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Anti-War Memorial Day 2026: Chicago Labor Boosts Veterans and Reservists

Eric Schuster

Posted June 6, 2026

The Chicago anti-war Memorial Day event took on greater urgency and militancy in 2026 as ICE kidnappings and Veterans’ Administration cuts wallop veterans and reservists. Nearly 200 vets, many aligned with About Face – Veterans Against the War , joined families, supporters, labor union members, and anti-ICE activists to rally at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial next to the Chicago River. The rally and march were distinguished by bright yellow placards that read ‘Vets Say No More Rich Man’s Wars’…

Not Plan “A” or “B”: For Immigrant and Racial Justice!

Chris Oliphant

Posted June 3, 2026

THIS ARTICLE TAKES a look at striking features of the immigration system historically with a view towards its latest phase during Trump’s second presidential administration, and how we might respond by building rapid response networks rooted in local community.

The article begins with a “Historical Background” section. If you’d like to read that later, you can skip to Part II, “A Lower Public Profile?”

I. Historical Background

The grim continuity of Trump’s…

CANSEC: Shut It Down!

Giselle Gerolami

Posted June 3, 2026

In Ottawa for a couple of months, I had the chance to attend the protest against CANSEC, an arms trade show, on May 28. I attended protests against ARMX, as it was then known, in the early 1990s. Unfortunately, the murder market not only continues as an annual event but has grown in size, as Mark Carney’s government dramatically increases military spending.

The focus of the protest has shifted in recent years from general opposition to militarism to exposing Canada’s role in funding Israel’s…

BDS Victory at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn

Sahir Ahmed Faraz

Posted June 2, 2026

The Park Slope Food Coop, a cooperative grocery store in Brooklyn, New York, has, with a resounding majority, passed a resolution to boycott all Israeli goods — both from within the pre-1967 border and the illegal settlements in the Occupied Territories.

The Park Slope Food Coop is not the first US co-op to adopt BDS. That honor goes to the Olympia Food Co-op in Olympia, WA. The Park Slope Food Coop is not even the first Brooklyn co-op to adopt BDS, that honor goes to the Greene Hill Food Co-op….

Socialism: A Prospect, not a Utopia

Boris Kagarlitsky

Posted June 1, 2026

Introductory note by Mikhail Orlov, /Spichka (Matches): “There will be no Gulag under the new socialism” — an article by Boris Kagarlitsky.

Boris Kagarlitsky wrote this article from a Russian penal colony, where he is currently serving his sentence. Here is the new socialism he is proposing (no utopias included).

It is time to arrive at a shared understanding of what kind of socialism we want to build — and how.

A discussion is needed.

To initiate this discussion among…

Sadistic Savagery on Display: Trump-Rubio’s Assault on Cuba

David Finkel

Posted May 28, 2026

THE SADISTIC SAVAGERY of the Trump regime’s starvation-and-regime-change assault on Cuba comes into relief when you look at the surrounding circumstances and context.

The controversies within the left over the character of the Cuban government and state are irrelevant to the brutality that the United States is practicing. It’s the U.S. imperialist state and government that need to be on trial.

That’s the state and Trump regime that brags of blowing up more than 50 boats in the Caribbean and eastern…

U.S. May Day Actions Lay Foundations for Mass Militant Labor Action

Kay Mann

Posted May 27, 2026

Approximately 5,000 separate actions took place throughout the country (for a report of May Day actions around the country, see the Solidarity webzine “May Day Strong 2026: A Brief Roundup” ). Although the size of the actions in terms of participants fell short of the expectations of many, the dynamics surrounding the May Day demonstrations involve encouraging signs for the development of the U.S. labor left and an independent mass working-class-led anti-Trump movement.

Over the past year, three…

Trump Threatens Invasion of Cuba

Malik Miah

Posted May 26, 2026

SPEAKING FROM THE Oval Office, Donald Trump hinted he could be the president who finally takes direct action against Havana after decades of failed destabilization efforts from Washington.

The imperial president of the United States made the declaration on May 22, two days after his Department of Justice filed a made-up charge against former President and Defense Minister Raul Castro, now 94.

“Other presidents have looked at this for 50, 60 years,” Trump said. “It looks like I’ll…

In Defense of Derek Peterson’s Commencement Address

Alan Wald

Posted May 15, 2026

On May 2, the University of Michigan held its annual commencement ceremony. Nine thousand graduates and almost 60,000 attendees gathered at the Big House to hear a variety of notable speakers — former U-M basketball player Jalen Rose, athlete and Olympian Michael Phelps and U-M President Domenico Grasso. But it was the speech by outgoing Faculty Senate chair Derek R. Peterson that became the focus of national attention as he discussed historic campus events….

Immigrant Defense & the Democratic Party in Hands Off New York City

Marian Swerdlow

Posted May 13, 2026

The following account is an activist’s report of her experiences and frustrations in joining the immigrant rights defense network Hands Off New York City (HO NYC), where the Upper Eastside activity is apparently under the rather heavy-handed leadership of a local Democratic Party club. Perhaps — at least we’d like to think — in other areas the work might be less bureaucratically dominated. In any case we find this detailed chronicle to be useful and instructive. Most importantly of course, we…