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ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

“I Am Done Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils. I Will Not Vote for Joe Biden in 2024.”

Unless Biden drastically reverses course on Palestine, Muslims will not turn out for him on Election Day—critical voters in key swing states—and Democrats only have themselves to blame.

Saqib Bhatti

InterviewIsrael & Palestine

“I Was Sent Here to Fight for Shared Humanity”: Rep. Delia Ramirez on Why She Backs a Cease-Fire in Israel and Palestine

In These Times Executive Editor Ari Bloomekatz and Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) discuss the urgency of a cease-fire, a progressive approach to foreign policy, and why Marjorie Taylor Greene poses such a threat to everyday Americans.

Ari Bloomekatz and Delia Ramirez

Culture

“Prison Itself Is Censorship”: Mariame Kaba on the Freedom to Read

52 years after the Attica uprising, a new exhibit closing this week by the author of “We Do This ’Til We Free Us” explores carceral book bans.

Jack McCordick

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

The Growing Jewish Resistance to Israel’s War on Palestine

Jewish socialists and progressives in the U.S. are organizing to say that “never again” means never again for anyone.

Mindy Isser

Labor

UAW Strikes Two Major Plants This Week Including "The Most Profitable Auto Plant in the World”

The latest strikes at General Motors and Stellantis bring the total number of United Auto Workers members on strike to some 46,000.

Keith Brower Brown

Israel & Palestine

“We Need You to Stand Up”: Bernie Sanders’ Former Staffers Call on Him to Back Cease-Fire in Palestine and Israel

Hundreds of former staffers of the democratic socialist senator have signed a letter urging him to back a peaceful resolution to the war in Palestine.

Eloise Goldsmith

CultureThe Socialism Issue

Capitalism Is Not “The One”

An exclusive excerpt from Malaika Jabali's new book, It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism, a guide to socialism for budding anti-capitalists.

Malaika Jabali

LaborViewpointIsrael & Palestine

Starbucks Is Exploiting the Violence in Gaza and Israel to Attack Its Union

The president of Workers United writes that Starbucks is endangering its own employees and appears to even endorse a boycott of its own stores. “I am afraid,” said one worker. “My mom doesn’t want me to go to work.”

Lynne Fox

Israel & Palestine

The Democratic Party Has an Israel Problem. These Progressives Are Trying to Solve It.

As the brutal attacks on Gaza continue, cracks are beginning to show in the Democratic Party’s unequivocal fealty to Israel.

Daphna Thier

Israel & Palestine

The Mounting Onslaught of Censorship and Suppression

"A failure to stop this new McCarthyism would be to surrender to the forces of reaction that tragically are carrying the day."

Dylan Saba

LaborIsrael & Palestine

Unions and Workers Are Increasingly Demanding a Cease-Fire and an End to Gaza Siege

“The rising escalation of war and arms sales doesn't serve the interests of workers anywhere.”

Luis Feliz Leon and Alexandra Bradbury

Interview

How the U.S. Drove Venezuelans North

A relentless history of U.S. imperialism and anti-socialism brought thousands of migrants to the floors of Chicago police stations.

Lilian Jiménez

LaborInterviewPodcast

Striking Autoworkers Have Made Major Strides. They’re Not Done Yet.

Lisa Xu and Chris Budnick on the power of worker organizing—and the UAW’s newfound militance.

Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh

LaborInterviewPodcast

Mass Protest Hasn’t Won the Change We Need. What Comes Next?

Reporter Vincent Bevins on his new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and The Missing Revolution.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborViewpoint

God Is on the Side of Autoworkers

The UAW’s fight is a righteous one and President Shawn Fain knows that “with faith the size of even a mustard seed, people can move a mountain.”

William J. Barber II

LaborIsrael & Palestine

The U.S. Labor Voices Opposing Military Aid to Israel

“U.S. military aid going in is pouring gasoline onto a fire. It encourages that there be military solutions, and military solutions will get more people killed.”

Jeff Schuhrke and Sarah Lazare

The Gezi Park Protests Ignited Resistance Against Turkish Police Brutality

Vincent Bevins revisits the 2013 protests in this exclusive excerpt from his new book.

Vincent Bevins

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

Israeli Apartheid Is at the Heart of the Brutality in Gaza and Israel

The only answer to the horrifying violence is to change the conditions from which it sprang. The first step is an immediate cease-fire.

Phyllis Bennis