Thu May 08, 2025
May 08, 2025

Oppressions

Defend voting rights (again!)

A VOICE FOR BLACK LIBERATION By BRIAN CRAWFORD August will mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, one of the major achievements of the civil rights...

Trump officials defy the courts, send immigrants to brutal Salvadoran prison

By BEN MARTINEZ On March 15, President Donald Trump signed an executive order invoking the...

Trump’s campaign against DEI: A bid to reinforce white supremacy

y BRIAN CRAWFORD Donald Trump has returned to power, and the far right is confident...

Immigrants and their allies mobilize against Trump’s attacks

By JOSE MONTEROJO Immigrants and their allies are responding to the Trump administration’s attacks on...

March 8: Against the governments and the global far right: international working class solidarity!

On March 8, International Working Women's Day, we denounce the brutality of late capitalism,...

Immigrant workers on hunger strike at two detention centers

By N. IRAZU On July 1, immigrants detained in the private detention centers of Mesa Verde (MV) and Golden State Annex (GSA) in California launched...

Teamster president okays racist, anti-trans statement by GOP politician

By ERNIE GOTTA Teamster President Sean O’Brien caused a wave of divergent opinions in the labor movement following his speech at the Republican National Convention....

White House statement stokes panic against transgender youth

By MAR RENO In the 2024 State of the Union address , Joe Biden shouted out the transgender youth of the U.S., “You’re so brave!...

The pact of impunity in Peru

Two weeks after the publication of this article in Bandera Socialista, press of the Socialist Workers Party - Peru, the Permanent Commission of the...

Detained immigrants relaunch labor strike at ICE detention centers in California

By MESA VERDA-GOLDEN STATE ANNEX SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE Strikers are demanding an end to ICE detention centers, release from detention, an end to solitary confinement, restoration...

‘Pinkwashing’ counters movement for Queer liberation

By RUSS O’SHEA Queer people today find themselves in a startling position. In the time since the Stonewall Uprising, the community seemed to have been...

Unions and social justice organizations speak out for reproductive rights

By EMMA GRACE “The same forces that are attacking our reproductive rights are also trying to destroy our rights as workers. … Without workers, the...

U.S. Gov’t ‘Warns’ Pride with a Racist Threat

By RUSS O’SHEA On May 10, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) put out a joint public service announcement warning that foreign terrorist...

Texas Adds Another Racist Law; Democrats Sacrifice Immigrants

By GAWON CHO On March 19, Texas Senate Bill 4 (SB 4), a bill that among other things would allow Texas police to arrest suspected...

Building a queer liberation mass movement in North America

By RUSS O’SHEA Entering pride season 2024, Queer people find ourselves in a world characterized by unprecedented attacks on our rights, environmental devastation, ongoing genocide,...

Women for Socialism! Let’s Put an End to the Violence, Exploitation, and Environmental Destruction of the Capitalist System!

A Statement from the IWL-FI On the occasion of another March 8, International Working Women's Day, we are proud to publish this new issue of...

Palestinian Women and the Gaza Genocide

By Soraya Misleh, Brazil According to an article published by the Institute for Palestine Studies, entitled "The Women of Gaza during the Ongoing Genocide: Women,...

Biden Makes Concessions to Right Wing on Immigration Policy

By Jose Monterojo At the end of January, Biden presented a concession to the far right of the Republican Party on the issue of immigration...

Pinkwashing in Israel: No Pink or Lilac Doors in the Walls of Apartheid

By Érika Andreassy Israel is often portrayed as the only democracy in the Middle East. When speaking of Israeli “democracy,” people often point to its...