Rampant Magazine
Some Democrats are cautiously taking on popular calls to abolish ICE by casting it as an anomaly of US policing. But ICE’s violent border enforcement relies centrally on “regular” US police, and the fight to abolish one is inextricably tied to the abolition of the other.
Spare us your talk of body cams.
The US government, with the collusion of the Philippines ruling class, is attempting to expand its military presence at the expense of the Filipino people while under Trump, Filipino Americans are under threat by the same dynamics. Solidarity can link the struggles at home and abroad.
The left faces enormous challenges in the wake of the re-election of Donald Trump. Confronting the fascists will require opening paths of cooperation and cultivating a faith that working people can act collectively for ourselves.
Chicago’s libraries are vibrant neighborhood centers of learning, rest, and community building. They could offer a glimpse of another kind of world, if we protect and support these spaces and the people who make them run.
At the “Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws” march that kicked off a week of protest against the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Chicago for Abortion Rights drew the connections between the need for reproductive justice and Palestinian liberation.
An interview with an unstoppable organizer, Gerardo Marciano
The student Palestine solidarity movement has spread encampments to universities across the country, spurred on by repression. By refusing to back down, they are keeping the focus on the genocide in Gaza and the need to end it.
Elbit Systems, the Israeli weapons manufacturer that has long marketed its weapons as “battle-tested” after deploying them on unarmed Palestinians, is coming to Chicago next week. Chicagoans will not be complicit in their war crimes.
“Terrorism” is a nebulous, racialized, and incoherent concept. Its use adds nothing to our political or ethical analysis, but rather functions as a political weapon in the hands of US empire.
Today, Biden will deliver his State of the Union speech while the US backs mass murder and starvation in Gaza. Instead of watching Biden’s farce, hundreds of Chicagoans will refuse the humiliation of their Palestinian neighbors and stand vigil for Gaza.
The Yemeni group Ansar Allah’s heroic humanitarian blockade of the Red Sea in solidarity with Palestine is exposing the decline of the US and UK empires. It also signals the coming of radically different futures.
The US and other Western countries are pulling support from the vital international organization providing food and relief in Gaza, echoing centuries of colonialist genocide. We must recognize this famine for what it is in order to fight against it effectively.
A century of U.S. Imperialism in Latin America has prompted both internal displacement and mass exodus of Colombians from their homeland, and this is what’s driving the influx of migrants to cities like Chicago.
We can rejoice that we no longer live in a world with Henry Kissinger. But we are still living with his blood-soaked legacy, which has turned the entire world into an endless battlefield.
Israel’s current massacre of Gaza is spawning a deep-seated solidarity with Palestine among a new generation around the globe. As we continue the solidarity struggle, we should understand the basics of Zionism, settler colonialism, imperialism and Palestinian resistance.
The people of Chicago stand with Palestine against Israel’s US-backed genocide, even if our elected representatives will not.
Hundreds of activists and organizers from a wide spectrum of struggles express solidarity with Palestine.
Jewish progressives condemn City Council for passing a resolution in support of Israel.
A member of Jewish Voice for Peace in Chicago argues for our responsibility not to stay silent in this historic moment of active genocide against Gaza.
A six-year-old Palestinian American child was murdered. A bloodthirsty media atmosphere and Chicago City Council’s pro-Israel resolution bear responsibility for dehumanizing Palestinians and normalizing calls for genocide.
Everyone deserves housing. GardaWorlds’s tent camps are carceral sites and an attack on us all.
The narrative of counterterrorism builds circuits of repressive policing and resistance from the West Bank to the West Side.
The City of Chicago yesterday announced a $29 million contract with a company known as “Canada’s Blackwater” to run tent camps for newly arrived asylum seekers. Meanwhile, a prominent and effective alternative based in dignity and care had to shut down for lack of city support. This is their story.
