Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Socialist Action’s May Day Statement on Defeating U.S. Imperialism’s Wars

by Socialist Action, published on Socialist Action, April 12, 2026 U.S. Hands Off Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Palestine! The world’s people in the main declared US President Donald Trump a war criminal when he announced on April 7, 2026 that, “The whole [Iranian] civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it[…]

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We Need a Movement to End US Wars in the Middle East, Latin America and at Home

by Peter Bohmer, published CounterPunch, April 10, 2026 Trumpism is waging a war against the people of U.S. and the rest of the world. It is an authoritarian, bullying playbook that violently oppresses, exploits, and dehumanizes immigrants and poor people at home and abroad. The U.S. takes resources from the Global South through resource imperialism and demands total geopolitical dominance.[…]

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Iran and the Psychopathology of White Supremacy

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, March 4, 2026 Western threats against Iran and other nations reveal the persistence of white supremacist ideology. The sincere belief that the sadistic brutalization of the Palestinian people would sever their connection to their land; that a sixty-year siege on Cuba would compel its people to abandon their revolution; or that assassinating[…]

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The Cuban Revolution Holds Out Against US Imperialism

by Vijay Prashad, published on Popular Resistance, February 19, 2026 In January 2026, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba to be an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US security, a designation that allows the United States government to use sweeping economic restrictions traditionally reserved for national security adversaries. The US blockade against Cuba began in the 1960s, right after the[…]

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What Does Venezuela Have to Do With Taiwan?

by Biljana Vankovska, produced by Globetrotter, January 12, 2026 The New Year did not begin with hope or joy, except for the arms dealers. More precisely, for the military-industrial-media-academic-NGO complex that feeds on permanent war. Orders are flowing, profits are booming, and blood has once again become a growth sector. For any normal society, pirates belong in adventure films, not[…]

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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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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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The United States’ War Against Venezuela began in 2001

by Vijay Prashad, published on Socialist Action, December 31, 1025 The United States had no problem with Venezuela itself, nor with the country or its former oligarchy. The problem the U.S. government and its business class have is with the process initiated by President Hugo Chávez’s first administration. In 2001, Chávez’s Bolivarian process passed a law called the Organic Hydrocarbons Law,[…]

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