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  • People inspect the wreckage of a house in Kuhestak, Iran, hit by a U.S. missile during a family wedding on Sept. 1.

    U.S. bombs a wedding in Iran

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on September 3, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    The generals can change deployments, move ships and planes, and order another round of bombing. None of that solves Washington’s basic problem: the Iranian people have not surrendered.

  • Google Maps acts as a propaganda outlet for Trump, replacing Lake Ontario with “Lake America” and helping legitimize a colonial claim by putting it on the map. Screenshot of Google’s propaganda map.

    Seneca Nation rejects Trump’s colonial claim on Lake Ontario

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 31, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca said that on Aug. 28, the day after Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America.” Seneca called for the order to be rescinded and for the name to remain as it stands, reflecting the Seneca people, the other Haudenosaunee nations and all the Indigenous peoples around the lake.

  • A worker on a Taylor Farms processing line. The company operates 30 processing plants and moves more than 265 million servings of fresh food each week, making it one of the dominant corporations in the U.S. packaged-salad industry.

    The salad monopoly behind the parasite

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 26, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    By Aug. 21, the Cyclospora outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce sold by Taylor Farms had sickened 10,930 people in 17 states, hospitalized 454 and killed two. The illnesses began June 14 and continued through Aug. 11.

  • “Attack and Capture of the Crête-à-Pierrot,” an 1839 engraving after Auguste Raffet, depicting a major battle of the Haitian Revolution.

    235 years of capitalist revenge against Haiti

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 24, 2026 by Stephen Millies (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Aug 28, 2026)

    The Trump regime’s mass deportations of Haitian people have begun.

  • natural disasters

    Fidel foresaw it: The human species is in danger of extinction

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 24, 2026 by Hedelberto López Blanch (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Aug 27, 2026)

    Will the developed countries, the ones most responsible for this danger, finally face the situation, or will they wait until it is too late for everyone?

  • El Panal Commune and Fuerza Patriótica Alexis Vive, Caracas, March 2026. Following a visit to the commune’s livestock project, our international delegation met with Chavistas to learn about their efforts to develop locally controlled and sustainable agricultural production. Photo: Kimberly D. Miller

    Beyond the ‘delcyification’ of analysis

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 18, 2026 by Kimberly D. Miller (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Aug 20, 2026)

    Siege, survival, and the dialectics of Venezuelan sovereignty.

  • Shoppers at a Tokyo supermarket. The U.S. war on Iran has driven up Japan’s oil and shipping costs, while the falling yen makes imported food and fuel still more expensive.

    U.S. war on Iran shakes Japan’s economy

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 7, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    Japanese workers get the bill first: a weaker currency, costlier food and fuel, and wages that buy less. They had no say in the war being waged in their name.

  • Sophie Cunningham of the Indiana Fever speaks during a press conference before a game against the Portland Fire at Moda Center.

    The Right has created its perfect trans athlete

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 5, 2026 by Lauren Theisen (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Aug 08, 2026)

    A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women.

  • Visitors gather at Moonshot AI’s Kimi exhibit during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. China’s open-weight models are challenging the monopoly profits built into Wall Street’s AI boom.

    China’s open-weight AI exposes the fiction behind Wall Street’s boom

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 27, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    In July, free software from China set off the worst week for U.S. chip stocks in over a year and briefly cost Nvidia its place as the world’s most valuable company. Wall Street panicked because Chinese firms had matched the leading U.S. artificial intelligence systems. But the selloff exposed something deeper. The AI boom rests […]

  • ICE

    ICE killed eight people—and the government blamed the dead

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 23, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    The government isolates each killing and blames each victim. The movement joins the names together, exposes the lies and builds the power to stop the killings.

  • Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his map of alleged Communist Party organization, Army-McCarthy hearings, June 9, 1954. Seventy-two years on, the State Department calls the purges of his era a model worth repeating.

