Life on the Ground in Venezuela After Maduro’s Abduction — Interview With a Venezuelan Socialist

"Under Chávez, chavismo was an attempt to build a kind of socialism in an alliance with capitalists — so nothing came of it. Under Maduro, it degenerated into a very repressive system. The Right has no ideas besides even worse colonialism. Thus the only social force capable...

Nathaniel Flakin and Milton D'León

The Horror of Trump's Press Conference From a Venezuelan Perspective

This moment demands political maturity. You can oppose Maduro and still oppose US aggression. You can want change and still reject foreign control. You can be angry, desperate, or hopeful, and still say no to being governed by another country.

Michelle Ellner

Emergency Declaration: We Condemn the Imperialist Attack by the U.S. Against Venezuela and the Kidnapping of Maduro

The CPR-FI categorically and vehemently condemns the military attack perpetrated by the United States against Venezuela. This is direct, deliberate, and criminal imperialist aggression against an oppressed country and constitutes a flagrant violation of Venezuelan...

Current for Permanent Revolution - Fourth International (CPR-FI)

Building “Mass Governance” in Zohran Mamdani’s New York City

Zohran Mamdani is now mayor of New York City, and the Left’s old ways of relating to elected officials won’t cut it. We need a “mass governance” approach.

Sumathy Kumar and Gianpaolo Baiocchi

A New Year of Empire

With its violent military intervention into Venezuela – a country I used to live in – the U.S. has begun this year with entitled and undisguised imperialism.

Tamara Pearson

8 New Years Resolution Ideas for NPR

There is so much that National Public Radio could do to make itself better and raise the expectations of its listening audience.

Ralph Nader

After Venezuela Assault, Trump and Rubio Warn Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia Could Be Next

"The 'Trump corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine—applied in recent hours with violent force over the skies of Caracas—is the single greatest threat to peace and prosperity that the Americas confront today," said Progressive International.

Jake Johnson

This Is a Blatant Illegal Act of War Against Venezuela by Trump

This war also does not reflect the will of the people. Nearly 70% of Americans oppose another war and reject the endless cycle of military interventions carried out in their name.

Medea Benjamin

There Is Often No Clear Demarcation Between “Legal” and “Illegal” Immigration.

It’s far easier to end up on the wrong end of the spectrum than you might think.

Rachel Rutter

Breaking the Sound Barrier

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan have written a weekly column for nearly two decades. This is their final dispatch, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities in people-centered journalism.

Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

10 Crucial Things You Can Do to Take on Trump in 2026

Trump, his sycophants, and the billionaires behind him know that with the coming midterm elections, 2026 could be their last unconstrained chance to suppress democracy and siphon off America’s wealth for themselves. So, what can you do?

Robert Reich

10 Good Things That Happened in 2025

I hope you can look back on 2025 as the year movements for peace and justice freed political prisoners, slowed the war machine, and helped turn the public against endless wars.

Medea Benjamin

WWNS? (What Would Noam Say?): I Lean Into Noam Chomsky's Words of Wisdom as the Storm Rages

May his 97th birthday bring him peace.

Bev Stohl

Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025

In Texas, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and beyond, grassroots resistance to ICE is growing.

Sonali Kolhatkar

A Moment of Hope in Gaza

On Thursday, December 25th, 2025, during Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, 168 students graduated from medical school, in Gaza. Wearing their white coats, they stood in front of the ruined façade of what was formerly Gaza’s largest hospital, the Al-Shifa Medical...

Kathy Kelly

Chomsky Reassessed?

Knowing him for over half a century, I am confident that Noam’s hate for sexism, misogyny, racism, exploitation and fascism didn’t lose even a tiny fraction of its passion and clarity due to his “time spent with” Epstein and/or Bannon.

Michael Albert

From Powell to Venezuela: The High Cost of Evidence-Free Escalation

We are witnessing the reemergence of a dangerous repetition: one where the pattern of assertion becomes the prelude to action, and where action can lead to irreversible consequences.

Angel Gomez

If Jesus Were Born Today, Would He Survive the American Police State?

If Jesus were born in modern America, under a government obsessed with surveillance, crackdowns on undocumented immigrants, religious nationalism, and absolute obedience to a head-of-state rather than the rule of law, would his message of peace, mercy, and resistance to...

John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead

Trump Isn’t Planning to Invade Venezuela. He’s Planning Something Worse

Rather than launching a military invasion that would provoke public backlash and congressional scrutiny, Trump is doubling down on something more insidious.

