Category: Newsletter
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Anti-War Memorial Day 2026: Chicago Labor Boosts Veterans and Reservists
Chicago anti-war Memorial Day event 2026 (Author’s photo) 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…
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CANSEC: Shut It Down!
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…
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BDS Victory at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn
Park Slope Food Coop (ajay_suresh, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) 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…
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Sadistic Savagery on Display: Trump-Rubio’s Assault on Cuba
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…
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U.S. May Day Actions Lay Foundations for Mass Militant Labor Action
St. Paul, Minnesota, March 28. Between 100,000 and 200,000 attended the No Kings rally at the State Capitol. (Photo: Randy Furst) 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…
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Ecosocialism or class compromise: A fork in the antifascist road after Porto Alegre
Fourth International Ecosocialist Manifesto launch event. Porto Alegre, Brazil Report on the 2026 international antifascist conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil The most important success of the 2026 antifascist conference in Porto Alegre was the one I know I felt as a participant. It was a tremendous achievement of the organizing committee to bring together a…
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Movement Builds to Free Milwaukee Muslim Leader Detained by ICE
Rally in Milwaukee to support Salah Sarsour ON MONDAY, MARCH 30, Salah Sarsour, president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee (ISM), was visiting an old warehouse he owned on the city’s south side to check for random pieces of mail. As he headed back to his car, an unmarked car almost hit him, and an…
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Notes on a Catastrophe and Fiasco
Trump and Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago, December 29, 2025 WITH A SHAKY partial ceasefire subject to cancellation at any moment, a proposition from the murkier corners of the far right has emerged into the mainstream: Did Donald Trump take the United States into “war for Israel”? It’s a question that opens a whole Pandora’s Box of…
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The Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Conference in Porto Alegre: Great achievements, challenges and opportunities
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…