Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

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

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[…]

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Judge Shuts Down Trump’s Chicago Troop Deployment And Questions Administration’s Grasp on Reality

by Brad Reed, published on Common Dreams, October 11, 2025 Editor’s Note: We have a lot of people engaged in the fight in Chicago and this is very good news for them. A federal judge on Friday night released her full opinion justifying an earlier decision to block President Donald Trump from deploying Texas National Guard troops in Chicago, and[…]

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West Chicago Fights Back Against ICE

by Alexandra Westberry, published on FightBack News, October 6, 2025 West Chicago, IL – Hundreds of protesters marched through West Chicago on the morning of Saturday, October 4 to denounce ICE’s attacks on Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, referred to by the Trump regime as “Operation Midway Blitz.” Demonstrators had planned to converge at a local gas station before rallying[…]

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Portland continues to Resist Trump’s National Guard Deployment

by Cole Dunahugh, published on FightBack News, October 6, 2025 Portland, OR – On Saturday, September 4, 400 people rallied at Elizabeth Caruthers Park and marched to the ICE detention center in Southwest Portland. The event was organized by Portland Contra las Deportaciones (PDXCD), Portland for Palestine (P4P), Tesla Takedown, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) to protest against the[…]

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Trump Declares War on the U.S.

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, October 1, 2025 Donald Trump has declared war on the “enemy within” and put the military on notice that they will mete out the same treatment domestically that they dispense around the world. “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR!” – Donald Trump “Last month, I signed an[…]

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‘An Egregious Abuse of Power’: Trump Orders Troops to Portland, Ore; OKs ‘Full Force’

by Olivia Rosane, published on Common Dreams, September 27, 2025 “This unilateral action represents an abuse of executive authority, seeks to incite violence, and undermines the constitutional balance of power between the federal government and states,” Oregon lawmakers wrote. In his latest attempt to turn the US military on an American city, President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he[…]

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Homelessness – a Huge Failure of Capitalism

by Jim McMahon, published on Workers World, August 13,  2025 Seattle — Homelessness is being produced every day by the U.S./Israeli war against the Palestinians in Gaza. As Palestinians’ homes are reduced to rubble, the crimes of capitalism become more obvious to all. Wars and economic interventions of U.S. imperialism have caused the havoc of homelessness and migration across the[…]

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Trump White House Says Military Occupation of Nation’s Capital Set to Expand

One critic accused the president of “testing the limits of his power, hoping to intimidate other cities into submission to his every vengeful whim.” By Brett Wilkins, published on Common Dreams, August 13, 2025 The Trump administration’s military occupation of Washington, D.C. is expected to expand, a White House official said Wednesday, with President Donald Trump also saying he will[…]

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Trump and Democrats Fuel the Washington DC Crime Panic

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 13, 2025 Donald Trump’s takeover of the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department is not merely a result of his racist and authoritarian tendencies, nor is it new. It is part and parcel of a history of militarized policing against Black people and a bipartisan consensus promoting racist crime panics, which are[…]

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A Fight Is Brewing In The Midwest Over Immigrant Mass Detention

by Brian Dolinar, published on Truthout, August 8, 2025 “It was terrible,” Olivier Habimana* remembered about his first night at a small county jail in Indiana after being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Born in Rwanda and educated in Belgium, he came to the United States to work as an operations manager for a French company based in[…]

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