Thu Jan 30, 2025
January 30, 2025

Oppressions

Solidarity with the Mapuche community Lof Pailako in Argentina

By Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores Unificado - ArgentinaOn Thursday, January 9, 2025, a large operation was carried out by the Federal Police and the Gendarmerie to evict the...

How can we defend women’s and Queer rights?

By CHRISTINE EVANS The incoming Trump administration has committed itself to deepening the current attacks...

Struggle for trans rights will need to accelerate under Trump

By RUSS O’SHEA For the past few years, trans people have been put in the...

State elections: Abortion rights on the ballot

By EMMA GRACE This election season was hyper-focused on the presidential election, an intense battle...

The legal lynching of Marcellus Williams

The execution of Williams was one more example of racist state terror By JOHN KIRKLAND Despite...

The legal lynching of Marcellus Williams

The execution of Williams was one more example of racist state terror By JOHN KIRKLAND Despite pleas and evidence of possible innocence, the state of Missouri...

Brazil: Indigenous people criticize government and demand demarcation of their land

By Socialist Opinion, PSTU Brazil After 335 years, the Tupinambá mantle, a sacred object of Brazilian indigenous culture, taken from here by the French colonizers...

Right-wingers inflate false rumor that Haitian immigrants are eating pets

By DYLAN EDWARD Springfield, Ohio, has become a focal point of national headlines and social media attention due to the spread of far-right conspiracy theories...

It’s time for the victims’ shame to pass to the perpetrators!

Mom, did you hear about the “51 in France”? It's horrible, Mom! No, what are you talking about? That's when a quick Google search...

The “Mazan rapes” in France: Beyond the media coverage, let’s organize the fight against sexual violence!

By Brune Ernst On September 2, 2024, the trial began in France against Dominique Pelicot, the man accused of being the organizer of numerous rapes...

The source of transgender oppression — and how to fight it

By RUSS O’SHEA One of the most emergent issues of our time is the fight for transgender rights. In recent years, an enormous amount of...

Detained immigrant strikers protest inhumane conditions

By N. IRAZU “It is important we uplift the voices of the compañeros. We want all detention centers to be shut down.” —Juana, immigrant activist...

Interview with a farmworker in California’s Central Valley

By WORKERS’ VOICE We met in the city of Orosi, Calif., with a farmworker, Ixtel, to conduct this interview to learn about the situation of...

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...