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The Truth About Trump’s Dismantling the Government Bureaucracy and the “Constitutional Crisis”

By John Pottinger and Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, February 23, 2025 The Truth Abut Trump’s Dismantling the Government Bureaucracy and the “Constitutional Crisis” A Marxist Assessment That President Trump has dismantled or significantly gutted some dozen or more government agencies, frozen the allocation of trillions of dollars in the federal budget allocated to run the country, fired multiple[…]

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Putin Praises Friendly Russian-US Negotiations in Riyadh

by Sputnik, published on Defend Democracy, February 20, 2025 We don’t often get to read/hear what Putin has to say directly.   It is particularly important when we don’t entirely trust our own leaders that we are familiar with the story from both sides. [ jb] ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Sputnik) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that he had[…]

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Opening Up a Struggle Against the Dictatorship Of the Billionaires

by Larry Holmes, published on Workers World, February 18, 2025 The plans that Trump and his inner circle of billionaires and extreme-right reactionaries have for saving U.S. imperialism’s world domination and the capitalist system will not work. They will blow up in Trump’s face and split the ruling alliance that he has patched together, probably sooner rather than later. Trump[…]

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Counting the Dead in Gaza: Difficult But Essential. “186,000 or Even More Deaths.” The Lancet

by Joe Iosbaker, published on Fightback News, February 10, 2025 We also have to remember that many of the migrants and refugees who come into this country are fleeing disastrous situations in their own countries which are caused by the United States.  [jb] Chicago, IL – The streets of Little Village in Chicago were filled with the sounds of drums[…]

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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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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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From Gaza to the Trail of Tears to the Middle Passage, We Are All Connected

by David A. Love, published on LA Progressive, December 19, 2024 Oh, my children, they tried to bury you, but they didn’t know you were seeds. Remember that it’s all connected. We are gathered here today in these last days of the American Empire, and the beginning of the end of late-stage capitalism, to declare that none of this foolishness[…]

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Behind Trump’s Decisive Victory

by Malik Miah and  Barry Sheppard, published on Socialist Action, November 11, 2024 Donald Trump swept the election for president, winning the popular vote by about 73,000,000 to Kamala Harris’s 68,000,000, the first time a Republican won the popular vote since George W. Bush in 2005. Trump also won the undemocratic but decisive Electoral College, 301 to 226, as of[…]

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The Election is Finally Over ORGANIZE RESISTANCE

Editorial, Workers World, November 6, 2024 The November 5 election has happened, and the outcome is known worldwide. The most vile, disgusting, white supremacist, xenophobic, transphobic, ableist, misogynist, rapist, neofascist — the list goes on — will return to the White House in January. These results have no doubt produced a wide range of emotions, be they despair, demoralization, frustration,[…]

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BRICS Is Mounting a Challenge to the US-Led World Order — But for Whom?

by C.J. Polychroniou, published on Truthout, October 25, 2024\ The recently concluded 2024 BRICS (an acronym for the combined economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit, hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Kazan and attended by scores of Global South leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa[…]

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