Views From The Left For April 23, 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.'

1. Alternet 

1. 'More Expensive': Trump’s Economic Policies Are Giving This Upstate NY Farmer A Rude Awakening
2. Trump Steals A Line From The 'World's Coolest Dictator'
3. 'Reclaim America': Expert Explains How Right-Wing Extremists Hijacked US History
4. 'It’s time': Conservative Calls For 'Comprehensive National Civic Uprising' Against Trump
5. 'Dots Don’t Quite Connect': How Trump Is Working To Undermine One Of His Biggest Promises
6. 'Month Of Total Chaos': How The Pentagon Is Suffering 'Dysfunction' Under Trump Admin
7. 'Reality Has A Well-Known Liberal Bias': Inside Donald Trump's War On Numbers
8. 'Big Downsizing': GOP Scheming To Snatch Health Insurance From 'Millions Of Low-Income Americans'

• Common Dreams 
1. 'This Is Welfare For Billionaire Tax Cheats': Trump IRS Ditches Effort To Close Major Loophole
2. Appeals Court Sharply Rejects Trump Challenge Of Abrego Garcia Orders—Again
3. Why Is It Happening Here? And Why Now?
4. The Handbook Of Survival My Mother Gave Me: Fighting Authoritarianism Then And Now
5. 'Another Day, Another Cover-Up,' Rights Group Says As IDF Releases Report On Medics' Killing
6. Federal Judge Orders Trump Admin To Transfer Rumeysa Ozturk To Vermont
7. Maintaining Empathic Sanity In Trump America
8. How Eco-Localism Differs From Trump’s Tariff Terrorism

• Democracy at Work 
1. DIALECTIC AT WORK: THE WORKING DAY AND THE PRODUCTION OF SURPLUS VALUE
2. ECONOMIC UPDATE: TARIFFS, THE WORKING CLASS, AND RESISTANCE
3. ECONOMIC UPDATE: TARIFFS, THE WORKING CLASS, AND RESISTANCE
4. CAPITALISM HITS HOME: THE LOVE LOST BY THE LEFT
5. ECONOMIC UPDATE: TARIFFS, THE WORKING CLASS, AND RESISTANCE

• Democracy Journal 
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• Democracy Now
1. Constitutional Crisis: As Trump Ignores Judges’ Orders, Will The Courts Capitulate?
2. “Need The World To Pay Attention”: Sudan Faces World’s Worst Displacement Crisis After 2 Years Of War
3. Trump Eyes Congo’s “Incredible Mineral Riches” As Armed Conflict Devastates Region
4. “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”: Omar El Akkad On Gaza & Western Complicity
5. “Co-Presidents” Trump And Musk Attack Social Security
6. “Absolute Nonsense”: As Measles Cases Soar & Kids Die, Expert Slams RFK Jr. On Vaccine-Autism Link
7. Cannes Selects Film On Gaza Photographer Fatma Hassona; A Day Later, She’s Killed In Israeli Strike

• Jacobin 
1. Recovering Our Power
2. How the Constitution’s Framers Got It Wrong
3. The Pseudo-Populism Of Canada’s New Right
4. Donald Trump’s Corrupt Tariff Quid Pro Quo
5. Winning The Rank-And-File Vote
6. ICE Sets Its Sights On Massachusetts Immigrant Workers
7. Elon Musk Decimated the Government and Saved Almost Nothing
8. Capitalist Progress Threatens Human Survival

• The Real News Network 
1. TAMARA PEARSON: WRITING AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE
2. POETRY AND RESISTANCE: BREAKING THROUGH THE DIGITAL CACOPHONY
3. ‘FULL-BLOWN CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS’ DEEPENS AS BUKELE REFUSES TO RELEASE MARYLAND RESIDENT
4. ‘A TREMENDOUS CHILLING EFFECT’: COLUMBIA STUDENTS DESCRIBE DYSTOPIAN REALITY ON CAMPUS AMID TRUMP ATTACKS

• Socialist Worker 
1. ‘This Isn’t Ignorant, It’s Malicious’: Trans Voices On Supreme Court Ruling
2. Education Union Vows To Take On ‘Racist And Far Right’ Reform UK
3. Astronomical Tax Avoidance In US Shows Where The Money Is
4. Rage Across Britain At Supreme Court’s a\Attack On Trans+ Rights
5. Education Union Backs Workplace Days Of Action For Palestine

• ZNetwork 
1. Small Island States Are Leading The Fight Against Climate Change
2. UN Expert: Israel Has “Decimated” Gaza Health System, Leaving “Zero” Options
3. Gaza Faces Increasingly Bleak Reality One Month After Israel Ended Ceasefire
4. Beneath the Surface: Is the Trump-Netanyahu ‘Unthinkable’ About To Erupt?
5. To End Trumpism: A Tale Of Three Reactions
6. Albert Einstein, Anti-Fascist
7. ‘Dystopian’ Trump Plan For Massive Expansion Of ICE Detention Centers Exposed