Meet the Top 7 Oligarchs Controlling Your Online News

The internet has not democratized news in any meaningful way; instead, the media monopoly has simply migrated to digital spaces.

Caitlin Scialla

Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight

Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.

Jackie Summers

Nonviolent Movements Not Only Win — They Win Faster

Nonviolent resistance movements are not only more likely to succeed than their violent counterparts — they also tend to achieve success more quickly.

Stockholm University Communications Office

Field Notes for Cracking an Empire

How to stay alive when the fight arrives at your door.

Jackie Summers

In Defence of a Basic Land Income

The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario.

Manuel Casal Lodeiro

How to Build a Real General Strike Against ICE

Minnesota shows what’s possible—here’s how we turn that spark into the kind of disruptive power that can actually stop ICE

Eric Blanc

As Trump Attacks the Republic, The Cowardly Democratic Party Still Won’t Fight to Win

With few exceptions, the Democratic Party apparatus is coasting, playing “it safe,” and expecting that the Trumpsters will deliver the Congress to it in November.

Ralph Nader

How Did MLK Jr. Become a Socialist?

A forgotten network of radicals helped teach King how to organize—and how to link civil rights to economic redistribution for all

Eric Blanc

10 Rules of Resistance for #ICEOut

Americans can learn from the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes” by denying ICE everything it needs to function.

Rivera Sun

The Two Reflexes That Are Breaking the Left

Values keep movements honest, while a material approach gets results, and there’s a time and place for both.

Mehran Khalili

Why Aren't the Largest U.S. Labor Unions Calling a General Strike Against ICE?

As Minneapolis leads a heroic fightback against ICE, our national unions must follow their example by organizing toward a general strike.

Mike Pappas, Daniel Nath

Will Democrats Ever Learn How to Beat Trump on the Immigration Issue?

Not only is the president's policy cruel and inhumane, it’s also not what the American people, including the white working-class, want.

Les Leopold

Majestic Scorn: a City Aflame Fights Fire and ICE

Despite the specious swapping out of fascist ICE leaders seeking to quell public fury, the gutted, steadfast denizens of Minneapolis continue to show up in frigid weather to demand "ICE Out" and "Stop Killing Us." Honoring their righteous struggle, Friday sees the city...

Abby Zimet

Power Anywhere Where There’s People! (1969)

Power anywhere where there’s people. Power anywhere where there’s people. Let me give you an example of teaching people. Basically, the way they learn is observation and participation. You know a lot of us go around and joke ourselves and believe that the masses have PhD’s...

Fred Hampton

Our Greatest Enemy Isn't Evil. It's Apathy.

The first battle is the battle of the spirit.

Tim Hjersted

Debunking the Myth That We’re Not Ready for a National Shutdown

This call is very much in the history of how general strikes have emerged in this country since the mid 19th century.

Eugene Puryear

An Urgent Warning to America, From German Grannies Against the Far Right

Dear American Citizens,

Grans-United

The Senate Must Not Fund ICE

The money fueling ICE’s abuses comes directly out of the pockets of working Americans who are already struggling.

Sonali Kolhatkar

House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too

“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.

Sharon Zhang

Arming Ourselves Isn’t the Answer to Rising Authoritarianism

Expanding gun ownership in response to ICE’s horrific violence is not a path toward safety or liberation, argues epidemiologist Rachel Hoopsick. It is a path to more death, more political weakness, and deeper entrenchment of the very forces the Left opposes.

Rachel Hoopsick

Hitler Didn't Win Because Germans Chose Nonviolence—He Won Because They Chose Compliance

The problem wasn't the method of resistance. It was the near-total absence of sustained, mass-scale resistance of any kind.

Tim Hjersted

After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year, These Popular Rebellions Offer Hope

Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.

Sarah van Gelder

Lancet Study Warns Plastics Could Cost Humanity 83 Million Years of Healthy Life

A study published in the Lancet Planetary Health highlights how humanity's continued reliance on plastics—which are primarily derived from planet-heating fossil fuels—is expected to harm global health over the next couple of decades.

Jessica Corbett

1,000+ Organizations to Congress: ‘No Funds for ICE and Border Patrol’

"How many more people have to die, how many more lies have to be told, and how many more children must be used as bait and abducted?"