Michelle Ellner

The Story of Christmas Is About the Poor Overcoming the Powerful

In Jesus’ own words, Christianity is a faith where the first shall be last and the last shall be first. It is meant not for the rich, the satisfied, and the powerful. Rather it is first intended for the poor, the hungry, the downtrodden, and the rejected.

James Zogby

Can We Cure Ourselves of the Deadly Viruses of Greed and Militarism?

The sicknesses that caused the Iraq War and the Wall Street crash are alive and well in American society, mutating from administration to administration.

Jeff Vogel

'Beyond Dehumanizing': ICE Docs Expose Plan to Hold 80,000 People in Warehouses

The proposal does not treat detainees “as people but just things to be warehoused like Amazon packages,” said one critic.

Julia Conley

What Christmas Once Meant—and What It Could Mean Again for a Divided America

Christmas, once a time to gather, reflect, and renew our obligations to one another, and the social rituals that once cultivated empathy and reinforced civic responsibility, have been reduced to a spectacle of distraction, dead trees, credit card receipts, and gift wrapping.

Martina Moneke

LA Teachers Union: No Endorsements for Genocide Enablers

“Politicians should not be rewarded for enabling a genocide nor in perpetuating Israel's periodic bombing attacks on Palestinians.”

Marcy Winograd

Can a New 'New Deal' Wipe Out Corporate Control of the Democratic Party?

The exploding popularity of progressive politicians and the policies they embrace is not an anomaly. It's a signpost.

Thom Hartmann

Who’s the Real Criminal at Sea? Trump’s Tanker Grab vs. the Houthis’ Anti-Genocide Blockade

How can Washington claim the right to seize or blow up vessels, disrupt maritime trade, and kill civilian boaters—while bombing Yemen and condemning its de facto Houthi government for intercepting ships in the Red Sea to counter Israel’s genocide in Gaza?

Medea Benjamin

Chomsky and Epstein: What the Evidence Actually Shows

The recent release of emails and photos revealing new details about Noam Chomsky's relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has sparked controversy across the political spectrum.

Tim Hjersted

A Possible Strategy for Stopping War on Venezuela

Critics of state violence become most dangerous when they directly jeopardize the state’s capacity to inflict violence. The most common and tangible way that happens is when soldiers refuse to kill.

Kevin Young

For People of Color, Citizenship Offers No Protection Against ICE’s Techno Terrorism

The only thing that definitively clears suspicion for ICE is biometric identification. The presumption is that people may lie, documents may be forged, but biometric scans are objective and certain. People are guilty until an algorithm proves them innocent.

Jordan Liz

Tools for Growing the Commons

The true strength lies in the careful combination of these tools into multi-layered, living systems—creating the conditions not just for protection, but for long-term flourishing.

Michel Rauchs

A Letter to Liberals: On Lesser Evils and the Courage to Demand Better

We hear it constantly: "You're too harsh on Democrats. You're helping Republicans by criticizing our side. Now is not the time—we need unity against the rising threat of fascism."

Tim Hjersted

Authoritarianism Feeds on a Bloated Military Budget

Squeezed domestic spending and extravagant military spending have widened inequality, with dire consequences for democracy.

Catherine Lutz

A Letter to Conservatives: On Power, Principles, and the Path Forward

Our ask isn't that you become a progressive. It's for both loyal Democrats and loyal Republicans to stop defending their party uncritically and to challenge the rot in both parties, especially the one they think will be more responsive to their opposition.

Tim Hjersted

Trump's Cruel Immigration Policy Is Devastating Children

If you care about children; if you say you’re “pro-life;” if you consider yourself a good or moral person, you should care about how the US treats all children.

Rachel Rutter

Mark Kelly Is Right: Military Members Have the Power to Resist What They Know Is Wrong

When military members have claimed such power and refused blind military obedience—during the Vietnam War and the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq—it has had a significant impact on this country’s politics and policies, as well as on individual lives.

Nan Levinson

Lawless Strikes Off Venezuela Threaten Justice at Home

We are drifting from a system based on legal principles to one in which the will of a single leader determines who is guilty and who is innocent, and who lives and who dies.

Brian Garvey

Extrajudicial Killings From Barack Obama to Donald Trump

If Obama could kill a 16-year-old American boy without accountability, why wouldn’t Trump believe he has the same power to snuff out the lives of civilians with no due process?

Medea Benjamin

Trump Declares Fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction as His 'Lawless Killing Spree' Escalates

One expert said the Trump White House is "replaying the Bush administration's greatest hits as farce."

Jake Johnson

Winning in Places Where the Democratic Party Is Dead

The door is wide open to try something new.

Les Leopold

We're Making 'Tax the Rich' More Than a Slogan

Taxing the rich should bring a smile to your face. It certainly brings one to mine.

