https://znetwork.org/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:49:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/social-strikes-confronting-ice-and-resisting-authoritarianism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/social-strikes-confronting-ice-and-resisting-authoritarianism/#respond Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293569 As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under siege, and dissent is increasingly met with repression in the streets. In this moment, questions of power — who has it, how it is exercised, and how it can be withdrawn — are [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/social-strikes-confronting-ice-and-resisting-authoritarianism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-can-socialists-run-cities/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-can-socialists-run-cities/#respond Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293544 Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of New York has been a badly-needed boost to the confidence of the left in the U.S. and beyond. It has also reignited debate about the strategic choices facing socialists elected to local government, and eventually to national governments too. A special, end-of-year issue of Jacobin, the U.S. left magazine, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-can-socialists-run-cities/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-global-meaning-of-the-u-s-attack-on-venezuela/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-global-meaning-of-the-u-s-attack-on-venezuela/#respond Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293560 Beyond the seizure of Venezuela’s oil and mineral resources, the January 3 invasion is inscribed within the epochal crisis of global capitalism. Historians will likely look back at the January 3, 2026 attack on Venezuela, the kidnapping of its president, and the takeover of the country as marking the definitive crack up of the post-WWII [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-global-meaning-of-the-u-s-attack-on-venezuela/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ehren-watada-the-duty-to-oppose-crimes-of-state/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ehren-watada-the-duty-to-oppose-crimes-of-state/#respond Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293536 The US attack on Venezuela and its kidnapping of President Maduro and his wife has launched the US on a new round of crimes against US law, international law, and the US Constitution. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has started proceedings against military veteran Sen. Mark Kelly for saying military officers have a duty to disobey [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ehren-watada-the-duty-to-oppose-crimes-of-state/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/just-as-dangerous/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/just-as-dangerous/#respond Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293531 Donald Trump may, of course, be the Republican candidate for president in 2028, the U.S. Constitution notwithstanding. Although it is clearly written in the 22nd Amendment that “no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,” it may well be a majority vote of the Supreme Court that determines whether that applies [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/just-as-dangerous/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-labor-at-the-point-of-no-return/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-labor-at-the-point-of-no-return/#respond Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293552 Unions are in a death spiral, and the numbers show they could nearly vanish within our lifetime. That’s not alarmism. It’s arithmetic. Private sector union density has collapsed from about one-third of the workforce in the 1950s1 to just 5.9 percent in 2024.2 In the last twenty years, we’ve lost a quarter of private sector union density. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-labor-at-the-point-of-no-return/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-the-ashes-of-the-arab-spring/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-the-ashes-of-the-arab-spring/#respond Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293527 On January 14, 2011, Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to resign, after four weeks of revolt in the north African country. It was a first major scalp for the wave of upheaval known as the Arab Spring — a democratic upsurge across the region, which, however, also ended in many defeats. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-the-ashes-of-the-arab-spring/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-iran-a-retrospective/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-iran-a-retrospective/#respond Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293524 The Islamic Republic of Iran has long been accustomed to challenges, relentless pressure and widely believed misrepresentations about it.   As the current crises mount, so does the quandary among members of its political classes.  They all want change.  The hardliners want a return to the past; the reformers want a future unburdened by the past, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-iran-a-retrospective/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-black-feminist-collective-that-gave-us-identity-politics/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-black-feminist-collective-that-gave-us-identity-politics/#respond Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293540 Hammer & Hope co-founder Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has written a new introduction for an expanded second edition of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, which includes the groundbreaking statement, along with interviews and essays reflecting on its impact, among them a new interview with Angela Y. Davis. In this excerpt from the introduction, Taylor describes the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-black-feminist-collective-that-gave-us-identity-politics/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resisting-the-respectable-opinion-on-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resisting-the-respectable-opinion-on-iran/#respond Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293547 Iraq. Libya. Egypt. Syria. Gaza. Somalia. No CIA- and Mossad-constructed regime change operation in the Middle East has ever made life better for the ordinary people of the country, nor even delivered the promised increase in personal and political freedoms. The only limited improvement that might be gained comes from the lifting of Western sanction [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resisting-the-respectable-opinion-on-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/deconstructing-trumps-gaza-peace-plan/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/deconstructing-trumps-gaza-peace-plan/#respond Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1293554 