Oppressions

On May 14, the U.S. Supreme Court “kicked the can down the road” on medical abortion, saving some votes for Trump cronies in the mid-term elections but signaling to the rest of us that tele-health prescribing of mifepristone remains in danger. The Court decided that a lower-court decision from Louisiana that required patients, including those living in states with complete abortion bans, to visit a doctor’s office to get a mifepristone prescription would remain “paused.”  In the meantime, the issue would continue to be litigated in the lower courts and the part of the Republican base that remains pro-abortion would not be stirred up before voting. This maneuver has allowed the high court to expediently delay, but be ready use its powers to further erode the availability of reproductive health care when it is more politically convenient.

Nearly 5000 protesters assembled in Montgomery, Ala., on Saturday, May 16, as part of the emergency mobilization dubbed All Roads Lead to the South.  The Montgomery rally followed the recreation of a segment of the first Selma to Montgomery march of 1965, when 600 protesters were attacked by state troopers on the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, an event that has come to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”  Faith leaders, politicians, and activists joined figures like the “oldest living foot soldier” from that original crossing, 84-year-old Annie Mae Avery, and Sheyann Webb-Christburg, who was an eight-year-old participant and victim of the police assault. These mobilizations were a response to the Supreme Court’s April 29 ruling on the case of Louisiana v. Callais, which granted Louisiana the right to gerrymander voting districts to make Black representation to Congress nearly impossible. Within days of the verdict, other white Southern state governors and legislators rushed to use the ruling to squash the electoral voice of the Black community. This includes efforts in Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina.

The demonization and attack on immigrants remains a bipartisan project. Case in point, this past week the governor’s office of California announced that it will be turning over the driver’s license data of all 1 million undocumented immigrant drivers in the state to a federal database where their names, information, and addresses can be looked up. While implementation may be dependent on the legislature voting funds for the process, this decision has not yet been legally challenged and as of yet there have been no rallies opposing it. This is coming from the Democratic Party—the party that says it stands with immigrants! If they are willing to do this today, what will they do next?

The recent detention of Guillermo Medina Reyes by ICE agents in San Jose, Calif., is a direct attack against immigrants and against the entire working class of this country. His arrest is part of a state offensive that combines immigration repression, the criminalization of protest, and a detention apparatus that clearly serves the interests of the ruling classes. Guillermo’s case cannot be understood outside the concrete functioning of the capitalist state—a set of institutions (police, courts, legislatures, national and local executive bodies, prisons, ICE) designed by the boss class to control, divide, and discipline the working class, particularly its immigrant sectors.

Half a million people marched in London on 28 March against the far right and for many other reasons. It was organised by Together Alliance, a coalition formed in 2020 to oppose racism and the far right, which brought together over 80 organisations from trade unions to community groups, anti-racist organizations, and environmental activists.

Upon returning to power, Donald Trump wasted no time in resuming his environmental destruction by the stroke of his felt-tip pen.

On March 13, Palestinian immigrant worker Leqaa Kordia, 33, a U.S. resident, will mark exactly one year since her detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and given a political prison sentence disguised as an immigration status case. She remains incarcerated in a detention center in Texas.

Despite claims by Trump and his minions, voter fraud in the U.S. is very rare. But his lies still set the basis for meddling with elections, and doing away with the rest of our democratic rights along the way

This March 8th—International Working Women’s Day—we raise our voices as part of the global working class against the imperialist capitalist system that is responsible for producing exploitation and oppression on a global scale. Capitalism is not just a regime of exploitation of the workforce. It sustains itself by fomenting sexism and all forms of oppression […]

March 8 is a historic day of struggle on which working women rise up against exploitation and domination. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the resistance of women workers in textile factories, against low wages, long working hours, and inhumane conditions, laid the foundations of today’s women’s struggle. That resistance continues today against a system of exploitation whose roots run deep.

During the 2024 presidential debates between Biden and Trump, Trump pushed the lurid accusation that Haitian immigrants were “eating cats and dogs.” This claim had percolated up through social media for a while before being picked up by professional agitator Christopher Rufo, well-known for popularizing right-ring panics like the one over “critical race theory.” Rufo […]

Reducing the Balochistan attacks this month to mere “security failures” or blaming them solely on “foreign conspiracies” is not only superficial but deliberately misleading. Violence in Balochistan did not emerge in a vacuum. It is the direct outcome of a colonial, class-based, and authoritarian state structure imposed on the region for decades.

While the mass sickout and protest did not bring the economy to a grinding halt, talk about organizing a real political general strike is now on the table.

Trump's threats against Greenland have been a startling break with historical allies of US imperialism, but their arrogance and disdain for indigenous peoples are a longstanding tradition for the imperialists.

In December, the Trump administration proposed sweeping restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, the largest and most chilling federal assault on trans rights to date

For the moment we still celebrate the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King as a federal holiday. This year commemorates the holiday’s 40th anniversary. Born Jan. 15, 1929, King is one of the seminal figures of the Black liberation struggle. His importance cannot be overestimated. He provided a major impetus for the giant leap in the struggle at […]