Lead article: Women fighting fascist rulers–from Iran to the USA

In many countries misogyny is state policy, be that in the U.S. where abortion bans are killing women or Iran where the new hijab law has draconian punishments. It’s doubtful if Trump et al comprehend the rage and power that opposes their deadly drive for power and riches.

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Editorial: Israel’s genocide against Palestinians must stop!

Israel ended its ceasefire in Gaza not with words but with the slaughter of over 400 Palestinians. The genocide and struggle for freedom call for our deepest solidarity with Palestinian masses’ efforts at self-activity, without which self-determination is out of reach.

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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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Draft Perspectives 2025-2026, Part I: The sound of bootheels

From immigrants to Transgender people, from workers to students to women, no one is safe. Attacks on many fronts are part and parcel of what is widely recognized as a Trump/Musk coup, but is usually portrayed as normal politics in the media. Institutions cannot be trusted to save us and they need to feel the pressure from people fighting back.

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Women World Wide: May 2025

Takes up: the opening of Poland’s first abortion clinic; International Women’s Day in Argentina; and a march in South Africa demanding the government declare escalating levels of femicide and violence against women and children a national emergency.

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Queer Notes: May 2025

Takes up: 2025 International Transgender Day of Visibility; the organization Free Mom Hugs; LGBTQ+ people in Germany; and the reinstatement of a colonial-era “buggery law” in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Draft Perspectives 2025-2026, Part I: The sound of bootheels

From immigrants to Transgender people, from workers to students to women, no one is safe. Attacks on many fronts are part and parcel of what is widely recognized as a Trump/Musk coup, but is usually portrayed as normal politics in the media. Institutions cannot be trusted to save us and they need to feel the pressure from people fighting back.

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Draft Perspectives 2025-2026, Part II: What new world order?

What kind of new world order is Trump heading for? Forced annexation of territories (as in Russia’s war on Ukraine), genocide (as in Israel’s war on Gaza), and neocolonialism (as in the Democratic Republic of Congo) are crucial parts of it. The word “multipolar” cannot hide its imperialist nature.

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Draft Perspectives 2025-2026, Part III: Trumpism and the present moment of capitalism

What it is about this moment of this capitalist society that brought a creature like Trump to the top? The crumbling of society goes beyond economic measures. The symptoms are everywhere of a system that increasingly does not believe in its own future.

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Draft Perspectives 2025-2026, Part IV: Where is the Left?

Why did the massive resistance eight years ago not prevent Trump’s return? And what is the “Left” today? More important than the unity of the Left is the unity of the movement from theory and the movement from practice.

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Draft Perspectives 2025-2026, Part V: Our tasks

The 20th century revealed statist socialism to be a dead end. It is a substitute for the self-activity of the masses in motion, which is the only basis for workers’ control of the labor process. Without revolutionary humanist philosophical mediation capitalism will reconstitute around us and block the total reorganization of society. The philosophy of revolution demands an organizational expression.

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Eyes on Education 👀 : April 2025

Takes up: Administrators, teachers, staff, parents and supporters protest bills in Indiana that would reduce public education funding; the fight against a program that separates low-performing schools from their geographical districts in Tennessee; and Trump misusing Title IX to strip Maine of education funding.

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World in View: Sudan’s human tragedy ignored

A new turning point has been reached as the Sudanese army has just forced the Rapid Special Forces out of Khartoum. Amid the horrendous level of carnage, not to be forgotten is the need for the Sudanese masses to return to their revolutionary moment.

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Letter from Mexico: ‘Because All of Mexico is Teuchitlán’

Letter issued by activists, searching families, artists and writers following the recent discovery of an extermination camp in Teuchitlán, Jalisco, where hundreds may have been executed. The camp was not discovered by the State, but by families of the disappeared.

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Women World Wide: April 2025

Takes up: the life of feminist philosopher Sandra G. Harding, who coined the term “standpoint theory”; researched effects of online misogyny on British primary and secondary school students; and increasing global rates of incarceration of women.

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World in View: The weaponization of anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism is being fomented by Trumpism and extreme right-wing parties in Europe. At the same time they attack Palestine solidarity as “anti-Semitic.” Its weaponization endangers Jews, for it obscures the line between false anti-Semitism, and the very real anti-Semitism that exists today and that must be fought.

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Review: ‘Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person’

Spiced with clever dark humor and depicted through beautiful cinematography, endearing acting and a powerful soundtrack, ‘Humanist Vampire’ is a modest masterpiece, especially recommended to dreamy, romantic, humanist spirits—that is, to the ones who still believe that, despite this shattered society, human relationships should be put front and center on our agenda.

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Forget Vietnam War at our peril

April 30, 2025, marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war. But what is there to celebrate? Even the talking heads can’t figure out a way to “spin” this in defense of American imperialism. We are still haunted by the ghosts of Vietnam even as we perpetrate genocide against the Palestinians.

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Harvard 1, Trump 0—but it’s not over

Harvard’s rejection of Trump administration demands has become a focus for resistance. However, the silence on Israel’s genocide in Gaza reveals an anti-Palestinian bias at Harvard despite a strong presence of Jewish students and faculty who reject equating criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

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‘Hands Off’ everything, demands Oakland, Calif.

Participant’s report of the “Hands Off” protest in Oakland, California. New is the totality of the issues coming together in this moment. Can civil society’s multiple struggles find their own unifying non-state-oriented idea of freedom?

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Hands Off march in Detroit

Participants’ report of a Hands Off march in Detroit, where thousands converged at the Detroit Institute of Arts. It was one of over 1,200 that took place on April 5 in the U.S.

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‘Hands Off!’ Evanston fills the streets

Participants’ report of a HANDS OFF demonstration in Evanston, Ill. The protest was one of over 1,200 taking place in every state of the Union–a first step in taking control of our destiny and creating the kind of world that will make it impossible for fascism to ever rise again.

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Tesla Takedown: participant report

Participant report from one of hundreds of popular “Tesla Takedown” actions on March 29 around the world. Resistance is growing as more people are exposed to the anti-Trump movement and experience its indispensability.

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Why the Hell Another Gaza War?

Why war? To keep the current Israeli government in power. The less democracy, the more power to Netanyahu. But good news: mass protests by Israelis, reserve soldiers not showing up when they receive draft notices, and The Supreme Court holding firm.

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Bad [cuts] to the bone: DOGE at work

DOGE is slashing grants, contracts and jobs in federal agencies. Especially Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility, climate change, education and food safety. Resisting fascism means looking for ways to fight for real reform as steps toward revolutionary development by and for humanity.

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Demonstration to “Release Mahmoud Khalil Now”

A demonstration in Detroit, Mich. to “Release Mahmoud Khalil Now,” made up of many students and organizations. They also demanded: Trump stop attacks on Free Speech and student deportations.

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Veterans protest attacks by Trump/Musk

On March 14, over 3,000 veterans and allies demonstrated at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., against Trump and Musk’s cuts to veterans’ federal jobs, services, and benefits. The demonstration came together quickly showing that people aim to restore democracy.

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Canada defends itself

Trump began a trade war, insisting that Canada would be annexed by the U.S. He denied the legitimacy of Canada in terms like Russia’s before its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But Canada is not for sale—or for conquest.

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