Peoples’ Movements

The Popular Front Condemns the Treacherous Aggression Against Iran

March 2, 2026 UNAC Editor Iran, Palestine, Peoples' Movements, Statement

Statement by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), March 1, 2026 The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine condemns in the strongest terms the treacherous American-Zionist aggression that targeted the Islamic Republic of Iran this morning, and affirms its principled and full support for Iran, the leadership, the people and the army, in its legitimate response[…]

Minneapolis General Strike: Working Class Takes Step into Revolutionary Future

February 14, 2026 UNAC Editor Capitalism, General Strike, Militarized Police, Peoples' Movements, Resistance, US Hypocrisy, Violence Against Protesters

by Larry Holmes, published on Workers World, February 12, 2026 The general strike in Minneapolis on Jan. 23 that shut the city down and catapulted forward the general strike movement that has been stirring below for some time may turn out to be the biggest step forward that the working class has taken in our lifetime. It is a sign[…]

On Venezuela, From a Non-Western Perspective

February 3, 2026 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Peoples' Movements, U.S. Aggression, U.S. Hegemony, Venezuela

by Takis Politis, published on Defend Democracy, January 31, 2026 Western mainstream media continue their partial, misleading, and defamatory “journalistic” coverage of news about Venezuela. Unfortunately, this coverage is often reproduced uncritically by left-wing media and left-wing journalists. The National Assembly of Venezuela approved, at first reading, the program for the partial reform of the Organic Law on Hydrocarbons [1].[…]

Minneapolis General Strike, Then and Now

January 25, 2026 UNAC Editor Action!!, Attacks on the Movement, Labor, Labor Struggles, Organizing, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Resistance

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[…]

Venezuela, Even More Than Palestine, Is the Linchpin of a Consistent Radical Left in the Era of Global Neofascism Led by the U.S.

January 10, 2026 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Fascism, Genocide, Hybrid Warfare, Indigenous peoples, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Political Analysis, Socialism, Venezuela

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, January 7, 2026 Solidarity with Palestine tests morality, but solidarity with Venezuela tests politics. The recent U.S. intervention demands a radical left moving from moral outrage to a material confrontation with its own state. Palestine is the moral heart of global anti-colonial politics. It exposes the brutality of settler colonialism in its[…]

Millions turn out for anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ actions

October 25, 2025 UNAC Editor Democrats and Republicans, Mass action, Organizing, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Resistance, U.S. Hegemony

by Martha Grevatt, published on Workers World, October 23, 2025 Demonstrations around the theme of “No Kings” took place on Oct. 18, with over 2,500 actions across the U.S. and around the world. This was the biggest single day of protest against President Donald Trump since his inauguration, with activities in urban, suburban and rural communities. An estimated 8.1 million[…]

How ‘No Kings’ Takes The ‘Move’ Out Of Movements

October 25, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Censorship and Propaganda, Democrats and Republicans, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Resistance, The War at Home, US Politics

by Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, published on Black Agenda Report, October 24, 2025 Stuck in a Neutral Gear of Watered Down and Whitewashed Prefigurative Politics. You cannot defeat a king with a parade. The failure of “No Kings” is the refusal to build real power beyond a single day of protest. “If participants are motivated by hope of psychic completion—by community[…]

The People vs. The Abyss: The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal

June 26, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, International Institutions, International Law, Israel, Palestine, Peoples' Movements, Resistance, White Supremacy, Zionism

by Craig Mokhiber, published on Defend Democracy, June 5, 2025 A people’s tribunal Almost sixty years ago, the world watched in horror as the US carried out brutal aggression and serial atrocities against the people of Vietnam. Those atrocities, and the apparent impunity afforded to the US in their commission, was, for many, too much to bear. Because no state,[…]

‘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[…]