Max Page

A National Network of Activists Pursuing “People’s Budgets” Gains Prominence

Across the country campaigns that meld community budget goals with participatory democratic practices have gained ground. Seattle and Nashville offer two examples.

Celina Su

American Socialists Aren’t Tired of Winning

More than 100 democratic socialist elected officials, staffers, and organizers from across the US met in New Orleans for the How We Win conference last weekend. The gathering demonstrated American socialists’ growing influence and confidence.

Branko Marcetic

Israel's Colonial Aims Are the Main Barrier to Lasting Peace

What if Gaza agrees to surrender its weapons? Will Israel leave the Palestinians alone? Will the prospects of a just peace and Palestinian freedom increase exponentially?

Ramzy Baroud

You Could Be on Trump's Enemies List, but the Mainstream Media Won't Warn You

A new Department of Justice memo is another giant step towards authoritarianism; however, establishment media didn’t see it that way.

Jim Naureckas

ICE Raids Against Farmworkers Expose the Pretense of Border Security

When the state hunts its most essential—and most exploited—workers to meet deportation quotas, the myth of border security collapses.

Julia Norman

Autopsy Results: Why the Democrats Lost in 2024—And How to Start Winning Again

Without a full and honest accounting of the Harris campaign and the Democratic Party’s myriad failures, there can be little realistic hope of defeating Trumpist authoritarianism in the future.

Christopher D. Cook

The Lies Americans Tell Themselves to Justify State Violence Against Migrants

I posted a photo of Border Patrol agents pinning a man to the ground in a headlock – and the internet made up every excuse in the book to defend the assault.

Scott Hechinger

When Cheering for Murder Is Disguised as Patriotism

To revel in the image of human beings being blown apart is to confess a kind of moral numbness that civilizations acquire only in their final stages of decay.

Tim Hjersted

Trump’s Empire of Hubris and Thuggery

The president's latest National Security Strategy memorandum treats the freedom to coerce others as the essence of US sovereignty. It is an ominous document that will—if allowed to stand—come back to haunt the United States.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

You Know How to Whistle, Don't You?

Resistance to ICE and the Trump regime gets creative…drawing on protest traditions from around the world, and starting some new ones.

Jennifer Thomas

Asking the Right Questions When Lawless US Officials Go on a Murder Spree

Declaring unilaterally that a war exists (when it doesn't) and then bombing unarmed civilian boats in international waters is inherently illegal, regardless of whether anyone is killed by the first, second, or tenth bomb. That’s an act of piracy and murder, not a legal use of...

Phyllis Bennis and Khury Petersen-Smith

Those Cheering These Killings are Not Defending Civilization—They Are Dismantling It

The moment we allow governments to kill without trial, we step out of the rule of law and into barbarism.

Tim Hjersted

Stop Trump's Murder Spree and We Could Also Stop a War With Venezuela

Under international law, executing people outside a genuine armed conflict is an extrajudicial killing. Nothing about these strikes meets the legal threshold for war. But if we don't hold the president to account, a war is exactly what we may get.

Michelle Ellner

How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible: A 10-Year Timeline

Saving the country from autocracy requires recognizing—and then overcoming—the chokehold that Democratic leaders have on the party.

Norman Solomon

People Aren’t Being “Replaced” — They’re Being Distracted From Who Actually Robbed Them

“Invasion” and “replacement” narratives function as cover stories for the corporate plunder of the working class, turning justified anger away from elites and toward scapegoats.

Tim Hjersted

Bernie’s Advice to His Fellow Elected Socialists

Over the weekend, Bernie Sanders spoke to a gathering of over a hundred democratic socialist elected officials. Here’s what he said.

Bernie Sanders

What Is Libertarian Socialism?

Libertarian socialism is a political tradition that argues real freedom requires both personal liberty and democratic control over the economic institutions that shape our lives.

Tim Hjersted

The Real Ideology Behind Reason Magazine's Anti-Socialist Crusade

Reason Magazine presents itself as a courageous outsider “pushing back against socialism,” but its real and consistent function is far more familiar: it operates as an ideological shield for concentrated private power while marketing itself as anti-authoritarian.

Tim Hjersted

Stupidity at a Scale Beyond Comprehension

Militarism must be exposed for what it is: savage, medieval madness.

Matthew Cooke

What the ‘Men in Crisis’ Narrative Hides About Power, Capital, and Discontent

Steve Rose's framing of Scott Galloway as a kind of enlightened guide to “the crisis of men” is a useful illustration of how contemporary media systems manage dissent.

