Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Famine in Gaza – What Could Be Done

Commentary by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, June 3, 2025 While protests of the famine have caused handwringing among spokespeople in imperialist capitals, none have taken steps to seriously challenge the Israeli regime and feed the starving people of Gaza. U.S. imperialism is directly complicit in causing the starvation and has relentlessly provided the weapons and funding to continue[…]

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Syria: A Case Study in the Devastating Effects of Economic Coercive Measures on a Population

Statement by SanctionsKill and Syria Support Movement International SanctionsKill and the Syria Support Movement welcome the statement by US president Donald Trump ordering the lifting of economic sanctions on Syria.1 As stated in the Verdict of the International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism, economic coercive measures are: “inherently violent, designed to maintain economic inequality, continue the theft of wealth from[…]

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Hamas Says Israel Continues to Sabotage Negotiations

by Hamas leader Mahmoud Mardawi, published on the Resistance Network, June 1, 2025 After weeks of serious and responsible negotiations with the U.S. envoy, we reached an acceptable formula that aligns with the minimum national goals and the requirements for protecting our people. The envoy agreed to present it to the “israeli” side. However, the occupation rejected the paper and[…]

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Cyril Ramphosa Schools Trump’s Distorted Presentation on Racism in South Africa

by Ranjan Solomon, published on Countercurrents, May 23, 2025 This article is lightly edited. [jb] When it was announced that South African President Cyril Ramphosa was to visit the White House, there was speculation over whether Ramphosa would have to cope with the kind of bombardment and mistreatment that Zelensky went through on his visit to the White House. Trump[…]

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Capitalism as Self Regenerating Wealth

by Greg Godels, published on ZZ’s Blog, May 22, 2025 Gabriel Zucman is a French-born economist who teaches at California, Berkeley and the Paris School of Economics. Zucman’s academic specialization is in wealth inequality, using tax data to track the stratification in wealth in the US and the rest of the world. A student of famed inequality expert, Thomas Piketty,[…]

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Sanctions and Regime Change: The Hypocrisy of U.S. Imperialists and Syrian Reactionaries

Statement by Bronx Antiwar Coalition, May 13, 2025 Statement by the Bronx Antiwar Coalition, May 13, 2025 Editor’s note:  Great statement but I would keep watching this issue.  Remember, we are dealing with Donald Trump here, and a country with 3 different zones of occupation controlled by 3 different countries.  Congress put the sanctions on Syria and renewed them shortly[…]

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No Language Can Describe the Depth of Israeli Terrorism

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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Defend Ibrahim Traoré and the Alliance of Sahel States!

by Arjae Red, published on Workers World, May 5, 2025 Africa is rising, the days of colonialism are finished: This is the call being echoed around the world, from the masses of Burkina Faso and countries across Africa to Jamaica, Haiti and the whole Caribbean, to Paris, London and New York City. Millions of people have answered the call to[…]

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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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