    Rubio’s enemies list revives the McCarthy witch-hunt

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 22, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    The House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed The People’s Forum on July 21, ordering the New York organizing center to turn over its internal communications, membership records and finances by Aug. 7. Two other anti-imperialist groups, BreakThrough News and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, were served the same day.

  • Smoke engulfs the Vessel Traffic Service tower at Iran’s Chabahar port after U.S. airstrikes on July 17. The tower, which coordinated civilian shipping and rescue operations for fishing crews in the Gulf of Oman, collapsed shortly afterward.

    U.S. bombs Iran’s bridges, water and power in campaign of open war crimes

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 18, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jul 23, 2026)

    In the early hours of July 17, the Pentagon bombed bridges, water pumping stations, and a railway station, while also striking the civilian airport at Iranshahr and the control tower of Iran’s only deep-water ocean port.

  • A shopper pays with Pix at a store in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil’s public instant-payment system cuts Visa and Mastercard out of millions of transactions. Washington has imposed tariffs in an attempt to protect the U.S. payment monopolies.

    The revolt against U.S. payment monopolies

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 16, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    In July 2025, Trump imposed a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods in a failed attempt to stop the prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was later sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup.

  • At Tehran’s Grand Mosalla, red flags reading “O avengers of Hussein” linked Washington’s assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the martyrdom of Karbala and turned mourning into a call for resistance.

    Another broken agreement—Washington tears up the Hormuz ceasefire

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 14, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    Washington reloads. So does the resistance—it is stronger, and angrier, and more united than it was on Feb. 28.

  • Dec. 1, 2023 – United Electrical workers (UE) and other union members rallied at the White House to support hunger strikers demanding a ceasefire in the U.S.-Israeli war on Palestine.

    Labor movement increasingly opposes U.S. imperialism

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 11, 2026 by Cheryl LaBash (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jul 13, 2026)

    The 30th AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention wrapped up in Minneapolis on June 10. One resolution in particular hints at a shift in its staunchly pro-imperialist record.

  • The USS Fort Lauderdale in a file photo. The amphibious assault ship is now docked in La Guaira, Venezuela, after the June 24 earthquakes. Under cover of disaster relief, Washington put a U.S. warship at the country’s primary port.

    Pentagon turns earthquake into occupation of Venezuela

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 9, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    The U.S. Air Force now runs Venezuela’s main international airport.

  • Phosphate fertilizer is essential to industrial agriculture. Washington’s war on Iran has disrupted the routes that carry Gulf oil, gas, petrochemicals and fertilizer to the world market.

    Fertilizer emergency shows cost of U.S. war on Iran

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 5, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jul 07, 2026)

    Phosphate fertilizer is essential to industrial agriculture. Washington’s war on Iran has disrupted the routes that carry Gulf oil, gas, petrochemicals and fertilizer to the world market.

  • Supporters of trans youth outside the Supreme Court, in Washington, D.C., as the justices heard arguments in the school sports cases.

    The Supreme Court wages class war

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 3, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jul 06, 2026)

    Every right workers and oppressed people hold was won through struggle. No worker can depend on the courts to defend rights that only struggle can protect.

  • Residents search through earthquake rubble in La Guaira, Venezuela, after the June 24 twin quakes. Years of U.S. blockade left hospitals, public works and rescue capacity weakened before the disaster struck.

    U.S. sends war force under cover of Venezuela earthquake relief

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on June 27, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    The U.S. Southern Command dispatched the amphibious transport ship USS Fort Lauderdale and the littoral combat ship USS Billings to Venezuelan waters, along with C-17 Globemaster and C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. 

  • German Leopard tanks roll under German and NATO flags in Vilnius, Lithuania. Eighty-five years after Operation Barbarossa, German imperialism is again being organized for war in the East.

    85 years after Hitler’s invasion, Germany rearms for war on Russia

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on June 21, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jun 23, 2026)

    Lord Ismay, NATO’s first secretary-general, once said the alliance existed to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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