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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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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: ‘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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Women WorldWide: December 2025
Takes up: spread of the Nordic Model in Europe, i.e., decriminalizing victims of prostitution while criminalizing pimps and customers; and 2025 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Handicap This!: December 2025
Takes up: UK stories of artists and activists living with disabilities; women in Moldova and Armenia helping women with disabilities be independent; and Sylvain LeMay receiving the Canadian Union of Public Employees National Disability Rights Activism Award.
World in View: The Mapuche Autonomist Struggle
Excerpts from a statement issued by Internationalist Solidarity with the Mapuche Autonomist Struggle calling to stand with the Mapuche people resisting occupation and extractivism in Chile and Argentina.
Women World Wide: November 2025
Takes up: Mary “May” McGee, who won a 1973 Irish Supreme Court case legalizing contraceptives; Despite a Nov. 6 protest of over 10,000, the Latvian parliament voted to exit the Istanbul Convention against violence against women; Women for Change in South Africa organized a protest against a femicide rate five times higher than the global average.
World in View: Indigenous peoples challenge climate summit
Indigenous peoples came en masse to this year’s climate summit, protesting, meeting, and insisting on radical participation. However, they were met with open resistance, feeble responses, and indifference from many countries, especially the rich ones.
World in View: War, mass murder, genocide and capitalism’s culpability
The horrendous realities in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Congo, Rio de Janeiro and Venezuela are connected. Several of the world’s powers are implicated. The global capitalist system allows mass murder, rape and genocide to become “normalized.”
Queer Notes: October 2025
Takes up: UK Supreme Court ruling that sex assigned at birth determines legal sex; anti-gay legislation in Burkina Faso; a Takatapui exhibit in Aotearoa/New Zealand; advances for rights of Intersex people in Europe; and protection of Trans and Intersex people in Pakistan.
Women WorldWide: October 2025
Takes up: the life of anti-gender violence activist Susan Xenarios; South Korean women suing the U.S. military for maintaining a network of prostitution; World Women’s March in Canada; and an anti-femicide march in Argentina.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Free Ibtissame Betty Lachgar!
Appeal to help free Ibtissame Betty Lachgar, a Moroccan feminist and human rights defender imprisoned for a peaceful act of expression.
Review: ‘We Choose To: A Memoir of Providing Abortion Care Before, During, and After Roe’
Authors Dr. Curtis Boyd and Dr. Glenna Halvorson-Boyd describe experiences in providing abortion care. The book provides hope that we can defeat authoritarianism and create a compassionate, connected society.
Starbucks workers on strike
Two Starbucks workers speak about their strike that began Nov. 13. Workers demand resolution of their unfair labor practice complaints and better wages, staffing, hours, and working conditions.
Protest AT&T support for ICE
Participant report of a protest in Evanston, Ill., demanding AT&T end its contracts with ICE and Homeland Security.
Don’t wait to demonstrate against ICE/CBP
On Nov. 1, over 1,000 people rallied in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, to protest the inhumanity and brutality of Trump and Kristy Noem’s ICE and Customs and Border Patrol. Fascism is here and now is the time for us all to step forward and be antifa.
No Kings Day 2
A roundup of participant reports: an estimated 7 million rallied for No Kings Day 2 in 2,700 locations on Oct. 18, 2025. The joy of collective revolt mixed with oppressive awareness of the paramilitary occupation of cities like Chicago. But hardly a day goes by without new episodes of self-organized resistance.
Women in Afghanistan stand defiant
Four years after the Taliban took over Afghanistan women have been reduced to non-persons with no future possible under their fascist rule. But women continue to fight, declaring: “the fall of Afghanistan was not the fall of our will.”