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

Capitalism, CIA, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Humanitarian Aid, Latin America, Mass action, The War at Home, U.S. Hegemony, US Government Action, US Politics

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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Opening Up a Struggle Against the Dictatorship Of the Billionaires

Action!!, LGTBQ+, Resistance, Systemic Racism, U.S. Hegemony, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, War on the Poor

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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Los Angeles Fires: The Santa Ana Blowback of Capitalist Climate Change Neglect

Capitalism, Climate Change, Natural Disaster, Prisoners, The War at Home, War on the Poor

Black Alliance for Peace Statement, January 9, 2025 The incendiary cataclysms in Los Angeles, California remind us that the root cause of the climate crisis exacerbating the fires spreading throughout that city and surrounding areas is fossil fuel production emblematic of runaway capitalism fueled by white “supremacy” ideology, patriarchy, and colonization. And while it’s easy to focus solely on the[…]

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UNAC Statement on the 2024 Presidential Election

Democracy and Consent, Featured, Statement, US Hypocrisy, US Politics, War and Peace

by UNAC, November 6, 2024 In the 2024 Presidential elections, neither candidate spoke for peace.  The election was held while there was a US/NATO war with Russia in Ukraine and a US/Israeli genocide in Palestine and an ever-expanding war in West Asia.  The election was held at a time that the US is militarily encircling and threatening China and North[…]

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

BRICS, US Government Action

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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Your Mind Is A Battlefield: Decolonize It To Prevent Global Catastrophe!

Abuses of Empire, American Exceptionalism, Anti-Imperialism, Asia Pivot, Capitalism, Censorship and Propaganda, China, Cold War, Economic Blockade, Racism, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Taiwan, Trade Wars, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy, Visions of a Future

by K.J. Noh, published on Popular Resistance, October 2, 2024 The rise of China is one of the greatest success stories in the history of human civilization. Talk delivered for the event “Changes Not Seen in a Century: 75th Anniversary of Founding of PRC”. Friends, Colleagues, Comrades, It’s a great honor for me to join you in this extraordinary, historical moment of[…]

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Fascism and War Cannot Be Voted Out

Action!!, Capitalism, Censorship and Propaganda, Civil Resistance, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Imperial Lies and Liars, Protest, Racism, US Hypocrisy, US Politics

by Ellen Isaacs, published on Countercurrents, September 23, 2024 Editor’s Note: Another much needed perspective that has been in the queue for too long. [jb] Many progressive friends declare they will “hold their nose” and vote for Harris, if only to prevent Trump from instituting fascism. “Bad as she is” – intolerable on Palestine, flipflopping on the environment and health[…]

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Democratic Party Convention: Lesser Evilism Strikes With a Vengeance and a Cacophony of Corporate Media Hype

Capitalism, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Peoples' Movements, Pro-war Left, Socialism, The War at Home

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action,  August 25, 2024 24,500 full size posters reading “We ♥ Joe” [See photo above] were held high by virtually every Democratic Party Convention delegate and attendee jammed into Chicago’s United Center to cheer for yesterday’s disgraced and withdrawn presidential candidate, Genocide Joe Biden. That the Biden-Harris administration presided over a new congressionally approved[…]

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Demagogue Trump’s “Restraint” at Republican Party Convention: Biden Drops Out

Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Imperialism, Nicaragua, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, July 22, 2024 As with France’s newly moderated and re-imaged proto-fascist Marine Le Pen a few weeks earlier, Donald J. Trump took the floor of the Republican National Convention for a 93-minute “unifying” nomination acceptance speech. Friendly, relaxed, complementary, “family-oriented,” thanking God for saving his life five days earlier from an assassin’s near[…]

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