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Trump’s First 7 Days: The Framework for Presidential Dictatorship

by the Socialist Equality Party, published on Defend Democracy Press, January 27, 2025 I don’t know anything about this organization, but the article makes many good points about the Trump administration.    [jb] In the week since he took office, Donald Trump has wielded the power of the presidency to do what no president before him has ever attempted: overturn the[…]

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The Power of Black Self-Defense in Lincoln Heights

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, February 12, 2025 When Nazis appear in public they must be quickly dispatched. The people of a Black town in Ohio did just that and then acted to arm and defend themselves. While there are endless think pieces written on the phenomenon of Donald Trump’s second ascendancy to the white house, working[…]

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The Fightback Road to Counter Trump 2.0’s Shock and Awe, America First and White Supremacy

by  Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard, published on Socialist Action, January 26, 2025 Donald J. Trump was sworn in for his second term as president at 12 Noon, January 20, in the Capital building in Washington, D.C. that was violently assaulted by his far-right supporters four years earlier, in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election when he lost[…]

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The Black Alliance for Peace Welcomes the Release of Leonard Peltier and Demands Unrestricted Release of all U.S. Political Prisoners

Statement by the Black Alliance for Peace, January 28, 2025 The immoral life sentence of American Indian Movement freedom fighter, political prisoner and prisoner of war, Leonard Peltier was commuted by the U.S. President Joe Biden, only moments before Biden’s term in office ended. Now 80 years old, Peltier languished for over 50 years in prison after being unjustly convicted[…]

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Justice Denied and Delayed—Leonard Peltier Commutation While Marcus Garvey Is Pardoned

by Abyome Azikiwe, published on Global Research, January 30, 2025 On this year’s annual holiday to commemorate the life, times and contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), news had quickly spread regarding the long-delayed decision to commute the life sentence of American Indian Movement (AIM) leader Leonard Peltier. Peltier was charged in the 1975 killing of two FBI[…]

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Trump’s Education Agenda for Teachers: Sanitize US History or Leave the Field

by Jesse Hagopian, published on Truthout, January 24, 2025 Teachers fear Trump may use federal funding as a bludgeon to push “uncritical race theory” on K-12 schools and colleges. “Getting critical race theory out of our schools is not just a matter of values, it’s also a matter of national survival,” Donald Trump railed at a rally in the lead-up[…]

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Los Angeles Fires: The Santa Ana Blowback of Capitalist Climate Change Neglect

Black Alliance for Peace Statement, January 9, 2025 The incendiary cataclysms in Los Angeles, California remind us that the root cause of the climate crisis exacerbating the fires spreading throughout that city and surrounding areas is fossil fuel production emblematic of runaway capitalism fueled by white “supremacy” ideology, patriarchy, and colonization. And while it’s easy to focus solely on the[…]

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Condemn the Tragic Attack in New Orleans. Reject Scapegoating of Middle Easterners, Muslims and Immigrants.

Workers Voice Socialist Movement (Louisiana), published on Workers World, January 1, 2025 Our condolences go out to the families and friends of those killed and injured in the horrific attack in the French Quarter of New Orleans. We condemn it completely. We also call upon all people of conscience to be skeptical of the official FBI account. We especially warn[…]

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White Settlers Bizarre Economic Strategy of Terrorizing Black People

by Jon Jeter, published on Black Agenda Report, December 11, 2024 Jordan Neely’s killing and the subsequent acquittal of Daniel Penny can be seen as part of the reactionary existential panic felt by whites whenever the country experiences growing economic instability and hardship.  That jurors on Monday exonerated an ex-Marine for strangling an African American panhandler who was in mental[…]

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