The war on Iran and beyond: Trump drives for a new fascist world order

The war on Iran and the Venezuela coup are part of Trump’s attempt to reorganize the world order and grasp for absolute power. In countering this tumble toward world war, can we build a movement that is not only against Trump and capitalism, but keeps developing the fullness of what we are for?

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Editorial: Stop Trump’s war in Venezuela and in the U.S.!

Trump expanded both the war on Venezuela and the world’s spiral into war. Its connection to his war to subdue the people in the U.S. was brought home by an ICE agent’s murder of Renee Nicole Good.

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From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya
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From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: ‘True rebirth’ or wholesale revision of Marxism?

In this review of ‘Marxist Economic Theory’ by Ernest Mandel, Dunayevskaya criticizes Mandel’s denuding economic categories of their specifically capitalistic nature, and his distortion of Marx’s theory of crises.

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Essay: Iran—a country of revolutionaries

The essay traces the recent massive revolt in Iran, highlighting the importance of the thoughts of the participants, Iran’s revolutionary history, and the role of a philosophy of revolution and the people’s confidence in their own ideas.

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World in View: Pakistan-Afghanistan war

Before Netanyahu and Trump launched their war against Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan began their own war. To understand this latest outbreak of death and destruction, an understanding of some of the complex history of Pakistan-Afghanistan relations is required.

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Women WorldWide: March 2026

Takes up: Paula Doress-Worters, a founder of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, writing Our Bodies, Ourselves; far Right president José Antonio Kast taking office in Chile; and International Women’s Day demonstrations in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.

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World In View: The Reality of Sudan Today

On October 2025, the Rapid Support Forces, one of the factions waging war against the Sudanese people, took over the city El-Fasher, perpetrating genocide. This is the latest action in a three-year war which is causing the gravest humanitarian crisis of the 21st Century.

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Eyes on Education👀: March 2026

Takes up: a whitewashed required curriculum for introductory sociology in Florida’s 28 public community colleges; a loan-limit policy by the Federal Student Loan Program that could have disastrous implications for the medical field; and implications of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” in Indiana colleges.

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Women World Wide—February 2026

Takes up: the life of U.S. mathematician Gladys Brown West; and the insufficiency of laws punishing rape in cases in London, Germany and France.

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Data Workers Fight Back

Worldwide, over 500,000 content moderators work for global internet corporations. The work is performed by an increasingly female and young adult workforce in low-income countries. They have been organizing unions to deal with the job’s hazards.

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What is femicide?

A discussion of what femicide really is, triggered by a definition of the word in the bourgeois press.

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Eyes on education👀: Education 2025–Creating resistance for 2026

In Oklahoma, Maine, Florida and Chicago, Van Gelder gives us a view of battles in defense of public and higher education. The rightist moves against state and local K-12 school districts and even individual teachers, staff, parents and students attempts to instill fascism and Christian Nationalism from the cradle.

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Handicap This! February 2026

Takes up: the situation of people with disabilities in Gaza; the opening of an accessible playground at Ella Baker Global Studies and Humanities Magnet School in Minneapolis; and World Disabilities Day 2025.

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Lead article: Trump’s wars at home and abroad threaten humanity, Part 1: Growing resistance to Trump’s war at home

ICE murders in Minneapolis convinced more people to resist the war Trump is waging against the population, sparking new revolts, from student walkouts to general strike, from demands to abolish ICE to questioning of the system it came from.

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Women WorldWide: January 2026

Takes up: the first woman-led campaign by Workers Defense Project protesting the working conditions of housekeepers; Canada cancelling the caregiver permanent residency program; and women filing a lawsuit regarding unnecessary medical procedures by gynecologist Javaid Perwaiz.

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Queer Notes: December 2025

Takes up: U.S. stopped federal protections for Trans and Intersex prisoners; International Transgender Day of Remembrance 2025; protests in Turkey against a bill criminalizing same-sex relations and gender-affirming surgery; and Russian LGBTQ+ people fleeing to Argentina.

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Native Americans fight data centers

Appeal from Judith LeBlanc, of the Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund, to resist data centers, which threaten the environment and have harmful effects on communities, especially Black and Native.

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Review: ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’

Review of ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’, by Marjane Satrapi, graphic short stories by Iranian and international writers and artists, published on the first anniversary of the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini by the Iranian “morality police,” which sparked the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.

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Yanar Mohamed, Iraqi women’s freedom activist, assassinated

Remembering the life of Yanar Mohamed, murdered March 2 in Baghdad, Iraq. An uncompromising feminist voice, and founder of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq she devoted her life to defending women and survivors of violence and trafficking.

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El fascismo ya está aquí

Spanish translation of the article “Don’t wait to demonstrate against ICE/CBP” by Terry Moon.

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ICE out of Detroit!

Participant’s report on the Jan. 30 rally in far Northwest Detroit to demand ICE out of the city.

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Oakland in solidarity with Minneapolis: ICE OUT!

Participant’s report of a demonstration at Fruitvale Bart station, one of many actions in solidarity with the general strike in Minneapolis that took place around the San Francisco Bay Area on January 30.

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Chicagoans rally for Minnesota

Participant’s report on the Jan. 30 protest in Chicago against ICE and fascism and in solidarity with immigrants, people of color and activists in Minnesota.

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Abraham Bassford (1936-2025): A life of service

Celebrating the life of Abraham Bassford (1936-2025), Freedom Rider and member of the Student Peace Union in the 1960s, who died in December 2025.

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Detroit high school students protest ICE

Report of a student walk out in Detroit at Cass Technical High School for a rally and march to demanding ICE out of Detroit.

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Oaklanders show up for immigrants

With the chant “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here,” hundreds of people rallied Jan. 20 in many Oakland neighborhoods.

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Venezuela, oil, and great power politics: A Marxian political economy analysis

The U.S. capture of Venezuela’s president by the U.S. on Jan. 3 was framed as a fight against criminal networks. Beneath the surface, the event is part of a broader geopolitical struggle: a contest over resources, a selective application of international law, and the enduring hierarchies of global capitalism.

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Review: ‘Abortion in the Age of Unreason’

A physician who performed abortions for over 50 years describes his patients’ experiences and the evolving political situation. It reminds activists to be unapologetic about fighting for abortion rights: “Opposition to and psychological warfare against abortion is the principal organizing tool in America for imposing a totalitarian state.”

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