Lawlessness has been a common theme characterizing the events of the first weeks of the year. The kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the murder of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, the threat of bombing Iran by the Trump administration. Perhaps one of the worst violations of the law has slipped under the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/deconstructing-trumps-gaza-peace-plan/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/silencing-dissent/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/silencing-dissent/#respond Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293519 Despite government ministers’ commitment to phasing out animal testing, Labour now intends to criminalise protests outside animal breeding and testing facilities — a move that will undermine British democracy. It might feel a long time ago now, but at the last election, while many criticised Labour’s offer as too vague or limited, there was no [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/silencing-dissent/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-are-facing-a-tsunami-of-hate-amid-ice-crackdown-unions-and-community-groups-call-for-minnesota-shutdown-in-10-days/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-are-facing-a-tsunami-of-hate-amid-ice-crackdown-unions-and-community-groups-call-for-minnesota-shutdown-in-10-days/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293513 Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on January 23. Unions and community groups gathered in front of the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota this morning [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-are-facing-a-tsunami-of-hate-amid-ice-crackdown-unions-and-community-groups-call-for-minnesota-shutdown-in-10-days/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-war-is-peace/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-war-is-peace/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293508 After declaring his second presidential victory on 6 November 2024, Donald Trump said of his first term: ‘You know, we had no wars for four years. We had no wars. Except we defeated ISIS, we defeated ISIS in record time. But we had no wars. They said, “He will start a war.” I’m not going to start [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-war-is-peace/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-voting-alone-doesnt-build-democracy-and-what-actually-does/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-voting-alone-doesnt-build-democracy-and-what-actually-does/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293501 Elections matter, but history shows they are not enough. Real democracy is built through organized civic power between elections. Voting matters. That needs to be said plainly—especially now. But let’s be frank: voting does not provide an immediate mechanism for holding politicians accountable when their actions violate the public trust, undermine democratic norms, or serve [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-voting-alone-doesnt-build-democracy-and-what-actually-does/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-empire-strikes-back-trump-venezuela-and-ice/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-empire-strikes-back-trump-venezuela-and-ice/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1293480 In this livestream, Yanis Varoufakis and entrepreneur and commentator Arnaud Bertrand unpack what just happened in Venezuela, why it matters far beyond Latin America, and what people can do when “might makes right” is being sold as order. We also look at Europe’s response, the oil angle, and the wider shift towards more force, fewer [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-empire-strikes-back-trump-venezuela-and-ice/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-war-without-headlines-israels-shock-and-awe-campaign-in-the-west-bank/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-war-without-headlines-israels-shock-and-awe-campaign-in-the-west-bank/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293522 A shock and awe. The phrase is apt in describing what Israel has done in the occupied West Bank almost immediately following the events of October 7, 2023, and the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. In her book The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein defines “shock and awe” not merely as a military tactic, but [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-war-without-headlines-israels-shock-and-awe-campaign-in-the-west-bank/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-ban-on-37-aid-organizations-expected-to-have-devastating-impacts-across-palestine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-ban-on-37-aid-organizations-expected-to-have-devastating-impacts-across-palestine/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293498 Aid organizations say Israel’s recent ban of 37 groups has dealt a severe blow to humanitarian work across Palestine. In Gaza, it means “cutting off a lifeline for over two million people,” says Rahma Worldwide’s Dr. Shadi Zazzah. Israel’s decision to cancel the registration of 37 international aid organizations at the beginning of the year [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-ban-on-37-aid-organizations-expected-to-have-devastating-impacts-across-palestine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/barristers-powerful-speech-at-filton-trial-reminds-jury-of-its-right-to-defy-judge/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/barristers-powerful-speech-at-filton-trial-reminds-jury-of-its-right-to-defy-judge/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293510 Starmer and the media need convictions to justify Palestine Action’s proscription as a terrorist group. Rajiv Menon KC spells out to the jury why it is a vital last defence against government tyranny. My thanks to Craig Murray, former UK ambassador turned whistleblower, for alerting me to what he rightly calls “one of the greatest legal speeches [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/barristers-powerful-speech-at-filton-trial-reminds-jury-of-its-right-to-defy-judge/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/only-the-iranian-people-should-determine-their-nations-future/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/only-the-iranian-people-should-determine-their-nations-future/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293483 It’s virtually impossible to predict what lies ahead for Iran and its people. But if President Donald Trump decides to take military action against Iran’s current regime, nothing good will come out of it. Iran’s Islamic regime is under incredible pressure as the protests that begun in late December over the collapse of the currency have morphed into