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Featuring: U.S. moves toward war in Venezuela, Puerto Rico’s militarization, Gaza’s enduring resistance, Mamdani’s big win, & more...

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More than two years into the genocide in Palestine, the UN Security Council has finally acted. But rather than acting to enforce international law, protect the victims, and hold the perpetrators accountable, it adopted ...
The UN Embraces Colonialism: Unpacking The Security Council’s Mandate For The U.S. Colonial Administration of Gaza
More than two years into the genocide in Palestine, the UN Security Council has finally acted. But rather than acting to enforce international law,
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November 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
We, the Peoples’ Summit, gathered in Belém do Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, from 12 to 16 November 2025, declare to the peoples of the world what we have accumulated in struggles, debates, studies, exchanges of experie...
Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30
We, the Peoples’ Summit, gathered in Belém do Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, from 12 to 16 November 2025, declare to the peoples of the world what we have
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November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
There’s a point in every crisis; housing, labour, democracy, take your pick – where you realise the system isn’t just broken, it’s working exactly as designed. And usually, that realisation can happen as early as taking...
Own The Hell Out Of It: David Lidz On Co-ops, Recovery And Rebuilding Baltimore
There’s a point in every crisis; housing, labour, democracy, take your pick - where you realise the system isn’t just broken, it’s working exactly as
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November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
11:30 a.m. New York | 4:30 p.m. London | 5:30 p.m. Paris | 6:30 p.m. Palestine PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY LEADERS AND HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS BRIEF PRESS ON ESCALATING ANNEXATION, VIOLENCE, SETTLER ATTACKS, AND FORCIBLE DISPLAC...
Monday, November 24 — Palestinian Community Leaders and Human Rights Experts Discuss Rapidly Deteriorating Situation in West Bank: Escalating Land Theft, Settler Attacks, Forced Displacement
11:30 a.m. New York | 4:30 p.m. London | 5:30 p.m. Paris | 6:30 p.m. Palestine PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY LEADERS AND HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS BRIEF PRESS ON
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November 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The Trump administration’s stance on the Ukraine war is quite the roller-coaster. Initially, the Russo-Ukraine war would end “within 24 hours.” According to Donald Trump, President Zelenskyy is “a dictator without elect...
Can Trump’s Reported “28-Point Plan” for Ukraine Deliver? Is Peace Within Reach?
The Trump administration’s stance on the Ukraine war is quite the roller-coaster. Initially, the Russo-Ukraine war would end “within 24 hours.” According
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November 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The so-called Gaza ceasefire was not a genuine cessation of hostility, but a strategic, cynical shift in the Israeli genocide and ongoing campaign of destruction. Starting on October 10, the first day of the announced c...
The New Kill Zone: Gaza's Borders after the 'Ceasefire
The so-called Gaza ceasefire was not a genuine cessation of hostility, but a strategic, cynical shift in the Israeli genocide and ongoing campaign of
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November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
On November 17th, 2025, the UN Security Council passed a resolution to endorse President Trump’s plan for Gaza, including a transitional government headed by Trump himself and an International Stabilization Force (ISF) ...
Who Is Ready to Die for Trump’s Gaza Plan? So Far, Nobody
On November 17th, 2025, the UN Security Council passed a resolution to endorse President Trump’s plan for Gaza, including a transitional
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November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I heard from a former client of mine that he abruptly learned of the government shutdown from the checkout person at the grocery store. Poor people often have little investment in news reports and few follow political m...
Please Register for "The General Strike" Webinar on Saturday @ 3PM EST
I heard from a former client of mine that he abruptly learned of the government shutdown from the checkout person at the grocery store. Poor people often
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November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
In his excellent new book Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, the independent left wing business journalist Jacob Silverman reports a particularly pungent utterance from a MAGA luminary that...
Right Wing Populism and Lumpen Capitalism
In his excellent new book Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, the independent left wing business journalist Jacob Silverman
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November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Although the world is experiencing severe global crises, there are new efforts underway to create a more effective means of coping with them. The crises are clear enough.  They include vast slaughter in horrific wars, w...
A Bold Campaign to Confront Global Crises
Although the world is experiencing severe global crises, there are new efforts underway to create a more effective means of coping with them. The crises
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November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof Patrick Bond, Director of the Centre for Social Change in the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities at University of Johannesburg, about how the US continues to try to derail ...
U.S Continues Campaign To Undermine South Africa And G20
Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof Patrick Bond, Director of the Centre for Social Change in the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities at
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November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other safe. This story is part of ICE vs. LA, a collaborative reportin...
In South L.A., Black and Latino Neighbors Unite Against ICE as Systems Fail
As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other
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November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The recent vote in the UN Security Council on Gaza – with Russia and China pointedly abstaining and the West once again attempting to choreograph the outcome – marked a moment that history may one day identify as a subt...
Transparent Colonialism and the Inalienability of Palestinian Sovereignty
The recent vote in the UN Security Council on Gaza – with Russia and China pointedly abstaining and the West once again attempting to choreograph the
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November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The Nov 2025 ZMagazine is out!