Jake Johnson

US and EU Sanctions Have Killed 38 Million Since 1970

Far from a peaceful tool, these measures weaponise hunger and deprivation to enforce Western dominance.

Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan, Omer Tayyab

ICE Cannot Be Reformed—It Must Be Abolished

Here are 5 calls to action you can take now to help protect our neighbors.

Qasim Rashid

Strike, Strike, Strike

The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down — strikes.

Chris Hedges

The Last Election

The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception.

Chris Hedges

Imperial Boomerang

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province.

Chris Hedges

"This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed" and Other Objections to Strategic Nonviolence

We need to examine nonviolent resistance critically. But dismissing it based on misconceptions about how it functions, or romanticizing armed struggle while ignoring its failures, leaves movements unprepared for the work ahead.

Tim Hjersted

Social Strikes: How Mass Strikes and People Power Uprisings Provide a Last Defense Against MAGA Tyranny

The history of social strikes demonstrate that, no matter what tyrants may do, ultimately the people have the means to defeat them.

Jeremy Brecher, Alex Caputo-Pearl & Jackson Potter

Why Nonviolent Resistance Doesn't Require Your Opponent to Have a Conscience

If nonviolence required tyrants to grow a heart, we'd be finished, because violence is exactly what they're begging for. History shows we beat them by withdrawing pillars of support until they're forced to concede.

Tim Hjersted

Another Murder in Minneapolis

Trump's domestic army continues its rampage. We must fight back.

Robert Reich

'Groundbreaking': Michigan Sues Big Oil 'Cartel' for Conspiracy to Block Renewable Energy

Michigan is taking on Big Oil in a groundbreaking lawsuit, accusing companies of operating as a "cartel" to impede the transition to clean power and transportation.

Jessica Corbett

Federal Agent Tells Maine ICE Observer She's Going in 'Nice Little Database' for 'Domestic Terrorists'

Federal agent in Maine labels legal observer a "domestic terrorist" for recording, sparking outrage.

Brad Reed

We Are All Minnesota

Trump thought Minnesotans would be pushovers and great “performance fodder” as televised victims of his version of macho violence. He was wrong.

Mary Papenfuss

Every Nation in the World Should Reject Trump's Absurd and Dangerous 'Board of Peace'

Refusal to join will be an act of national self-respect. The UN-based international order, however flawed, should be repaired through law and cooperation, not replaced by a gilded caricature.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Are We Killing Ourselves With Bad News?

In days like these, information is hazardous.

John Pavlovitz

Masculine Strength Doesn't Need Redefining: It's True Purpose Was Always to Serve Life, Not Power

The conversation about masculinity has long been poisoned by those who mistake dominance for strength and conquest for achievement. This corruption is not new—it is the logic of tyrants and slavemasters that men of conscience have resisted throughout history.

Tim Hjersted

Dear Trump voters: A Quick Point of Clarification about the Left

Progressives vote for Democrats because they make better opponents, are less opposed to our goals, and do less harm than Republicans, but we also see that they are beholden to corporate and imperial power just like Republicans and both parties must ultimately be confronted.

Tim Hjersted

The Project Is to Reclaim the Commons. The Place to Start Is in Our Communities.

The city is the solution.

Patrick Mazza

Abolish ICE—and DHS Too

The reality is that while ICE’s violence has become more public, what we are seeing today is not a deviation from how it has always acted. .

Jordan Liz

You Can’t Train Away ICE’s Terror

Investments toward a more trained immigration force will only uphold and legitimize mass deportation, family separation, and state terror.

Jaboa Lake

When Will Democrats Realize That You Can't Reform Fascism?

The problem is Democratic fecklessness—and it isn’t limited to just the future of ICE. Dismantling the ICE regime needs to be the floor, not the ceiling, and any Democrat in Congress who doesn’t get with the program can—and should—be replaced in the primaries.

Will Bunch

Ending Republican Control Will Require Overcoming the Democratic Leadership

The Democratic establishment shuns the progressive populism that’s vital to effectively counter bogus right-wing populism. And so, the fight to defeat the fascistic GOP and the fight to overcome the power of corporate Democrats are largely the same fight.