Tim Hjersted

A Society Built on Scapegoats Will Always Destroy Itself

If we’re serious about understanding what makes a society flourish - or disintegrate - history offers plenty of lessons. The idea that hatred, exclusion, and authoritarian nationalism could lead to “greatness” is not only unsupported by the historical record - it is...

Tim Hjersted

Unpacking the Dangerous Myth of 'Narco-Terrorism'

Framing “Operation Southern Spear” as a battle against “narco-terrorists” is a desperate attempt to commit new violence using old excuses, one which ignores the security state’s history of creating its own enemies.

Brett Heinz

Report Shows How Recycling Is Largely a 'Toxic Lie' Pushed by Plastics Industry

"These corporations and their partners continue to sell the public a comforting lie to hide the hard truth: that we simply have to stop producing so much plastic," said one campaigner.

Brett Wilkins

The Crisis Is Real, but the Story Is Wrong: What Scott Galloway Misses About Men, Power, and Society

Galloway describes real symptoms facing young men, but his analysis leaves the political economy that produced those symptoms out of view. To understand the crisis, we have to step outside the self-help narrative and confront the system that created these conditions in the...

Tim Hjersted

Public Grocery Stores Don't Lead to Monopolies — They’re a New Choice in a Rigged Market

Critics say a public grocery program would limit consumer freedom, but unlike corporate monopolies, it expands it by adding competition, giving shoppers another choice and pushing private retailers to keep prices in check.

Tim Hjersted

Democrats in Congress Are Out of Touch With Constituents on Israeli Genocide

The political issue of complicity with genocide will not go away. And that's a good thing.

Norman Solomon

How Public Groceries Can Make Food Affordable Again

Errol Schweizer, a former national vice president of grocery at Whole Foods, argues in Jacobin that the private sector is responsible for ever-rising grocery prices and can’t be relied on to fix the problem. Our food system needs a public option.

Errol Schweizer

How DSA Is Building Municipal Socialism in the Nation’s Largest City

A look inside the strategy, structure, and mass organizing powering the Left’s most ambitious municipal project in America.

Grace Mausser

The Case for a Planetary Identity in an Age of Collapse

A cosmic identity begins with the understanding that humanity is a single species — sharing not only a common biology and evolutionary history, but a shared capacity for consciousness, suffering, and ethical responsibility. It invites us to situate ourselves not as members of...

Tim Hjersted

How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"

We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.

Robert Reich

Climate and the Revival of Political Hope

A transformation of climate politics will come when the majority on the margins becomes a self-aware political force. The approach sketched here—combining adaptation, emotionally literate education, and campaigns that awaken collective efficacy—offers practical, hopeful steps...

Liam Kavanagh

How the Left-Right Divide is Weaponized By Elites to Maintain the Dominant Order

To declare oneself “left” or “right” is to join a moral tribe, often in association with political parties, seeking community and order. The cost is critical independence and intelligence.

Peter Joseph

American Decline in the Fossil Fuel Age

By the time Donald Trump leaves office in 2029, this country will be distinctly on the imperial decline. By discouraging alternative energy and encouraging fossil fuels, President Trump is undercutting America’s economic competitiveness in the most fundamental way imaginable.

Alfred W. Mccoy

Giving Thanks on an Endangered Earth

So many of us are now searching for a bridge to the world we need. I'm thankful that we're searching together and for the possibilities we may find.

Erika Spanger

The Dark Side of Gratitude: When Thankfulness Becomes a Tool of Control

Gratitude is celebrated as a virtue, but coerced thankfulness can reinforce inequality, stifle emotions, and keep us complacent.

Martina Moneke

How Compassion Becomes a Wrench in the Machinery of Extremism

“So you’re saying we should just be nice to fascists.”

Tim Hjersted

An Introduction to Integral: A Federated, Post-Monetary Cooperative Economy

In this article, Peter Joseph presents Integral—a cooperative economy designed to replace both markets and top-down state control with an architecture of open design, time-based reciprocity, and democratic coordination, starting with small mutual-aid projects at the...

Peter Joseph

Trump 2.0 Exposed the Rot at the Top; Now We Must Work to Fix It

Playing the long game requires that the rest of us learn from this revolting era—learn why the wealthy and powerful must be constrained, and learn how to constrain them.

Robert Reich

This Thanksgiving, Let’s Feed Families, Not Factory Farms

Nearly 70% of the grain grown in this country—corn, soy, wheat, and barley—never feeds a single human being. Instead, it’s fed to pigs, chickens, and cows packed into industrial animal factories.

