From Venezuela to Gaza to U.S.: Trump’s Wars Against the People
Solidarity National Committee
Posted November 4, 2025
THE SERIAL MURDERS committed by the Trump regime in blowing up small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean, on the untested and almost certainly false claim that these are “drug smuggling vessels,” are world-class crimes in their own right. At this writing the victims of these assaults number over 60, with no accountability and no end in sight.
It is an astonishing sign of our times that these atrocities receive so little outrage, blending into the background noise of the daily crimes against humanity perpetrated by this administration both globally and at home. We need to look more closely at the extreme menace they represent.
First, Trump’s intention to wage war on Venezuela, in order to install a pro-U.S. puppet regime in that country, is out in the open. This scheme is supposed to be accomplished through some combination of CIA operations that Trump boasts he’s authorized inside Venezuela, economic strangulation, and possibly direct military action if it’s not feasible to organize an internal coup. (Alternatively, though less likely, U.S. imperialist goals might be achieved through massive economic and political concessions by the Maduro regime, particularly regarding access to Venezuela’s oil resources.)
Second, the goal is not only crushing whatever hopes remain from the early 2000s “Bolivarian Revolution.” More strategically important, it aims to isolate Colombia’s moderately leftwing government, strengthen Trump’s alliance with the far-right regime of Argentina, and embolden the military forces hoping to bring back the days of neo-fascist rule in Brazil under Trump’s friend Jair Bolsonaro — whose pardon he’s demanding as a price for lifting punitive tariffs on Brazil’s exports to the United States…
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Confinement as a warning shot to an ill Kagarlitsky
Posted November 12, 2025
“Stop speaking out or even worse can happen to you”
November 12, 2025 Media Statement from the Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign
The Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign is pleased to announce that Boris Kagarlitsky was….
Chile on the Eve of the Elections
Oscar Mendoza
Posted November 12, 2025
Chile 2025 — is the post dictatorship consensus truly and wholly over?
Oscar Mendoza wonders whether — as all opinion polls predict — Chile will go the way of an extreme right-wing populist president or do the highly unlikely/unthinkable and choose a working-class communist woman instead.
GAZING AT MY crystal ball, given that I’m writing in the eve of the first round of the presidential elections in Chile scheduled for Sunday 16 November, I am confident in my prediction…
Barbarians at the Gates
Bill Balderston
Posted November 10, 2025
On the morning of Thursday, October 23rd, a caravan of federal Customs and Border Protection agents arrived in the Bay Area, being housed at the Coast Guard facilities in the East Bay community of Alameda, separated from Oakland by an estuary; (it is also the town in which I teach). Alameda is a very diverse community ethnically, with many immigrant families from East Asia, the Middle East (mainly Yemeni) and even west Africa, as well as Latin America. It is also the home base for Rob Bonta, the…
Trump: Hands off Venezuela and Latin America!
Executive Bureau of the Fourth International
Posted November 4, 2025
Economic blackmail and threats against Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Argentina are part of a new phase in US policy toward Latin America. But the greatest danger falls on Venezuela, whose government Trump is determined to overthrow. The deployment of 10,000 troops and a gigantic arsenal to the Caribbean threatens not only Venezuela but the entire region. It is the urgent duty of activists around the world to raise their voices and mobilize against US interventionism under Trump…
Latin America: The target of Trump’s neocolonial offensive
Ana Cristina Carvalhaes & Luís Bonilla-Molina
Posted November 3, 2025
DURING ITS FIRST nine months, the Trump administration has deployed warships and military infrastructure to the Caribbean, blown up small boats accused of drug trafficking, imposed 50% tariffs on Brazilian products — in opposition to the outcome of the democratic trial against former President Jair Bolsonaro and other coup plotters — and exerted extreme pressure on the Mexican government to force it to reduce the flow of Latin American migrants across the border and combat local drug…
Celebrating the lives of three comrades: Patrick Quinn, Joanna Misnik, & Abra Quinn
Posted October 31, 2025
A Celebration of the lives of these three founding Solidarity members will be held on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2025 in Chicago from 12 noon to 3PM CST. This will be a hybrid meeting with participants not in Chicago linking up remotely after RSVPing.
For more information and to RSVP: tinyurl.com/PatrickJoannaAbra
PATRICK QUINN (1942-2005)
A founding member of Solidarity and a revolutionary socialist activist for six decades, Patrick died in his hometown Lake Geneva, Wisconsin on January 4th at the…
Nine Months of Trump: Class War, Racism, Resistance and Prospects for Socialist Politics
Posted October 30, 2025
This is the text of the political resolution adopted by the September 12-14, 2025, national convention of Solidarity. The convention resolution on imperialism and consistent anti-imperialism has been previously posted.
1 The Right Wing Takes Power
1a) A Blitzkrieg of Diktats
Donald Trump’s election in November 2024 marked a sharp acceleration of the dissolution of the New Deal Democratic Party coalition, largely the result of the right-wing drift of the Democratic Party. Many unions and workers…
The F-35s Come to Madison
Marsha Rummel
Posted October 30, 2025
IN 2020 TRUAX Field, located within Dane County, Wisconsin Regional Airport, was chosen as one of two sites for the Air National Guard Bureau’s “beddown” of approximately 20 F-35 fighter jets.
This decision was taken in spite of the U.S. Air Force’s Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that selecting Truax to host the F-35 stealth fighter jet program would have significant adverse impacts — due to intense bursts of noise from daily takeoff and landings and toxic debris….
The Painful Sound and Debris
Marsha Rummel
Posted October 30, 2025
THE FIRST THREE F-35s arrived in April 2023. More will arrive over the next four years. No sound mitigation would likely occur until the final complement has arrived….
A Revolutionary Spirit: Walden Bello
Tom Reifer
Posted October 29, 2025
Global Battlefields:
Memoir of a Legendary Public Intellectual from the Global South,
Walden Bello
Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, 2025. 321 pp $30.95 ?978 1963892109
AT ONCE INTIMATE and wide-ranging, Walden Bello’s Global Battlefields begins with a discussion of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, a celebrated Indonesian intellectual jailed in 1948-9 for revolutionary activities against Dutch occupying forces. In 1959-60, Toer publicly defended the Chinese minority and became…
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