Norman Solomon

The Gospel According to ICE: How Christians Betray The Faith They Claim to Follow

There’s a profound contradiction at the heart of contemporary American Christianity: the disconnect between claimed allegiance to Jesus and actual allegiance to state power.The irony is devastating when Christians defend ICE killings and deaths in custody with appeals to “law...

Tim Hjersted

The Socialist Case for AI: Defining Our Yes

There's a pattern in left politics that's both understandable and ultimately self-defeating: we're brilliant at articulating what we oppose, but often struggle to define what we're for. We can catalog the horrors of capitalism and empire in exhaustive detail, but when pressed...

Tim Hjersted

1 Year in, Trump Already Has His Own Fascist Paramilitary Squad

ICE tactics are designed to instill fear in people and create chaos in communities as part of an overarching strategy aimed to silence opposition to Trump’s overall domestic agenda and let citizens know that this is the dawn of a new era.

C.J. Polychroniou

Beyond Persuasion: Activism as an Invitation to Share Your Gifts with the World

Nina Turner's insight cuts to a crucial distinction in movement work: there's a difference between trying to win arguments and trying to build power. But I'd take it further—the deepest purpose of activism isn't even primarily about changing minds or mobilizing the...

Tim Hjersted

Report Details Trump's Rapid Escalation Toward Authoritarianism in First Year of Second Term

A year into Trump's second term, Amnesty International warns of escalating authoritarian practices in the US. Will we stand by as human rights are eroded, or will we take action to protect our democracy and the rights of all?

Julia Conley

Coalition Urges Congress to Block All Funding for ICE 'Surveillance Panopticon'

Coalition urges Congress to defund ICE's mass surveillance programs, citing privacy concerns and lack of accountability.

Brad Reed

The Imperialist Attack on Venezuela, the Crisis of Chavismo, and the Prospect of a Continental Anti-imperialist Struggle

The January 3 attack on Venezuela culminated in the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. The LTS in Venezuela, together with the CRP-CI internationally, calls for active mobilization to defeat Donald Trump’s imperialist military onslaught and...

Milton D'León

The US-Israel Hybrid War Against Iran

Both the American and Israeli deep states are addicted to hybrid warfare. Acting together, the CIA, Mossad, allied military contractors and security agencies have fomented chaos in Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Yemen.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

‘Tariff for Oligarchs’: Top Economist Urges Europe to Fight Trump by Punishing US Billionaires

"Europe should respond to Trump’s blackmail with targeted measures aimed not at American consumers, but at American billionaires," wrote Gabriel Zucman.

Jake Johnson

Iran: Against Repression and Imperialist Threats — For an Independent Path of the Working Class!

While U.S. imperialism escalates sanctions, military threats, and interventionist pressure, the Islamic Republic is brutally repressing popular resistance to preserve clerical rule. Only the independent self-organization and mobilization of the Iranian working class, youth...

Left Voice

At the Root of All Our Problems Stands One Travesty: Politicians’ Surrender to the Super-rich

There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to.

George Monbiot

ICE Is Not a Normal Police Force. It's a Domestic Terrorist Organization Designed to Freak Us Out

We need a new model to fight ICE — including having local prosecutors indict its agents for murder, assault, and false arrests based on evidence.

Steven Donziger

We Are In a Crisis. Here's How to Build Communities That Can Respond

We need to build independent economic bases where we live.

Patrick Mazza

Coordinated State-Level 'Tax the Rich' Campaigns Kick Off Nationwide

Labor organizations and advocates unite to launch a campaign for taxing the ultrawealthy to fund public goods and combat GOP budget cuts.

Brad Reed

The Flotillas to Gaza Are the World’s Conscience

The numerous attempts by activists in flotillas, to break the siege on Gaza, are a potent reminder that hope comes through acts of resistance and that we must never accept the status quo.

Chris Hedges

Authoritarians Gain Power From Lists; Here's How to Fight Back

Schindler built a list to save lives. Natanson built one to save the truth. The FBI just seized it. Whose list are you on?

John Marks

Defeating Dictatorship and Resisting Imperial Interference: Dual Challenges of Iran’s Protest Movement

Confronting the brutality of the ruling dictatorship and the designs of U.S. and Israeli imperialism are the dual tasks of the uprising, according to Tudeh.

