Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Book Review by Jonathan Kissam, published on Labor Today, September 1, 2024 The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade, by Jeff Schuhrke: After unions won historic gains for working people in the strike wave that followed the end of World War II, corporations like General Electric and Westinghouse sought to weaken the labor movement. By labeling militant[…]
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*Featured Image: City of Chicago Route Proposal, 1.1 Miles by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, August 14, 2024 A federal judge has ruled that the Coalition to March on the DNC cannot march in sight and sound of the convention. The Democratic National Convention will be held in Chicago from August 19th to 22nd. On Monday night a[…]
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published on Socialist Action, August 14, 2024 The March on the DNC will be a march for Palestine. Click here for the dates, locations, full demands, etc. marchondnc2024.org Our main demand will be: Stand with Palestine! End U.S. Aid to Israel We will also be bringing together the demands of the people’s movements to the door of the Democratic party:[…]
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by Ben Norton, published on Geopolitical Economy, August 11, 2024 The World Anti-Doping Agency says the US has for a decade allowed athletes in international competitions, including the Olympics, to cheat by using prohibited drugs, while it hypocritically criticizes Russia and China. The United States has for a decade allowed athletes in international competitions, including the Olympics, to use prohibited[…]
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by Dr Marwan Asmar, published on Countercurrents, July 10, 2024 In some ways this story is light weight compared to so many of the atrocities that have taken place in Gaza. The death toll was up to 35 the last I heard, but likely has risen higher since then given the fact that no hospitals are currently functioning in Gaza.[…]
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by Betsy Piette, published on Workers World, June 26, 2024 Much is being made of the “rift” or “break” between the U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over tactics on the “war” against Palestine. Both face serious political fights in their own countries to remain in office. Both face growing opposition and demonstrations by the masses[…]
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by Paul Larudee, published on Dissident Voice, June 12, 2024 “HUNGER CATASTROPHE IN GAZA – DONATIONS NEEDED” cries Mercy Corps. “URGENT: STARVATION IN GAZA: ALL GIFTS MATCHED FOR GAZA” shouts Rescue.org. These and many other appeals from international relief organizations have motivated untold numbers of compassionate and generous souls to open their purses. You may be among them. If so,[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, June 12, 2024 Israel is crowing about rescuing four people held hostage and killing more than 200 Palestinians in the process. It is typical behavior for the apartheid state but all of the pressure it exerts can’t end the scorn, contempt, and protest it faces all over the world. The Israeli government[…]
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by Medea Benjamin, published on Countercurrents, May 29, 2024 Senator Lindsay Graham was bursting with contempt for the International Criminal Court (ICC) when he grilled Secretary of State Blinken at a May 21 Congressional hearing. Wagging his finger, he warned that, if the ICC gets away with issuing arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav[…]
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by Saree Makdisi, published on Socialist Action, May 16, 2024 May 10, 2024 [Editor’s note, Jeff Mackler: We reprint below this detailed Los Angeles Review of Books account, originally entitled “For Whom is the campus to be safe?” of the critical and unprecedented events at the University of California at Los Angeles that began at 11 pm April 30 and[…]
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