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South African Union Responds to White House Debacle

Posted May 22, 2025

The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA), a leftwing voice in the South African labor movement, posted the statement below following the May 21 White House meeting of Donald Trump and president Cyril Ramaphosa. Trump’s sickening racism was on full display as he pressed the mythology of the “white genoicide” of Afrikaner farmers. On this occasion Trump even exceeded his everyday spectacle, presumably prompted by Elon Musk who’s seeking to extort favorable concessions….…

Teamsters Against Trump, 2024

Steve Early

Posted May 21, 2025

The following discussion is part of a longer analysis published in Social Policy (Spring 2025), “From L4B to TAT. Challenging Union Political Endorsements Takes Rank-&-File Action,” which includes an account of the Labor for Bernie initiatives in the 2016 and 2020 presidential election campaigns. Steve Early worked for nearly 30 years as an International Union representative for the Communication Workers of America and helped co-found….

California Teachers Take to the Streets

Bill Balderston

Posted May 21, 2025

On Saturday, May 17th over 15,000 teachers and allies took to the streets in five locations throughout California to protest attacks that undermine public education in the state.

This is a rather unprecedented action by the California Teachers Association (CTA) who initiated the actions. There have been times when the CTA has called for members from many areas to come to Sacramento to protest at the state legislature (as a more militant lobbying effort), or to have delegates from all over the state…

Trump’s Mass Deportation Wave

Dianne Feeley

Posted May 16, 2025

Key to Trump’s Make America Great Again pledge was the promise to deport millions of immigrants. During both his presidential campaigns he identified immigrants as “terrorists, murderers, rapists” or “individuals let loose from mental institutions.” Once elected again, he promised to seal the U.S.-Mexico border and deport several million people.

Since December 2023, as the Biden administration introduced restrictions, the number of migrants has sharply declined. That trend has continued…

Statement on “Operation Sindoor”

Radical Socialist

Posted May 9, 2025

THE INDIAN ARMED Forces have launched “Operation Sindoor,” which has carried out strikes in as many as nine places spread over three cities in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Punjab province. A counter-strike by Pakistan, also to be condemned, has led to lives lost in Poonch.

All this is an extremely worrisome development, though not entirely….

From the Front Line: A Critical Look at Indo-Pak War 2025

Farooq Tariq

Posted May 9, 2025

ON THE MORNING of 7th May, when I answered my doorbell and went outside looking for who rang, my neighbor loudly asked me to turn off all my lights. This command signaled to me that we are living in a moment of war. Living near the Wahgha border, we heard a deafening noise around 8.30 am, followed by a blast. An Indian Harop drone, made by Israel, struck a close by military installation….

May Day Strong

Posted May 7, 2025

MAY DAY 2025, hundreds of thousands of people marched, rallied, picketed or carried out civil disobedience in over 1,000 towns and cities across 50 states. Since May 1, 1886, when workers in industrial cities around the country demanded implementation of an eight-hour workday, the day has been a platform for workers’ demands and protests.

The focus this year opposed the range of actions the Trump team has launched in its first 100 days. Trump and his team have fired thousands of government workers,…

Statement on Civilian Killings in Pahalgam

Radical Socialist

Posted May 2, 2025

At least 26 civilians, mostly tourists, have been brutally and callously killed by militants in Pahalgam on April 22, 2025. Radical Socialist mourns the death of every single civilian, and condemns this terrorist act perpetrated by The Resistance Front that has claimed responsibility for it. It is a senseless attack which is morally unjustifiable and is completely counterproductive politically because it can further stoke and strengthen existing currents of Islamophobia in Indian society and in state…

For a May Day of anti-fascist and anti-imperialist resistance

Executive Bureau, Fourth International

Posted May 1, 2025

On 5 April in the United States, 1,300 demonstrations involving 500,000 people expressed broad anger against Trump and his far-right government. These mobilizations, significant but still in their early stages, show that it is possible to respond to the violent attacks carried out around the world against the interests of workers, migrants, victims of racial oppression, women, and the LGBTI community.

In Serbia, Greece, South Korea, Turkey, Britain, Germany, Argentina and India, significant sectors…

“Free the Judge Now!” Milwaukee Mobilizes to Defend Judge and Immigrants

Mike McCallister

Posted April 29, 2025

As word spreads of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan, rapid organization of three demonstrations over the weekend put Trump’s thugs on notice that this prosecution will not stand.

On the morning of April 25, FBI agents arrested Dugan in her office at the Milwaukee County Courthouse on federal charges of obstructing a US agency and concealing an individual to prevent an arrest.

Shortly thereafter, FBI Director Kash Patel posted on Twitter/X…