RESISTANCE ARISING
Posted April 25, 2025
Stop Trump’s Police-State Terror!
RESISTANCE IS RISING on multiple fronts against the Trump-MAGA regime’s open drive toward a police state. These are not isolated attacks – they’re a deadly threat to all of us.
The infamous kidnapping of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, transported to the CECOT penal torture center in El Salvador, shows that Trump‘s gang has no intention of obeying legal processes or court orders. The purpose is to create an atmosphere of fear everywhere in society.
The reign of terror against immigrant communities is part of a massive assault. Elon Musk’s DOGE gangsters are seizing the private identity, tax and social security records of citizens too. Federal workers are being fired by the thousands, gutting the vital services they provide. Tens of billions of dollars in Medicaid funds will disappear while billionaires get tax cuts.
Trump and his Attorney General Bondi make no secret of their interest in seizing and removing U.S. citizens to foreign prisons. All by itself, this should be cause for their immediate removal from office – and the silence of the Trump Republican Party cult shows how deep the rot has already gone in what remains of constitutional rights.
In their spare time, Trump and his advisors are also trying to subjugate Canada, Mexico and Europe, and launching full-scale trade war against China, with tariffs that will crater the U.S. and maybe the world economy. Good job for the first 100 days!
The rise of popular resistance was shown by the million-plus turnout at the April 5 and 19th Hands Off! demonstrations in cities and towns large and small, red states, blue states and purple. And as the resistance grows, it needs to become a powerful and independent political movement for the rights of every target of Trump’s regime – including labor, Black and Latino communities women, Queer and Trans people – without exception.
Imperialism Kills Us All
We also need to understand that the five-alarm civil and human rights emergency in the United States is deeply connected to crises in the global U.S. empire. What happens at home is very much part of imperial “foreign policy objectives.” The destruction of Palestine is a leading example, although not the only one…
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A Setback for Auto Workers’ Solidarity
Dianne Feeley
Posted April 10, 2025
THE UAW STATEMENT “In a Victory for Autoworkers, Auto Tariffs Mark the Beginning of the End of NAFTA and the ‘Free Trade’ Disaster” posted on the UAW website, presents a faulty understanding of the impact NAFTA had on the restructuring of the auto industry. It then outlines a disastrous strategy for auto workers, similar to a previous UAW administration’s call on members to save their jobs by voting for two-tier contracts.
In the 1990s corporate restructuring meant automation,…
Lessons of Abductions and Terror
The Editors
Posted April 9, 2025
THE ABDUCTION OF Mahmoud Khalil — the Palestinian graduate student and green card holder seized March 8 at his Columbia University residence — is now multiplied by other high-profile detentions and deportation threats, and dozens or even hundreds of unpublicized cases. Secretary of State Marco Rubio openly boasts as much.
These arrests and disappearances highlight a reign of terror confronting student visa and even green card holders. They pull together multiple interwoven aspects of the…
No Hope for Transitional Justice If Sectarianism Is the Doctrine of the New Syrian State
Joseph Daher
Posted April 9, 2025
A month after sectarian violence erupted on Syria’s coast, the Syrian state has yet to recognise the importance of transitional justice, says Joseph Daher.
The euphoria that followed the fall of Assad’s regime in December 2024 has largely dissipated after the large-scale massacres of Alawite civilians in coastal areas, carried out in early March 2025 by armed forces within the newly formed Syrian army….
Hands Off! rallies across the country
Posted April 8, 2025
The 1200 Hands Off demonstrations that took place on April 5th indicate the breadth of an emerging movement to oppose the vicious Trump administration. More than 150 groups — including the AFL-CIO, Indivisible, MoveOn, and the League of Women Voters — organized the event. Whether Saturday was rainy or sunny, at least a million people protested. Most came as individuals or with friends and family rather than turning out as members of union or community organizations. The vast majority made their…
Wisconsin voters repudiate Musk and Trump
Marsha Rummel
Posted April 6, 2025
The most expensive judicial election in US history concluded on April 1st with liberal Dane County Circuit Court judge Susan Crawford winning a position on the nonpartisan Wisconsin Supreme Court by a decisive 10-point margin, maintaining the 4-3 liberal majority won in 2023. The combined expenditure of both campaigns this year is estimated at almost $100 million, up from $50 million in the 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
The loud message heard from Wisconsin voters on Tuesday is that the court…
Plague-Pusher Politics
Sam Friedman
Posted March 30, 2025
AS SHOULD BE evident by now, the Trump administration has begun a full-scale attack on much of public health in the United States and globally.
Some of this is ideological — for example, when Kennedy, the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, attacks vaccines….
The Attacks on Us All
Solidarity National Committee
Posted March 26, 2025
A MULTI-FRONT ATTACK is in full swing — not only on supporters of Palestinian freedom, but on everyone’s First Amendment and civil rights. The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, the peremptory deportation of Brown Medicine Dr. Rasha Alawieh, the attempt to detain and deport Columbia University Ph.D student Ranjani Srinivasan who’s fled to seek asylum in Canada, and the seizure of Georgetown University scholar Badar Khan Suri — none of these, and many more cases that haven’t attracted…
UAW Leadership Should Reverse Its Pro-Trump Statement
Ron Lare & Judy Wraight
Posted March 21, 2025
WE ARE SPEAKING only for ourselves in this article.
The UAW leadership should reverse its declaration of support for Trump on tariffs and protectionism, and should stand on international labor solidarity in organizing for a labor party and a general strike.
The UAW’s statement on March 4, 2025 on relations with Trump and tariffs should be read in full. It is copied at the end of this article.
The UAW’s statement is right to reject “free trade.” “Free trade” is the…
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….
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