2023 brought a growing wave of workplace strikes, anti-war mobilizations, protests of killer cops and other struggles throughout this country. As a bilingual political...

The horrific U.S. backed Israeli war on occupied Palestine and the siege of Gaza have galvanized a global uprising in opposition to the ongoing bombing and genocide of the Palestinian people.

In the United States and Western Hemisphere, we are seeing a global movement of people leaving their homes behind to find life-threatening hardships on their journeys, sometimes crossing up to 14 countries and their borders to get to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Democracy is at risk in battles for political power across the South. Tennessee students, Florida faculty and Arkansas school districts are fighting to stop what can only be called fascism.

A new form of abolition is arising today. First it aimed ending America’s systems of prisons and police; today it goes to the heart of the matter: “Abolition requires that you change one thing: everything.” (Ruth Wilson Gilmore, revolutionary scholar).

California has a sordid history of criminalizing poor and homeless people with laws against sitting, lying, or sleeping/camping that date back to the 1870s. Just after the abolition of slavery in 1865, Penal Code 647e declared that “No person shall sit, lie, camp on public or private property without the owner’s permission.”

The famous scientist, Stephen Hawking once warned that artificial intelligence (Ai) would be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity.” The issue is which human social force – which economic class of people – controls it.

The fascist monsters in Texas have carried out the recent torture and murder of migrant workers, women, children, even babies. They are killing in our name! In the web of lies they and haters like them spin, they are trying to frighten us into giving up our human rights.

The intensifying repression and violence of the government’s response to protests are a warning to the American people. The Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta has been the most recent example.

Cop City is the name people have given to the proposed largest police training facility/mock city in the United States, in Atlanta, Georgia. To build it, the police foundation and their corporate donors will have to destroy 85 acres of the largest urban green space in the country, in a Black working-class neighborhood.

During July 2023, millions celebrate Independence Day, honoring the American Revolution that broke this country out of the British Empire. Openly social fascist forces across the nation will manipulate its symbolism to dig deeper into sections of the population which are dissatisfied with the growing problems surrounding their lives and communities, yet which lack a vision of the path toward solutions.

The militarization of the U.S.-México border zone has expanded during the administrations of Bush, Obama, Trump and now Biden. The Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are organizations under the Department of Homeland Security, for which DHS Chief Information Officer Eric Hysen commented that his agency had the “largest budget ever enacted,” jumping to $29.8 billion, a $3 billion increase from 2022.