Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

The Bolivarian Legacy, from Hugo Chávez to Nicolás Maduro

by  Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report,  January 14, 2026 Attorney Dan Kovalik is an attorney representing Colombian President Gustavo Petro. He is also author of The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US Is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil. Skyhorse Publishing brought the paperback book back into print after the US kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.[…]

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Say its name – Kalaallit Nunaat

By Paddy Colligan and G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, January 14, 2026 Kalaallit Nunaat, the Indigenous name for Greenland, is the world’s largest island and is located astride the Arctic Circle in North America. It is about three times the size of Texas, but unlike Texas, much of the center of Kalaallit is covered by an ice sheet over[…]

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Bombing Somalia, Raiding Minnesota: Two Fronts of the Same War

by Gary Wilson, published on The Struggle/La Lucha, January 15, 2026 The intensified bombardment of Somalia and the assault on Somali communities in Minnesota are not separate policies. They flow from the same source: a capitalist system that requires military domination abroad and uses raids, deportations and the threat of denaturalization to terrorize nationally oppressed workers at home. In the[…]

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FRSO Statement on the Cold-Blooded Murder of Renee Good by ICE in Minneapolis

Statement by Freedom Road Socialist Movement, January 13, 2026 We condemn the brutal killing of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old community observer gunned down by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. We all saw video evidence that shows ICE officers surrounding her vehicle and opening fire. It was an execution in broad daylight. We understand this[…]

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Economic Warfare and the imperialist Stranglehold on Iran

by Gary Wiilson, published on The Struggle/LaLucha, January 11, 2026 Shuttered stalls in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar amid a rapid collapse of the rial in January 2026, as imperialist economic warfare disrupted daily life and paralyzed trade. On the morning of Jan. 8, Zahra Mohammadi stood in line outside a bakery in southern Tehran for three hours. When she finally reached[…]

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Breaking the Silence Revisited: Gaza, Venezuela and the Enduring Relevance of Dr. King’s Critique of Empire

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, January 14, 2026 The annual ritual of sanitizing Martin Luther King Jr. serves to obscure his radical anti-war politics, which are urgently needed to challenge U.S. imperialism. Every year in the U.S., what has emerged as a cynical ritual around the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King takes place, where the state[…]

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Year 2025 In Review For Latin America And The Caribbean

By Roger D. Harris and John Perry, Popular Resistance. December 31, 2025 The Reactionary Backwash. 2025 saw progressive governments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) delegitimized and displaced. Right-wing forces have seized on drug-related crises to attack the so-called Pink Tide governments, driving a reactionary backwash and putting new, neoliberal administrations in power. The irony is that the rise[…]

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Is China’s Foreign Policy ‘Good Enough’?

by Danny Haiphong, published on Workers World, December 17, 2025 The question in the title may seem hyperbolic, but it is one that comes up in one form or another across the U.S. political spectrum. U.S. elites slam China’s foreign policy as riddled with “debt traps” for poorer countries in the Global South. The Western corporate media asserts that China[…]

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Renee Good, Keith Porter and the Normalization of Violence

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 14, 2026 Law enforcement in the United States are responsible for more than 1,100 deaths in a typical year. This level of bloodshed goes unnoted even when police killings are deemed newsworthy and attract public attention. Police impunity is accepted and normalized by millions of people. The fatal shooting of Renee[…]

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Venezuela’s Revolution Still Stands: Debunking Trump’s Psyop

by Manolo De Los Santos, published on People’s Dispatch, January 5, 2026 In the aftermath of the illegal US operation against Venezuela, a deliberate misinformation campaign has been waged to sow doubt about the survival of the country’s revolution. The events of the past 72 hours represent a qualitative escalation in the 25 years of regime change operations by the[…]

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