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September 15, 2025

Oppressions

Free Kilmar Abrego Garcia!

By ERWIN FREED and AVA FAHY Kilmar Abrego Garcia—a union sheet-metal worker, husband and father, and member of the immigrant advocacy group CASA—was finally released from a Tennessee jail on...

Free Catalina ‘Xóchitl’ Santiago from U.S Detention!

By JOHN LESLIE Immigrant Justice activists and their allies are demanding the release of Catalina...

Hospitals shut the door on trans youth

BY ROSA AURELIA On Thursday, July 24, Yale Medicine and Yale New Haven Health announced...

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...

Scottsboro Boys: A lesson in defense campaigns

By BRIAN CRAWFORD “No crime in American history—let alone a crime that never occurred—produced as...

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...

Keep It Up in the Streets for Safe, Legal, and Free Abortion in Hospitals! Down with Milei’s Spending Cuts!

Last week, a bill presented by a handful of deputies from Libertad Avanza was made public. It seeks to repeal the law on voluntary...

IWL Statement | September 28: Abortion Around the World, Advances and Setbacks

September 28th marks a global day of action for safe and legal abortion. It was established by the Fifth Latin American and Caribbean Feminist...

We Support India’s Protesting Women Wrestlers

By Mazdoor Inquilab Since t May 4, India’s Olympic-winning female wrestlers are on the ground at Jantar Mantar protesting against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI)...

Lula-Alckmin Government Overlooks Indigenous Peoples and the Environment

It took less than 200 days in government for Lula-Alckmin's campaign promises to be left behind. By: Waldemir Soares, CSP-Conlutas I believe there is no doubt...