Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

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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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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Venezuelan President Criticized for Not Being a Proper Dictator

by Roger D. Harris, published on Internationalist 360°, February 2, 2025 Hot off the newswires are shocking tales of democratic elections in Venezuela, grassroots organizations forming food cooperatives, and repatriation of migrants. What will one of the media establishment’s most demonized “authoritarian regimes” do next? Bloomberg approvingly quotes an opposition-supporting Venezuelan living in Chile that Venezuela’s scheduling of parliamentary and[…]

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Counting the Dead in Gaza: Difficult But Essential. “186,000 or Even More Deaths.” The Lancet

by Joe Iosbaker, published on Fightback News, February 10, 2025 We also have to remember that many of the migrants and refugees who come into this country are fleeing disastrous situations in their own countries which are caused by the United States.  [jb] Chicago, IL – The streets of Little Village in Chicago were filled with the sounds of drums[…]

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Trump’s First 7 Days: The Framework for Presidential Dictatorship

by the Socialist Equality Party, published on Defend Democracy Press, January 27, 2025 I don’t know anything about this organization, but the article makes many good points about the Trump administration.    [jb] In the week since he took office, Donald Trump has wielded the power of the presidency to do what no president before him has ever attempted: overturn the[…]

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‘He’s Building a Concentration Camp’: Fears Grow as Images Emerge of Offshore Prison at Gitmo

by John Queally, published on Common Dreams, February 9, 2025 “There’s no reason to build this in Guantánamo unless you want to do things you don’t think you could get away with on the U.S. mainland. It’s easy to put tents in Florida. But they’re putting them in Cuba. Ask yourself why.” Fears are growing that the offshore U.S. detention[…]

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Biden Calls on Trump to “Join” Him In A War Against Immigrants and Asylum

by Cristobal Cavazos, published on Socialist Action, June 16, 2024 The June 4th announcement by President Joseph Biden that the right to asylum was all but over is a reactionary move by a reactionary administration. Ironically, 85 years ago to the day, the racist 1924 US Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, tragically refused asylum to close to[…]

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