Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Cristobal Cavazos, published on Socialist Action, March 14, 2026 With the announcement after major defeats in Illinois, Minneapolis and a historic fightback in Los Angeles, that the Trump Administration will no longer be speaking publicly about mass raids going into the midterm elections, the immigrant rights struggle is at an important junction. It’s time to ask some critical questions:[…]
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by Brad Reed, published on Common Dreams, October 11, 2025 Editor’s Note: We have a lot of people engaged in the fight in Chicago and this is very good news for them. A federal judge on Friday night released her full opinion justifying an earlier decision to block President Donald Trump from deploying Texas National Guard troops in Chicago, and[…]
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by Alexandra Westberry, published on FightBack News, October 6, 2025 West Chicago, IL – Hundreds of protesters marched through West Chicago on the morning of Saturday, October 4 to denounce ICE’s attacks on Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, referred to by the Trump regime as “Operation Midway Blitz.” Demonstrators had planned to converge at a local gas station before rallying[…]
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by Cristóbal Cavazos, published on Socialist Action, March 8, 2024 The unbelievable struggle that the Trump administration’s attack on undocumented immigrants workers has stoked, particularly among Mexican and Central American workers, some with close to the 30 years in the United States, has been as revolutionary as it has been necessary. It could be summed up in one phrase: Respect our Existence[…]
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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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by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, August 28, 2024 The struggle to struggle in today’s hyper restrictive environment played out in Chicago where protesters fought legal and popular battles to be allowed to express their rejection of politics as usual and support for the people of Palestine. [jb] DNC protest organizers kept Democrats’ responsibility for the Gaza genocide[…]
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by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, May 15, 2024 The City of Chicago has inadvertently granted the Poor People’s Army a permit to march to the convention steps of the United Center during the Democratic National Convention. Students are protesting Biden and Netanyahu’s war on Gaza all over the City of Chicago while city, state, and Democratic Party[…]
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by Neal Resnikoff, Chicago Antiwar Coalition There have been huge rallies and street marches in recent days in Chicago, New York City and throughout the world opposing the U.S. government-backed Israeli genocidal bombing attacks and blockade of water, food, and electricity on the 2 million Palestinians in Gaza. The demonstrations, made up of Palestinians and supporters of their opposition to[…]
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Statement by the Chicago Antiwar Coalition, August 30, 2023 The Biden Administration is continuing its war against Russia using Ukraine as a proxy despite heavy losses by the Ukrainian forces and them not doing well militarily against the Russian forces. The Biden Administration is now having the U.S. government send another $250 million in military assistance to the Ukrainian government.[…]
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Photograph Source: Asher Heimermann – CC BY 3.0 by Andy Thayer, Published on Counterpunch, April 26,2019 Chicago Police here infiltrated the main anti-NATO summit organizing coalition shortly after its 2011 formation, and maintained that infiltration until shortly after the summit ended in May 2012, according to Chicago Police Department documents recently released under a Freedom of Information Act request. On[…]
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