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‘IAM Max’: Machinists rally for member detained by ICE
Rallying under the banner “IAM Max,” 200 union members and supporters gathered outside the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington, on June 6 to demand the release of Maximo Londonio, a member of Machinists (IAM) Local Lodge 695 who has been imprisoned by ICE since mid-May.
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Trump deploys troops to LA amid anti-ICE protests
Trump deploys 2,000 troops to LA amid anti-ICE protests. Governor Newsom calls it a political stunt: “They want a spectacle. Don’t give them one.”
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The hidden story: Israeli ‘aid’ is part of genocide plan
The victims had gathered in hopes of finding food for themselves and their families, following a nearly three-month total Israeli blockade of the territory. At least 31 people were killed; one Palestinian was also killed by Israeli fire the same day at another distribution site in central Gaza.
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Trump wants to keep America digitally divided
By threatening to defund Digital Equity Act programs, Trump has declared war on a program that benefitted many of his own supporters.
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Disdain for the poor: Job Corps shutdown sparks outrage
Programs that create opportunity, equity, and stability are being dismantled to make way for budget cuts that disproportionately favor the wealthy.
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Venezuela’s participatory democracy and the struggle against imperialism: A Conversation with Alison Bodine
An international observer in Venezuela’s May 25 elections reflects on the country’s democracy and explains why solidarity with the Bolivarian Process is more urgent than ever.
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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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‘Dangerous times demand dangerous music’
CounterSpin interview with Tom Morello on music as protest.
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A retreat from justice: Shielding cops from accountability
Trump’s dismantling of police reform is a gift to white supremacy.
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Pizza goeth before a ball? Changes in Americans’ eating habits foretell a deep recession
In its February 24th earnings call with the financial press, Domino’s Pizza CEO Russell Weiner reported a 3.2 percent spike in carryout orders during the previous quarter, combined with a 1.4 percent decrease in deliveries.
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Is China finally breaking the U.S. stranglehold?
The U.S. is in desperate economic and military “competition” with China and has lost a lot of ground fast.
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Economics and the concept of progress
THE mercantilists had defined a nation’s prosperity in terms of the amount of precious metals it possessed and a nation’s progress in terms of the increase in its amount of precious metals.
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The ‘chaos’ of aid distribution in Gaza is not a system failure. The system is designed to fail.
Israel is using the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to condense Palestinians into increasingly narrow enclaves, forcing displacement through need. We are witnessing the rise of a new humanitarianism where aid sites double as kill zones.
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Wes Anderson takes on Western Imperialism: ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ – Review
This entertaining Wes Anderson satire on imperialist scheming combines a slightly weak plot with clever characterisation but is mysterious in its intention and timing, finds Lucy Nichols.
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Trump and the fantasy of a ‘White Genocide’
Irony is dead. It lies buried in Gaza, under the rubble the West helped create.
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Israel as a tool of U.S. imperialism
A number of notable parallels run through the histories of Israel and the United States.
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America is a scam
Donald Trump is many things: a racist, an authoritarian, a rapist… but what he is, and has always been, above all and from the very start, is a scammer.
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Charles Rangel and the end of Black politics
The late Charles Rangel served as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus for more than 40 years. But the goals of Black politics and electoral politics are not necessarily the same.
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The U.S. blockade on Cuba
As workers and socialists, Cuba’s struggle is our struggle.
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Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and more
Following is a fact sheet about how Trump’s “big beautiful” budget bill cuts essential services and benefits for workers to give to the wealthy.