Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, May 27, 2025 May 26. The White House’s big bulls–t budget bill passed the House the morning of May 24 in a 215 to 214 vote and may pass the Senate this week, although there are reports some Republican senators fear the consequences. Trump is pushing to get it through fast. Let’s keep[…]
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By Columbia University Apartheid Divest Coalition, published on Mondoweiss, May 24, 2025 On May 18, 2025 families and friends gathered at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to honor expelled and suspended student protesters during an alternative graduation ceremony titled the “People’s Graduation.” Among those recognized was Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student[…]
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by Viviana Weinstein, posted on Workers World, May 21, 2025 My father Max was an immigrant, a U.S. citizen, Jewish and veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who fought the fascists during the civil war in Spain in the 1930s. Like many Jews who suffered through the years of the Holocaust, he was anti-Zionist. My parents understood Zionism to be[…]
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by David D’Amato, published on Counterpunch, May 14, 2025 Today, it would be nearly impossible to overstate the extent to which justice for the criminal defendant in the U.S. has been compromised by prosecutorial misconduct of the most serious kinds. A growing body of evidence from journalistic investigations, scholarly studies, and reports from civil liberties groups reveals a startling pattern[…]
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by Susan Abulhawa, published on Workers World, May 8, 2025 The following is Part 2 of a talk given by the author to a meeting of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) on April 24 in Philadelphia. (Trigger warning due to graphic descriptions of rape and torture.) At some point, the boundaries are pushed too far. As a historic example,[…]
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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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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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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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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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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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