Fight The Rich, Not Their Wars: NO War with Iran On June 21, US warplanes dropped its “bunker buster” bombs on three Iranian nuclear sites, including one heavily fortified site, Fordow, that is critical to Iran’s nuclear program. The US military has now directly entered into war with Iran, side by side with the ever […]
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For socialists and workers’ organisations against the war, stepping up the mass international antiwar movement is extremely urgent. After 5 days of war, Netanyahu and Trump both ordered the entire population of Tehran to evacuate, stressing Israel’s military superiority and “control of the skies”. The latest reports cite over 220 dead civilians in Iran while […]
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Resist National Guard with Working-Class Power Update, June 9: Trump has ordered 700 Marines into LA. Dozens of fully armed federal agents poured out of unmarked SUVs in Los Angeles’ Fashion District on the afternoon of Friday, June 6. They quickly entered Ambiance Apparel, a clothing wholesaler, and sealed off the street with yellow tape. […]
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Events around the world look grim: the war in Ukraine continues, the genocidal war in Gaza is escalating, and Trump is threatening to push the world economy into a recession that will harm workers. Since Trump’s January 20th inauguration, tariffs, mass layoffs, cuts to social programs, attacks on migrants and the fraying of democracy in […]
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Donald Trump has called “tariff” his favourite word, showing that he must have a limited vocabulary. When he imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports in 2018, he claimed it was protecting American industry. In reality, these tariffs were a nationalist smokescreen for a deeper capitalist crisis — one where working people, not corporate elites, […]
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‘Liberation Day’ nightmare is scaled back for 90 days but what comes next? China and the US have de-escalated their trade war at least for the short term. Talks between the two sides on 10–11 May in Geneva produced a 90-day pause until 10 August from astronomical triple-digit tariffs. Both sides agreed to a 115-percentage […]
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Statement on World Perspectives by ISA’s International Political Committee The famous observation of Vladimir Lenin, that “there are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen” could have been easily written with our epoch in mind. Although Lenin used it to describe revolutionary events, it is an equally good description of today’s […]
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The 1970 Earth Day provides us valuable lessons for the fight against climate change today, including how mass movements of ordinary people force change from below. The mass teach-ins—which involved millions from all sections of society—show the type of movement we need now. The world is on fire and Trump and the billionaires are taking […]
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Across the country, an anti-Trump movement is finally beginning to pick up speed and coalesce. Young people in many major cities have held weekly protests against Israel’s renewed bombing of Gaza and the state kidnappings of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk and other immigrant students by ICE. In mid-March, the Federal Unionists Network—a rank-and-file grouping of […]
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by a member of Socialist Struggle Movement, Israel/Palestine The ceasefire was violated in a massacre planned and coordinated with the Trump administration. Returned abductees and their families are angry and anxious about the fate of the remaining abductees. Organize to fight against the renewal of the war of extermination. A widespread massacre in the Gaza […]
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