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The persecution of Mumia Abu-Jamal, MOVE members and all the radicals of four decades ago is not ancient history. It is the genesis of the present.
Chris Hedges
How Americans remember (and forget) their wars
John Dower
Why should you vote? Rapper Potent Whisper brings his perspective, in rhyme.
5 min
But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no reason to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves, like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose, they could blow the party to pieces tomorrow morning. ...
Joe Carpenter
As we resist Trump policies, try less fighting and speaking and doing to get “our” way and a lot more sitting and listening and questioning and being still.
Colin Beavan
Let’s Make History We Want to Remember is a collaborative video project about how immigrants have been targeted and scapegoated throughout US history, and a call to action to make a different kind of history.
4 min
Russia, Comey, Wikileaks - Nina Turner explains how democrats could have overcome these challenges, had they actually listened to their base.
20 min
The Facebook election battle is in full swing, the Bureau can reveal, with at least 68 different types of political adverts tailored to individual social media users being paid for by the three main parties in the last month.
The Bureau has been given access to the first...
Maeve McClenaghan
George Monbiot and Russell Brand analyse Theresa May’s recent appearance on BBC's The One Show, with her husband.
7 min
The British media recently castigated John McDonnell for admitting he had read Karl Marx. But there’s just one problem with that - he’s never been more relevant.
4 min
Several Conservatives have taken issue with Labour’s pledge to be ‘extremely cautious’ before using the nuclear deterrent. What sort of 1970s nonsense is that? If you’re going to be extremely cautious about dissolving millions of civilians in an apocalyptic firestorm, you...
5 min
'Giving workers a seat at the table and their fair share of the profits they help produce is one way to even up the playing field and give hardworking Americans a chance to create an economy that works for everyone'
Lauren McCauley
Most Americans don’t like Trump.
Musa Al-Gharbi
After 14 police force inquiries, it has been announced that no Conservative MPs will face prosecution over election expenses. That confirms something we already knew: that from Britain’s media, to its economy and politics - the system is rigged.
4 min
This reporter is strong but unstable.
4 min
Laura Poitras, Academy Award winning director of CITIZENFOUR, returns with her most personal and intimate film to date. Filmed over six years, RISK is a complex and volatile character study that collides with a high stakes election year and it’s controversial aftermath.
1 min
Senator Bernie Sanders unfiltered – in this AJ+ interview with Dena Takruri, he opens up about the Democratic Party, President Trump, Palestine and Syria.
10 min
'By rushing this bill through Congress, Republicans are creating a manufactured crisis that will devastate millions of families'
Lauren McCauley
John Harris and John Domokos start a five-week tour of the UK in the crucial battleground of south-west England.
From the Brexit heartlands of Cornwall to remain-voting Bristol, they try to answer 2017’s big question: how can such a divided, confused country even begin to...
11 min
This fantastic and entertaining documentary (full of biting satirical commentary) imagines what would happen if decades of neoliberal austerity in the UK was reversed by the democratic socialist programs of Jeremy Corbyn, who in an alternate timeline became the greatest Prime...
33 min
These are strange times in American politics. And stranger still is the emerging character of the Trump presidency. Events are appearing with growing frequency, raising the question who is really running the White House and the US government? Is Trump really the President?
Jack Rasmus
Here are 4 excellent articles about how to end police brutality and reform our broken criminal justice system. Together they offer a holistic and comprehensive approach that should get us well on our way towards the more just and egalitarian world we all long for. The key is...
Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister, resigned back in 2015 at the height of the crisis there. He has now written a book about the whole experience, Adults in the Room - and he spoke to Evan Davis about Brexit and the UK's general election.
6 min
We the People 2.0 describes the growing people’s revolt against destructive corporate activities in the US to stop toxic dumps, mines, drilling, etc. Communities are seizing back the right to say no through local lawmaking, outlawing oligarchy.
91 min
Reactionary right-wing politics are on the rise in the west, and events are moving at a dangerous pace. In the wake of Trump’s ascendency to the US presidency, a toxic mix of white nationalism, Islamophobia, transphobia, violent misogyny, and anti-migrant hysteria is rapidly...
31 min
Donald Trump. King of the horrifingly dumb and dangerously greedy.
Chris Hedges
Well that didn’t take much. After all the time and effort that those of us in the alternative media have been pouring into our attempts to show people that democracy does not exist in America, the political establishment has stepped forward and admitted it candidly with its...
Caitlin Johnstone
The biggest threat to authoritarianism is unity.
2 min
It has been 10 long years since Congress passed legislation to raise the minimum wage. It’s time to raise it for all Americans.
Bernie Sanders and Patty Murray
Last week, the Trump administration reportedly prepared an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department was seeking to put Assange in jail. Amy Goodman asked world-renowned linguist and dissident Noam...
5 min
The Trump administration is preparing to go after WikiLeaks, here is their response.
2 min
A discussion between Noam Chomsky, MIT's Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, and Amy Goodman, host of the award-winning independent news program Democracy Now!
