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Editorial: Youth revolt in India moves beyond education reform
August 1, 2026The “cockroach” movement in India grew from educational reform to the demand to transform the country’s “democracy.” This new youth movement is fighting to make this a turning point, rather than allow the government’s concessions to disarm it.
Oaklanders protest ICE murders
Several hundred people gathered in Oakland on July 25 to protest ICE killings. The demonstration included an “ofrenda” to honor the 35 people who died in 2026 while in detention, shortly after release, or at the hands of ICE.
Women World Wide: July 2026
July 28, 2026Takes up: Colombia’s legislation against female genital mutilation; women protecting the Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary in Nigeria; and England’s National Health Service inquiry into serious issues at the maternity departments of Nottingham University Hospitals.
Review: ‘Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women’
July 22, 2026This book by Sarah Ruden traces propaganda against reproductive rights through Western history. It shows that we can resist by exposing the history of these false claims and the damage they have caused.
Trump administration steals Native American lands…again
The Trump Administration has taken more and more Native lands and favored “production-oriented livestock” like cattle. To protect our rights and sovereignty, but most importantly, protect Mother Earth and all her animals from corporate greed, we must stop this while we still can.
Handicap This!: July 2026
Takes up: World Mental Health Awareness Month in Bermuda; Nova Scotians protest budget cuts affecting people living with disabilities; and UK Supreme Court allows removal of independent checks on the safety and appropriateness of care for vulnerable people.
OFFICIAL CALL FOR CONVENTION to Work Out Marxist-Humanist Perspectives for 2026-2027
July 15, 2026This is the Call issued for a Convention of News and Letters Committees at a moment when the rulers are inflaming one crisis after another more recklessly and thoroughly than they have done since World War II.
Learning about Marxist-Humanism: Philosophy and Revolution book group
July 14, 2026Philosophy and Revolution book group, inaugural hybrid meeting in Chicago
World in View: Flamingo Revolution challenges Albanian government and Trump family
July 1, 2026Albania’s Flamingo Revolution started after news of a resort deal by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. The protests grew, opposing the Kushners, then the Albanian government and opposition party, revealing a hunger for new beginnings and self-determination.
👀 Eyes on Education: Forcing religion—Texas schools’ bible curriculum
A reading list that includes Bible stories will be required of five million Texas public school K-12 students beginning in 2030. Texas and other states are already well down the road of illegally forcing religion into public schools.
👀Eyes on Education: Black history comes to Greenfield Village
June 30, 2026On June 12, Dr. Sullivan and Mrs. Richie Jean Jackson’s home–a key hub in planning the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March–formally opened at the Henry Ford Museum’s Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich.
In Memoriam: Ron Kelch
June 29, 2026We celebrate the life of Ron Kelch, a Marxist-Humanist and a revolutionary for nearly 60 years.
Review: ‘The New Age of Sexism’
This book reveals how global society’s failure to eradicate misogyny has allowed abuses and prejudices against women to be perpetuated through computer-based technology.
Free Yaser Ahmadinejad now!
June 21, 2026Demand the immediate release of Yaser Ahmadinejad, and an end to the persecution of Iranian labor activists and the release of all political prisoners in Iran.
Women World Wide: June 2026
Takes up: Afghan Women United recognized by FIFA as Afghanistan’s official national women’s team; the life of Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French author, film director and actor; and a demonstration in Nairobi, Kenya, against inefficient investigations of femicides and child disappearances.
Queer Notes: June 2026
June 5, 2026Takes up: middle school students protesting the ban of a symphony honoring the Stonewall Uprising; a protest in Australia against gender-affirming care restrictions; and a lawsuit in Botswana to make same-sex marriage legal.
Review: ‘Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption, and the Privilege of American Motherhood’ by Gretchen Sisson, PhD
May 30, 2026This book cuts through myths about adoption as an alternative to abortion, revealing that while women are pressured to choose adoption, that choice often had a negative impact on their lives.
Irán, un país de revolucionarios
May 21, 2026Traducción al español de Essay “Iran—a country of revolutionaries” by Terry Moon.
World In View: India’s state elections marred by Hindu nationalism
May 16, 2026Recent elections in India have further consolidated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s drive to make India a nationalist state. The far-right Hindu nationalist group from which Modi emerged recently celebrated its centenary anniversary.
Women World Wide: May 2026
Takes up: The tenth anniversary of the French law abolishing prostitution; La Cité Audacieuse, a feminist space in Paris, France; and England and Wales decriminalizing abortion.
Movie review: ‘Sudan: Remember Us’
May 11, 2026Filmmaker Hind Meddeb documents the 2019-2021 Sudanese Revolution, from the historic sit-in by youth demanding a civilian government and freedom, to the military coup. Learning from young revolutionaries around the world strengthens our fight at home.
Eyes on Education 👀: Backlash growing against tech in education
May 7, 2026AI is drastically changing education. Pausing its use and respecting educators’ experience with students is urgently needed. The April 21 resolution to implement major limits on educational technology in Los Angeles is an example of parents and educators working together for quality education.
Editorial: U.S. Supreme Court wallows in racism
May 6, 2026The Supreme Court gutted the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. This dismantling of one of the most important Civil Rights Movement’s achievements exposes the anti-freedom nature and the virulent racism and sexism that pervade this society.
Massive UK marches challenge misogyny, racism, far right
May 1, 2026Report of the Million Women Rise and Together Alliance marches in London on March 7 and March 28. These demonstrations drew record numbers of people to protest increasing violence, misogyny, racism, and authoritarianism in the UK and worldwide.
Handicap This! April 2026
Takes up: Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination demanding mobility rights in South Korea; Disability Inclusive Community Building helping people in Kakuma Refugee Camp, in Kenya; and Autism Awareness Month in Mississippi, Malasya and South Africa.
