Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Trump’s “Murder, Inc.” and the execution of Alex Pretti

by Socialist Equality Party, published on the World Wide Socialist Web, January 25, 2026 Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs hospital, was executed on the streets of Minneapolis on Saturday morning. His murder was the Trump administration’s brutal response to the massive protests the day before—when more than 100,000 people across Minnesota demanded[…]

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Minneapolis General Strike, Then and Now

by Joe Lombardo, published on his Facebook Page, January 24, 2026 Yesterday we saw tens of thousands of people march and rally in Minneapolis in -9 degree temperature. Schools and workplaces shutdown in what was termed a general strike against the racist ICE raids on their community and the murder of Renee Good. Yesterday, I heard a commentator say this[…]

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MINNESOTA: General Strike! NO WORK, NO SCHOOL, NO SHOPPING! January 23rd

Editor’s Note: This is a great example of Labor working together with Civil Rights and Peace and Justice organizations:    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Stacie Balkaran — stacie@minneapolisunions.org 971.291.9486 MINNEAPOLIS LABOR UNION DELEGATION AND LOCAL REGIONAL LABOR BODIES ENDORSE JANUARY 23: DAY OF TRUTH AND FREEDOM NO WORK, SCHOOL, OR SHOPPING MINNEAPOLIS The Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO along with[…]

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WFTU Statement on the Occasion of the New Year 2026

The World Federation of Trade Unions, December 26, 2025 As we welcome the year 2026, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) addresses its militant and class-oriented greetings to workers, trade unionists, and progressive peoples across the globe. The new year finds the international working class confronted with old and new challenges, but also armed with experience, organization, and the[…]

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Widespread European Trade Unions Supporting Food for Gaza and a Free Palestine

Editorial published on Labor Today International, October 1, 2025 PAME salutes USB and the big strike of the workers in Italy, who for the second time in ten days, with their unwavering struggle, show the way, raising a wall of solidarity against the genocide in Gaza and the imperialist plans that plunge peoples into poverty and misery for their wars.[…]

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Behind Trump and DOGE’s Reckless Destruction Is a Determination to Crush Workers

by Tyler Walicek, published on Truthout, May 17, 2025 The future of collective bargaining and labor rights in the United States is on the table. Even the most alarmed predictions of left-leaning commentators failed to capture the extremity of the onslaught that flooded forth from the second Trump administration in its first few months. Only recently has the real severity[…]

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‘Solidarity with Palestine on May Day!’

Statement by Workers World, April 28, 2025 May Day arose out of the struggle in 1886 when workers around the U.S. joined a general strike on May 1 demanding an 8-hour workday. Chicago police attacked demonstrating workers in Haymarket Square three days later. In 1889, international socialists named May 1 International Workers Day to commemorate this struggle, Chicago’s martyrs and[…]

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Behind Trump’s Wishful Thinking on ‘Reindustrialization’: Why China Can Do It, U.S. Can’t

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, April 21, 2025 In the 1950s, when Japan and much of Europe was in ruins, the U.S. accounted for 50% of the world’s global production. By the 1960s, this was 35%, declining to 25% by the 1980s. By 2025, the U.S. share of global production had fallen to 12% as production grew elsewhere.[…]

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Remembering the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Linking the Struggle At Home and Abroad by Monica Moorehead, published on Workers World, April 4, 2025 The following article, updated on Workers World and lightly edited here, was originally posted on April 3, 2024.   This April 4  marked the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Civil Rights leader, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., while he was supporting Black[…]

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Socialists in Canada, the United States and Mexico say NO to Trump’s Imperialist Bluster

by Socialist Action, March 20, 2025 Workers, women, youth, and allies – Take Direct Action to Stop the Trade War! American President Donald Trump fosters chaos.  His aim is to enrich himself and his corporate cronies, even turning against America’s erstwhile capitalist allies.  The working class and low-income folks are sure to suffer the most in Trump’s infernal tariff war. […]

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