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The U.S.'s unjustifiable invasion of Venezuela and detention of Nicolás Maduro has unleashed an unprecedented crisis for Venezuela and the region more broadly. To better understand the political economy of the country and its history, we are publishing a special edition of our International Courier, including new and old pieces on the nature of Venezuelan politics, past and present.

Trump's new "National Security Strategy" has begun with the kidnapping of Maduro. What's changed, and what's stayed the same in imperialist policy?

Victor Berger's legacy as a socialist leader is larger than his deplorable personal opinions on race. His party line set back the movement for decades, even if some of his accomplishments are laudable in isolation.

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.

The U.S. strikes on Nigeria in December were not about religious freedom. They were about control of the Sahel as France withdraws from the region and the other imperialists jostle for power.

Over 15,000 nurses from 10 hospitals have gone on strike, demanding improvements in worker and patient safety and better health benefits.

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.

A broad wave of protests spread across all provinces of Iran since late 2025. The mobilizations grew to large proportions and began to shake the Iranian theocratic regime. The state’s response was violent and bloody repression.

As a new world order emerges, the balance of power in the Eastern Mediterranean is in flux, and the Erdoğan regime in Turkiye is retrenching its authoritarianism.

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

The United Left Platform knows that the battle against U.S. imperialism and the battle against ICE must become one battle.

The mobilization in Iran is unprecedented in its sweep and scale, far larger than the protests we have seen in the recent past. As such, this uprising represents perhaps the greatest threat to the power of the rule of the Mullahs, a power that has been ruling Iran almost unchecked for most of the last fifty years.

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 […]

Since January 8, the Iranian regime has blocked internet and telephone communications and carried out massacres against protesters across the country. Human rights organizations estimate that there have been between 3,400 and 20,000 deaths, thousands of injuries, and more than 20,000 detentions of protesters. The violence has turned areas surrounding hospitals into open-air morgues. These […]

The student movement, with a transformative imagination, seeks a future free from tyranny and will not submit to any form of authoritarianism. Today, our progress requires a new plan in hand. The crises of society and the incompetence of all opposing sides to the Islamic Republic have brought us to a point where we claim the student movement needs affirmative activism. That is, it must respond to the demands of the time, stand alongside the people and various social groups in their calls for justice, and formulate the processes through which these demands can be achieved.

(También en español) The movement's experience in LA demonstrates the that there are masses of people willing to take action to stop ICE. It also demonstrates that we need a lot more organization to be able to stop ICE consistently.