Justice for Nex Benedict!

Nex Benedict On Feb. 8, Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old Choctaw nonbinary student living on the Cherokee Reservation in Owasso, Oklahoma, died after an attack the day before by three presumably cisgender girls who had been harassing them and their friend. Benedict, who used they/them pronouns, allegedly poured water on the . . .

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Gaza: Hunger as a weapon

According to the United Nations World Food Program, 80% of the people of the world threatened with famine — dying because of a severe lack of food or water — are Palestinians living in Gaza. Al Jazeera reports that “Half a million people in Gaza face starvation, and all 2.3 . . .

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PDF of February 29 issue

Download the PDF. China: Palestine has right to armed struggle The sacrifice of Aaron Bushnell Students walk out for Palestine Gaza: Hunger as a weapon Imperialist hypocrisy marks Assange persecution Download the PDF. More PDF back-issues here.

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Labor calls for ceasefire grow

Press conference calling for a ceasefire with Congressional Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush and UAW President Shawn Fain, Dec. 14, 2023. A number of major U.S. unions have united around the call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Seven of them, along with over 200 local and regional labor bodies, . . .

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