Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

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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Dramatic Last Hours of Title 42 on U.S.-Mexico Border

from Socialist Action, posted May 12, 2023 (originally from Cuba en Resumen) Yesterday a minute before midnight, Eastern Time in the United States, Title 42 was suspended and replaced by decree 8, which is even more drastic, since its sanctions indicate that any person who tries to enter without a visa will be banned from doing so for five years, by[…]

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May Day being commemorated in the U.S.

by Monica Moorhead, published on Workers World, April 24, 2023 A number of U.S. cities are gearing up for May Day (International Workers Day) 2023 with actions that highlight labor struggles, especially those involving young workers organizing at Starbucks and Amazon. But May Day is about much more than workers who are carrying out dynamic organizing campaigns. It encompasses the[…]

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Despite Outcry, U.S. and Dominican Governments Continue the Brutal Deportation of Haitians

by Marty Goodman, published in Haïti Liberté, February 3, 2022 n September, there was worldwide revulsion over photos of mounted U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in Texas apparently whipping Haitian migrants. The images were reminiscent of slavery. But that did not slow down President Biden’s racist plans for the mass deportation of Haitians. As of this writing in[…]

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Chicago Police Murdered Adam Toledo

by Crystobal Cavazos, published on Socialist Action, June 17, 2021 By Cristobal Cavazos Thirteen-year old Adam Toledo was shot to death in the Mexican working class neighborhood of Little Village, among the most poverty stricken in Chicago. CPD officer Eric Stillman did this heinous deed on March 29, but a Chicago police cover-up reported otherwise. Months later video footage showed[…]

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