Israel’s Current Government Cannot Envisage Peace
A dangerous new phase in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is currently underway. Following Hamas’s vicious October 7 attacks inside Israeli territory, the Netanyahu government vowed to destroy the...
View ArticleA Month Into Israeli War, Massive Protests in US and Around the World Demand...
Huge crowds of protesters filled the streets of Washington, D.C. and other U.S. cities on Saturday to demand a cease-fire in Israel’s war on Hamas, which has killed and wounded thousands of Palestinian...
View ArticleEverybody Wants Gaza’s Gas
While its citizens take to the streets demanding a ceasefire, the silence of Europe’s leaders is deafening. Allyship runs deep, apparently, although their weak calls for “humanitarian pauses” are...
View ArticleMerchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal
“More and more, we see that you can’t conduct a war without war crimes. And that raises a whole other issue about whether war is any longer, or ever was, an acceptable behavior. We felt that leaving...
View ArticleThe Political Economy of Israeli Apartheid and the Specter of Genocide
This article was originally published in 2014, at the time of the last siege of Gaza. The ZNetwork.org staff feels it is prescient and timely right now. Just days before the seven-week siege of Gaza...
View ArticleWhat’s Going On?
Today’s on-going horrors have been endlessly self-servingly obscured, rationalized, ritualized, and idealized. Today’s on-going horrors have been occasionally humanely wisely, soberly, and...
View ArticleThere Are Nonmilitary Alternatives To Israel’s War In Gaza
Israel and its allies have made a knee-jerk assumption that war is the only way to create safety and respond to the Oct. 7 massacre by Hamas. This assumption — which upholds violence as the only path...
View ArticleGeneral Strike 2028 Is a Uniquely Plausible Dream
The labor movement is a capricious friend – it hands out heartbreak as much as it hands out joy. But every once in a while, it is able to wave a triumphant flag and give us all a glimmer of what its...
View ArticleEurope Agonizes In Gaza
Europe is a small corner of a vast continent called Eurasia stretching from Cape Roca to Cape Dezhnyov – a vast continent with a very rich history. In that small corner, what we call the Iberian...
View ArticleGaza – ‘A Graveyard For Children’
An authentic democracy cannot be psychopathic because most people are not psychopaths. Most people would not vote to kill, wound and displace hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians for power,...
View ArticleStrategy For Overcoming Capitalism
Talk at Los Angeles Anarchist Book Fair Strategy To start off this discussion, I’m going to talk about strategy. In this case the subject is “grand strategy” — strategy that would enable the oppressed...
View ArticleCalling for a ‘Pause’ in Israel’s Assault on Gaza Isn’t Enough
Operation Cast Lead, an Israeli aerial assault and massacre of Gazans begun on December 27, 2008, lasted for 22 days. The Israeli military deployed its navy, air force and army against the people...
View ArticleWe are Spartacus
Spartacus was a 1960 Hollywood film based on a book written secretly by the blacklisted novelist Howard Fast, and adapted by the screenplay writer Dalton Trumbo, one of the ‘Hollywood 10’ who were...
View ArticleFor Kurds, the War in Gaza Shows the Need for a Democratic Reordering of the...
For the Kurds, it’s a familiar scene. Jihadist militants, backed by a notorious state sponsor of terrorism, target members of an embattled minority. They run amok, parading and abusing captured women,...
View ArticleWhy We Blockaded a Factory Shipping Weapons to Israel
In the wake of the genocidal bombardment of Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli occupying forces and violence across historic Palestine, Palestinian trade unions issued a call to workers across the...
View ArticleDC’s Got a Gas Problem, and They’re Not the Only Ones
“Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels. Investing in new fossil fuels is...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Climate Coalition Campaign: Disrupting Gas from DC to Gaza
This interview is a behind the scenes follow up to DC’s Got a Gas Problem, and They’re Not the Only Ones. From Oct. 24-26, a coalition of ecoactivist groups, including Extinction Rebellion Northeast,...
View ArticleSocialize the Railways!
The downward slide of the major (Class 1) American freight railroads in recent years shows how capitalist ownership of the railway system is dangerous and inefficient — and fails to make use of the...
View ArticleHow Today’s Underdogs Can Win Big With Strategy
“Practical radicals are not content to be on the right side without a plan to make their vision a reality. And they are not satisfied with working on small issues without an analysis of what’s wrong...
View ArticleMeet the Climate Activists Who Moved Cross-Country to Build a New Civilisation
It’s an unseasonably warm September evening, and around 70 people are gathered in St Matthew’s Church in Kingston-upon-Hull. Amidst the dust sheets and barricade tape – the building is mid-renovation...
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