Left Voice

1 week ago | leftvoice.org | James Hoff

Trump came into office falsely claiming that he had a mandate for a reactionary program of deportations, tariffs, austerity, and tax breaks for the rich; but that agenda, and Trump's strong-arm anti-democratic tactics for implementing it, are now coming up against a huge and growing wave of popular resistance.

2 weeks ago | leftvoice.org | James Hoff

To the surprise of perhaps no one, the tragedy of McCarthyism is being played out yet again as farce by the unimaginative buffoons running the U.S. congress. On Wednesday, June 11, The U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counter-Terrorism, chaired by Republican Josh Hawley, sent what appears to be a slightly modified form letter to the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) and several other organizations.

3 weeks ago | leftvoice.org | James Hoff

On June 4, dock workers at the French port in Fos sur Mer, near the city of Marseille, refused to load several shipments of military equipment and parts destined for use in Israel's ongoing genocide against the people of Gaza. The shipments, which included 14 tons of machine gun links as well as two containers of gun tubes, were set aside and the union says they cannot be loaded by any other workers.

3 weeks ago | leftvoice.org | Nathaniel Flakin

I was away from Berlin for almost a month, and I returned just in time for a whiplash-inducing shift in Germany's official discourse. For 19 months, all politicians and journalists offered unwavering and passionate support for the genocide in Gaza, not just in the form of declarations about "Israel's right to defend itself" and "Hamas command centers under hospitals," but also in the form of bombs and bullets.

1 month ago | leftvoice.org | James Hoff

On Wednesday evening, two Israeli embassy staffers were shot to death outside the Washington, D.C. Jewish Museum, where a "young diplomats reception" was being held. The suspected shooter, Elias Rodriguez, who reportedly had a Keffiyeh and shouted "Free free Palestine," and "I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza," was almost immediately arrested without further incident.