C.J. Atkins

Dispatches From the Uprising in Iran

This article presents 3 statements from Iranian workers’ organisations. As one group writes, "Long live the workers’ strikes! No to Zionism, no to monarchy, no to imperialism. Yes to class organisation, yes to the working-class revolution."

Leftcom

Putting a Stop to Trump's Gestapo Begins With You

Let’s be clear. The problem is not the protesters. It’s the armed thugs who are shooting and murdering them.

Robert Reich

We Are Not Powerless to Stop ICE—But We Must Act Now

We taxpayers fund ICE, the Border Patrol, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s salary (and her two jets). Without congressional action by the end of January, funding for ICE will lapse.

Sarah Van Gelder

Why Voting Alone Doesn’t Build Democracy — and What Actually Does

Elections matter, but history shows they are not enough. Real democracy is built through organized civic power between elections.

Sharon Kyle

Six Points to Navigate the Turmoil in Iran

While the current protests are largely driven by a record-high Rial to USD exchange and a 60 percent food inflation rate, the transition from labor strikes in South Pars to coordinated urban violence points towards a deeper level of intervention.

Vijay Prashad

Where Will We Stand? What World Do We Want To Live In?

Now is a good time to choose what you believe. Are we here to tend the webs of connection, to care for one another and our beautiful earth, as the core of not only indigenous but every major religion would tell us? Or are we here to maximize our material gain and destroy all...

Starhawk

“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days

Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on January 23.

Amie Stager & Sarah Lazare

Only the Iranian People Should Determine Their Nation's Future

It’s virtually impossible to predict what lies ahead for Iran and its people. But if President Donald Trump decides to take military action against Iran’s current regime, nothing good will come out of it.

C.J. Polychroniou

Organize! Yes, but How?

When the wild times we’re living through demand strong social movements, Sweden’s multitude of movements are in a lousy shape. The same goes for the Swedish union movement. The problem isn’t “all talk and no action.” There’s barely even any talk about organizing, and very few...

Rasmus Hästbacka

Zohran Needs to Create Popular Assemblies

If Zohran Mamdani is serious about delivering on his promises, he needs more than policies — he needs institutions that empower working people. Popular assemblies offer a way to build a new, bottom-up political culture in New York City.

Gabriel Hetland, Bhaskar Sunkara

Mayor Mamdani Proves Progress Does Not Need to Be Slow

Pundits and politicians mocked universal childcare as a socialist fantasy—now many of them are silent as it becomes a practical reality.

Qasim Rashid

The Loneliness of Being an Iranian in the Diaspora

I sit with the reality that I have no idea what Iranians really want. I don’t know what they go through day to day. I haven’t been on the ground. I haven’t spoken to them.

Elaheh Farmand

Imperialism and Christian Nationalism Are Among History's Deadliest Forms of Collectivism

We've been trained to recognize collectivism only when it wears a hammer and sickle, but by branding American empire and Christian nationalism as defenders of liberty rather than as collective projects, the propaganda renders today's most powerful authoritarian structures...

Tim Hjersted

Trump Declares War on Everyone

Trump has unleashed violence on America’s streets for much the same reason he has unleashed violence on Latin America and is planning to unleash it elsewhere: to display his own strength.

Robert Reich

Beyond the Border Wars: A Working-Class Approach to Immigration Reform

What would a genuinely humane immigration system actually look like? The answer is simpler than most politicians want to admit.

Tim Hjersted

Renee Good's Murder: a Rorschach Test About Defiance, Vulnerability, and Community

At the heart of this test lie two irreconcilable viewpoints: those who align themselves with armed agents and the task of protecting America from the “enemy within,” and those who embrace compassion for others. Between those with the guns, and those with the whistles.

Jordan Liz

How to Start a Revolution in 2026

Ordinary people can run society — but only if we build the structures to let them.

Roger Hallam

The Machinery of Terror

The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.

Chris Hedges

From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel Use the Same Violent Playbook

Renee Good, like many Palestinians before her, died because authoritarian forces decided she did not deserve to live, and because the entire legal and political structure exists to ensure those agents never face meaningful consequences for murder.

