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On Monday, July 6, the town council of Windsor, Conn., voted against bringing back Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) cameras owned by Flock Group Inc. The vote represents a small but meaningful advance for the movement against surveillance and state repression, which includes similar victories in some 90 towns and cities across the U.S. Community leaders are now organizing to make the most of this advance by continuing and expanding campaigns against surveillance in Windsor and Connecticut.

On April 17, President Trump signed a memorandum of understanding that, among other things, established a ceasefire on all fronts, including Lebanon, and guaranteed that Iran would allow ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz without charging any fees for sixty days. In exchange, U.S. forces suspended the blockade of Iranian ports and the sanctions on Iran’s oil exports. This memorandum favored Iran and reflects the failure of the aggression. However, Trump seeks to reverse that defeat, and the resumption of aggression may deepen it.

In the crosshairs are all of the targets of National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, virtually everyone that is not an unmovable supporter of the Trump regime. Agents of repression in these cases include everyone from private investigators, university administrators, local police, and the “Feds.” Swept up as victims of so-called “lawfare” are students, teachers, and workers from many backgrounds.

Pakistan is shaken by protests in Kashmir. Since the end of 2025, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir has witnessed popular mobilizations under the banner of the Joint Action Awami Committee (JAAC). These protests put the Pakistani state to task against its broken promises of liberating Kashmir from Indian occupation, while intensifying the exploitation of the part of Kashmir it controls. This webinar will help shed light on the issues at the heart of the struggle of the Kashmiri people, how they shape the ongoing struggle in India and in Pakistan. Speakers from Mehnatkash Tehreek, Labour Quami Movement Pakistan, and Mazdoor Inquilab.

Salgado’s family is calling for an independent probe into his killing. The demand has been backed by civil liberties and immigrants’ rights groups. So far, federal authorities have refused to consider the demand. Meanwhile, Houston’s Mayor John Whitmire has declined to seek a city-led investigation. On July 8, over a thousand protesters marched in Houston to protest the killing of Lorenzo Salgado and to demand justice. The march was organized by the civil rights group FIEL Houston and by the Party for Socialism and Liberation. It began at the Canal Street site of Salgado’s killing, where a memorial of flowers and candles had been set up. “This is the exact spot that Lorenzo took his final breath,” Cesar Espinosa, executive director of FIEL Houston, told the protesters. “And in the spirit of solidarity, I don’t know about you, but I say, if they come for one of us, they come for all of us.” Signs held by the demonstrators demanded “ICE out of Houston” and “Abolish ICE!”

7 July 2026 The trends and counter-trends in the global situation are calling into question the analyses (or lack thereof) of the entire global Left regarding its understanding of reality. And the issue of Cuba stands out as a qualitative factor—a new turning point—for the period ahead. Trump, following the agreement that temporarily ended the […]

NATO is an international counter-revolutionary apparatus created to defend the imperialist-capitalist order against the revolutionary struggle of the working class. It is a military-political instrument constructed by the bourgeoisie to suppress working-class organization, socialist movements, and national liberation struggles throughout the world. The fact that NATO neither dissolved nor diminished after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, despite the disappearance of its alleged enemy, but instead expanded continuously, demonstrates that its true function has never been “defense against communism.” Its real purpose has always been the global defense of the capitalist order and imperialist hegemony. Today, the struggle against NATO is not merely a matter of foreign policy. It is an inseparable part of defending the democratic rights of the working class, trade union freedoms, and the struggle for social emancipation. Against imperialist wars, against the clandestine machinery of the state, against capitalist barbarism, the genuine alternative is the independent, united, socialist struggle of the international working class.

Another veteran, from Tacoma, Wash., Aran Myracle, observed, “Veterans in the United States have outsized credibility. It’s important that we use that undeserved privilege to do the crucial work of dismantling the systems that sent us to die for the ruling class’s profits. It’s also the only real tangible way I’ve personally found to cope with moral injury.” These recent actions prove that, contrary to popular opinion, not all veterans are supportive of military aggression against foreign nations. Those who have seen the wanton killing and destruction of war very often see its pointlessness. Exposure to the death and horrors wrought by war frequently result in trauma from which they may never recover. The thrill of a “noble cause” can quickly turn into a struggle to survive its ugliness.

