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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.

On December 28, Tehran merchants, known as “Bazaari,” closed their doors in protest against the economic crisis (skyrocketing inflation and sharp devaluation of the national currency, the rial) and neoliberal policies that benefit only certain capitalist sectors linked to the regime and widen social inequality. The following day, university students joined the protests. From there, […]

Recent strategic reports put out by Trump's government paint a picture of U.S. imperialism’s international standing falling from uncontested dominance to being compelled to game out its place in a new world order. While the United States retains economic and military superiority, the large strides made by Chinese technological advancements and control of strategic sectors are quickly closing the gap.

As worldwide protests, including many across the UK, demand ‘hands-off Venezuela’, that the Venezuelan people govern themselves, the ISL fully support the demands of the protests and further demands the British government condemn the invasion as well as the capture of president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

The only way to beat U.S. imperialism in Venezuela today is to throw the Chavista dictatorship out with it