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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Fragmentation, Force and Fascism: The Architecture of Repressive the National Security State

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, January 21, 2026 The state is not drifting toward repression; it is building it with serious intent. ICE raids, militarized police, and mass surveillance are the tools of a system designed to manage and silence people in crisis. What we are witnessing in the United States today is not a series of[…]

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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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The Bolivarian Legacy, from Hugo Chávez to Nicolás Maduro

by  Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report,  January 14, 2026 Attorney Dan Kovalik is an attorney representing Colombian President Gustavo Petro. He is also author of The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US Is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil. Skyhorse Publishing brought the paperback book back into print after the US kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.[…]

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Economic Warfare and the imperialist Stranglehold on Iran

by Gary Wiilson, published on The Struggle/LaLucha, January 11, 2026 Shuttered stalls in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar amid a rapid collapse of the rial in January 2026, as imperialist economic warfare disrupted daily life and paralyzed trade. On the morning of Jan. 8, Zahra Mohammadi stood in line outside a bakery in southern Tehran for three hours. When she finally reached[…]

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Venezuela’s Revolution Still Stands: Debunking Trump’s Psyop

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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What do the Situations in Venezuela and Palestine Have in Common

by Judy Bello, November 2025 During last month’s call for protests and solidarity events around the U.S. threats towards Venezuela, I noticed that many people  in our local Palestine protest group did not really see any relationship between the genocide in Gaza and the U.S.  attacks on Latin America.   It occurred to me that people deeply involved in supporting our[…]

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UNAC Calls for Hands Off Venezuela

UNAC Statement, 11/13/25 The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) expresses its solidarity with the people of Venezuela as they face down the threat by U.S. imperialism to invade their country.  The U.S. billionaire class wants to control the Venezuelan oil and other resources and to replace its government with a puppet government beholden to Washington.  This threat is also aimed[…]

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Stop Escalation in the Caribbean!

Editorial by Workers World, October 27, 2025 Every doubt about U.S. aims, every trace of the Big Lie about a “drug war” was erased when the Pentagon’s top Secretary Pete Hegseth proclaimed Oct. 24 that the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier group is being sent to the Caribbean Sea. You don’t need Darth Vader’s Death Star to stop speedboats. The[…]

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