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ICE kills in Minnesota, then moves to crush protest
Federal authorities arrested civil rights organizers in St. Paul, Minnesota, after a protest at a Southern Baptist church that demanded accountability for an ICE killing.
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Trump’s war on D.C.’s Black youth
The most effective way to reduce youth crime is to reduce poverty and expand support for the families and youth most impacted. Trump’s war on Black youth is one of the many conflicts that Trump is creating amongst oppressed communities across the country, and it’s clear he won’t stop until his white supremacist goals are actualized.
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Working-Class Minnesota is rising up against ICE. Unions must shut it all down
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.
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Fragmentation, force, and Fascism: The architecture of the repressive National Security State
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.
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Labeling kidnapping a ‘capture,’ media legitimate violation of International Law
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.
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Empire’s ideology, with free pizza: How the Council on Foreign Relations shapes higher education
The Council on Foreign Relations shrinks the political imagination of learners and deploys the interests of the elite among an increasingly precarious American populace.
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When the USSR and China saved humanity: How they won the World Anti-Fascist War
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.
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‘Full Circle’: AIM patrols back on Minneapolis streets as tensions rise
Supporters are pouring in from across Indian Country to protect the Minnesota community from ICE.
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Trump delivered 22% boost to billionaire wealth in 2025, but catastrophe for working class
“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.
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Social Strikes: Confronting ICE and resisting authoritarianism
We can hope that social strikes will not be necessary to limit and ultimately end MAGA tyranny.
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China proposes international collaboration to defend Venezuelan sovereignty and regional peace
Beijing condemns U.S. terrorist action against Venezuela, demands immediate release of President Maduro.
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80 years without a general strike. Then ICE came to Minneapolis
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.
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The door-to-door terror in Minneapolis
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.
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Trump isn’t the first to be gifted a Nobel Prize he didn’t win—Joseph Goebbels got one too
In 1943, the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun gave his Nobel Prize for Literature to the infamous Nazi criminal.
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Trump neither selected Delcy Rodríguez nor Governs Venezuela
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.
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The drive for Colonialism
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.
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Breaking the Silence Revisited: Gaza, Venezuela, and the Enduring Relevance of Dr. King’s Critique of Empire
The annual ritual of sanitizing Martin Luther King Jr. serves to obscure his radical anti-war politics, which are urgently needed to challenge U.S. imperialism.
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Bombing Somalia, raiding Minnesota: Two fronts of the same war
The intensified bombardment of Somalia and the assault on Somali communities in Minnesota are not separate policies.
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America’s new space superiority order is a threat to global human security
On December 18, 2025, the White House issued an executive order titled “Ensuring American Space Superiority.”
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The last honest American go-between the White House and the Kremlin died eighty years ago
On his way to meet Joseph Stalin in July 1941, Harry Hopkins landed just out of range of German guns on a Moscow city airfield which, later, stretched a few hundred metres from my kitchen window.