80 min
Bernie Sanders says fight the billionaire class and DNC Chair Tom Perez refuses to say it; the Real News Network panel asks if/when Bernie should leave the party.
16 min
Paul Mason says the Daily Mail headline, calling those who oppose the government ‘saboteurs’, is sinister. He argues that this tactic is commonplace in dictatorships and autocracies, but to see it in a democracy is alarming. He says meaningful opposition to the Tories is...
2 min
With all the discussion of the contentious 2016 election, the most shocking fact is often ignored: that millions of people had their votes stolen through malicious means. The Republican Party is currently working to purge millions more voters leading up to the 2018...
27 min
President Trump says he wants to strip funding from so-called "sanctuary cities," but what exactly do these cities do?
6 min
The 2017 French Presidential election marks a profound change in European political alignments. There is an ongoing shift from the traditional left-right rivalry to opposition between globalization, in the form of the European Union (EU), and national sovereignty.
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Diana Johnstone
Discussions about racism require an understanding of how society, institutions, and culture perpetuate inequity. john a. powell frames these forces as “structural racialization,” or, in his words, “the set of practices, cultural norms, and institutional arrangements that are...
68 min
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Legendary African-American activist Angela Davis talks to Southbank Centre’s Artistic Director Jude Kelly CBE about women, race and class in the post-Trump era.
80 min
As we have entered a new century we face great crises both in society and in the natural world. Today we are not only still witnessing poverty, hunger and devastating wars: enormous environmental dislocations even threaten the stability of the planetary climate and vital...
Eirik Eiglad
The United States recently experienced its first wave of large-scale anti-immigration raids following the election of Donald Trump, who made the mass deportation of “illegal” immigrants a central part of his campaign. Although ICE officials claim that these raids targeted...
James C. Wilson
Mark Steel on Theresa May's snap general election.
5 min
A Retrospective on Social Upheaval in France, 2015-2017
Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective
For most of the last decade, I’ve been a reporter, covering stories on how technology is reshaping public life, from debates about God to protests in the streets. One thing I’ve noticed is that Internet culture has an odd way of using a really important word: democracy. When...
Nathan Schneider
National Democrats have used hyperbolic Russia-bashing to shield themselves from blame for Hillary Clinton’s defeat and to block progressives from pulling the party away from Wall Street, writes Norman Solomon.
Norman Solomon
The Democratic establishment and those in the media who support them keep making the same mistakes on Sanders and his movement.
Liam Miller
As an anarchist, as someone who believes neither in leaders nor the means by which we select them, I’m obviously at something of a disadvantage when it comes to making political endorsements of any kind. That said, I wasn’t born an anarchist.
Alan Moore
Steve Bannon is one of Trump's closest advisors. But he's also a filmmaker. And if you watch his movies closely, they reveal a unique vision for America's future.
8 min
Populism sure is getting bad reviews. All manner of evil is getting laid at its door: racism, xenophobia, authoritarianism, jingoism – and that’s just the start. The conventional view is that populism is an irrational and impatient response to modern dilemmas that are best...
Richard Swift
The “21 Theses,” dated July 2014 and published in November 2015, marked the birth of the Social Ecology Cooperative in Paris.
In May 2016 I had the opportunity to ask Patrick Farbiaz, one of its founders, what the cooperative meant by social ecology. He explained that it...
Janet Biehl and The Social Ecology Cooperative in Paris
Many anarchists oppose in principle such use of the political process for anarchist ends. It is unethical, they say, for anarchists to participate in the political process. Voting entails selecting a representative to exercise coercive force in our name; and appealing to such...
Kevin Carson
As I write, a million words are being typed on the same subject as quickly as fingers can slam downwards, in a quest to shovel something regarding Theresa May’s election plans onto front pages around the world within the next few minutes.
Rob Ray
Writer Elif Shafak argues that Turkey has declined into authoritarianism - and there are lessons to be learnt for the rest of the world. Viewsnight is BBC Newsnight's place for ideas and debate.
2 min
It's time to formulate an asymmetrical response. #StandDownMrTrump
8 min
Is the European Union Worth It Or Should We End It? This is the question posed in this video by Kurzgesagt, and at the end they present their conclusions.
8 min
Naomi Klein, the author of No Logo, on Trump's brand and how to jam it.
7 min
Is Donald Trump a postmodern president? In this opinion piece, journalist and writer Peter Pomerantsev argues that President Trump and President Putin share a disdain for facts - and that this is part of their appeal.
3 min
Full April 12, 2017 interview with Julian Assange on Democracy Now!, including a debate with investigative journalist Allan Nairn. -
45 min
The Kurds’ democratic resistance to ISIS demonstrates that anti-fascism cannot be separated from the wider struggle against capitalism, patriarchy and the state.
Dilar Dirik
Swallowing the lies – or ‘alternative facts’ – of populist politicians is having profound consequences. NJ Enfield takes a fresh look at a potent old tradition – and suggests a way forward.
NJ Enfield