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DoorDash vs. DC: Company joins Republicans in attacking Home Rule, sparking boycott
Congressional Republicans want to sabotage the capital city’s incoming progressive government, and the owners of the DoorDash food delivery app, upset over having to pay their fair share of taxes in D.C., are helping them do it.
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The Cherokee War of 1776: A timely volume for the U.S.’ 250th anniversary
Countless historians writing Cherokee history have maintained that the majority of Cherokees remained at peace with the American colonists during the so-called American Revolution.
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Zero savings and 300,000 lost jobs later, DOGE is officially dead
Trump and Elon Musk, his billionaire cohort took a chainsaw to needed government programs allegedly to save money but ended up saving nothing.
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Medicare For All advocates relaunch drive
In addition to seeing it as a fix to healthcare, they see it as a major step in fixing an economy that President Trump has been rapidly ruining.
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The first Pride was a riot
Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, the FBI and several police departments kept lists of known homosexuals and their friends, and even places they frequented, and the U.S. Post Office kept a list of addresses of people who received mail of a suspected homosexual nature.
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U.S. bullies Canada’s Sherritt corporation out of Cuba
Toronto-based Sherritt International Corporation, the largest foreign investor in Cuba for over three decades, announced on May 7 that it was suspending all direct participation in its joint venture activities on the island and immediately bringing back its Canadian employees currently stationed in Cuba.
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Wins against ICE collaboration scored locally across the country
Across the United States, an intense fight is raging against collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Trump administration’s rogue “law enforcement” arm.
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Grindr’s Wall Street hookup: How capitalism is killing gay sex
Grindr has been an economic pioneer; it sparked a whole industry of dating and hookup apps which wasn’t just limited to the sexually subversive. A few years later, for instance, there was Tinder, the “Grindr for straight people,” and dozens more apps have sought to mimic its success among a variety of orientations and identities.
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‘Melania’: The movie. The bribe. The shame.
If America still had a Department of Justice, Bezos would be indicted for bribery of a public official pursuant to 18 U.S. Code § 201, which criminalizes offering or giving anything of value to a public official with the intent to influence their official actions. Penalty: imprisonment for up to 15 years.
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Kennedy’s Health Department seeks to punish hospitals for treating trans kids
Just before the holidays last year, on Dec. 18, the Department of Health and Human Services announced regulatory proposals to suspend hospitals from providing gender affirming treatments to trans youth patients.
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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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What is at the root of Trump’s hate towards Somalis?
It’s clear that Trump hates Somalis.
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‘We should determine our own future’: Interview with Sudanese Communist Party
Sudan’s Communists hope that their “comrades in the world Communist movement will answer that call,” Saied said, and “do whatever they can to build an international movement to help win peace in Sudan and open the path for our people to decide our own future, free of interference and war.
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‘One Battle After Another’ review: Scattered rollercoaster of revolution, biting humor, and political tension
Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, One Battle After Another, has a lot happening, with many layers, characters, and themes.
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ICE employing Nazi-type propaganda to recruit
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz recently publicly compared ICE to the Gestapo, Nazi Germany’s secret police.
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Like dictators of the past, Trump is building a private army
Not since the days of Hitler’s S.A.—the “Brownshirt” stormtroopers—has a leader in an advanced capitalist country wielded a private political army outside the regular military and police forces that is answerable only to them.
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What future for South Africa’s Tripartite Alliance?
Deeming the African National Congress’s electoral strategies as beyond the pale, the South African Communist Party has committed itself to a new strategy.
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Global war on labor: Report says workers’ rights in freefall as right-wing power grows
Around the world, workers’ rights are in “freefall,” with the Trump administration in the lead of a global far-right alliance that’s waging a “global war on labor rights.”
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Afrikaner ‘refugee’ arrival is latest tactic in Trump’s South Africa destabilization campaign
The news that a group of “Afrikaners” (Afrikaans-speaking white people from South Africa) have shown up in the United States, invited by the Trump administration as “refugees,” shouldn’t come as a surprise. Donald Trump is obsessed with South Africa; he has been for years.
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Amidst capitalist crisis and war, Russian Communists struggle against Putin and the oligarchs
Walking along the thoroughfares of the Russian capital these days, it’s easy to feel as though you’ve gone “Back to the Future.” Like Marty McFly in the classic 1985 movie, visitors to Moscow might imagine they’ve traveled back in time to the Soviet past, when socialism beat Hitler and the future of communism beckoned on […]