NATO is not merely a military defence organisation; it is an aggressive structure safeguarding the global political and economic order of US imperialism. In this century, the economic centre of gravity is gradually shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific. As China becomes the world’s second-largest economy, a significant portion of global trade and production is concentrating in Asia. Consequently, China’s rise is now not merely an economic issue, but a geopolitical one. We view this as the emergence of a new imperialist power; the unipolar world is giving way once more to a multipolar power struggle. As Europe’s security concerns grow, Turkiye’s geopolitical position and military strength will become one of the key factors bearing a significant portion of this burden. So, what price will Turkiye’s working people have to pay for this expanding role within NATO?

When the Pakistani authorities arrested Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) core member Shaukat Nawaz Mir, they expected to break the momentum of a movement that had already endured weeks of repression, arrests and political intimidation. The calculation was familiar: remove the leadership, criminalise the organisation, isolate the movement through an information blackout and gradually exhaust the population through fear and economic hardship. Similar methods have been employed against democratic movements across Pakistan for decades. Yet in Pakistan-administered Jammu Kashmir, the strategy produced an outcome very different from that intended by the state. Rather than retreating, the movement entered a new political phase.

What is the present situation in Pakistan-administered Kashmir? Pakistan-administered Kashmir is experiencing one of the most significant political and social crises in its recent history. What initially emerged as a mass movement against inflation, soaring electricity prices, excessive taxation, and the rising cost of essential commodities has gradually developed into a much broader struggle centred […]

The state has clamped down on protests, sweeping arrests have been made and are still being made. Hundreds across Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) are arrested, with many still unaccounted for. Mobile services and communications are blocked or suspended in many parts, amidst heavy policing. The JAAC has been deemed as engaging in ‘terrorism’, at least a hundred and fifty of their leaders are being held in preventive detention. The scenes are not unlike Indian-occupied Kashmir in the aftermath of Article 370’s repeal.

After the election results from June 21 were confirmed by the vote count, on Wednesday, June 24, Iván Cepeda formally acknowledged his defeat and accepted Abelardo de la Espriella’s victory. Thus, Cepeda assumes the role of parliamentary leader of the opposition, and Petro prepares for the transition to the new government. For his part, De […]

The mobilization succeeded in putting the government of Rodrigo Paz on the ropes. For several weeks, large regions of the country came under the effective control of the social organizations maintaining the blockades, particularly the Tupac Katari Peasants’ Federation (La Paz Department), sectors of the CSUTCB (Single Trade Union Confederation of Bolivian Peasant Workers), and other indigenous and peasant organizations in the Altiplano, such as the Bartolina Sisa Women’s Confederation and the Ponchos Rojos. In effect, a dual power structure has existed in Bolivia for over a month. It was these organizations that decided which goods, food, fuel, or vehicles could travel along the country’s main routes and which would be held up at the roadblocks. This situation led to growing supply difficulties, fuel and food shortages, as well as a sharp rise in prices, especially in the cities of La Paz and El Alto, where the economic and political impact of the roadblocks was most intense. While the government retained formal control of state institutions, the mobilized organizations demonstrated a significant ability to influence the movement of goods and the functioning of the economy. The slogan “Out with Paz!” became the unifying force of a movement that brought together miners, peasants, indigenous peoples, teachers, factory workers, neighborhood associations, and broad sectors of the populace. However, despite the enormous willingness to fight demonstrated by the masses, the movement failed to achieve its main political objective: the fall of the government. Understanding the reasons for this situation is essential for preparing for the battles ahead.

War lords and partners in interest in the Epstein scandals are gathering in Ankara on 7–8 July under the guise of the NATO Summit. It is clear that this summit, at which the strategies of US imperialism and its allies to turn the world into a plunder ground and a battlefield will be discussed, will bring no benefit whatsoever to either the Turkish working class or the peoples of the world.

As we explained in the first part of this article, the European Union (EU)—the unified apparatus of big capital in European countries created in a world where U.S. supremacy was unchallenged—is the product of a world order in crisis, one that no longer exists as we knew it after World War II. In this turbulent context, the EU has entered an existential crisis, with its economy in decline relative to those of the U.S. and China and doomed by Trump’s new foreign policy, which explicitly aims to dismantle it.