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December 14, 2024

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Trump’s election and the crisis of world order

Trump's election highlights the need to understand the increasingly complex, polarized, and unstable global political situation. The government of the most powerful imperialist country in the world will be...

The Trump White House and how to fight it

BY MICHAEL SCHREIBER This article contains revised and updated segments of the article printed on...

State elections: Abortion rights on the ballot

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

The Democrats have no answers for working people

By JOHN PRIETO Now that the dust has begun to settle, a clearer picture of...

Building a Palestine solidarity movement that can stand up to repression

By ERWIN FREED On Oct. 15, the United States and Canadian governments designated the Palestinian...

Building a Palestine solidarity movement that can stand up to repression

By ERWIN FREED On Oct. 15, the United States and Canadian governments designated the Palestinian prisoner solidarity organization Samidoun as giving “material support to terrorist...

Hurricanes Helene and Milton come calling

By RICHARD WESLEY On Thursday, Sept. 26, Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida’s panhandle out of the Gulf of Mexico, causing massive devastation with a powerful...

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...

Harris vs. Trump: Who loves fracking more?

By COOPER BARD The Sept. 10 presidential debate showed clearly that the policies of the two big capitalist parties have a number of points of...

U.S. and China: Tariff hikes highlight inter-imperialist tensions

By ERNIE GOTTA President Biden has been using his final year in office to expand on the Trump administration’s tariffs on China. New tariffs were...

Palestine solidarity movement holds conference in California

By JAMES MARKIN As Israel escalates its genocidal war on Gaza and expands the carnage into south Lebanon with scarcely any criticism by Washington, it...

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...

Democrats’ 2024 platform tells us just where they stand on Palestine

By COCO SMYTH Politicians, celebrities, capitalists, and party operatives convened at the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago between Aug. 19 and 24. They...

What does Kamala Harris say about police violence?

By BRIAN CRAWFORD Kamala Harris is officially the Democratic nominee for president of the United States. For the next couple of months, a flurry of...

U.S. elections: Neither party will end financial crisis for working-class households

By CHRISTINE MARIE One of the most painful displays of hypocrisy in the current presidential race revolves around the effort of each ticket to present...

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...

10,000 hotel workers strike across the U.S.! 

By ERNIE GOTTA More than 10,000 union hotel workers are on strike in cities including San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Baltimore, San Jose, San Diego, Greenwich,...

Despite the convention pageantry, Democratic Party politics hit a dead end

By JOHN PRIETO The Democratic National Convention (DNC) is over. What we saw was a commitment to the same old politics that are a dead...