Rampant Magazine
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.
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.
The narrative of counterterrorism builds circuits of repressive policing and resistance from the West Bank to the West Side.
While elected officials plead scarcity, communities create and share means of collective survival with newly arriving asylum seekers in Chicago.
Administrators at UIC have been implicated in a series of racist incidents aimed to limit free speech and political activism. Students for Justice in Palestine at UIC are demanding accountability.
Like others before him, aldermanic hopeful Mueze Bawany has come under attack by those seeking to discredit the Palestine solidarity movement. As Israel escalates its violent occupation, our side has to reject the false frameworks of the liberal establishment, even in Chicago’s municipal elections.
Palestinian writer Yara Hawari speaks with the founders of Hajar Press on unity and fragmentation, joy and pain, and her novella, The Stone House.
A new report exposes the “Israel Institute” as an extensive propaganda operation that gives cover to brutal Israeli state violence and capitalizes on the oppression of Palestinians in the service of the Israeli military and security industry.
Brekhna Aftab and Farhaana Arefin, founders of Hajar Press, speak with Palestinian writer Yara Hawari on cycles of dispossession, the beauty of oral history, and her novella, The Stone House.
So what’s up with NATO? Dissenters answers some fundamental questions about NATO, and what role the alliance has played in the war on Ukraine.
Legendary Irish socialist Eamonn McCann reflects on police abolition in Free Derry, the rapid and challenging dynamics of the movement, and humiliating the Brits.
