“It does not matter if the fear is justified, the fear is real. Women who may never contract Ebola are nevertheless dying because fear, misinformation and an already battered health system have made ordinary pregnancy care inaccessible or untrustworthy.” www.sfgate.com/news/world/a...

More pregnant women are dying in Congo as they avoid hospitals over Ebola

Some pregnant women in eastern Congo are avoiding hospitals over fears of a rapidly growing Ebola outbreak, and more of them are dying around childbirth. Congo's already high maternal mortality rates....

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…one’s personal morality is no substitute for shared solidarity. Solidarity is the recognition of our interdependence. It is the understanding that our fates are bound together; that the conditions of my life are shaped by the conditions of yours. classautonomy.info/moral-imperi...

Moral Imperialism vs. Class Solidarity

Individualism and imperialism define ruling class morality. Solidarity is the left’s only answer. Cover: New IWW seal for 2026, via Grace Blakeley ||In his masterful history of capitalism, Sv…

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We owe the dead from the AIDS epidemic more than remembrance. We owe them resistance. We owe them a world where science serves humanity…and where no child dies because fanatics and grifters convinced their parents to fear a vaccine more than a virus. www.advocate.com/opinion/meas...

The people who called AIDS God’s punishment for gays are helping measles make a comeback

Opinion: Conservative and religious communities that enable the spread of preventible diseases could learn a lot from the queer people they vilified during the AIDS crisis, writes Josh Ackley.

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“I keep coming back to something the late physician and revolutionary Paul Farmer spent his life trying to teach us: pandemics are not “natural disasters.” Viruses may be natural, but mass death is political.” www.statnews.com/2026/07/20/p...

It’s time to treat pandemics as threats to national security

“Pandemics should be viewed and combated as threats to national security,” write David Blumenthal and James A. Morone.

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“The communist invasion of America remains just over the horizon—right after Bigfoot joins ANTIFA, Elvis returns to lead the Politburo, and Havana develops a superweapon capable of defeating the Pentagon using rolling blackouts and vintage 1957 Chevrolets.” www.state.gov/wp-content/u...

The most powerful weapon of the ruling class has never been the police baton, the prison cell, or the soldier’s rifle. Its greatest weapon is its ability to shape what ordinary people believe is normal, possible, and inevitable. www.rsn.org/001/oligarch...

Oligarchy and the Media

<blockquote><br /><strong><em>Can the takeover be stopped?</strong></em></blockquote><br /><p><dropcap>G</dropcap>ood news. The second...

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“If you are sitting on the toilet right now and have been for the past few days, stinking up your bathroom, and pretty much wrecking your day or week or several weeks, you can give some of the blame for this to the Trump administration.“ www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/07/15/h...

How ICE deportation quotas can put a parasite in the food supply

ICE and other federal agents occupy a field during the July 10, 2025, immigration raid at Glass House Farms in Camarillo, California. Farmworker Jaime Alanís Ga

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“Mississippi is not just another Southern state. It is…soaked with the blood of generations of Black people who were enslaved, terrorized, and lynched...That history cannot simply be walled off in a museum. The (Nolan) Wells family deserves facts, not intimidation.” www.theroot.com/hate-for-nol...

Western Sahara is not an empty desert waiting to be discovered by filmmakers. It is a country whose people continue to fight for their freedom….They deserve our solidarity—and our refusal to let colonialism masquerade as entertainment. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat

The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment, helps erase our own brutal journey

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“‘Michigan does not have a death penalty. But at Huron Valley, women, families and advocates who refer to the prison as “the valley of death” are asking whether the state has created something else: a prison where a sentence can become a health crisis…”’ 19thnews.org/2026/06/mich...

She’s 11 months from possible parole. Krystal Clark fears she won’t survive to see it.

After three women died in less than a month at Michigan’s only women's prison, Krystal Clark fears she could be next.

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Why am I posting an article about the perception of safety/not with autonomous driving vehicles? Well, what if in the article below we substituted socialism or communism for a driverless vehicle? Suppose ”ordinary Americans” went to Cuba with Venceramous Brigades. www.noemamag.com/why-we-deman...

Why We Demand Perfect Machines Yet Tolerate Human Carnage | NOEMA

The illusion that we are all somehow above-average drivers is quietly slowing the adoption of autonomous vehicles that could save tens of thousands of lives each year.

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Malcolm X reminded us that freedom must be won “by any means necessary.” We cannot march in circles one weekend and return to business as usual on Monday while the planet burns. The heat is rising. The question is whether our courage will rise with it. countercurrents.org/2026/07/extr...

The future isn’t just something we fight for. It is something we begin living today. That is the secret fascists will never understand. People who are learning to be free throw much better parties than people who dream only of ruling others. inthesetimes.com/article/amer...

The best argument for the dignity of labor isn’t found in an economics textbook. It’s found on collection day.” —-Amy Common jacobin.com/2026/07/garb...

The Invisible Heart of Modern Life Is the Garbage Worker

The backbreaking toil of the sanitation worker is the work that makes all of human civilization possible.

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Since Zayd (whom I last saw when he was an infant)has made it public in his book, I now want to say: Farewell Bernardine, friend, comrade, and so much more…lost to haze Alzheimer’s…it hurts. We love you.

“This Fourth of July, while politicians wrap themselves in flags and the sky fills with fireworks over stolen land, I know where I stand. I stand with the people who never surrendered the Paha Sapa/Black Hills.” spiritofmandela.org/news-events/...

