Lead article: Middle East wars versus desire for freedom and peace

The genocidal undertone of anti-immigrant politics, from the U.S. to Iran and from India to Germany, reinforces the fact that Israel’s genocide in Gaza is not some outlandish exception. In the aftermath of Israel’s war on Iran and Iran’s rulers crackdown on their own people, the question arises: Is Israeli’s genocide in Gaza the signal of where this stage of world capitalism is heading if it is not stopped?

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Editorial: Make Americans ignorant? Not in our name!

From food safety to public health, from immigration to Black history to Israel’s war on Palestinians, the Trump administration is stripping access to important information. But every strategy to attack information and thought has generated new resistance.

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From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya
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From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: ‘True rebirth’ or wholesale revision of Marxism?

In this review of ‘Marxist Economic Theory’ by Ernest Mandel, Dunayevskaya criticizes Mandel’s denuding economic categories of their specifically capitalistic nature, and his distortion of Marx’s theory of crises.

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Guest Essay: The Pedagogical Crisis of Political Economy

Muhammad Adel Zaky argues that neoclassical economics aims to produce knowledge devoid of humanity, conflict, or memory. Schools and universities have become a theater of indoctrination. To liberate political economy and education from this prison is a civilizational emergency.

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Columns
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Handicap This! October 2025

Takes up: Opening of the Disability Cultural Center in San Francisco; ‘Everyone Is Good at Something’ by Indian photographer Vicky Roy; and new steps in the struggle for the rights of people with disabilities in Ireland.

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👀 Eyes on Education: Back to school

A view of the educational situation in several states of the U.S., from budget cuts and ideological repression to language discrimination and the introduction of AI in classrooms.

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Women WorldWide: September 2025

Takes up: proliferation of women’s “co-living spaces” in China; 51st anniversary of Studio D, the only publicly-funded feminist filmmaking studio in Canada; a march in Spain demanding worldwide abolition of reproductive surrogacy; and the Women Against the Far-Right campaign in Great Britain.

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Queer Notes: August 2025

Takes up: Flame Con comics convention in NYC; the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court ruling St. Lucia’s colonial-era anti-gay-sex laws unconstitutional; resistance against Trump’s anti-Transgender policies; United in Pride, a grassroots organization in Ottawa; and Graeme Reid renewed as the UN’s LGBTQ+ expert scholar and author.

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Women WorldWide: August 2025

Takes up: a demonstration in Lippstadt, Germany, against Evangelical Lippstadt Hospital’s decision to stop providing abortions; a Superior Court Justice in Ontario, Canada, finding five men not guilty of sexual assault; and police removing migrants, mostly women and children, from a makeshift encampment outside the City Hall in Paris, France.

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World in View: Sudan, from revolutionary upsurge to humanitarian crisis

People in Sudan are experiencing the worst cholera outbreak in years, as well as destroyed villages and rape as a weapon of war. The upsurge of Sudanese masses in 2019 showed an emancipatory pathway forward when they overthrew Omar al-Bashir’s 30-year dictatorship.

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World in View: El Salvador intensifies authoritarianism

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s iron-fisted rule swept tens of thousands into dungeons. The National Assembly changed the Constitution to allow unlimited re-election to the presidency. Illegal mass deportations to El Salvador from the U.S. continue without any due process. Tens of thousands of Salvadorans continue to be locked up and tortured in the inhuman prison known as CECOT.

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World in View: Bangladesh one year after

A year ago, a massive student-led movement overthrew the dictatorial rule of Sheikh Hasina. One year on, where does Bangladesh stand? Women’s experiences show that Bangladesh has a long way to go.

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Handicap This!: July 2025

Takes up: an orphanage who cares for children with disabilities in Uganda; Nova Scotia’s New Student Code of Conduct; a protest against President Trump’s big bill on Capitol Hill; and Alberta’s Premier Danielle Smith stealing money from the Canada Disability Benefit.