Matthew Dominguez

Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Hot Tub of Death

When a mega-billionaire carps that a “doomsday outlook” is harming the climate movement, it's important to say many things in response, including this: he's dead wrong.

Juan Cole

Why Trump Tried Tariffs: The Turn to Nationalist Capitalism

Trump's trade policies are an admission of capitalism's failures. Perhaps finally enough people have learned the lessons of the past so that we can build an economy that works for working people.

Richard Wolff

NSPM-7: A Blueprint for Silencing Progressive Movements

Directing state power against those who participate in movements for justice and equality undermines genuine efforts to confront all manifestations of bigotry and oppression while weakening democratic life.

Barry Trachtenberg

Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30

"The advance of the extreme right, fascism and wars around the world exacerbates the climate crisis and the exploitation of nature and of peoples. The countries of the global North, transnational corporations, and the ruling classes bear the main responsibility for these crises."

People's Summit Towards COP30

Eugene V. Debs, Defender of American Liberty

Released from jail on this day 130 years ago, the great socialist and labor leader delivered a speech we would do well to remember in these perilous times.

Jeffrey C. Isaac

Films For Action Reached 3 Million People Last Month Thanks to Our Patron Supporters

Friends, over the past month our posts on Facebook got over 10 million views and reached more than 3 million people — almost double the month before. That's all thanks to you.

Tim Hjersted

The 86 House Democrats Who Condemned Socialism Weren’t Defending Democracy—They Were Defending Concentrated Private Power

When 86 House Democrats—including party leader Hakeem Jeffries—join Republicans to “condemn the horrors of socialism,” you don’t need a political science degree to understand what’s happening.

Tim Hjersted

The Central Function of Race in America Has Been to Prevent Class Solidarity

From the very beginning of the American project, race has been the primary tool for dividing the population against itself.

Tim Hjersted

Schumer Democrats Can’t Stop Trump. Mamdani Democrats Can.

A week after Zohran Mamdani’s inspiring win, the Democratic Party’s centrist leadership proved its worthlessness in the Senate. The moderate party establishment is no match for Trumpism. It’s time to give Mamdani’s democratic socialism a chance.

Ben Burgis

What Is the Opposite of Fascism?

Fascism is not merely a set of authoritarian habits or unpleasant attitudes. It is a political arrangement designed to centralize power: the fusion of state authority with corporate interests; the suppression of dissent; the mobilization of nationalist mythology to bind the...

Tim Hjersted

Why Progressives Need to Be More Critical of Corporate Democrats, Not Less

A former supporter recently unfollowed Films For Action's Facebook page, which I admin, saying:

Tim Hjersted

Self-Determination, Not Goodwill, Will Decide the Global South’s Future

The Global South did not cause this crisis, but we are determined to define its solution. In Punjab, that solution begins with clean streets, safe water, affordable energy, and credible finance – all bound by one idea: the path out of climate despair runs through green...

Maryam Nawaz Sharif

Trump's Death Squad

A short history of the United States' long war on drugs in Latin America, with the president's kill zone expanding from the Caribbean waters off Venezuela to the Colombian and Peruvian coasts in the Pacific Ocean.

Greg Grandin

The Happiness Trap: Cultivating Contentment and Wonder as a Radical Path Forward

Forget chasing fleeting joy. The pursuit of happiness can leave us isolated, but cultivating contentment and wonder builds resilience, deepens connection, and makes life more enduring.

Martina Moneke

How to Defeat Concentrated Private Power: A Practical Guide to Chris Hedges’ Prescription for Change

To defeat the rise of authoritarianism, Chris Hedges has called for mass movements, strikes and counter‑institutions to challenge corporate rule and revive democracy. This guide breaks down his suggestions into actionable steps.

Tim Hjersted

Films For Action Wants Your Feedback: A Note for Friends and Critics

Dear friends and critics, I care a lot about what our supporters think. I read most of the comments on our Facebook posts and I try to take in as many as I can.

Tim Hjersted

Trump’s Greatest Ally Is the Democratic Party

The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be swept aside.

Chris Hedges

America Is a Banana Republic

El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.

Chris Hedges

Community-Driven Catalysts for Degrowth

By embedding degrowth principles in local, everyday practice, "Kreisler" associations offer a vision for urban provisioning beyond extraction and individualism and toward a communal, crisis-resilient future.

Cléo Mieulet

Mamdani's Win Is Proof That an Organized Public Can Defeat Organized Money

Zohran Mamdani’s election in New York City is not simply a local upset. It is a breach in the ideological dam that has kept American politics safely contained for generations.

Tim Hjersted

Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals Are Surprisingly Affordable

It would be nice if all revolutions came this cheap.

Richard Eskow

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