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Joint Political Statement: Solidarity Against Communal Violence, Fundamentalism, and State Complicity

Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) and Radical Socialist (India)

Posted December 27, 2025

We, the Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) and Radical Socialist (India), condemn in the strongest terms the current wave of communal violence, religious fundamentalism, and attacks on democratic and secular spaces in South Asia, particularly in Bangladesh, and the dangerous political repercussions these developments are producing in India…

Vanity Vandalism: Trump’s Versailles on the Potomac

Michael Steven Smith

Posted December 20, 2025

DONALD TRUMP’S GIANT back hoes have knocked down the east wing of the White House to construct a ballroom in his own honor….

Chile: Rise of the Far Right

Oscar Mendoza

Posted December 20, 2025

WITH THE SECOND round of the Chilean election, José Antonio Kast won a decisive victory over the progressive candidate Jeanette Jara (58% to 42%). When Kast is sworn in as president on March 11, he will be the first far right-wing president since 1990….

Racial Injustice Inferno

The Editors

Posted December 19, 2025

HISTORIAN VAN GOSSE writes: “The many forms of despotism crowding in around us… represent a fundamental counter-revolution whose only counterpart would be the decades-long ‘Redemption’ that overturned Reconstruction’s biracial democracy in the former Confederacy and locked in White Supremacy for three-quarters of a century.” (“Red Scares — and a Blue Scare? A Brief History of Repression in the United States”)

That specter of enormous rollbacks in the…

Trump’s Latest Racist Tirade

Malik Miah

Posted December 18, 2025

ONCE AGAIN, THE white nationalist U.S. president blames immigrants from “Third World” countries for the decline of “Western civilization.”

Trump’s new target are people from Somalia living in the United States. He slams all Somali people in the country as “garbage” that should be removed. Trump especially despises people from Black Africa.

Before this latest rant, a week earlier Trump viciously attacked the Afghan community after a CIA-trained gunman attacked…

The Great Flood

B. Skanthakumar

Posted December 9, 2025

CYCLONE DITWAH RIPPED through Sri Lanka between 27 and 29 November. The toll is devastating. Seven days later, the official count is 486 deaths and 341 missing. To which should be added five navy and one air-force officer killed in rescue operations; and an electricity board technician electrocuted while repairing a power line. As search teams reach previously inaccessible areas this week, the fatality count has grown exponentially, and some fear it will climb into four digits. We may never know…

Ukrainian Socialists Respond to Government Corruption

Sotsialnyi Rukh

Posted December 5, 2025

UKRAINE’s SOCIAL MOVEMENT (Sotsialnyi Rukh) published this resolution, adopted at their annual conference, on their website September 28, 2025. This is a Google translation of their resolution. The first paragraph presciently identifies the problem of corruption that broke out in media with the charges against top officials for a $100 million kickback scheme. The body of the resolution expands the analysis and proposes remedies….

On the 70th Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott: The Life of Rosa Parks, 1913-2005

Dianne Feeley

Posted November 28, 2025

As the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott approaches, the Trump administration is hard at work erasing the history of the immense struggle Black America has waged for freedom. Rosa Parks is a central figure in the 20th century movement for Black lives, both before and after she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger the evening of December 1, 1955….

Oppose Trump’s Surrender Plan for Ukraine

Ukraine Solidarity Network (US)

Posted November 23, 2025

IMPERIALIST BULLYING IS rarely so open and brazen. Donald Trump demanded last week that Ukraine accept his surrender plan for Ukraine by Thanksgiving Day, November 27, or lose what little remains of U.S. support for Ukraine, which is the sharing of satellite intelligence about Russian military positions and the sale of arms to Ukraine….

Ecosocialism or Extinction: defending life, building free territories and Ecosocialism from and for the Peoples

Posted November 21, 2025

“We don’t sell our land because it is like our mother. Our territory is our body. And we don’t sell our body. We don’t sell our mother. We wouldn’t sell it, because it is sacred.

“And we start suffering pressures of invasion, pressure from mining, from agribusiness, which has expanded a lot, pressure from logging companies, which are deforesting our territories. And we have been resisting.” —Auricelia Arapiun, Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian…