Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
OpEd by Workers World, published August 25, 2026 In Workers World’s opinion, the task of progressive activists and organizations, especially those in the imperialist countries, is to promote, in both theory and in practice, united strategies to weaken and defeat imperialism. The enemy is the ruling class of the U.S. or the other imperialist countries in the Global North. That[…]
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by Becca Renk Foster, published on Kawsachun News, July 24, 2026 Meddling Through Mistranslation Using deliberate distortion of a speech by co-president Daniel Ortega, the U.S. has kicked off a campaign to meddle in Nicaragua’s elections by erroneously announcing that Nicaragua will no longer hold elections. In a novel turn, the U.S. has kicked off a campaign to meddle in[…]
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by Carlos Martinez, introduced by Dee Knight, August 2, 2026 The NY Times on July 28 ran a long and dramatic renewal of slanders against “Chinese government repression in Xinjiang,” featuring a horrific story of a person who is now claiming asylum in Germany after “escaping” from China. The sources for the man’s “credentials” are the NED-financed World Uyghur Congress,[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 11, 2026 The U.S. is careening towards economic and military disaster, a moment when the Black radical tradition is missing but badly needed. The celebrated Pan-African revolutionary who was born Stokely Carmichael became known as Kwame Ture circa1969 at the age of 28. He died in 1998 at the age of[…]
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…. Once again on the right of poor and oppressed nations to self-determination and sovereignty by Manolo De Los Santes, published on People’s Dispatch, March 3, 2026 The early morning hours of January 3, 2026, marked an inflection point in Venezuela and Latin America’s centuries-long struggle for self-determination and independence. Operation Absolute Resolve, ordered by the Trump administration, constituted the[…]
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by Yader Lanuza, published on Popular Resistance, February 21, 2026 After the Trump administration illegally kidnapped the legitimate president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on January 3, 2026, we saw two distinct and divergent responses from Venezuelans. On the one hand, the Venezuelan diaspora, especially in the United States, celebrated President Maduro’s kidnapping and bombing of[…]
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by Danny Haiphong, published on Workers World, December 17, 2025 The question in the title may seem hyperbolic, but it is one that comes up in one form or another across the U.S. political spectrum. U.S. elites slam China’s foreign policy as riddled with “debt traps” for poorer countries in the Global South. The Western corporate media asserts that China[…]
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by Manolo De Los Santos, published on People’s Dispatch, January 5, 2026 In the aftermath of the illegal US operation against Venezuela, a deliberate misinformation campaign has been waged to sow doubt about the survival of the country’s revolution. The events of the past 72 hours represent a qualitative escalation in the 25 years of regime change operations by the[…]
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by Tania Siddiqi, published on Workers World, December 19, 2025 This is a sad story that only gets sadder and more gruesome. You can read about her case and how she came to be wrongly convicted and incarcerated at Bagram, and then at Carswell on this blog HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. For over two decades, political prisoner Dr. Aafia[…]
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by Dimitris Scarpalezos, published on Defend Democracy, November 13, 2025 Note: A European perspective The memory of a goldfish has always been the weapon of regime propaganda, and often distinguished progressive commentators settle into this stunted memory to be pleasing both to progressives and to their overlords. The war in Ukraine is a case where this stunted memory leads to[…]
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