Peoples’ Movements

‘We Promise Each other Liberation’: Columbia Activists Honor Expelled Students at the ‘People’s Graduation’

June 3, 2025 UNAC Editor Civil Resistance, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Protest, Student Activists, The War at Home

By Columbia University Apartheid Divest Coalition, published on Mondoweiss, May 24, 2025 On May 18, 2025 families and friends gathered at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to honor expelled and suspended student protesters during an alternative graduation ceremony titled the “People’s Graduation.” Among those recognized was Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student[…]

Propaganda Watch: Kagame is Not Traoré

May 22, 2025 UNAC Editor Burkina, DRC, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Propaganda, Rwanda

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, May 21, 2025 A recurring social media trope casts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a defiant African hero, like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré, resisting the West’s dictates, but nothing could be further from the truth. Anti-imperialists, socialists, and peace and justice communities across Africa and the world are inspired by the newly[…]

Burkina Faso Gains International Recognition for Revolutionary Stance Against Imperialism

May 17, 2025 UNAC Editor Africa, Anti-Imperialism, Burkina, Colonialism, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Russia, Terrorism, The Sahel

by Abyomi Azikiwe, published on Global Research, May 15, 2025 On April 30, 2025, millions of people across Africa and the world held mass demonstrations in defense of the revolutionary leadership in the West African state of Burkina Faso under the leadership of the charismatic 37-year-old Capt. Ibrahim Traore. Since 2022 with the ascendancy of Traore to power, he has[…]

Statement of Solidarity with Iran and Yemen Against Escalating U.S. and Israeli Aggression

April 21, 2025 UNAC Editor Featured, Imperialism, Iran, Israel, Middle East Wars, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Resistance, Statement, Syria, Yemen

UNAC Statement, April 21, 2025 The United Anti War Coalition, which was founded 15 years ago to gather forces to oppose all U.S. wars, called at that time for an end to all U.S. aid to Israel. We see the real threat to regional and global peace comes not from the sovereign actions of Iran and Yemen, but from the[…]

Millions tell Trump, Musk: ‘Hands off!’

April 10, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Capitalism, Imperialism, Peoples' Movements, Resistance, The War at Home, War on the Poor

By Martha Grevatt, posted on Workers World, April 7, 2025 Nearly everyone in the U.S. has been negatively affected by the Trump/Musk team’s cuts to federal jobs, veterans’ care, schools, libraries, science programs, Medicaid, the Women, Infants and Children program, heating aid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and more. There are looming threats to Social Security and disability benefits. The[…]

Cubans End 2024 with Massive March Against US Blockade

January 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Cuba, Hybrid Warfare, Indigenous peoples, Peoples' Movements, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by W.T. Whitney, published on Labor Today International, January 7, 2025 Cubans numbering in the hundreds of thousands marched on December 20 along Havana’s emblematic Malecon roadway fronting the Florida Straits. President Miguel Díaz Canel and former President Raul Castro took the lead in a massive protest against stepped-up US efforts to immiserate Cubans and bring down their socialist government.[…]

Taxpayers Suing Congress members For Funding Genocide Speak Out

January 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Civil Resistance, Democracy and Consent, Genocide, Imperialism, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Peoples' Movements, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy, US Law

by Marjorie Cohen, published on Popular Resistance , January 4, 2025 (originally published on Truthout) Editor’s Note: Our elected officials ignore our concerns, and dismiss our demands. Time to up the ante! The issue of genocide is too big to let them off. “We Have to Act.” Plaintiff Tarik Kanaana says the lawsuit “has given people something to rally[…]

The Worth of Palestinian Lives

December 17, 2024 UNAC Editor Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Rights of Opressed Peoples, Zionism

by Susan Abulhawa, published on Workers World, December 6, 2024 The following remarks by Palestinian-American writer and activist Susan Abulhawa were delivered during a debate sponsored by the Oxford Union, Nov. 28, 2024, on the motion: “This house believes Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide.” The motion was carried by an overwhelming majority of 278-59. Most members of[…]

Palestinian Youth Movement to National Day of Mourning: LAND BACK from Turtle Island to Palestine!

December 5, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements

by Lea Kayali, published on Workers World, December 4, 2024 Lea Kayali, representing the Palestinian Youth Movement, gave this speech to the National Day of Mourning on Nov. 28, 2024, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. As a Palestinian, every day for the last 419 days has been a day of mourning. In the last 24 hours, we mourned the 101 Palestinians martyred[…]

The Legacy of Martyr Nasrallah and the Zionist Massacre That Won’t Crush Resistance

October 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Colonialism, Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Middle East Wars, Occupation, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Resistance, Revolution, Syria

Statement from The Bronx Antiwar Coalition, published on Workers World, September 30, 2024 Editor’s note: Some time has passed since this was first published, but I think it is increasingly pertinent as the impact of the initial disaster falls away. Hassan Nasrallah was killed in a deeply buried underground bunker along with some other leaders of Hezbollah and more than[…]