Portside
Material of Interest to People on the Left
Portside
Material of Interest to People on the Left
What Ilhan Omar Actually Said
Senate Dems Weigh $6 Trillion Infrastructure Bill
Forget the Alamo - Texas History Made of Myths and Lies
Palestinians Deserve Reparations from Israel
June 17, 2021-Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements
Texas Passes Law to Stop Teachers Talking about Racism
Trumpism Without Borders
Growing Up With Juneteenth
“The Billionaires Are Nervous. They Should Be Nervous."
Global Left Midweek - National Yearnings and Left Polit
Culture
books
Women’s Political Activism in Palestine
LSE Review of Books
A deep look at how Palestinian women have practiced creative and often informal forms of everyday political activism and resistance. The reviewer considers the book among the finest social scientific works on contemporary Palestine in recent years.
books
A Data Artist’s Guide to Putting People (and Privacy) First
Hyperallergic
With Living In Data, Jer Thorp demonstrates the importance of enabling people to participate in the process of creating and telling the stories behind data.
film
Born in Flames – Subversive Spirit of 80s Agitprop Lives On
Guardian
Lizzie Borden’s restored and rereleased radical feminist movie is as scrappy and smart as it was in 1983. It's a fantasy about how 10 years after peaceful revolution a supposedly socialist state rules.
food
Black Communities Have Always Used Food as Protest
Food & Wine
Beginning with the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Black people in America have used food as a means of resistance, rebellion, and revolution as well as maintaining a closeness with one another through the meals they ate.
tv
17 Seasons In, Grey’s Anatomy Reimagined Itself For The Pandemic. But Only A Little Bit.
Vox
The show’s take on 2020 was extremely weird — and surprisingly moving.
poetry
Poem with an Ear Pressed to the Ground
Rattle
“So much of this last year has been about breath and breathing,” writes the poet Kindra McDonald, referring to respirators and the words “I can’t breathe.”
books
The Railway: An Adventure in Construction
Counterfire
E. P. Thompson a leader among British youth in constructing a Yugoslav railway in 1947. The reviewer faults the book, for boosting the communist regime while exaggerating the role played by the nation’s workers, even as he lauds Thompson’s later work
Labor
labor
Barbara Bowen Passes the Torch
The Indypendent
The outgoing leader of NYC's leftmost union local looks back on long struggle to transform CUNY.
labor
How the Asian American-led 1982 Garment Strike Shaped Three Decades of Labor Activism
Prism
What made the strike successful were two factors: collective action under common goals and the willingness for immigrants, especially women, to be unapologetically vocal about their concerns. Its lessons about racism and justice are still relevant.
labor
There Is No Labour Shortage, Only Labour Exploitation
Naked Capitalsm
If the hyperbolic claims are to be believed, American workers are luxuriating in the largesse of taxpayer-funded payments, thumbing their noses at the benevolent and generous employers who are struggling to fill job vacancies.
labor
How an American Family Raised on GE Wages Copes With Income Inequality
Capital & Main
The McCaul family’s trajectory traces the rise and tumble of the American blue collar worker, who thrived in the middle of the last century only to be beset by layoffs and wage concessions in recent years.
labor
Los Deliveristas Speak: How Delivery Workers Are Organizing to Take On the Apps
Labor Notes
More than 2,000 food couriers snarled traffic in Times Square through pouring rain in protest April 21 demanding better working conditions and protection from violent assaults. The mass demonstration was organized by Los Deliveristas Unidos.
labor
A Backroom Deal To Kill Single Payer
The Daily Poster
Under pressure from labor leaders and insurance execs, NY Dem leaders are blocking a vote on health care legislation even though it has majority support in the legislature.
labor
Trump-inspired Death Threats are Terrorizing Election Workers
Reuters
Election officials and their families are living with threats of hanging, firing squads, torture and bomb blasts, interviews and documents reveal. The campaign of fear, sparked by Trump's voter-fraud falsehoods, threatens the U.S. electoral system.
Friday nite video
video
How Radical Gardeners Took Back New York City
Seed bombs. The "tree lady of Brooklyn." The roots of urban gardening. The secret history of the radical act of greening cities.
video
Mdou Moctar | Chismiten
"Afrique Victime" is the title track from Mdou Moctar's new album out on Matador Records, May 21,2021. Order it here: http://mdou.ffm.to/afriquevictime
video
“Takeover”: New Doc Chronicles Historic 1970 Young Lords Occupation of Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx
“Takeover” follows the 12 historic hours on July 14, 1970, when members of the Young Lords Party took over the rundown Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx in New York City.
video
Is Most Published Research Wrong?
Mounting evidence suggests a lot of published research is false. But it's a lot better than denying published science.
video
Jordan Klepper Solves Guns - Full Episode
From the nation's capital to the woods of Georgia and beyond, Jordan Klepper talks with lawmakers, militia members and more to solve America's gun crisis once and for all. #JordanKlepper #JordanKlepperSolvesGuns #GunViolenceAwarenessDay
video
Why the US Government Murdered Fred Hampton
This is the story of an assassination, and a coverup. But Fred Hampton's story is about much more than the raid that took his life: the movement he helped create was unique, and revolutionary.
video
Valedictorian Goes Off Script to Blast Texas Abortion Law
A high school valedictorian in Texas ditched her school-approved speech to use the moment to speak out against a restrictive new abortion law in Texas.
Spread the word