a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/only-the-iranian-people-should-determine-their-nations-future/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-from-genocide-to-self-destruction/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-from-genocide-to-self-destruction/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293516 The genocide in Gaza radicalizes Zionism’s long-standing colonial project. But Israeli leaders’ open rejection of any future possibility of a Palestinian state have undercut their own international legitimacy. It has been three months since the ceasefire was announced in Palestine, imposed as a consequence of Donald Trump’s so-called peace plan. In November, the United Nations [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-from-genocide-to-self-destruction/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-authoritarians-play-victim-from-minnesota-to-tel-aviv-it-is-an-admission-of-violent-intent/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-authoritarians-play-victim-from-minnesota-to-tel-aviv-it-is-an-admission-of-violent-intent/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293486 Fascists and various authoritarian personality types have a proclivity for playing the victim. Anyone who calls into question their brutal tactics is a terrorist/terrorist supporter who not only places them in mortal danger (i.e., As a rule, clad in body armor, heavily armed, and traveling in a belligerent pack) but the security and welfare of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-authoritarians-play-victim-from-minnesota-to-tel-aviv-it-is-an-admission-of-violent-intent/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greenland-really/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greenland-really/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293495 It is hard to understand why Donald Trump is so anxious to acquire Greenland even if it takes military force. When he suggested this during his first administration, one of his Cabinet secretaries mused, “You just sit there and be, like, ‘Well, this isn’t real.’” Now, somehow, it is. Venezuela shows us that, other than a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greenland-really/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/o-world-beware-godzilla-is-here/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/o-world-beware-godzilla-is-here/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:45:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293481 “He bestrides the narrow world like a colossus,” said the canny Cassius of Caesar. What may we say of Trump? That you never know when he may from Caracas to Greenland jump? Iran is in between, as theocracy seems to be unravelling in that land of the Ayatollahs – the same theocracy which gathers pace [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/o-world-beware-godzilla-is-here/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/digital-socialism-or-extinction-venezuelas-lesson-amid-capitalisms-most-ferocious-phase/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/digital-socialism-or-extinction-venezuelas-lesson-amid-capitalisms-most-ferocious-phase/#respond Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293473 1. The Lesson of Venezuela At the dawn of an ordinary day in early January of this year, 2026, the world woke up to shocking news whose repercussions were not clear at first glance: a brutal U.S. military aggression and the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in a complex [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/digital-socialism-or-extinction-venezuelas-lesson-amid-capitalisms-most-ferocious-phase/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-does-venezuela-have-to-do-with-taiwan/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-does-venezuela-have-to-do-with-taiwan/#respond Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293471 The New Year did not begin with hope or joy, except for the arms dealers. More precisely, for the military-industrial-media-academic-NGO complex that feeds on permanent war. Orders are flowing, profits are booming, and blood has once again become a growth sector. For any normal society, pirates belong in adventure films, not in the civilian power [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-does-venezuela-have-to-do-with-taiwan/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/minnesota-should-charge-ice-agent-with-murder/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/minnesota-should-charge-ice-agent-with-murder/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293469 On Jan. 7, less than a mile from where George Floyd was murdered nearly six years ago, ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Nicole Good as she tried to drive away. Once again, video footage filmed by bystanders recorded a brutal murder by a member of law enforcement, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/minnesota-should-charge-ice-agent-with-murder/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/three-strategic-issues-what-to-say-or-write-what-to-do-and-who-to-do-it-with/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/three-strategic-issues-what-to-say-or-write-what-to-do-and-who-to-do-it-with/#respond Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293467 My goal in this oddly titled and rather short episode is to suggest a near universally applicable strategic measuring stick for choosing among different progressive actions and choices those we wish to undertake. In some respects my observations are quite elementary. In others, though, regarding actual day-to-day choices we make, I suspect they are pretty [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/three-strategic-issues-what-to-say-or-write-what-to-do-and-who-to-do-it-with/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-significance-of-last-weekends-1200-local-actions/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-significance-of-last-weekends-1200-local-actions/#respond Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293477 The new year began on a very foreboding note. First was the Trump regime’s invasion of Venezuela to kidnap its President with the explicit purpose being to get control of its oil. Then, a few days later, came the killing of 37-year-old, mother of three Renee Nicole Good by ICE in Minneapolis, followed by Trump [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-significance-of-last-weekends-1200-local-actions/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/six-points-to-navigate-the-turmoil-in-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/six-points-to-navigate-the-turmoil-in-iran/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293456 Iran is in turmoil. Across the country, there have been protests of different magnitudes, with violence on the increase with both protesters and police finding themselves in the morgue. What began as work stoppages and inflation protests drew together a range of discontent, with women and young people frustrated with a system unable to secure [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/six-points-to-navigate-the-turmoil-in-iran/feed/ 1