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August 15, 2025

America

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...

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...

Tech’s honeymoon with Trump

By HERMAN MORRIS The Trump presidency opened with the biggest explicit political embrace of a...

Argentina: They want to hand over the Hidrovía again

The Javier Milei government will issue a new call for bids for a 60-year...

Colombia: Álvaro Uribe Vélez is convicted, albeit for the least of his crimes

— PST (Socialist Workers' Party) of Colombia In a historic trial, former Colombian president Álvaro...

Colombia: Álvaro Uribe Vélez is convicted, albeit for the least of his crimes

— PST (Socialist Workers' Party) of Colombia In a historic trial, former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe Vélez was convicted of bribery and procedural fraud. It...

Trump’s policies, the US-China dispute, and the crisis of world order (Part 2)

By Felipe Alegría and Ricardo Ayala 1. China, the great enemy As we have pointed out throughout this article, Trump's general policy can be explained, first...

The long struggle of Panamanian workers against U.S. imperialism

By JAMES MARSH The national strike in Panama is nearing its third month in the struggle of militant unions and social movement activist organizations to...

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 Hague Group: 32 countries meet in Bogotá to define sanctions against Israel

By Ivonne A.An emergency meeting convened by the Hague Group was held in Bogotá, Colombia, on July 15 and 16.Founded in February 2025 by...

Hostage to Congress? The real deal between Lula and the “Centrão”

By Érika Andreassy (PSTU – Brazil) It is common to hear the government and even activist sectors claim that Lula is a well-intentioned president who...

Brazil is under attack from imperialism: it’s time for an independent working-class response

By PSTU, Brazil Brazil is under direct attack from imperialism. Donald Trump's announcement of tariffs on Brazilian exports constitutes a serious violation of our sovereignty...

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,...

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....

We support the Ukrainian people against the Russian invasion and U.S. colonization

Recently, the Socialist Workers' Party (PTS) of Argentina and its international organization, the Trotskyist Faction (FT), devoted a television program and an extensive article...

Colombia: The right goes on the offensive thanks to the government’s ambiguity

—by the Socialist Workers' Party of Colombia The government and the majority leadership of the trade union movement, represented in the National Unitary Command, are...

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...