Archive | January, 2026

From teachers to transport workers, the labor movement is revved up for a historic day of action against ICE and Trump’s anti-immigrant offensive this Friday. The key is to actually impose the strike.

The state is not drifting toward repression; it is building it with serious intent. ICE raids, militarized police, and mass surveillance are the tools of a system designed to manage and silence people in crisis.

China announced an $80 million emergency aid package and 60,000 tons of rice for Cuba, addressing the island’s economic and energy crisis exacerbated by the U.S. blockade.

The language is freighted in the same way, whether it is migrants under attack from U.S. jackboots, or those same forces unleashed against socialist politicians in Global South countries seeking to escape imperial domination.

The Council on Foreign Relations shrinks the political imagination of learners and deploys the interests of the elite among an increasingly precarious American populace.

Part of the U.S. empire’s strategy in this information war is to erase the Chinese people’s major contribution to the defeat of fascism and imperialism in WWII.

Supporters are pouring in from across Indian Country to protect the Minnesota community from ICE.

“After a year in office, Trump and the GOP majority betrayed their promises to working people, instead serving billionaire elites and wealthy corporations,” said the executive director of Americans for Tax Fairness.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to join a U.S.-led “Board of Peace” to oversee Gaza’s post-ceasefire future, a move announced despite an active International Criminal Court arrest warrant against him for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

We can hope that social strikes will not be necessary to limit and ultimately end MAGA tyranny.

Winning eight awards at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival, this is a heart-rending account of the final hours of a 5 year-old Palestinian girl awaiting rescue and a magnificent tribute to her and the children of Gaza, finds Katherine Hajiyianni.

Beijing condemns U.S. terrorist action against Venezuela, demands immediate release of President Maduro.

For most of U.S. history, general strikes have been rare–not because workers lacked the will to fight, but because the ruling class moved quickly and violently whenever that power surfaced.

In this country, no one is required to produce identification papers. In this country, no government official has a right to demand them of someone about whom the officer knows nothing.

The SACP has long announced that it will contest local government elections separately from the ANC.

Hoel Le Moal: Marx seems to have been obsessed with the question of communal property throughout his life. In your article “Marx and Communal Society for the July-August 2025 issue of Monthly Review, you quote Marx in his Grundrisse as saying that “as a member of the commune, the individual is the private proprietor” of a “particular plot of land.

Marxism, in both its classical and later forms, unites theoretical analysis with political positions.

In 1943, the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun gave his Nobel Prize for Literature to the infamous Nazi criminal.

Trump’s explicitly colonial language has also included the use of bullying as a tactic of provocation, as he recently proclaimed himself “interim president” of Venezuela in a post on Truth Social.

The leader of the imperialist world in any period typically fulfills its leadership role by running an overall balance of payments deficit vis-à-vis other major countries to which capitalism is getting diffused.