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Feds and local police, one and the same

Feds and local police, one and the same

The modern police apparatus in the United States is based on the principles of intelligence fusion and intelligence-led policing. These are fancy ways of saying that all of the various police agencies are in communication and organization with each other using methods of mass surveillance, informant networks, and community engagement to enforce capitalist social order.  The ways that this communication and organization is organized are concrete and easy to identify, but largely undiscussed by politicians and the mainstream press. They are also more expansive than the police, or even the state, including in their networks large corporations’ and other private surveillance as well as executives and other elites.
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Against US-led Imperialist War and For Iranian Self-Determination

Against US-led Imperialist War and For Iranian Self-Determination

The central dividing line in this war is clear. The United States and Israel have launched an imperialist assault on a sovereign country, openly demanding regime change and killing hundreds of civilians in the process. Whatever crimes the Islamic Republic has committed against its own people—and they are many—this does not grant Washington or Tel Aviv the right to bomb Iran, assassinate its leaders, or determine its political future. The right to remove the regime belongs to the Iranian people alone.
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Palestine: Solidarity and resistance against Trump’s desert of “peace”

Palestine: Solidarity and resistance against Trump’s desert of “peace”

With the launch of his Peace Council at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 22, US President Donald Trump is attempting to carry out his long-cherished and shamelessly publicized project to establish a Middle Eastern Riviera in Gaza by February 2025. Amidst the suffering of the Palestinian people in the face of ongoing genocide, he sees an opportunity to establish his luxury resort in full view of the world, while giving carte blanche to Israel, imperialism's military enclave, to carry out the final solution in the ongoing Nakba—the Palestinian catastrophe that has lasted for almost 78 years.
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The Crisis of Chavismo and Social Catastrophe

The Crisis of Chavismo and Social Catastrophe

This article is a synthesis that contains parts of articles published in Correo Internacional in 2017 and 2019, as well as articles published on the LIT-CI website in 2020. Within the polemics of the different left currents, they tend to discuss the policies towards Maduro’s administration, the Constituent Assembly, and/or imperialism. But, unfortunately, little is […]
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San Francisco teachers strike — and win!

San Francisco teachers strike — and win!

San Francisco educators and school workers have won our first strike in nearly 50 years. The strike galvanized our entire union, garnered support from the City’s working-class, and forced a long-intransigent district to concede on our key demands for better working and living conditions.
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Trump again targets Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio

Trump again targets Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio

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 […]
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NY Presbyterian nurses continue strike despite union leadership’s sell-out

NY Presbyterian nurses continue strike despite union leadership’s sell-out

Despite their union leadership’s betrayal, rank-and-file nurses refused to back down. Led by their executive committee, NYP strikers called an emergency rally at 11 a.m. on Feb. 11 by Herald Square. Around 100 nurses marched to the NYSNA Manhattan headquarters to protest the betrayal by their union leadership and chanted outside the building while their bargaining committee delivered a petition demanding accountability and an open hearing with NYSNA president Nancy Hagans. According to local executive committee president Beth Loudin, the petition had garnered over 1500 signatures from striking nurses overnight.
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Drug trafficking is a capitalist business, convenient for imperialist intervention

Drug trafficking is a capitalist business, convenient for imperialist intervention

It’s no coincidence that Trump and Colombia’s far-right Uribismo agree on anti-drug policies of military repression and forced eradication of illicit crops, as well as the defense of “cooperation” between the United States and Colombia. They are united by their undeclared defense of the drug trade’s illegality, considering its profits represent 7% of the global […]
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Imperialist pressure increases Mexico’s subordination and social polarization

Imperialist pressure increases Mexico’s subordination and social polarization

= Caludia Sheinbaum and Mexico’s Subordination to Trump’s Economic Policy Donald Trump’s second term has further reconfigured the imperialist relationship of domination between the United States and Mexico. Rather than confronting Washington over national sovereignty, Claudia Sheinbaum’s government has chosen to actively adapt to its economic, commercial, and geopolitical demands. Despite its rhetoric “in defense […]
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