Ahmad Ibsais

Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators

ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.

Eric Blanc, Claire Sandberg, and Wes McEnany

More and More Americans Want to Abolish ICE

Even before the Minneapolis shooting, polls showed public support for dropping Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Martin Burns

The Pathology of Power: How America Learned to Love State Violence

The comments celebrating Renee Good's death reveal a psychological pattern familiar to anyone who has studied authoritarian movements: the sadistic pleasure derived from watching power crush the powerless. It's the same impulse that filled Roman coliseums and medieval...

Tim Hjersted

Footage From Phone of ICE Agent Who Shot and Killed Renee Good Released

New footage of ICE shooting in Minneapolis released, raising questions about officer's actions. Graphic content warning.

Brad Reed

'Reign of Terror': ICE Builds Appalling Record of Killings, Beatings, Kidnappings, and More

"We just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood, in the street," said US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "This is an agency that must be reined in."

Jake Johnson

Funded by Our Own Tax Dollars, American Fascism Is Here

In the face of fascistic terror, there are always people who crumble and people who refuse. Renee refused. She refused to look away. She refused to let the vulnerable face terror alone. And for that refusal, she was murdered.

Emese Ilyés

The Grand Illusion of Dying Empires

All empires, when they are dying, worship the idol of war. War will save the empire. War will resurrect past glory. War will teach an unruly world to obey. But those who bow down before the idol of war, blinded by hypermasculinity and hubris, are unaware that while idols...

Chris Hedges

ICE Is a Domestic Terror Threat

The agents who shot Renee Nicole Good shot her because they knew they could; they shot her because the Trump administration has specifically and purposely empowered law enforcement to act without impunity or care.

Jordan Liz

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Moral Stance Against the Vietnam War Offers Lessons on How to Fight for Peace

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. knew the political consequences of speaking out against the Vietnam War − and he did it anyway.

Hajar Yazdiha

The Renewable Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable

By every measure, shifting from fossil fuels to electrification, renewables, and energy efficiency and conservation is far more beneficial to most people than following the same fossil-fueled road.

David Suzuki

Why the Solar Panel Is the 21st-Century Peace Sign

Every one that goes up incrementally reduces the attractiveness of the oil that underlies so much conflict and tyranny, including Trump's latest attack on Venezuela.

Bill Mckibben

Trumpian Colonialism Is Not Freedom

Venezuela was not liberated. Overnight, it became a US-occupied colony whose lands and resources will be stolen and exploited; whose people will be subjugated to a hostile foreign power; and whose future will remain uncertain.

Jordan Liz

In 'Unhinged' Rant, Miller Says US Has Right to Take Over Any Country for Its Resources

Democratic lawmaker slams Stephen Miller's diatribe on US imperialism in Venezuela and Greenland. Miller claims US will secure resources unapologetically. Sanders calls out administration's priorities.

Julia Conley

After Claiming Maduro Was Its Kingpin, DOJ Now Admits in Court That 'Cartel De Los Soles' Isn't a Real Group

“They’ve been pretending that this made-up thing was real for a year. But now that they’d have to actually demonstrate its existence in court, they’re going to cram it down the memory hole.”

Stephen Prager

'Terrorists in Imperial Uniform': US Forces Kill 32 Cubans During Venezuela Invasion

What Trump administration officials called a "law enforcement operation" should, in fact, "be called a massacre," said one critic.

Brett Wilkins

America the Rogue State

The evisceration of the rule of law at home and abroad solidifies America as a rogue state.

Chris Hedges

My Briefing to the UN Security Council Regarding US Aggression Against Venezuela

The issue before the Council is whether any Member State—by force, coercion, or economic strangulation—has the right to determine Venezuela’s political future or to exercise control over its affairs.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

US Attack on Venezuela Highlights Our Oil Addiction

The first step in recovering from addiction is to tell the truth—admit the addiction, acknowledge its consequences. Yet this is something we still seem unwilling to do with our addiction to oil. Addicts would rather stay high than confront their addiction and commit to recovery.

Rick Steiner

The Time for an Anti-Imperialist Labor Movement Is Now

Labor can’t claim to be on the side of workers while remaining neutral on the question of imperialism.

James Dennis Hoff

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