airstrike by the Israeli military.
Refaat Alareer
PalestineInterviewCulture
Poetry Against Imperialism
Porsha Olayiwola
ViewpointPalestine
"We Can’t Arrest Our Way to Liberation"
Eyad Zeid
PalestineCulture
Heba Zagout, We Will Not Forget You
Aya Ghanameh
A months-long investigation found even the smallest hints of dissent are often met with unemployment.
Shane Burley
Columnists
ViewpointPalestine
School Curriculum Supports the Genocide. Here’s How Teachers Can Push Back.
Bill Bigelow
ViewpointCulture
What Happened to Protest Music?
Ivie Ani
FeatureCulture
Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship
Sherell Barbee and Toni Morrison
In these excerpts of "Life After Lebanon" and "Waking Up in the Middle of Some American Dreams," June Jordan insists on the ever-present need for coalition building across difference.
Sherell Barbee and June Jordan
Right-wing operatives are channeling the genocide in Gaza into mainstream antisemitism.
Ben Lorber
The disjunction between our political language and political reality reveals the vacuum of thought in the U.S. foreign policy establishment.
Alberto Toscano
A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza. For this Mother's Day, she is calling for action.
Heba Gowayed
Borders and debt are new instruments of violence in a system that has had many names.
Heba Gowayed
From Eman Abdelhadi
FeaturePalestine
How U.S. Muslims Have Transformed in the 20 Years Since 9/11—and What It Means in the Wake of 10/7
Eman Abdelhadi
FeaturePalestineElection 2024
How to Listen to Michigan at the DNC in Chicago
Eman Abdelhadi
PalestineInterview
Has Biden Completely Lost Michigan? Voters are “Uncommitted.”
Eman Abdelhadi and Layla Elabed
“I showed up for East Palestine because I realized we are not alone.”
Maximillian Alvarez and Molly Crabapple
After Historic Chattanooga Win, the UAW Is Bargaining for Better Conditions at Volkswagen
Volkswagen workers and the United Auto Workers are hoping a contract with the automaker can reverberate across the South.
Sarah Jaffe
A SWANA Space to Exist
As we pass one year of genocide, Salon Kawakib will not be silenced and we will celebrate our own anniversary: two years of cultural organizing and building community in Chicago.
Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel
Trump Meets Hurricane Victims then Heads to Fundraisers with the Oil Bosses Driving the Climate Crisis
"Hosting a fundraiser with Big Oil CEOs while we're still counting the bodies from Hurricane Helene is like hosting a fundraiser with the NRA in the midst of a school shooting.”
Edward Carver
We share their dreams and aspirations, to tell them that there will be a day when the Palestinian people will live in freedom and dignity.
Yousef Aljamal
ViewpointPalestineElection 2024
The Democratic Convention Failed the Palestine Movement
Hadas Thier
PalestineElection 2024
Spurned by the DNC, the Uncommitted Movement Staged a Sit-in
Eman Abdelhadi
ViewpointPalestine
It's Not a Question. To Win in November, Harris Needs to Break From Biden and Trump on Gaza.
Ramah Kudaimi
FeatureInvestigation
The Treacherous Paths Out of Modi's India
Makepeace Sitlhou
InvestigationGoodman InstituteEn Español
Los escuadrones de muerte persiguiendo a los defensores del medio ambiente
Alessandra Bergamin
InvestigationGoodman Institute
The Death Squads Hunting Environmental Defenders
Alessandra Bergamin
The union wave at big U.S. retailers hasn’t yet resulted in first contracts for workers at Trader Joe’s, Starbucks and REI. But unions are proving their value in other ways.
Jeremy Gantz
Translations
LaborViewpointEn Español
Presidente de la UAW: El Primero de Mayo De 2028 Podría Transformar el Movimiento Sindical—y el Mundo
Shawn Fain
FeaturePalestine
التحولات التي شهدها مجتمع المسلمين في الولايات المتحدة بعد 20 عامًا من التاسع من أيلول وكيفية تجليها بعد السابع من تشرين الأول
إيمان عبد الهادي
LaborFeatureEn Español
Una Semana Laboral De 32 Horas Es Nuestra Para Tomarla
Sarah Jaffe
ViewpointElection 2024
Project 2025 Is Already Here
Gillian Kane
Dispatch
“Raid Happening Now”: Scenes from UChicago’s Popular University
Eman Abdelhadi
Culture
No, JoJo Siwa Did Not Invent Gay Pop
Briana L. Ureña-Ravelo
Around the world, government forces regularly attack environmental activists with impunity—and U.S. support.
Alessandra Bergamin
Political repression is on the rise as the state finds new ways to criminalize dissent and collective action.
Adam Federman
Columnists
Labor
Los Angeles Teachers’ Road to Durable Power, 2014–2016
United Teachers Los Angeles’ transformation into a strike-ready, progressive union offers lessons for how today’s labor upsurge can produce durable, transformative union power, writes former UTLA president Alex Caputo-Pearl.
Alex Caputo-Pearl
Labor
The Baristas Who Took Over Their Café
Baltimore’s 230-year-old tradition of workplace democracy is experiencing a revival.
Osita Nwanevu
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- "If I Must Die," A Poem by Refaat Alareer
- The Disturbing Reason Trump and Vance Peddle Lies About Immigrants
- Sanitation Strike Not a Waste
- After Historic Chattanooga Win, the UAW Is Bargaining for Better Conditions at Volkswagen
Director Mohamed Kordofani discusses how the film became a powerful exploration of injustice and reconciliation.
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Culture
Punk Rock Karaoke
Bianca Xunise
PalestineCulture
The Protest Song the IDF Tried to Silence
Iman Husain
Rural America
Study: Because of Pesticides, Living in Farm Towns Is as Risky as Smoking
Shannon Kelleher
ViewpointClimateRural America
Two Years and $300 Billion into Biden’s Climate Plan, Emissions Are Higher than Ever
Peter Gelderloos
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