Round Up on the 3rd No Kings Day
Posted April 1, 2026
EIGHT MILLION PEOPLE took to the streets across the United States last Saturday, marching, rallying and picketing in over 3,300 sites. They came out to support their neighbors and coworkers who are threatened by masked and armed men. They opposed the authoritarianism of the Trump team with humor in their signs and costumes, but at the same time they can joke, they are willing to stand firm.
How did the March demonstrations differ from the two held last year? They were larger and more diverse, but still uneven. In some places there were union contingents but in other areas, only visible in a handful of union hats. Minneapolis, where the crowd was somewhere beyond 100,000, and perhaps as many as 200,000 the union presence was strong. But in the downriver Detroit area, where ICE has purchased a warehouse to house more than 1500 immigrants, UAW Local 900 sponsored a No Kings event. Their members are part of the movement to prevent ICE from opening a concentration camp right on their doorstep.
Just as there is unevenness in who shows up to participate, there is unevenness in how different constituents and different issues are welcomed. In general, demonstrators are able to raise a broad range of demands against both the war at home and the war abroad, in a few cases a tight-fisted organizing committee has banished some issues or failed to reach out to the most vulnerable communities.
Whatever the difficulties, it is good to see how people manage to find a way to raise their issues!
The bullies in Washington, backed by the bullies of Wall Street, think they are playing a video game in which there are no rules. They believe in citizenship of the elite.
With May Day just a month away, it’s clear that the task is to build for an even broader mobilization around the celebration of the historic fight for the eight-hour workday (1886). From Minneapolis, the call is “No work, no school, no shopping!” Let’s do what we can to move toward that call.
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The Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Conference in Porto Alegre: Great achievements, challenges and opportunities
Fourth International
Posted April 9, 2026
The first anti-fascist conference for the sovereignty of peoples was a unique experience, nowhere else on the planet has anything like this been achieved. It represented a broad anti-fascist and anti-imperialist front, going far beyond revolutionary organizations. Nevertheless, it had limitations, stemming from the difficulties faced by internationalist resistance movements. – Manuel Rodriguez Banchs, Penelope Duggan, Israel Dutra, Antoine Larrache, João Machado, Reymund de Silva and Eric Toussaint,…
Letter from Rotterdam: Antisemitism in Context
Peter Drucker
Posted April 8, 2026
LARGELY BY COINCIDENCE, my partner and I live a couple of blocks down the street from Rotterdam’s major synagogue (which is not that major; Rotterdam was never a big Jewish center, and most of its Jews were killed in the Holocaust).
During the night of March 19-20, this synagogue was the target of an attack. The attack on the Rotterdam synagogue ….
“No Kings” In Twin Cities
Randy Furst
Posted March 30, 2026
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA — Millions of Americans took to the streets Saturday, March 28 to protest the Trump administration and its assault on democracy, in likely the most massive turnout of demonstrations on a single day in U.S. history….
Peoples’ Unity Against Fascism is slippery in action: A reflection on campism in our midst
Ivan Drury Zarin
Posted March 30, 2026
Report on day two of the 2026 anti-fascist conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil
After a busy first day of meetings, discussions, and panels that were challenging in good ways, as revolutionary activists from different countries, involved in different struggles, shared and contrasted their ideas, the end-of-day panel came as a shock. Speakers called for criticism of Venezuela’s Maduro government to be silenced, denounced Ukraine for slaughtering Russians in the east, and, most alarmingly, denounced…
Three general characteristics of the new era of fascism
Ivan Drury Zarin
Posted March 28, 2026
Report on the first day of the 2026 anti-fascist conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Porto Alegre, Brazil, March 27, 2026. Fascism has been, over the last decade, and especially more recently, an object of vigorous debate on the left. But, as a long editorial from the Salvage collective bemoaned about debates over what to make of Russia’s war on Ukraine, much of this debate has been stuck in the ditch of historical analogy. Is Trumpism more like Mussolini’s or Hitler’s fascism? When we stack…
Against Neo-Fascist Authoritarianism and All Forms of Imperialism
March 28, 2026
Declaration of the Fourth International at the 1st International Anti-Fascist Conference for the Sovereignty of Peoples
The Fourth International has, since the start, contributed to the development of the Anti-Fascist Conference for the Sovereignty of People. This is a very important initiative for the struggles underway. We wish, however, to contribute to the debate by presenting our own positions, in particular our view of imperialism and what is at stake in the world today. We are also organizing….…
A Revolutionary Feminist Position on Iran: Vs. Authoritarianism, Vs. Imperialism, Vs. Zionism, and NO TO WAR!
Posted March 27, 2026
A REVOLUTIONARY FEMINIST position on Iran must refuse the false and damaging binary that demands choosing between defending the Islamic Republic and endorsing US-imperialist and Zionist intervention. This is a constructed choice designed to collapse political judgment into campism. It converts solidarity into a competition of moral allegiances and leaves ordinary people,…
Don Trump and the Mafioso Style in World Politics
Gilbert Achcar
Posted March 24, 2026
BY A REMARKABLE historical coincidence, the name of the present U.S. president can intuitively be abridged as Don, which is the equivalent of Sir or Lord, historically used in Sicily in designating powerful landowners and later applied to Mafia bosses. This designation became widely known in the United States and globally with Francis Ford Coppola’s film series The Godfather,…
Kunal Chattopadhyay, Battling Cancer, Needs Our Solidarity
Posted March 20, 2026
KUNAL CHATTOPADHYAY IS a retired professor of comparative literature at Jadavpur University. He has been active as a Fourth Internationalist since 1980. He is a leader of Radical Socialist, the Indian section of the Fourth International (FI), and editor of its publication. Solidarity is the U.S. section.
Kunal has written many articles for Against the Current, the Solidarity Webzine, International Viewpoint, Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières,…
Growing Convergence of the anti-Trump movement in the U.S.
Kay Mann
Posted March 16, 2026
The upcoming mass No Kings! demonstrations planned for March 28 and ambitious plans for May Day mobilizations point to the growing convergence of anti-Trump forces. This convergence takes place against the backdrop of Trumps’ destructive assault on democratic rights in the U.S. and the sovereignty of nations abroad, most recently his reckless aerial attack on Iran, and plummeting approval ratings in the polls.
Three centers of popular and working class resistance have emerged since Trump’s…
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