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Iran Doesn’t Want Larger War with Israel But is Ready For It
What is Iran’s military and political strategy now that it has struck back against Israel’s illegal bombing of its embassy, and with another cycle of escalation looming? Israel’s strikes killed over a...
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No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B...
Democracy Now! speaks with two of the Google employees who were arrested staging sit-ins on Tuesday at the company’s offices in New York City and in Sunnyvale, California, to protest the tech giant’s...
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Nobody “Earns” a Billion Dollars. We Need a Wealth Tax.
U.S. billionaires have seen their wealth nearly double since the Trump tax cuts took effect in 2017. In the meantime, the planet is getting hotter and the richest 1 percent of humanity accounts for...
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Remembering one year of war in Sudan | The Take
April 15 marks one year since fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and its paramilitary rival the Rapid Support Forces. The war has caused the largest displacement crisis in the world...
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Fired by a German University for Solidarity with Palestine
The University of Cologne canceled a guest professorship with the philosophy professor from The New School. In this interview, she speaks about Germany dividing between “Good Jews” and “Bad Jews,” her...
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Abolition Is a Project of Human Liberation That Must Be Ongoing
One of the most common misconceptions about prison abolition is that it’s “unrealistic.” However, in Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché’s new book, How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement...
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Isra Hirsi On the Resilience of Columbia University’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
On Wednesday, students at Columbia University and its women’s college, Barnard, pitched tents on the lawns at the school’s campus commons. They planned to stay until Columbia divested from companies...
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Historic Gaza Protests at Columbia U. Enter Day 6; Campus Protests Spread...
Columbia University canceled in-person classes Monday as campus protests over the war in Gaza enter a sixth day. The protests have swelled after the school administration called in the police to clear...
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Pro-Palestinian Campus Encampments Spread Nationwide Amid Mass Arrests at...
Palestinian solidarity protests and encampments are appearing on college campuses from Massachusetts to California to protest Israel’s attacks on Gaza and to call for divestment from Israeli apartheid....
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Jane McAlevey on UAW’s Astounding Victory in VW Tennessee & Her Fight Against...
Democracy Now! speaks with the celebrated labor organizer and writer Jane McAlevey about the historic victory for Volkswagen employees at a Chattanooga, Tennessee, factory who voted overwhelmingly to...
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In Philly, Cass Green Is Running Against Billionaire Cash
Today, in one of the most expensive elections in Pennsylvania State House history — in large part due to donations to the incumbent from billionaire and charter school advocate Jeffrey Yass — Cass...
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Oregon’s Measure 110, A Brief Victory for Drug Decriminalization
Morgan Godvin is an internationally recognized expert on the topic of drugs and justice. She was a leading activist behind Oregon’s drug decriminalization law – Measure 110 – that passed in 2021, as a...
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Alice Walker: A Voice of Love, Revolution, and Resilience
Born in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, into a farming family of eight children, Alice Walker experienced racial segregation in the South of the United States from an early age. In her teens, aware of the...
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Why Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Voting to Unionize Is A Huge Victory for The...
Tennessee Volkswagen workers achieved a historic victory on April 19 by overwhelmingly voting to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) labor union. This victory marked the first time since 1941 that a...
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Activists Blocked from Sailing to Gaza But Vow to Keep Trying to Break Siege
Hundreds of activists aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla were blocked in Turkey on Saturday as they attempted to set sail for the besieged Palestinian territory with 5,500 tons of aid. Organizers say...
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Why Doesn’t the World Make Sense Anymore? An Interview With Jerry Harris
Much of the Left would like to act as if nothing fundamental has changed in the way that capitalism has been operating over the last fifty years. Yes, some will acknowledge, the collapse of the USSR...
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Inside The ‘Student Intifada’: A Roundtable With Campus Organizers
Seven months into Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, a student-led grassroots movement is spreading across the US and beyond, hearkening back to the student protests of the ‘60s that played a pivotal role...
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Zach Shrewsbury Says His Senate Campaign in West Virginia Is About the Class...
When Barn Raiser first reached Zach Shrewsbury to interview the former Marine about his U.S. Senate campaign in West Virginia, he was trying to navigate the mountain roads of his home state amid a...
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Organizing for Power: The Fight of Our Lives
In this interview, labor organizer, teacher and strategist Jane McAlevey turns the attention back to what YOU and all of us need to do NOW to win more and win better. Because the planet is on fire and,...
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Blood Gun Money – How America Arms Gangs and Cartels
Thousands of guns used by Mexican cartels, as well as other gangs throughout Latin America, have been traced back to U.S. gun manufacturers. Journalist Ioan Grillo describes how the flow of guns to...
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Frances Fox Piven Remembers Columbia, 1968
As the war on Gaza enters its seventh month of unrelenting destruction, students around the world are setting up encampments and occupying buildings to press their institutions to cut financial and...
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“Displacement Has Been Weaponized”: Gaza Reporter Akram al-Satarri on Israeli...
Over 450,000 Palestinians, many already internally displaced, have fled Rafah in the past week alone since Israel launched an offensive on the city. Another 100,000 have been forced to flee homes in...
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Columbia-Affiliated Union Theological Seminary Votes to Divest from Israel’s...
As student protests around the world call for their educational institutions to divest from companies with ties to Israel, we speak to the Reverend Dr. Serene Jones, the president of Union Theological...
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Rania Khalek Claps Back When Piers Morgan Tries to Distract from Genocide
Video clip of Rania Khalek being interviewed by Piers Morgan in which Rania responds to Morgan’s attempt to deflect from the genocide being inflicted by Israel by asking her to condemn the 7 October...
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Israeli Human Rights Lawyer Attacked While Documenting Settler Raid on Gaza...
Aid agencies are running out of food in southern Gaza amid Israel’s ongoing offensive in Rafah and the shutdown of the two main border crossings in the south. Some 1.1 million Palestinians are on the...
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Bernie: The Podcast | Episode 6 – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Bernie Sanders has a conversation with AOC about growing up working class in America and the experiences that shaped them.
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Palestine ’48: House Demolitions, Good Arabs And Resistance
Majd Nasrallah has worked in Palestinian cultural institutions and is a local community organizer with a degree in international law and human rights. He talks about criminal violence being the last...
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The American Indian Movement and Leonard Peltier
Despite now spending 47 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit, Leonard Peltier continues to be denied parole by the federal government of the United States. Why has the US so obstinately...
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