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All Eyes on Columbia: We Must Build a National Campaign to Defend the Right to Protest for Palestine
After suspending and evicting students and ordering the repression of a student occupation, Columbia University has become the ground zero for attacks against the pro-Palestine movement. What happens at Columbia in the coming days has implications for our basic democratic rights, such as the right to protest.
Maryam Alaniz
April 19, 2024Student Workers of Columbia Union Call for Solidarity Against Repression and in Defense of the Right to Protest
In response to the suspensions and arrests of students at Columbia, the Student Workers of Columbia is circulating a call for solidarity against the repression. We re-publish their statement here and urge organizations, unions, and intellectuals to sign.
Student Workers of Columbia - UAW Local 2710
April 19, 2024Detroit Police Escalate Repression of Pro-Palestinian Protests
On April 15, Detroit Police cracked down on a pro-Palestine car caravan. This show of force was a message to protestors and an attempt to slow the momentum of the movement by intimidating people off the street and tying them up in court.
Brian H. Silverstein
April 18, 2024The Movement for Palestine Is Facing Repression. We Need a Campaign to Stop It.
In recent weeks, the movement in solidarity with Palestine has faced a new round of repression across the U.S. We need a united campaign to combat this repression, one that raises strategic debates about the movement’s next steps.
Tristan Taylor
April 17, 2024Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Has No Place at Labor Notes
The Labor Notes Conference will have record attendance this year, but it’s showing its limits by opening with a speech from Chicago’s pro-cop Democratic mayor, Brandon Johnson. Instead of facilitating the Democratic Party’s co-optation of our movement, Labor Notes should be a space for workers and socialists to gather and fight for a class-independent alternative.
Emma Lee
April 16, 2024Liberal Towns in New Jersey Are Increasing Attacks on Pro-Palestine Activists
A group of neighbors in South Orange and Maplewood have become a reference point for pro-Palestine organizing in New Jersey suburbs. Now these liberal towns are upping repression against the local activists.
Samuel Karlin
April 12, 2024“We Shouldn’t Let this Stop Us”: Suspended Columbia Student Activist Speaks Out
Aidan Parisi, a student at Columbia University’s School of Social Work, was recently suspended and has been threatened with eviction from their graduate student housing for pro-Palestinian activism on campus. Aidan talked to Left Voice about the state of repression, the movement at Columbia, and the path forward for uniting the student movement with the labor movement and other movements against oppression.
Left Voice
April 11, 2024The Movement for Palestine Needs Independent, Working-Class Politics
As the brutal genocide of Palestinians continues with the help of the Biden administration, there is maneuver underway to co-opt the movement for Palestine. We need to have a democratic and independent movement that relies on the power of the working class, the student movement, and mobilizations in the streets.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
April 7, 2024We Don’t Want TikTok Under Control of U.S. Capitalists — Put It Under the Control of its Workers and Users
The U.S. government wants to force the sale of the incredibly popular Chinese social media app. A TikTok owned by U.S. capitalists will only make things worse. We want TikTok under workers' control!
Nathaniel Flakin
April 6, 2024Is the Golden Age of American Jews Ending? No, but Liberal Zionism Is Breaking Down.
Writing for The Atlantic, Franklin Foer purports to find rising antisemitism "on the right and the left." What actually concerns him is that "liberal" Zionism is no longer a thing. Young Jewish people are increasingly turning against Israel.
Nathaniel Flakin
April 4, 2024