The Attacks on Us All
Solidarity National Committee
Posted March 26, 2025
A MULTI-FRONT ATTACK is in full swing — not only on supporters of Palestinian freedom, but on everyone’s First Amendment and civil rights. The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, the peremptory deportation of Brown Medicine Dr. Rasha Alawieh, the attempt to detain and deport Columbia University Ph.D student Ranjani Srinivasan who’s fled to seek asylum in Canada, and the seizure of Georgetown University scholar Badar Khan Suri — none of these, and many more cases that haven’t attracted public attention, are happening in isolation.
The same Trump executive orders withdrawing $400 million in federal grants to Columbia University — whose administration’s response will live forever in the chronicles of cynical cowardice — are now also pulling $175 million from the University of Pennsylvania for the unrelated offense of allowing transgender athletes to compete in male sports.
These are not separate issues or individual cases to be legally parsed on their own. The open intention of the Trump regime and the gaggle of billionaires, far-right ideologues and white-supremacist Christian nationalists behind it, is to destroy, intimidate and convert U.S. universities and colleges into fully obedient agencies of corporate power and political reaction.
The same agenda is evident in the drive to criminalize Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) programs in the public and private sector, cripple Social Security and Medicaid, pulverize the federal work force and wipe out the agencies that serve military veterans, school children and the rights of workers to organize unions and survive on the job.
Attacking the brave and powerful Palestine solidarity movement on U.S. campuses and communities is a wedge to pursue this all-out rightwing offensive. Palestine in its own right, of course, is an absolutely central global issue as the full-scale joint Israeli-U.S. genocide in Gaza has resumed with Israel’s defense minister vowing “total destruction” of what’s left of that territory and its 2.2 million people…
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Plague-Pusher Politics
Sam Friedman
Posted March 30, 2025
AS SHOULD BE evident by now, the Trump administration has begun a full-scale attack on much of public health in the United States and globally.
Some of this is ideological — for example, when Kennedy, the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, attacks vaccines….
UAW Leadership Should Reverse Its Pro-Trump Statement
Ron Lare & Judy Wraight
Posted March 21, 2025
WE ARE SPEAKING only for ourselves in this article.
The UAW leadership should reverse its declaration of support for Trump on tariffs and protectionism, and should stand on international labor solidarity in organizing for a labor party and a general strike.
The UAW’s statement on March 4, 2025 on relations with Trump and tariffs should be read in full. It is copied at the end of this article.
The UAW’s statement is right to reject “free trade.” “Free trade” is the…
For Ukraine without Oligarchs and Occupiers!
Sotsialnyi Rukh
Posted March 17, 2025
The predatory policies of the newly elected U.S. president make it impossible to establish a lasting peace for Ukrainians. Ukraine’s refusal to sign the mineral extraction agreement, designed to serve the interests of American capital, demonstrates the country’s determination to avoid colonial dependence. This opens the door to exploring a more equitable model of relations between Ukraine and the states of Europe, Asia, and the rest of the world under the banner of resistance to imperialist…
Trump Forces DC to Destroy BLM Plaza
Malik Miah
Posted March 14, 2025
CONSTRUCTION CREWS SWOOPED in and began destroying Black Lives Matter Plaza Street mural in Washington, D.C. on March 10. The target, near the White House, was more than a powerful symbol and its wide support by the African American community….
“We’ve Been Betrayed!:” Who’s Fighting Back (and not) Against Trump’s Cuts in VA Jobs and Services
Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon
Posted March 13, 2025
AMONG THE REPUBLICIAN voters experiencing buyer’s remorse are more than a few military veterans who chose Trump over Harris by a margin of 65 to 34%, according to some exit polls.
Their shock and dismay surfaced in DC this month during the legislative conference of the reliably conservative and hawkish Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), which has 1.4 million members….
Imperial Betrayal and Implications
David Finkel
Posted March 5, 2025
IMPERIALIST BACK-STABBING AND betrayal of smaller nations and peoples isn’t exactly something new. The Kurds, Palestinians, and in early generations the Poles and the people of what was Czechoslovakia, among many others, could tell you a lot about it.
Even so, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s ambush of Ukraine’s president Volodomyr Zelensky, and the rapid switch of U.S. support from Ukraine’s defense to Putin’s demand for an annexationist “peace” on Russian terms, shocked both U.S. and…
Anti-fascists are the firewall: Reflections on the German snap election 2025
Folko Mueller
Posted March 4, 2025
On February 23, 2025, Germany held a snap general election for only the fourth time in its post-World War II history. The original date for the general election would have been September 28 of this year. However, the governing coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), Liberals (FDP, these days, liberal only in an economic context, i.e., neoliberal), and Greens — also referred to as an “Ampel” or traffic light coalition, due to the colors of the respective parties — collapsed on November…
The Myth of the Left-wing Professors
Harvey J. Graff
Posted February 27, 2025
The multi-front war on university students, faculty and academic programs is spearheaded by the notorious attack on pro-Palestinian activism, in the guise of “combating campus antisemitism.” But this is just an opening wedge: everything from liberal arts and academic freedom to, of course, the horrors of “diversity” programs are in the crosshairs of the right wing.
The following article by Ohio State University professor emeritus Harvey J. Graff puts the current crisis into some historical…
War on Ice: The Canada-U.S. Faceoff
David Finkel
Posted February 26, 2025
ALMOST BY ACCIDENT, the Canada-U.S. final of the National Hockey League’s “4 Nations Face-Off” became one of those iconic moments when sports intersects with international enmity. If you’re old enough to remember, historic examples include the 1968 Czechoslovakia-Soviet ice hockey game after Russian tanks crushed the Prague Spring, or the 1956 Hungary-Soviet Olympic water polo match with, quite literally, blood in the water. And there were India-Pakistan cricket matches that threatened to…
Dignity and Defiance: Leonard Peltier, Walks Out of Prison
Malik Miah
Posted February 25, 2025
AS FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT Joe Biden left office on January 20, he commuted Leonard Peltier’s life sentence in prison to home incarceration. Peltier is a long-time leader of the American Indian Movement.
On February 18 Peltier walked out, standing strong at 80 years from a Florida prison. He served most of his time in maximum security.”’
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