Tue Oct 14, 2025
October 14, 2025

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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...

What’s at stake in the government shutdown?

By JOHN LESLIE At midnight on Sept. 30, the U.S. government shut down after Republicans...

Labor Roundup

By ERNIE GOTTA Read here the news and views from the class struggle in the...

Connecticut residents demand: ‘Release Victor Sanchez now!’

By ERWIN FREED ICE agents kidnapped Victor Sánchez at a routine immigration check-in in Hartford,...

Trump administration’s response to ICE shooting points to more repression

By AVA FAHY and ERWIN FREED Early Wednesday morning, Sept. 24, three detainees at the...

Trump’s police state ambitions: ICE expanded while troops enter D.C.

By JOHN LESLIE Trump has announced a federal takeover of the District of Columbia police and deployed more than 800 National Guard troops to the...

U.S. sanctions against Brazil’s Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes are imperialist manipulation

By Pablo Biondi (Unified Socialist Workers' Party (PSTU – Brazil) On July 30, the U.S. government announced financial sanctions against Minister Alexandre de Moraes, invoking...

Trump’s decree on tariffs and interference in the Federal Supreme Court are an imperialist attack against Brazil

— Unified Socialist Workers' Party of Brazil (PSTU) On Wednesday, May 30, Donald Trump, the leader of the world's most important imperialist power, issued a...

Tech’s honeymoon with Trump

By HERMAN MORRIS The Trump presidency opened with the biggest explicit political embrace of a party and president ever by tech capitalists. While previous presidents...

Trump’s policies, the US-China dispute, and the crisis of world order (Part 2)

By Felipe Alegría and Ricardo Ayala 1. China, the great enemy As we have pointed out throughout this article, Trump's general policy can be explained, first...

The long struggle of Panamanian workers against U.S. imperialism

By JAMES MARSH The national strike in Panama is nearing its third month in the struggle of militant unions and social movement activist organizations to...

What next for Philadelphia city workers after their strike?

By B. COOPER On July 21, the workers of AFSCME District Council 33 (DC 33) in Philadelphia, who were on strike for eight days over...

What does Mamdani’s primary win mean for working people?

By TONY STABILE and GUILLERMO SCHRODER Zohran Mamdani, a DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) member and New York State Assemblyman representing parts of Queens, won...

Brazil is under attack from imperialism: it’s time for an independent working-class response

By PSTU, Brazil Brazil is under direct attack from imperialism. Donald Trump's announcement of tariffs on Brazilian exports constitutes a serious violation of our sovereignty...

Unions, immigrant rights, and civil liberties: For a class-struggle left wing in the U.S.

By ERNIE GOTTA Unions have been at the forefront of the opposition to raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and President Trump’s growing authoritarianism....

We support the Ukrainian people against the Russian invasion and U.S. colonization

Recently, the Socialist Workers' Party (PTS) of Argentina and its international organization, the Trotskyist Faction (FT), devoted a television program and an extensive article...

Scottsboro Boys: A lesson in defense campaigns

By BRIAN CRAWFORD “No crime in American history—let alone a crime that never occurred—produced as many trials, convictions, reversals and retrials” as the case of...

On the U.S.-Israel war against Iran and its consequences

A truce imposed by Trump has interrupted the United States and Israeli war against Iran. It is time to assess the situation and its...

A call to the streets in defense of Iran and Palestine! Down with U.S. and Zionist military aggression!

By the International Secretariat of the IWL The United States has directly attacked Iran, thus joining the Israeli offensive against that country. They used...