Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Behind Trump’s Wishful Thinking on ‘Reindustrialization’: Why China Can Do It, U.S. Can’t

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, April 21, 2025 In the 1950s, when Japan and much of Europe was in ruins, the U.S. accounted for 50% of the world’s global production. By the 1960s, this was 35%, declining to 25% by the 1980s. By 2025, the U.S. share of global production had fallen to 12% as production grew elsewhere.[…]

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Solidarity With Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi and Against Academic and Political Repression

Statement signed by 30 Groups, posted on Workers World, April 18m 2025 On Friday, March 28, Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, a prominent Iranian scholar and Deputy Director of the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project at Yale Law School, was terminated from her position. Yale’s decision followed a smear campaign of fabrications by a Zionist AI outlet and Yale’s retention of[…]

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Cory Booker, Confused Liberals, Obama’s Reappearance and the Danger of a Fake Movement

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report,  April 9, 2025 People really want a ‘party’ so, sadly, they come out in droves when offered one, even if its a false premise. I suppose they are still hoping for an ‘authority’ to come and save them. [jb] Any “movement” that leads protest back to the Democratic Party is, by definition,[…]

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Millions tell Trump, Musk: ‘Hands off!’

By Martha Grevatt, posted on Workers World,  April 7, 2025 Nearly everyone in the U.S. has been negatively affected by the Trump/Musk team’s cuts to federal jobs, veterans’ care, schools, libraries, science programs, Medicaid, the Women, Infants and Children program, heating aid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and more. There are looming threats to Social Security and disability benefits. The[…]

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HANDS OFF NATO? Not Palestine? Who Got the Memo?

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, April 9, 2025 The Democrats’ HANDS OFF rallies included “HANDS OFF NATO” and excluded “HANDS OFF PALESTINE,” but not all rally goers got the memo. On Sunday, April 6, the KPFA-Radio Berkeley Sunday Show opened with an hour on Saturday’s nationwide “HANDS OFF!” rallies, which had taken place in cities across the[…]

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The Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the Face of Trump: ‘Respect our Existence or Expect our Resistance’

by Cristóbal Cavazos, published on Socialist Action, March 8, 2025 The unbelievable struggle that the Trump administration’s attack on  undocumented immigrants workers has stoked, particularly among Mexican and Central American workers, some with close to the 30 years in the United States, has been as revolutionary as it has been necessary. It could be summed up in one phrase: Respect our Existence[…]

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Trump Exposes the Elite Classes

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 2, 2025 While Trump dedicates himself to making every conservative fantasy come true, millions wonder who will save them from the onslaught of the right wing fever dream. The answer is no one but ourselves.  Institutions led by members of the ruling class theoretically have the power to oppose anyone who[…]

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The Ukraine War: Thoughts on U.S.-NATO Psyops

from Jon Flanders, Copied from the account of Takashi Shimura, March 18, 2025 In any war, the battle isn’t just fought on the battlefield—it’s also fought in people’s minds. Propaganda, information warfare, and controlled narratives are key tools used by governments and media to manufacture consent and shape public opinion. The Ukraine war is a textbook example of mass psychological[…]

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Momodou Taal On His Fight Against The Trump Administration

by D. Musa Springer, published on Popular Resistance, March 25, 2025 ‘This Fight Is Bigger Than Me, And We Can’t Afford To Lose It.’ In an interview with Mondoweiss, Momodou Taal discusses the threat of deportation for his Palestine activism, Cornell’s cooperation with the government crackdown on free speech, and what is at stake in his fight against the Trump[…]

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Stop the Attacks on Palestinian Rights Activists

United National Antiwar Coalition, UNAC  Statement Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian born Palestinian and former graduate student at Columbia University, has been detained in a prison in Louisiana and threatened with deportation for his association with pro-Palestine protests at Columbia, where he was a negotiator between the University and the student activists.   He is not the only foreign student to[…]

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