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Crisis in farm country

Crisis in farm country

By RICHARD WESLEY One year ago, ”Farmers for Trump” signs peppered the landscape in rural America. Over half a year into the second Trump administration, the enthusiasm for the election of 2024 has considerably abated in farm country. Policy decisions coming from Washington have dealt a series of blows to rural populations. Tariffs and instability […]
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What’s at stake in the government shutdown?

What’s at stake in the government shutdown?

By JOHN LESLIE At midnight on Sept. 30, the U.S. government shut down after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach agreement on a short-term spending plan. As a consequence, there is a looming danger that the shutdown will lead to a series of service cuts and permanent layoffs of federal workers that go far beyond what […]
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Labor Roundup

Labor Roundup

By ERNIE GOTTA Read here the news and views from the class struggle in the U.S. and internationally! This edition features news from Connecticut, Ohio, Kentucky, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. Auto workers in Conn. threaten strike at Cummins UAW Local 379 is demanding wage and health benefit increases, profit sharing, and job security at Cummins/Jacob […]
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Connecticut residents demand: ‘Release Victor Sanchez now!’

Connecticut residents demand: ‘Release Victor Sanchez now!’

By ERWIN FREED ICE agents kidnapped Victor Sánchez at a routine immigration check-in in Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday, Sept. 24. Victor is a community leader, father, and worker. He is involved not only with immigrant justice organizing but also helping people achieve sobriety. Victor has been in the United States since 2004. According to a […]
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Reinstate Tom Alter now! Protect free speech! No to fascists! 

Reinstate Tom Alter now! Protect free speech! No to fascists! 

Workers’ Voice expresses our full solidarity with Tom Alter, a member of Socialist Horizon and professor at Texas State University, who was fired from his teaching job for expressing his political opinions in an online presentation at a Sept. 8 socialist conference. When the university president ordered Dr. Alter’s dismissal based on false charges that […]
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Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists affiliates with Workers’ Voice

Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists affiliates with Workers’ Voice

By WORKERS’ VOICE OHIO / CORS We are excited to announce that Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists (CORS) has voted unanimously to affiliate with Workers’ Voice! Since CORS became an independent local organization in 2019, we have been committed to building the revolutionary left not just in Columbus, but across the country and the world. Over […]
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Warships in the Caribbean: Militarizing the War on Drugs

Warships in the Caribbean: Militarizing the War on Drugs

By JAMES MARSH The War on Drugs, like the War on Terror, has proven itself to be a war on a construct abstract enough to provide rhetorical backing for a wide array of U.S. imperialist policies. President Donald Trump, in the latest use of War on Drugs rhetoric as cover for pursuing military objectives, is […]
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Prevent the partition and plunder of Ukraine

Prevent the partition and plunder of Ukraine

From Putin’s brief visit with Trump in Alaska to his meeting with Zelensky and the heads of the EU and NATO in Washington, from the decisions “agreed” upon in the White House to those taken in Brussels, the imperialists—all accomplices to the Zionist crimes against the Palestinian people—are pushing the Zelensky government toward capitulation to […]
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Trump escalates police state measures

Trump escalates police state measures

By JOHN LESLIE In the midst of the military occupation of Washington, D.C., Trump issued another Executive Order (EO) that further escalates the use of the military against domestic civilian populations. Particularly alarming is the creation of a “standing National Guard quick reaction force,” which could be deployed nationally at the order of the president. Since […]
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Free Kilmar Abrego Garcia!

Free Kilmar Abrego Garcia!

By ERWIN FREED and AVA FAHY Kilmar Abrego Garcia—a union sheet-metal worker, husband and father, and member of the immigrant advocacy group CASA—was finally released from a Tennessee jail on Friday, Aug. 22. Unfortunately, he was re-detained three days later, on the morning of Aug. 25, during an ICE “check-in.” A press conference organized by […]
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Not reacting is behaving like a colony. Brazil must confront Trump and U.S. imperialism!

Not reacting is behaving like a colony. Brazil must confront Trump and U.S. imperialism!

—The Unified Socialist Workers’ Party of Brazil (PSTU) Trump’s tariff increase is an unacceptable economic and political attack. Imposing tariffs on Brazilian products, defending the interests of big tech companies, and demanding changes to judicial decisions in favor of Bolsonaro not only attack the Brazilian economy, but also national sovereignty. Lula’s government is obligated to […]
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No to Donald Trump's interventionist threats and U.S. imperialism! U.S. troops out of Venezuela and Latin America!

No to Donald Trump’s interventionist threats and U.S. imperialism! U.S. troops out of Venezuela and Latin America!

By Leonardo Arantes, Socialist Workers’ Unity (UST) — Venezuela In recent days, the U.S. government, led by far-right President Donald Trump, has made a series of announcements and taken actions aimed at launching a military operation in Latin American and Caribbean waters under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking. U.S. imperialism is threatening and baring […]
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Trump-Putin ‘peace’ summit was a farce

Trump-Putin ‘peace’ summit was a farce

By CARLOS SAPIR On Aug. 15, two war criminals met in Anchorage. Each flew about eight hours to arrive in the Alaskan city, exchange pleasantries, speak briefly in private, and then hold a joint press conference where nothing of substance was said. While these two imperialists dined together and did banal publicity stops, Ukrainians continue […]
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What’s at stake with Trump’s attacks on federal workers?

What’s at stake with Trump’s attacks on federal workers?

By ERNIE GOTTA Unionized federal employees are facing a real crisis due to serious attacks by the Trump administration. These attacks threaten the very existence of federal unions and collective bargaining rights that provide good wages and working conditions. This threat should put all union workers on notice. Why does Trump need to smash the […]
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Free Catalina ‘Xóchitl’ Santiago from U.S Detention!

Free Catalina ‘Xóchitl’ Santiago from U.S Detention!

By JOHN LESLIE Immigrant Justice activists and their allies are demanding the release of Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago, a respected community organizer and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient. Xóchitl was seized by Border Patrol agents at the El Paso airport on Sunday, Aug. 3, while she was traveling for work. Agents disregarded her legal […]
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