Featuring: U.S. moves toward war in Venezuela, Puerto Rico’s militarization, Gaza’s enduring resistance, Mamdani’s big win, & more...

New subscribers get their 1st issue FREE; sustainers get it monthly.
znetwork.org/about-suppor...
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The American system, still the most powerful in the world today, has decided to reward the work of a single entrepreneur (Musk) with $1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion dollars) for one year’s work. Furthermore, it allows ...
Maximum Violence
The American system, still the most powerful in the world today, has decided to reward the work of a single entrepreneur (Musk) with $1,000,000,000,000
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November 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
There is a painful truth in Balochistan that rarely reaches the outside world. Families who barely survive on low incomes still gather all their strength to send their children to study. A father sells his wife’s gold. ...
Baloch Students Fighting What They Should Never Face
There is a painful truth in Balochistan that rarely reaches the outside world. Families who barely survive on low incomes still gather all their strength
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November 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The crises of the modern world are multilayered: We are witnessing economic collapses, ecological destruction, and societal disintegration. Simultaneously, state violence, militarization, and the continuously reproduced...
Jineology: A Paradigmatic Rupture and the Quest For the Science Of Women's Liberation
The crises of the modern world are multilayered: We are witnessing economic collapses, ecological destruction, and societal disintegration.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This year, thousands of New Yorkers clawed political power out from establishment Democrats and brought it back home. When we elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor, we proved that the future of the city belongs to its people,...
Chi Ossé: Why I Became a Socialist
This year, thousands of New Yorkers clawed political power out from establishment Democrats and brought it back home. When we elected Zohran Mamdani as
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November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The Epstein list occupies a peculiar position in the contemporary political imagination: it is at once a genuine artifact of predatory criminality and a malleable instrument of elite power. Depending on who deploys it, ...
When Scandal Meets Structure: The Interlock of Epstein and Elite Societies
The Epstein list occupies a peculiar position in the contemporary political imagination: it is at once a genuine artifact of predatory criminality and a
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November 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
On Thursday dawn, Israeli settlers set fire to the Hajja Hamida Mosque in the Palestinian village of Deir Istiya in the north of the West Bank. Photographs taken at the scene showed racist, anti-Palestinian slogans spra...
The Ultimate Goal of Jewish Settler Violence in the West Bank
On Thursday dawn, Israeli settlers set fire to the Hajja Hamida Mosque in the Palestinian village of Deir Istiya in the north of the West Bank.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Staunchly following the dictum of Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels – “it will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy, that it gave its deadly enemies the means by which it was destroyed” – today’s...
German Works Council in 2026: 6 Strategies Against The Far-Right
Staunchly following the dictum of Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels – “it will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy, that it gave
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November 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The November 4 election gave us a huge boost. But for the 2026 midterms, success requires both electoral majorities and preparations for a popular uprising at vote-counting sites, state capitols, courthouses, workplaces...
For the Next Election, Prepare to Fight MAGA’s Steal
The November 4 election gave us a huge boost. But for the 2026 midterms, success requires both electoral majorities and preparations for a popular
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November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
As a kid, my favorite part of grocery shopping wasn’t the snacks or the cereal aisle, it was the tabloids at the checkout. I’d devour headlines about Batboy sightings, Bigfoot vacations, royal scandals, and the occasion...
America’s Peril: The Rot of Anti-Intellectualism and Demagoguery is Costing Us Our Future
As a kid, my favorite part of grocery shopping wasn’t the snacks or the cereal aisle, it was the tabloids at the checkout. I’d devour headlines about
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November 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“Down with communism,” they chanted while also waving the One Piece pirate flag, meant to be a symbol of resistance to elitist excess, corruption, and inequality. The right-wing march was also meant to be a Generation Z...
How The Right Wing Has Used AI And Influencers To Make Up An Anti-Government Movement In Mexico
"Down with communism," they chanted while also waving the One Piece pirate flag, meant to be a symbol of resistance to elitist excess, corruption, and
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November 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The United States’ decision to welcome Abu Muhammad al-Jolani (leader of the jihadist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS) into the White House while simultaneously branding ANTIFA-affiliated organizations as “foreign t...
Pro-Jihadist, Anti-Antifa
The United States’ decision to welcome Abu Muhammad al-Jolani (leader of the jihadist group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS) into the White House while
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November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM