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GAZA CATASTROPHE: THE GENOCIDE IN WORLD-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
30% Discount on online orders of the US edition (in the US and Canada only). Use promo code UCPSAVE30 at checkout.
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Gaza Catastrophe by Gilbert Achcar - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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June 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
On Jacobin Radio:
@jricole unpacks Trump’s zigzagging Middle East pivot: sidelining Israel, cozying up to Gulf monarchies, dangling deals to Iran and Syria. Strategic realignment or pure chaos? Plus: the U.S.-brokered Hamas deal that bypassed Netanyahu. open.spotify.com/show/1Og0Jp0...
Jacobin Radio
Podcast · Jacobin · News, politics, history and more from Jacobin. Featuring The Dig, Long Reads, Confronting Capitalism, Behind the News, Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman, and occasional specials.
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May 21, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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We are devastated to say that our comrade, teacher and friend Joshua Clover passed away last night. He is irreplaceable; We will miss him forever.
April 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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🚨 The Alarming Moves You Might Have Missed

Lost in the noise of the past two weeks, Trump has taken unprecedented steps to undermine the one branch of government he doesn’t fully control — the judiciary.
March 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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San Jose, Los Angeles, Riverside CA
#fiftyfiftyone #50501
February 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Feb 19 / SOS / Save Our Services.

This organizing is critical and this action is a concrete way we can all show our support for public workers and public goods.

Participate and pass it on.
📢 Federal workers keep our nation running! On Feb 19, join the #SaveOurServices Day of Action:

✅ Take a photo showing how your work benefits the public — or, if you're a community member, how you benefit from federal services 📸
✅ Post with #SaveOurServices
✅ Wear red, white &/or blue 🇺🇸
February 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Instead of being intimidated into “resigning” by the world’s richest man, we’re going to stand up and make our voices heard.

On Wednesday, February 19th, join fellow federal employees and community supporters across the country for a Save Our Services day of action.
February 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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📢 Federal workers keep our nation running! On Feb 19, join the #SaveOurServices Day of Action:

✅ Take a photo showing how your work benefits the public — or, if you're a community member, how you benefit from federal services 📸
✅ Post with #SaveOurServices
✅ Wear red, white &/or blue 🇺🇸
February 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Join 50501 in a National Day of Action on Monday, February 17th. We are reclaiming President's Day - a day that is supposed to be celebrating the Presidency. Unite to limit executive overreach. Find your protest at https://buff.ly/417VjtT, or create one.
February 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Imprisoned Russian socialist Boris Kagarlitsky writes in Jacobin about what Donald Trump’s second presidency might bring.
Russian Political Prisoner Boris Kagarlitsky on Trump’s Uncertainty
From a Russian prison, Boris Kagarlitsky writes about the uncharted waters of a second Donald Trump presidency.
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February 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Law enforcement in Russia can now conduct “mandatory state genomic registration” of people convicted of misdemeanors. What counts as a misdemeanor? Promoting the “childfree lifestyle” or attending a protest, for starters.
Russia has started taking DNA samples from people charged with misdemeanors — like participating in protests and promoting ‘childfree propaganda’ — Meduza
On January 1, 2025, an amendment to Russia’s law “On state genomic registration” went into effect, allowing law enforcement to conduct “mandatory state genomic registration” of individuals convicted…
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January 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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“on Thursday the [National Science Foundation]’s online payment system was still down, throwing lives into uncertainty. An NSF email seen by STAT suggested salaries had been suspended to “ensure only eligible activities” are funded.” www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
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January 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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We’re in mourning, too. We’ll stop paying our premiums because this is no time to be thinking about money. We’re all in this together. ❤️
UnitedHealth officials are pointing to their CEO's murder as a reason they cannot comment on an unrelated @propublica.org investigation into the company's practice of strategically limiting access to critical treatment for kids with autism.

"We are in mourning," a spokesperson wrote.
December 13, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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Boris Kagarlitsky, a Russian sociologist serving jail time on charges of “justifying terrorism” for an online post about the 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion, said he will consider it “abduction” if he’s included in a future prisoner swap.
Jailed Russian anti-war sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky vows to sue any foreign government that includes him in prisoner swap — Meduza
Boris Kagarlitsky, a Russian sociologist serving a five-year prison sentence on charges of “justifying terrorism” for an online post about the 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion, has asked not to be…
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November 15, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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Still looking for someone to blame? Here you go: Roughly 36% of eligible US voters didn’t vote in Nov. That’s greater than the number of folks who voted for Trump or Harris. The electoral college system made voting seem futile. Hate it but they have a point. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
‘What a circus’: eligible US voters on why they didn’t vote in the 2024 presidential election
Nearly 90 million Americans didn’t vote – which is more than the number of people who voted for Trump or Harris
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2024 at 9:37 PM
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j... Gilbert Achcar on wars in Lebanon and Gaza, & how they prepared the overthrow of Al-
Assad's 50 year dictatorship in Syria. Recorded before the regime's collapse but excellent background on HTS & the mosaic of opponents to the Assad regime.
Jacobin Radio: Collapse in Syria w/ Gilbert Achcar
Podcast Episode · Jacobin Radio · 12/09/2024 · 1h 1m
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December 10, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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My annual holiday book guide – all right Bluesky, prove to me you’re a better platform than Twitter and re-blue the hell out of this one!
Column: In 2024, books by and about Southern California Latinas shined
I was excited to see so many voices, new and familiar, dominate the 2024 nonfiction releases, showing that Latinas have played important roles in the Southern California story and deserve far more rec...
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December 6, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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Can the American far right impose its hegemony in the long term? I raise doubts about its capacity to do so because the far right lacks a solid class project and fascists are not ready for regime-changing mass violence. Nevertheless, I insist that fascism +
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Let’s Measure the Far-Right Threat Seriously
Donald Trump’s second term could empower the organized far right much more than the first. Its current mobilizing strength suggests it’s far from ready to take over the state apparatus — but it does h...
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November 26, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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Matt Gaetz has been withdrawn as nominee for AG. He's out.
I predicted this when I wrote this last nite. Meanwhile a cowardly media begins its capitulation to The Don. Open the piece.
The Coop Scoop: [Updated]The Media Starts Running for Cover
MATT GAETZ WITHDRAWN AS NOMINEE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL.
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November 21, 2024 at 7:06 PM