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Education roundup: What did you do over summer vacation?

The Trump administration has doggedly tried to destroy public education by cutting its funding, barring children of undocumented parents from Head Start, sabotaging school lunch programs, as well as what is taught. His national school voucher program continues the attack.

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Women WorldWide: July 2025

Takes up: the life of feminist activist Susan Brownmiller; the UK government announcing a bill that would criminalize pornography depicting strangulation; and International Domestic Workers Day.

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Queer Notes: July 2025

Takes up: Hungarian Supreme Court ruling that President Orban’s law banning public displays of homosexuality is illegal; Black Pride Colorado’s fund raise for “Diana,” a Trans woman attacked with acid in Philadelphia; and Kashish Pride Film Festival in Mumbai, India.

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Reports
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Chicagoans—old and young—fight back against ICE

Participant’s report of a Community Defense Workshop on Oct. 4 at a Chicago school. Responding to the feds’ ongoing attacks on immigrants, our goal: “to keep our city’s people safe and supported as well as to manifest that we, the people, have the power to resist and organize against our increasingly fascist federal government.”

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Thousands march in Philippines for accountability

Participant’s report of the “Trillion Peso March”, which took place on Sept. 21 in Manila and other cities in Philippines, to protest corruption in the awarding of government contracts to fake flood control projects.

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In-person report: The People’s Conference for Palestine

The second annual People’s Conference for Palestine brought 4,500 Palestinian and U.S. student-activists and their allies together in Detroit, focused on the urgent need to stop Israel’s genocide in Palestine and to end the suffering in Gaza and the West Bank.

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Young Voices from the Second People’s Conference for Palestine

A collection of participants’ voices in the the second annual People’s Conference for Palestine, which took place in Detroit August 29-31.

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Nepal’s Gen-Z Protests: A Marxian Lens on a Generation’s Outrage

Nepal’s 2025 protests reflect a generation’s deep frustration with economic, social, and political marginalization. Youth recognizing their collective disadvantage even without formal organization is an emerging “class consciousness,” though it has not yet achieved a revolutionary transformation.

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Unpaid work is over

Days after going on strike, flight attendants at Air Canada won a tentative contract that stops unpaid work hours and increases their wage. Their defiance of Section 107 of the Labour Relations Code, meant to force all the picketers back to work, strengthens other strikers to resist it.

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The collapse of Bolivia’s Movement for Socialism

After 20 years in power, the Movement for Socialism was dealt an electoral blow in Bolivia. The seeds were planted in the three terms of Evo Morales as president, beginning in 2006. The substitution of an electoral pathway for a full social uprooting blunted the Indigenous mass protest as a pathway to freedom.

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Israeli masses demand end to war

On Aug. 17, Israelis throughout the country demanded a ceasefire, a deal to free the hostages, the provision of food and aid into Gaza, and not to further invade and occupy Gaza. Throughout the day there was civil disobedience.

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Oakland residents fight gerrymandering, defend democracy

Participant’s report of the Aug. 16 demonstration in Oakland to support California’s Congressional redistricting. The demands ranged from “save democracy” to solidarity with those raided by ICE, “protect trans kids” and “resist fascism” to “defy, rebel, resist, disobey.”

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Review: ‘Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America’

‘Plundered,’ a study of housing in Detroit, reveals widespread predatory governance: local governments raise public dollars through racist policies. Its author spearheads a dozen community groups that assist individuals to regain their property.

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Hope for Gaza

Small signs of defiance: Israel’s military Chief of Staff refused to authorize an expanded assault on Gaza. Israel’s Attorney General defied Netanyahu’s anti-democratic orders. 74% of Israelis support an agreement with Hamas that would release all the hostages in exchange for an end to the Gaza war.

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Detroiters demand an end to genocide in Gaza

Participant report of the Coalition Against Genocide’s protest in Detroit on Aug. 2: “We are determined to stop the Israeli government’s ongoing siege and murder of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.” said the author.

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