February 2025


McCarthyist ‘Nonprofit Killer’ Bill

The Palestine solidarity movement is the new Communist Party By Rachel Ida Buff In 1954, Abner Green, executive secretary of the American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born (ACPFB), was sentenced by a New…


Asheville Journalists Sue Over Illegal Arrests

By Kevin Gosztola A news co-op in North Carolina and two journalists convicted of trespassing offenses filed a federal lawsuit alleging that their constitutional rights were violated by Asheville Police Department officers. In December 2021,…


Why More And More Journalists Are

Launching Worker-Owned Outlets By Angela Fu When staff at the Long Beach Post and Long Beach Business Journal decided to unionize in March, they were almost im­mediately hit with layoffs. The paper’s parent company, a…


Workers Are Giving Up on the Democrats

Commentary by Les Leopold I just had a chat with an ATT office manager, a young Black man who is very attentive to his customers. After he learned that I worked with labor unions, he…


Local Green Politics in California

An Interview with Gayle McLaughlin By Steve Early for Green Social Thought Former Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin has one of the best municipal election success rates of any left-wing “elected” in California—as in five city…