Views From The Left For April 2, 2025

Views From The Left 

Below is a list of articles from a sampling of leftist websites. Except for the Democracy At Work website, each leftist site listed below has a high reliable reporting rating according to MediaBiasFactCheck.com. The articles listed below express views that will sometimes be divergent from the views of the owner of this blog.

Martin Luther King statement made when speaking against the Vietnam War (click here for source):

'I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin...we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.'

• Alternet 
1. 'Breaking Point': Senate Dems To Use 'Leverage' Against GOP As Major Deadline Looms
2. 'Putin Is Giddy': NSA Knew Signal Was Vulnerable To Russian Hackers Before Security Breach
3. 'Desperate Measures': Johnson Wants To 'Eliminate An Entire District Court' To Help Trump
4. 'Game over': Yale Fascism Expert Moving To Canada Because US Is Becoming A 'Dictatorship'
5. 'The President Is A Dangerous Threat': Lutheran Bishops Take A Stand
6. Musk’s 'Hack-And-Slash Tactics' May 'Trigger' A 'Debt Ceiling' Crisis — And A 'Massive Recession'
7. Trump Says He’s 'Not Joking' About Seeking A Third Term: 'There Are Methods Which You Could Do It'

• Common Dreams 
1. Privatization Warnings Flash Red As Senate Republicans Advance Dr. Oz For Medicare Chief
2. Elon Musk Dropping Millions On Wisconsin Supreme Court Race To Rig Political Maps For GOP
3. Social Security Hearing Shows Trump Pick Bisignano Would Worsen 'DOGE-Manufactured Chaos'
4. 'Americans Are Rightfully Furious': Social Security Defenders Not Falling For Partial Trump Walk-Back
5. GOP Estate Tax Plan Could Mean Over $100 Billion Giveaway For Musk And Trump Heirs
6. 'Chilling And Unprecedented': Trump Memo Threatens Law Firms That Cross His Administration
7. Trump Executive Order On Voting Denounced As 'Authoritarian Power Grab'

• Democracy at Work
1. HOW MARX'S CLASS ANALYSIS COULD SOLVE INEQUALITY NOW 
2. CAPITALISM HITS HOME: NATURE VS NURTURE: THE HISTORY OF THE FAMILY
3. ECONOMIC UPDATE: MOUNTING ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
4. DIALECTIC AT WORK: MARX’S CAPITAL: READING AND TEACHING THE THREE VOLUMES

• Democracy Journal 
1. Deconstructing Housing
2. Reining In Our Tech God-Emperors
3. The “New” American Fascists
4. The Parties Failed Us; Long Live Parties!
5. Beyond Deliverism

• Democracy Now
1. Israeli Settlers Brutally Attack Hamdan Ballal, Oscar-Winning Filmmaker, In Occupied West Bank
2. USPS Chief Louis DeJoy Resigns As DOGE Prepares To Gut Agency
3. SCOTUS Hears Arguments In Key Louisiana Redistricting Case
4. Social Security Head Briefly Threatens To Shut Down Agency
5. Elon Musk’s Family History In South Africa Reveals Ties To Apartheid & Neo-Nazi Movements
6. Dark Shadows Of Fascism Over Germany And The U.S.
7. “The Encampments”: New Film On Mahmoud Khalil & Columbia Students Who Sparked Gaza Campus Protests

• Jacobin 
1. What Comes After Globalization?
2. This German Civil Servant Was Fired For Criticizing Israel
3. The School Privatization Movement Is Broadly Unpopular
4. We Need More Independent, Working-Class Political Candidates
5. George W. Bush Lives On In Donald Trump’s Migrant Policies
6. This Is America
7. Christian Zionism Is On The March

• The Real News Network
1. REPUBLICANS ARE CELEBRATING DEMOCRACY’S COLLAPSE—AND IT MIGHT COST AMERICA EVERYTHING 
2. MARYLAND’S SECOND LOOK ACT CLEARS STATE HOUSE—IS RELIEF FOR LONGTERM PRISONERS IMMINENT?
3. TEACHERS SAY ‘SEE YOU IN COURT’ AS TRUMP TRIES TO ABOLISH DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
4. OUT OF ASHES, VICTORY: HOW NEW YORK’S GARMENT WORKERS REBIRTHED THE US LABOR MOVEMENT
5. TRUMP GOES NUCLEAR ON THE FEDERAL WORKFORCE
6. TRUMP TARGETED MAHMOUD KHALIL TO INSPIRE FEAR—THE OPPOSITE MAY BE HAPPENING
7. Tufts student activist Rumeysa Ozturk abducted by ICE on her way to Iftar

• Socialist Worker
1. Resistance Rallies Against Trump In US 
2. Huge Numbers March Against Racism And Fascism In France
3. ‘Israel Meeps Bombing Us’—Palestinian In Gaza Speaks Out
4. Trump Has A New Plan To Justify Climate-Wrecking Policies
5. Turkey: A New Mood For Change On The Streets
6. Inside Reform UK’s Birmingham Rally: Farage’s Far Right Show
7. Mainstream Media Has Failed Palestinian Oscar Winner Hamdan Ballal

• ZNetwork 
1. Israel Bombs Gaza’s Only Cancer Hospital As Genocide Continues To Escalate
2. Trump’s Expulsion Of South Africa’s Ambassador May Well Backfire
3. Critics Of VA Cuts Say: “This Is Life And Death Stuff”
4. The Weight Of Fear: The Silent Erosion Of Academic Freedom
5. The Case Against European Rearmament
6. Arab Failures: The Unspoken Complicity In Israel’s Genocide
7. How Elon Musk, George Soros And Other Billionaires Are Shaping The Most Expensive Court Race In U.S. History