Women WorldWide: April 2026
April 15, 2026Takes up: a yearly 2.5% increase in self-harm cases among people aged 24 and under; proposed UK ban of pornography depicting incest where one person is pretending to be under 18; and the situation of pregnant women and girls in ICE custody.
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: The Second International and the organization of thought
April 14, 2026As much of the Left debates how to achieve greater influence in the face of a rising tide of fascism, war, and reaction, this piece reflects on the fatal incompleteness of organization without the organization of thought. The Second International’s detour in the development of revolutionary Marxism shows that it was Marxist organizationally but not philosophically.
Review: ‘Pluribus,’ a humanist utopia?
April 10, 2026‘Pluribus,’ a TV series by Vince Gilligan, presents his post-capitalist dream. Humanity is turned into a single consciousness, which reshapes the world. Both for the deep philosophical issues it tackles and for its artistic value, it is a show worth watching.
‘Greater Israel’ fanaticism devastates Palestine, Lebanon, Iran
April 9, 2026The ambition for an ethnonationalist “Greater Israel” is being put into practice with devastating consequences. Events in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, within Israel itself and in the U.S. reveal where the world is heading if we don’t stop the wars and retrogression.
Review: ‘Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care’
April 8, 2026‘Beyond Limits’ by M.D. Shelley Sella is a book informed by her experience as the first woman doctor in the U.S. openly providing third-trimester abortions. It includes testimonies of her patients and addresses frequently asked questions revealing the necessity of legalizing abortion at all stages of pregnancy.
Queer Notes: April 2026
Takes up: a legal ruling in the Philippines Supreme Court giving a measure of recognition to same-sex couples; the Dominican Republic decriminalizing same-sex relations; and students at University of California-Berkeley creating and editing Wikipedia pages to preserve LGBTQ+ history.
No Kings rallies cover the U.S. for the third time
April 1, 2026In-person reports of the March 28 No Kings demonstrations in Chicago, Evanston, the San Francisco Bay Area, Detroit and Washington, D.C. The events were held in 3,300 locations in the U.S., plus several more in other countries. Eight million people took part.
Police attack Memphis No Kings march
Reports on the No Kings march in Memphis on March 28, where police from four different agencies attacked the peaceful gathering.
World in View: Pakistan-Afghanistan war
March 26, 2026Before Netanyahu and Trump launched their war against Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan began their own war. To understand this latest outbreak of death and destruction, an understanding of some of the complex history of Pakistan-Afghanistan relations is required.
Women WorldWide: March 2026
Takes up: Paula Doress-Worters, a founder of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, writing Our Bodies, Ourselves; far Right president José Antonio Kast taking office in Chile; and International Women’s Day demonstrations in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
Native Americans fight data centers
March 11, 2026Appeal from Judith LeBlanc, of the Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund, to resist data centers, which threaten the environment and have harmful effects on communities, especially Black and Native.
Review: ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’
Review of ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’, by Marjane Satrapi, graphic short stories by Iranian and international writers and artists, published on the first anniversary of the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini by the Iranian “morality police,” which sparked the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.
The war on Iran and beyond: Trump drives for a new fascist world order
March 8, 2026The war on Iran and the Venezuela coup are part of Trump’s attempt to reorganize the world order and grasp for absolute power. In countering this tumble toward world war, can we build a movement that is not only against Trump and capitalism, but keeps developing the fullness of what we are for?
World In View: The Reality of Sudan Today
March 5, 2026On October 2025, the Rapid Support Forces, one of the factions waging war against the Sudanese people, took over the city El-Fasher, perpetrating genocide. This is the latest action in a three-year war which is causing the gravest humanitarian crisis of the 21st Century.
Eyes on Education👀: March 2026
Takes up: a whitewashed required curriculum for introductory sociology in Florida’s 28 public community colleges; a loan-limit policy by the Federal Student Loan Program that could have disastrous implications for the medical field; and implications of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” in Indiana colleges.
Yanar Mohamed, Iraqi women’s freedom activist, assassinated
March 4, 2026Remembering the life of Yanar Mohamed, murdered March 2 in Baghdad, Iraq. An uncompromising feminist voice, and founder of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq she devoted her life to defending women and survivors of violence and trafficking.
Women World Wide—February 2026
February 25, 2026Takes up: the life of U.S. mathematician Gladys Brown West; and the insufficiency of laws punishing rape in cases in London, Germany and France.
Data Workers Fight Back
February 21, 2026Worldwide, over 500,000 content moderators work for global internet corporations. The work is performed by an increasingly female and young adult workforce in low-income countries. They have been organizing unions to deal with the job’s hazards.
El fascismo ya está aquí
Spanish translation of the article “Don’t wait to demonstrate against ICE/CBP” by Terry Moon.
ICE out of Detroit!
February 18, 2026Participant’s report on the Jan. 30 rally in far Northwest Detroit to demand ICE out of the city.
What is femicide?
February 8, 2026A discussion of what femicide really is, triggered by a definition of the word in the bourgeois press.
Oakland in solidarity with Minneapolis: ICE OUT!
February 7, 2026Participant’s report of a demonstration at Fruitvale Bart station, one of many actions in solidarity with the general strike in Minneapolis that took place around the San Francisco Bay Area on January 30.
Chicagoans rally for Minnesota
Participant’s report on the Jan. 30 protest in Chicago against ICE and fascism and in solidarity with immigrants, people of color and activists in Minnesota.
Eyes on education👀: Education 2025–Creating resistance for 2026
February 5, 2026In Oklahoma, Maine, Florida and Chicago, Van Gelder gives us a view of battles in defense of public and higher education. The rightist moves against state and local K-12 school districts and even individual teachers, staff, parents and students attempts to instill fascism and Christian Nationalism from the cradle.