The Working Class

Notes from the Front Lines of the Immigrant Rights Struggle

March 16, 2026 UNAC Editor Action!!, Crackdown on Dissent, Democrats and Republicans, ICE, Immigrants, LGTBQ, Socio-Economic Struggles, The War at Home, The Working Class

by Cristobal Cavazos, published on Socialist Action, March 14, 2026 With the announcement after major defeats in Illinois, Minneapolis and a historic fightback in Los Angeles, that the Trump Administration will no longer be speaking publicly about mass raids going into the midterm elections, the immigrant rights struggle is at an important junction. It’s time to ask some critical questions:[…]

ESSAY: Resurrection City: The Dream…The Accomplishments, Jesse Jackson, 1968

February 19, 2026 UNAC Editor Featured, Poverty, Racism, The War at Home, The Working Class

by Black Agenda Report Editors, published on Black Agenda Report, February 18, 2026 “The Poor People’s Campaign is the greatest single challenge ever unleashed upon our colonial system.” Revisiting the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson’s essay “Resurrection City: The Dream… the Accomplishments” in the hours after his death is to encounter a morose nostalgia – and, quickly following, an acute rage.[…]

The Slow Epstein Earthquake — The Rupture Between the People and the Élites

February 14, 2026 UNAC Editor The War at Home, The Working Class, Trumpism

by Alistair Crooke, published on The Conflicts Forum, February 5, 2026 After ‘Epstein’, nothing can continue as before: Neither the post war ‘never again’ values — reflecting sentiment at the end of bloody wars — and the widespread yearning for a ‘fairer’ society; nor the bipolar economics of extreme disparities in wealth; nor trust — after the exposed venality, rotted[…]

Zohran Mamdani’s victory: What we know and don’t know

August 3, 2025 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Resistance, The War at Home, The Working Class, US Politics

Worker World Commentary, by Monica Moorhead, published July 1, 2025 To say that Zohran Mamdani winning the Democratic Party primary for mayor of New York City on June 24 was a complete stunner would be a monumental understatement. He officially beat his opponent, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who conceded his defeat the same night as the vote. While[…]

Democrat Zohran Mamdani and Superman the Movie: Billionaire’s Debate Damage Control as U.S. Opinion Increasingly Rejects Zionist’s Palestine Genocide

August 3, 2025 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Socio-Economic Struggles, The War at Home, The Working Class, US Politics

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, July 25, 2025 As a teenage Superman fan of yesteryear, in the 1950s, I recall that Superman was described on radio as a “strange visitor from another planet.” I couldn’t resist going to my local Oakland movie theater to see the latest iteration starring David Corenswet as Superman. I was surprised. While the[…]

Socialists in Canada, the United States and Mexico say NO to Trump’s Imperialist Bluster

March 31, 2025 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Global Trade, Labor, Migrants and Refugees, The Working Class, Trade Wars, TradeWars, Trumpism, U.S. Aggression

by Socialist Action, March 20, 2025 Workers, women, youth, and allies – Take Direct Action to Stop the Trade War! American President Donald Trump fosters chaos. His aim is to enrich himself and his corporate cronies, even turning against America’s erstwhile capitalist allies. The working class and low-income folks are sure to suffer the most in Trump’s infernal tariff war. […]