Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

‘Palestine is our Compass’

Editorial, by Workers World, May 13, 2025 The movement in solidarity with Palestine had a big win when a court order released Rümeysa Öztürk from a Louisiana detention center. On May 9 she returned to Boston. Mass support developed for Öztürk, whose arrest resembled a kidnapping by a criminal conspiracy. The criminals were from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency[…]

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Solidarity With Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi and Against Academic and Political Repression

Statement signed by 30 Groups, posted on Workers World, April 18m 2025 On Friday, March 28, Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, a prominent Iranian scholar and Deputy Director of the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project at Yale Law School, was terminated from her position. Yale’s decision followed a smear campaign of fabrications by a Zionist AI outlet and Yale’s retention of[…]

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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, 2025 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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Momodou Taal On His Fight Against The Trump Administration

by D. Musa Springer, published on Popular Resistance, March 25, 2025 ‘This Fight Is Bigger Than Me, And We Can’t Afford To Lose It.’ In an interview with Mondoweiss, Momodou Taal discusses the threat of deportation for his Palestine activism, Cornell’s cooperation with the government crackdown on free speech, and what is at stake in his fight against the Trump[…]

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President Maduro Demands End to Persecution of Venezuelan Migrants

By Telesur and Resumen Latinoamericano , published in Workers World,, March 22, 2025. Translation: John Catalinotto Venezuela: President Maduro demands respect for national identity and an end to the persecution of Venezuelan migrants. On March 22, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro demanded respect for his country’s national identity and an end to the persecution of Venezuelan migrants, while denouncing arbitrary kidnapping[…]

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Tren de Aragua: Reality and Propaganda

By Eligio Rojas, published on the Orinoco Tribune,  March 21, 2025 “Cosmic dust.” This is how President Nicolás Maduro described the defunct Tren de Aragua, the criminal gang whose name echoes across Latin America and beyond as if it was an organization with a central command, camps, and an arsenal. “The Tren de Aragua is cosmic dust in Venezuela; it[…]

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Stop the Attacks on Palestinian Rights Activists

United National Antiwar Coalition, UNAC  Statement Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian born Palestinian and former graduate student at Columbia University, has been detained in a prison in Louisiana and threatened with deportation for his association with pro-Palestine protests at Columbia, where he was a negotiator between the University and the student activists.   He is not the only foreign student to[…]

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Yale Purges Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, Another Targeted Palestine Activist

by Sue Harris, published on Workers World, March 19, 2025 Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, deputy director of the Law and Political Economy Project at Yale Law School, was suspended, cut off from her information technology accounts and banned from campus in March of this year. She was accused of terrorism for allegedly belonging to the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, by[…]

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Palestinian Political Prisoner Mahmoud Khalil Releases Statement From Louisiana ICE Detention Center

by Mahmoud Khalil, published on ScheerPost, March 19, 2024 Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder with permanent residency, has released his first public statement since his arrest on March 8. He was taken into custody by plainclothes Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers in the lobby of his Columbia University apartment complex due to his alleged connection to Hamas. His[…]

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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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