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For Ukraine without Oligarchs and Occupiers!
Sotsialnyi Rukh
Posted March 17, 2025
The predatory policies of the newly elected U.S. president make it impossible to establish a lasting peace for Ukrainians. Ukraine’s refusal to sign the mineral extraction agreement, designed to serve the interests of American capital, demonstrates the country’s determination to avoid colonial dependence. This opens the door to exploring a more equitable model of relations between Ukraine and the states of Europe, Asia, and the rest of the world under the banner of resistance to imperialist…
Trump Forces DC to Destroy BLM Plaza
Malik Miah
Posted March 14, 2025
CONSTRUCTION CREWS SWOOPED in and began destroying Black Lives Matter Plaza Street mural in Washington, D.C. on March 10. The target, near the White House, was more than a powerful symbol and its wide support by the African American community….
“We’ve Been Betrayed!:” Who’s Fighting Back (and not) Against Trump’s Cuts in VA Jobs and Services
Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon
Posted March 13, 2025
AMONG THE REPUBLICIAN voters experiencing buyer’s remorse are more than a few military veterans who chose Trump over Harris by a margin of 65 to 34%, according to some exit polls.
Their shock and dismay surfaced in DC this month during the legislative conference of the reliably conservative and hawkish Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), which has 1.4 million members….
Imperial Betrayal and Implications
David Finkel
Posted March 5, 2025
IMPERIALIST BACK-STABBING AND betrayal of smaller nations and peoples isn’t exactly something new. The Kurds, Palestinians, and in early generations the Poles and the people of what was Czechoslovakia, among many others, could tell you a lot about it.
Even so, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s ambush of Ukraine’s president Volodomyr Zelensky, and the rapid switch of U.S. support from Ukraine’s defense to Putin’s demand for an annexationist “peace” on Russian terms, shocked both U.S. and…
Anti-fascists are the firewall: Reflections on the German snap election 2025
Folko Mueller
Posted March 4, 2025
On February 23, 2025, Germany held a snap general election for only the fourth time in its post-World War II history. The original date for the general election would have been September 28 of this year. However, the governing coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), Liberals (FDP, these days, liberal only in an economic context, i.e., neoliberal), and Greens — also referred to as an “Ampel” or traffic light coalition, due to the colors of the respective parties — collapsed on November…
The Myth of the Left-wing Professors
Harvey J. Graff
Posted February 27, 2025
The multi-front war on university students, faculty and academic programs is spearheaded by the notorious attack on pro-Palestinian activism, in the guise of “combating campus antisemitism.” But this is just an opening wedge: everything from liberal arts and academic freedom to, of course, the horrors of “diversity” programs are in the crosshairs of the right wing.
The following article by Ohio State University professor emeritus Harvey J. Graff puts the current crisis into some historical…
War on Ice: The Canada-U.S. Faceoff
David Finkel
Posted February 26, 2025
ALMOST BY ACCIDENT, the Canada-U.S. final of the National Hockey League’s “4 Nations Face-Off” became one of those iconic moments when sports intersects with international enmity. If you’re old enough to remember, historic examples include the 1968 Czechoslovakia-Soviet ice hockey game after Russian tanks crushed the Prague Spring, or the 1956 Hungary-Soviet Olympic water polo match with, quite literally, blood in the water. And there were India-Pakistan cricket matches that threatened to…
Dignity and Defiance: Leonard Peltier, Walks Out of Prison
Malik Miah
Posted February 25, 2025
AS FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT Joe Biden left office on January 20, he commuted Leonard Peltier’s life sentence in prison to home incarceration. Peltier is a long-time leader of the American Indian Movement.
On February 18 Peltier walked out, standing strong at 80 years from a Florida prison. He served most of his time in maximum security.”’
Ukraine Solidarity Under the Trump Administration
Ukraine Solidarity Network-U.S.
Posted February 23, 2025
ON THE THIRD anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the United States under the Trump administration is now pushing negotiations for a “peace” settlement. The Ukraine Solidarity Network-U.S. (USN) opposes any attempt to impose a settlement that is not acceptable to the Ukrainian people.
Anyone with an ounce of compassion wants this war to end as soon as possible, but it is morally….
Peace Between Neofascists: War on Oppressed Peoples
Gilbert Achcar
Posted February 19, 2025
THAT WASHINGTON AND Moscow have chosen the Saudi kingdom as the venue for a meeting between their delegations to discuss the prospects of the war that has been ongoing in Ukraine since Russian forces invaded that country three years ago, is evidence of the profound changes occurring in international affairs before our eyes. The manner of the meeting itself is entirely consistent with the venue: Donald Trump’s neofascist administration did not seek to promote peace between the warring parties within…
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