By Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot On April 30, 2024, the 206th day of the genocide in Palestine, we stood chanting with hundreds outside Columbia University as theNYPD violently…
By Sonia C. Gomez Before Luigi Mangione, there was Giuseppe Zangara. In 1933, Zangara, an Italian immigrant, attempted to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Driven…
Rep. Marcantonio, in front of his office at 1484 First Ave. NY" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1948. By Sandhya Shukla Seventy years ago today, Vito Marcantonio, the most left-wing congressman in US history, suffered a fatal heart attack. He had by then…
Figure 1: Covers of Elliott Young and Kristina Shull's books: Forever Prisoners and Detention Empire, respectively. By Tina Shull and Elliott Young Elliott Young’s book Forever Prisoners tells the stories of migrants caught in the jaws of the US immigration bureaucracy…
Figure 1: St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington D.C., one of only two mental asylums ever operated by the U.S. federal government (Courtesy of the Library of Congress) By Jeremy Peschard In recent years, politicians in the United States have paid significant attention to two major political issues: firstly, the increased number of…
Picture by Rev John Weeks, ‘Native tally of the killed and wounded’. It shows pieces of plantain stalk threaded on a string, each stalk representing a life taken. The large pieces symbolised the chiefs and ordinary men who had been killed, the shorter ones represented the murdered women and children. Source: London School of Economics, Morel Archives.
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By Charlotte Mertens In the wake of accusations of mass rape and sexual torture of Israeli women by Hamas and the ongoing sexual (and other)…
External view of Kamloops Indian Residential School taken at a distance. Source: Archives Deschâtelets-NDC, Richelieu. By Kat Fuller “The Canadian Mass Grave Hoax” is the title of a YouTube video by the infamous Canadian political commentator Lauren Southern. Southern is…
Claudine Gay testifies before Congress alongside presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and MIT. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images By A.J. Bauer Last month’s congressional hearing on “Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism” drew comparisons to the Cold War-era House Unamerican Activities Committee…
Stencils reading "Nakba" are defaced with graffiti reading "one" and "more." That is, one more Nakba. Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv, 2023. (Photograph by Adrien Zakar)
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By Esmat Elhalaby Perhaps it's apt that a dying political ideology seeks redemption in a dead discipline. As the Israeli government and public become ever…
Article image courtesy of Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, https://justseeds.org/graphic/stop-cop-city/ By Dan Berger * Published in partnership with The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project. On August 29th, the same Georgia grand jury that indicted Donald…