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Free Speech · GazaIn the University of California system, the union representing 48,000 grad students and other academic workers is about to strike in protest of repression of campus protests. It’s a watershed for labor and for the Palestine solidarity movement.
A woman waves the Palestinian flag as police remove a pro-Palestinian encampment at UC Irvine on May 15, 2024. (Paul Bersebach / MediaNews Group / Orange County Register via Getty Images)
We are set to …See the Story
UC Workers Are Poised to Strike for Palestine and for Free Speech
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Soccer · GazaIsrael’s bloody attack on Gaza has been unsparing and unceasing. It hasn’t stopped the Palestine Football Association from playing soccer.
Palestinian midfielder Oday Kharoub during the Asian Cup football match between Hong Kong and Palestine in Doha, Qatar, on January 23, 2024. (Giuseppe Cacace / AFP via Getty Images)
As the final whistle blew at the Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium in Doha, Mohammed Saleh fell to his knees. The Gaza-born defend…See the Story
Soccer Under Israel’s Assault
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Stamford, Connecticut · StamfordA look at all the available survey data on public support for a job guarantee shows consistently strong support for the idea. It’s a winning idea for the Left.
Workers prepare to lift a new pedestrian bridge into place at the Stamford Transportation Center on August 26, 2023 in Stamford, Connecticut. (John Moore / Getty Images)
There has been steadily increasing interest in a federal job guarantee since Bernie Sanders reintroduced the concept …See the Story
Americans Across the Political Divide Want a Federal Job Guarantee
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Jeremy Corbyn · LondonBritish journalist Paul Mason has announced plans to run for election in Jeremy Corbyn’s constituency. It’s the culmination of Mason’s war with his former comrades — and it’s important that he is defeated.
Paul Mason during a protest on August 28, 2019, in London, England. (Guy Smallman / Getty Images)
“If you don’t think [Keir Starmer] will advance the class struggle, you’re possibly not understanding social democracy correctly from a Marxist…See the Story
Paul Mason, Please Stop It
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · PhiladelphiaEarlier this month, graduate student workers at the University of Pennsylvania successfully voted to form a union in a landslide victory. Jacobin spoke with worker-organizers about the organizing drive.See the Story
Graduate Workers at UPenn Just Won a Union
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Gaza · GazaLongtime social movement scholar Frances Fox Piven reflects on her involvement in Columbia’s 1968 occupation, the need for protest movements to imitate each other, and why campus protests make sense for students demanding an end to Israel’s war on Gaza.
Student protesters at a sit-in at Columbia University, April 1968. (Bettmann / Getty Images)
As the war on Gaza enters its seventh month of unrelenting destruction, students around the world ar…See the Story
Frances Fox Piven: Students Are Right to Protest on Campus
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Artificial Intelligence · San FranciscoThe founder of dating app Bumble recently predicted we will soon have personalized AI assistants dating each other on our behalf. In an age of already rampant social atomization, the prospect promises to cocoon us into ever more insular social milieus.
Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and chief executive officer of the Bumble dating app, speaking in San Francisco, California, on May 9, 2024. (David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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No, We Don’t Need AI to Go on Dates for Us
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