Angesichts der massiven Repression gestern bei dem Palästina-Kongress in Berlin und dem wachsenden McCarthyismus an Universitäten und in öffentlichen Institutionen, kommt diese wichtige Intervention von Enzo Traverso zur richtigen Zeit: jacobin.de/artikel/traver…

Invited to address a conference in Berlin about my work in Gaza hospitals during the present conflict.
The German government has forcibly prevented me from entering the country
Silencing a witness to genocide before the ICJ adds to Germany's complicity in the ongoing massacre.

This issue came out really well. Among others, I highly recommend the lead editorial from David Broder and the featured articles from Tyler Austin Harper and Lauren Fadiman.

Interview w/ Branko Milanovic: “The fading of class analyses can thus be explained not solely by the less salient cleavage between capitalists and workers, but by political pressures to pretend that modern capitalism has entirely overcome that cleavage.” thenation.com/article/cultur…

A few days ago I posed the rhetorical question of how the West plans to compete with Chinese EV production. For Sahra Wagenknecht, the answer is apparently: keep burning gas, baby. welt.de/wirtschaft/art…

What's an album you heard at age 15 that changed your brain chemistry?

EU should suspend its Association Agreement with Israel with immediate effect, because of serious violations of international law.

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When the ulterior motive of all political activity is recruiting people to the sect, one tends to make some bad choices

»Der Weg zu einem ersten zarten Frieden führt, wie vom Weltsicherheitsrat eingefordert, über einen Waffenstillstand in Gaza.«
Die deutsche Israel-Debatte ist so verkehrt, dass aus der Sozialdemokratie vernünftigere Einschätzungen kommen als aus der Linken.ipg-journal.de/rubriken/ausse…

Columbia University Press publishes a book on the 'mentality' of a nation that starts with prehistoric times. Unbelievable.

'My father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay right here and have a part of it just like you. And no fascist-minded people will drive me from it.'
Happy birthday, Paul Robeson!

Die GDL hat mit der 35-Stunden-Woche einen großen Erfolg errungen. Doch dem Tarifvertrag sind einige Stolperfallen eingeschrieben, auch gilt er nur für einen kleinen Teil der Bahn-Belegschaft. Künftigen Arbeitskämpfen bleibt viel zu tun. jacobin.de/artikel/bahnst…

Die indische Bauernbewegung fordert wie keine andere Kraft im Land die Regierung von Narendra Modi heraus. Im Vorfeld der Wahlen mobilisiert sie jetzt gegen die zunehmende Verarmung des ländlichen Raums durch Indiens neoliberales Wirtschaftsmodell.
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“Forget the “cordon sanitaire” against the far right. Today, European neoliberalism is defended by a cordon into which such forces have already been integrated”

Europe’s Mood of War Is Whitewashing the Far Right

My piece / ⁦Jacobin⁩ jacobin.com/2024/04/europe…

Geht hart

Four years on, this has aged like the finest of milks

While visiting Beijing and Shanghai last month, one of the most striking things was the amount of electric cars on the road — easily one third of the fleet. Hard to imagine how Western manufacturers will manage to keep up with that pace.

Historian Enzo Traverso in a new Jacobin essay: “What is at stake today is not the existence of Israel but the survival of the Palestinian people.” jacobin.com/2024/04/gaza-g…