Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Making the Bloom a Desert

by Sara el-Sohl, published on Mondoweiss, March 9, 2025 Israel has been starving the Palestinians and killing the land for more than 75 years.  At the moment they are ending the agreed upon “Ceasefire” by once again blocking water and electricity along with everything else from being transported into Gaza.   [jb] In 1969, 21 years after Western powers redrew[…]

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The Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the Face of Trump: ‘Respect our Existence or Expect our Resistance’

by Cristóbal Cavazos, published on Socialist Action, March 8, 2024 The unbelievable struggle that the Trump administration’s attack on  undocumented immigrants workers has stoked, particularly among Mexican and Central American workers, some with close to the 30 years in the United States, has been as revolutionary as it has been necessary. It could be summed up in one phrase: Respect our Existence[…]

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HTS Offensive in Syria: A Proxy for Imperialist Domination

Statement from Black Alliance for Peace, March 12, 2025 The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns the recent announcement by Colonel Hassan Abdul Ghani, spokesman for the HTS-led Syrian Ministry of Defense, regarding the “second phase“ of military operations against so-called “remnants” of the former Assad government. This escalation of violence is not merely a local or regional conflict[…]

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US Lawmaker Revives PAGER Act Demanding Lebanon ‘ End Any Recognition of Hezbollah’

from the News Desk at The Cradle, March 5, 2025 On 5 March, US Representative Greg Steube reintroduced to Congress the Preventing Armed Groups from Engaging in Radicalism (PAGER) Act, which seeks to condition US financial aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) until Beirut ends “any official recognition of Hezbollah and its allies.” According to the text of the[…]

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US Sends Dozens of Venezuelan Migrants to Guantánamo as Relatives Plead Innocence

by Ricardo Vaz, published on Venezuelanalysis, February 15, 2025 Caracas, February 15, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The United States government has sent more than 100 Venezuelans to a US naval base with a history of human rights abuses in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. According to reports, the transfers began earlier this month as part of the Donald Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.[…]

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Fifty First State? No Thanks!

by Barry Weisleder, published on Socialist Action,  January 31, 2025 The Canadian ruling elite is imperialist in its own right, commanding some of the biggest corporations in the world, particularly prominent in the fields of banking, mining, energy resources, forestry, retail and manufacturing.  Unsurprisingly, American Capital covets that wealth as Washington’s share of global production and its military heft declines[…]

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From Colonial Theft to Aarian Justice: South Africa’s Long Road to Land Reform

by Jonis Ghedi Alasow. published on Peoples Dispatch, February 10, 2025 South Africa’s Expropriation Act has provoked debate within the country over the enduring racist land tenure model in the country, and has also sparked a diplomatic row with the United States. On January 23, 2025, South Africa enacted an Expropriation Act, updating the methods for land expropriation for the[…]

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Palestinians Brace for More Violence as Israel Expands its Offensive on the West Bank

by Gassem Muaddi, Published on Mondoweiss, January 28, 2025 The Israeli army is launching offensives in the northern West Bank as Israeli politicians, emboldened by Donald Trump, seek to realize their dreams of annexation. Israel continued its offensive in the occupied West Bank for the seventh day in a row on Tuesday, concentrating on the northern city of Jenin and[…]

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Trump’s Education Agenda for Teachers: Sanitize US History or Leave the Field

by Jesse Hagopian, published on Truthout, January 24, 2025 Teachers fear Trump may use federal funding as a bludgeon to push “uncritical race theory” on K-12 schools and colleges. “Getting critical race theory out of our schools is not just a matter of values, it’s also a matter of national survival,” Donald Trump railed at a rally in the lead-up[…]

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