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1 day ago | znetwork.org | Marc Edelman

“Nah, he wouldn’t really do that.”I’ve lived in the Upper Delaware Valley for five years, first in Pike County, Pennsylvania, and now in Sullivan County, New York. My county went 58% for Trump last November, and several of my pro-Trump neighbors made remarks like that in the lead-up to the election. Deep down, they know Trump is a liar and con artist, even if they find him entertaining and thrillingly transgressive. They didn’t take his bombast and grandiose promises seriously.

2 days ago | znetwork.org | Mohammed El-Kurd |Yanis Varoufakis |Mehran Khalili

Israel is escalating its genocide in Gaza. Entire families are being wiped out, famine is spreading, and airstrikes are targeting shelters and schools. In the West Bank, killings and settler violence are surging as Israel tightens its grip on the territory. Yet despite these atrocities, international media coverage has diminished. While a handful of European governments have begun to question their complicity, meaningful action is still missing.

3 days ago | znetwork.org | Derek Seidman

A shining light within the U.S. labor movement over the past several years has been the rising wave of unionization and militancy among graduate workers, whose labor helps prop up the entire system of U.S. higher education. Tens of thousands of graduate workers have unionized over the past half-decade at institutions like Stanford, UChicago, MIT, Duke, Minnesota, and many more.

3 days ago | znetwork.org | Ben Becker |Eugene Puryear |Rania Khalek

Dr. Ben Becker, Editor-in-Chief of BreakThrough News, breaks down the Republican budget bill, cynically titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which passed the House and aims to transfer even more wealth to billionaires while gutting the programs working people rely on to survive. Becker explains how, if enacted, the bill would strip healthcare from millions, slash food assistance through the federal SNAP program, lock in massive tax breaks for the rich, and expand Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

4 days ago | znetwork.org | Michael Albert

Not long ago a Jacobin article (re-posted on ZNet) argued that we need more Marxism. To my eyes the tone was if we aren’t Marxist we aren’t materialist, if we aren’t materialist we don’t believe in reality, and if we pay inadequate attention to reality we will chase rainbows and succumb to mis-leadership. Conclusion, we need to be Marxist materialists.