This is war — Let’s turn the tide for legal abortion
Needed: massive anger forged into multi-racial, working-class, united feminist action.
Black farmers battle systemic land theft
An exposé of the U.S. government’s century of racist actions against farmers of color.
Gender-choice passport victory
The U.S. joins other countries that offer a third gender option on official documents — a good step in a larger battle.
Privatizing Medicare: A bipartisan stealth attack
Medicare money comes out of workers’ paychecks and funds healthcare for elders and poor people of all ages. Beware of “Medicare Advantage” and REACH! They tell massive lies.
Let Ukraine and the world live in peace
No to Putin and no to Biden! Afghan radicals, themselves victims of U.S., NATO and Russian destruction, call for a global united front against all imperialist warmongers.
What’s next for a planet on the precipice?
The new UN climate report is compelling and chilling. But how can we win implementation of the necessary solutions?
White House accuses Russia of war crimes: Takes one to know one
This account of U.S. warfare tactics and the UN International Criminal Court’s uselessness tells the tale.
US Congress ruthlessly slashes Covid funding
U.S. politicians and big business have made it clear. Their money is for war, not healthcare.
Academics fortify boycott of Israel
Good news! The US Middle East Studies Association has voted to support BDS and join other scholars refusing to collaborate with Israel‘s brutish military occupation.
Labor fightback news
Fired tortilla chip makers in Chicago demand jobs back; rising costs fuel a teacher strike in North Macedonia; young mechanics organize in Portland, Oregon.
Interiority, hey?
Poet Nellie Wong — Chinese, American, socialist, feminist, revolutionary. Her interiority is vast and fascinating, timely and in motion.
Rare footage spotlights 1969 Harlem music festival
The film “Summer of Soul” captures the Black music and political spirit of concert-goers in 1969’s protests against racism and the war in Vietnam.
Release Melissa Lucio
Wrongly sentenced to death in Texas, Latina Melissa Lucio needs help fighting the legal system. Visit freemelisslucia.org.
One Guatemalan woman’s saga of exile
Originally published in 2012, this moving story of an undocumented mother’s harsh life and fightback in the U.S. is deeply relevant here and now.
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June 2022 Letters to the editor
Views on two intrepid journalists — assassinated Palestinian-American Shereen Abu Akleh and imprisoned Julian Assange — and feedback from readers on recent articles in the Freedom Socialist.
End white supremacy and the system that breeds it
It's up to freedom-minded people to stand in solidarity with one another against murderous bigots coming out from under their rocks.
Stop the persecution of climate activists as terrorists
The U.S. is desperate to scare off bold activists, who are now called upon to defend each other in the courts and in the streets.