NATIONAL MOBILIZATION AGAINST GENOCIDES - JULY 4TH, 2026 - ATLANTA, GEORGIA — SPIRIT OF MANDELA — SPIRIT OF MANDELA COALITION

OPPOSE GENOCIDE & BUILD THE PEOPLES’ SENATE! July 4th, 2026 - Atlanta GA Although many "Americans" on July 4th, 2026, will wave flags and celebrate “bombs bursting in air” for the 250th anniversary o...

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UN REPORT ON EBOLA OUTBREAK We have to stop pretending that Ebola is simply a medical problem. Ebola is a political disease every bit as much as it is a biological one. The virus spreads through ecological disruption, but the disaster spreads through imperialism. www.undp.org/sites/g/file...

The future will not belong to those who dream of returning to an imagined past. It will belong to those who dismantle the structures of domination and create something the “good old days” never offered: genuine freedom, equality, and human dignity for all. blacklodges.substack.com/p/fascism-an...

Fascism and Fantasy

Nostalgia as Political Weapon

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We have been forced to listen to the “Cuban exiles“ for decades. ”This white Cuban scum is still a very irritating element amid continued U.S. attacks against the Cuban people. We couldn’t be more tired of these low life roaches.“ www.abetterworld.me/blog/exposin...

Exposing the Anti-Cuban Revolution Scum in Florida

We are so sick of these tired people.  That feeling isn’t a new one.  In 1964, after Ernesto “Che” Guevara gave his historic “Not One, but Two, Three Vietnams!” against U.S. imperialism...

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Again and again, the defense attorneys asked the cooperating prosecution witnesses if they or their friends were part of an organized group called Antifa; again and again, under oath, the witnesses responded, “No...” Yet those convicted now face decades in prison thebaffler.com/salvos/the-i...

The Invention of Antifa | Lauren Fadiman

The Justice Department wants to prosecute “Antifa” members for domestic terrorism. The only problem? The Antifa they describe doesn’t really exist.

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… the Justice Department hailed the case as “the first sentencing of defendants affiliated with Antifa following President Donald J. Trump’s executive order designating the group as a Domestic Terrorist Organization in September 2025…” theintercept.com/2026/06/23/p...

Prairieland Defendant Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Moving a Box of Antifascist Zines

Anti-ICE activists received lengthy prison terms — including a 100-year sentence — in the first major trial of the NSPM-7 era.

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If they had succeeded, moral questions would fade into the hazy background of so much historical contingency. But if the Weather Underground failed, we should ask: compared to what… lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...

A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books

Did the Weather Underground have a point?

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The Ebola virus is not simply a biological phenomenon. It is also a political one. The ugly hierarchy of human value is one of the enduring legacies of colonialism. In fact, the USA actually make use of the disease to advance Empire and class interests. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The Ebola epidemic in the Congo: Nearly 1 month since the declaration of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern

Nearly one month since the declaration of a public health emergency of international concern, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has issued a bleak assessment of the outbreak.

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Having lost much of their old political purpose, Loyalists in Belfast have evolved into little more than criminal enterprises draped in flags, infused with racism, and increasingly influenced by the language and methods of the international fascist movement. www.thehandbasket.co/p/elon-musk-...

Elon Musk alone isn’t responsible for Belfast's racist pogrom

The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.

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The question raised by quartz countertops is the same question raised by every toxic industry: How many workers must suffer before profit loses its veto power over human survival capitalandmain.com/california-c...

California Could Be the First State to Ban Quartz Countertops

A governor-appointed state board weighs whether to ban the use of engineered stone to protect workers from a deadly lung disease.

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“The eventual dismissal in court or quiet non-indictment by a grand jury is just paperwork stapled to the end of a campaign of brutal intimidation that already did exactly what it was built to do.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Rule #1 in the Dictator’s Playbook: Crush One to Warn a Thousand

Earlier this week, a Cable TV host did an extended rant about how many cases Trump has lost in court, arguing that “these guys are really bad at what they do” or words to that effect. I beg to differ…

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“In 1806, 30 years after he inspired the taxed-but-not-represented colonial subjects of King George III to rise up against “tyrannical monarchy”…Thomas Paine was barred from voting in the last American midterm election of his revolutionary life.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Tom Paine’s Fight

The pamphleteer’s insistence that America live up to its revolutionary vows still rings true 250 years later.

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The tragedy of Cuba…is that generations of Cubans have been forced to devote so much of their energy simply to surviving an economic war imposed from outside while simultaneously confronting the internal challenges that every revolutionary process eventually faces. sfbayview.com/2026/05/lies...

Lies, economic strangulation and genocide: The US vs. Cuba

Cuba has always defended the need for international relations based on sovereign equality, dialogue and cooperation, rather than hegemonic doctrines or threats of force. The peoples of Latin America a...

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The same mentality that cages migrants cages animals. The same mentality that burns forests bombs cities. The same mentality that justifies ethnic cleansing justifies ecocide. We save one another—or we don’t. globalextremism.org/post/the-sec...

The Second Annual European Ethnic Cleansing Conference Looks to Trump for Inspiration

The second annual Remigration Summit in Portugal highlighted the growing mainstreaming of "remigration," a white nationalist policy agenda that calls for the mass removal of immigrants and minorities....

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“…periods of growing political violence are often moments when people face a choice. They can retreat into private life and hope the storm passes. Or they can begin building the kinds of democratic institutions and human relationships capable of weathering it…” globalextremism.org/post/america...

Americans have significant fears about voting

A new national survey by GPAHE reveals a troubling picture of American democracy in 2026, showing that Americans feel deeply concerned about political violence, election security, and threats at polli...

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