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August 14, 2025

U.S. sanctions against Brazil’s Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes are imperialist manipulation

By Pablo Biondi (Unified Socialist Workers' Party (PSTU – Brazil) On July 30, the U.S. government announced financial sanctions against Minister Alexandre de Moraes, invoking the Magnitsky Act. Enacted during the Obama administration, the Magnitsky Act is designed to punish...

Trump’s decree on tariffs and interference in the Federal Supreme Court are an imperialist attack against Brazil

— Unified Socialist Workers' Party of Brazil (PSTU) On Wednesday, May 30, Donald Trump, the leader of the world's most important imperialist power, issued a...

“Ukraine is not Russia!”

Chanted by thousands upon thousands of demonstrators in dozens of Ukrainian cities, these few words sum up the feelings and will of the Ukrainian...

Tech’s honeymoon with Trump

By HERMAN MORRIS The Trump presidency opened with the biggest explicit political embrace of a party and president ever by tech capitalists. While previous presidents would court the tech industry’s support, Trump’s second term saw...

Palestine: The “new death” of the “two-state solution”

Last week, the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) passed a resolution proposing the permanent annexation of all Jewish settlements in the West Bank to the State of Israel. This marks the "final death" of the...

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We condemn the attack against Fredis Marrugo, leader of SINALTRAINAL Cartagena and the PST

On July 6, the leader of the Cartagena branch of the National Union of Agri-Food Workers (Sinaltrainal), a member of the Regional CUT executive...

Trump, hands off Brazil! No amnesty for the coup plotters, lackeys of imperialism! Bolsonaro to jail!

By the Unified Socialist Workers' Party – Brazil On the afternoon of Wednesday, September 9, the president of the world's leading imperialist power, Donald Trump,...

The historic rate hike of the telephone monopoly in Cuba

Statement by the collective “Socialists in Struggle” On the morning of May 30, 2025, the Cuban people woke up to the news of a disproportionate increase in the prices of mobile telephone rates. The...

No borders, no binaries!

By RIO NERO During the 2024 election cycle, immigrants and transgender people became the primary targets of a scapegoat campaign that was launched by the Republican Party and deepened by the Democrats, which now...

‘The Encampments’: A timely film for the Palestine movement

By LENA WANG “The Encampments” (directed by Michael T. Workman and Kei Pritsker, 2025) documents the surge of Palestine solidarity activism at Columbia University and beyond in the spring of 2024. The film faithfully...

Trump, the Gulf monarchs, and genocide in Palestine

By M.A. Al GHARIB U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Middle East astonished many observers in sidelining Israel. Trump agreed to a captive release deal with Hamas, an end to the hostilities with...

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What next for Philadelphia city workers after their strike?

By B. COOPER On July 21, the workers of AFSCME District Council 33 (DC 33) in Philadelphia, who were on strike for eight days over...

What does Mamdani’s primary win mean for working people?

By TONY STABILE and GUILLERMO SCHRODER Zohran Mamdani, a DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) member and New York State Assemblyman representing parts of Queens, won the Democratic Party mayoral primary...

Victory to Birmingham Bin Strike!

Labour has abandoned workers on strike. By ISL Birmingham City Council (BCC) Unite bin workers went on strike on 6 January because 170 affected workers face cuts in their wages of...

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Unions, immigrant rights, and civil liberties: For a class-struggle left wing in the U.S.

By ERNIE GOTTA Unions have been at the forefront of the opposition to raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and President Trump’s growing authoritarianism....

Scottsboro Boys: A lesson in defense campaigns

By BRIAN CRAWFORD “No crime in American history—let alone a crime that never occurred—produced as many trials, convictions, reversals and retrials” as the case of the Scottsboro Boys,” wrote Douglas...

Trump and ICE wage terror on immigrants

By N. IRAZÚ The immigrant movement is now at the center of struggle within the United States. It is the spearhead of Donald Trump’s racist and anti-worker policies. In his...