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There is a military axiom that if your positions are encircled by far superior forces, you will inevitably be annihilated, unless you break out. I have been a member of our labor movement and left wing since I got out of high school in 1979. For every one of those 46 years our labor movement has been under heavy attack, and at the end of every year we were smaller and more exhausted than when it began. This year will be no exception.
With only a few scant exceptions the U.S. labor movement continues to avoid the key question of new organizing. The call to “Organize the Unorganized!” is no longer heard. Embattled unions must draw to their support the masses of unorganized – or face destruction.
Employers And Labor Groups Try To Protect Workers From ICE
November 21, 2025
Jeremy Lindenfeld, Scheer Post.
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', ICE, Immigrants, Labor Movement, Worker Rights'
A lot of undocumented immigrants — and their employers — remember when the siege began.Federal immigration agents equipped with tactical gear and rifles descended on downtown Los Angeles in armored trucks on June 6, arresting dozens of workers at an apparel factory. Within hours, another group of agents raided a Home Depot a few miles away, arresting day laborers who were looking for work.
Those operations quickly became a flashpoint, sparking spontaneous large-scale street protests. But President Donald Trump’s administration doubled down, and more high-profile raids followed as the White House sought to make good on the president’s promise to conduct the largest mass deportation program in the nation’s history.
Michigan Coalition Puts Billionaires On Notice
November 20, 2025
Drew Younker, People's World.
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Billionaires, Education, Michigan, Public schools, Taxes
Lansing, Michigan - Corporate-backed lawyers descended on the state capital in late June in a frantic attempt to derail a popular ballot initiative that would tax the wealthiest Michiganders to fund the state’s starving public schools.
The Invest in MI Kids campaign (with the MI pronounced like “my”), an evolution of the “Babies over Billionaires” movement, arrived at a Board of State Canvassers meeting to get its 100-word petition summary approved. The measure would levy a 5% tax on annual income over $500,000 for individuals and $1,000,000 for couples, directing the revenue exclusively to the State School Aid Fund.
The Masses Build And Sustain A Zone Of Peace Through Unity Of Struggles
November 19, 2025
Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report.
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Caribbean, CELAC, Latin America, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism, Zone of Peace
On November 8-9, 2025, the social component of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) met in Santa Marta, Colombia, as the CELAC-EU Summit took place on November 9-10. The purpose of the CELAC-EU Summit was to enhance strategic cooperation between Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union in a time of heightened United States militarism targeting the Bolivarian peoples of Venezuela and now Colombia.
A major theme of the summit was the unique geostrategic and historic role that Latin America and the Caribbean as a region have in the creation and strengthening of a multipolar world free of the dictates of the over 200-year-old Monroe Doctrine.
How Britain Can Lose Its United Nations Veto
November 19, 2025
Craig Murray, Consortium News.
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Independence Movement, Scotland, UN Security Council (UNSC), United Nations (UN), UNSC
Scottish Independence is an extremely attractive prospect to states at the United Nations, and for reasons that you might not expect.
Every state knows that the current U.N. structure is outdated and indefensible, with five states – U.S., China, Russia, U.K. and France – having a permanent seat and a total veto on the Security Council.
U.S. abuse of the veto directly to continue the Gaza genocide has been flagrant and caused outrage.
Africa and South America have no permanent representation or veto. The prominence of the Imperial powers of the U.K. and France is anachronistic.
The difficulty is, that any change to the veto is subject to veto. So there has been stalemate, and during the genocide in Gaza the U.N. itself has been outraged, maligned, abused and practically useless.
Mali Defends Sovereignty Against A Western-Backed ‘Proxy War’
November 19, 2025
Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch.
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Mali, Proxy War, Sovereignty, Terrorists
Amid a barrage of media reports prophesying the fall of Mali to an Al Qaeda affiliate disrupting its fuel supply by attacking tankers, delegates from ten African countries, Iran, and Turkey attended a defense expo in the capital Bamako from November 11 to 14.
The city was reported to be “under siege”, encircled by jihadists closing in on power. Some version of “Is Mali about to fall?” was a rhetorical question across headlines, while the Atlantic Council declared the country was “unraveling”.
Dismissing this portrayal as a scenario “concocted in the office of foreign intelligence services”, Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop insisted that “the fate of Mali, and the destiny of the people in the West African region will not be decided” by the media.
‘Pelosi’s Law’: Why Democratic Leaders Think They’re Winning By Losing
November 17, 2025
John Canham-Clyne, Substack.
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Democrat Party, Democrats, Health Care, Nancy Pelosi
With her legacy on prominent display, Nancy Pelosi’s retirement announcement couldn’t have been better timed. When better to bid farewell to a historic party leader than during a bruising fight over a corner of the U.S. health care mess, where winning won’t improve a single person’s health care but will perpetuate trillions of dollars in subsidies for corporations?
There’s not much to say about the content of the reported deal to end the government shutdown that Healing and Stealing hasn’t already said. Several million people may no longer be able to buy coverage, which a huge portion of them won’t use anyway, because the enhanced subsidies don’t cover the extreme cost sharing that plagues ACA plans. Cutting the subsidies is cruel, and Congress should extend them, but it’s a fight to preserve an awful status quo.
The Overshoot Presidency And The State Of Climate Politics
November 17, 2025
Alberto Toscano, In These Times.
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climate crisis, Environment, False Solutions, Fossil Fuel, Technology
Ahead of this November’s Cop30 climate summit, to be held in Belém, Brazil — the gateway to the Amazon River — United Nations Secretary General António Guterres delivered a stark statement: “Let’s recognize our failure. The truth is that we have failed to avoid an overshooting above 1.5 degrees [Celsius] in the next few years. And that going above 1.5 degrees has devastating consequences.”
Guterres’s remarks came just as Hurricane Melissa was making landfall in Jamaica as one of the most powerful Atlantic basin storms in recorded history. And it came after a year of other grim milestones: the devastating wildfires that struck Los Angeles in January and Canada in May, lethal flash floods from Argentina to Texas and heatwaves in India and Pakistan that brought temperatures up to 49 degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit), leading to crop failures.
What Genocide Looks Like When Silicon Valley Writes The Brochure
November 16, 2025
Ramah Kudaimi and Evan Sutton, In These Times.
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Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Silicon Valley
It’s being called the GREAT Trust. A glossy plan for Gaza’s “redevelopment” that includes solar plants, hospitals and an Elon Musk-branded “Smart Manufacturing Zone.” But, as analysts have suggested, it only works if the people of Gaza are gone.
The slides leaked over a month ago to the Washington Post spell out the game plan: Gazans will be forced to choose between dubious and iniquitous “voluntary” mass relocation or “temporary housing,” while and billionaires get their branded tech playground built on ashes and bones. This is what genocide looks like when Silicon Valley writes the brochure: ethnic cleansing dressed up as innovation.
Africa’s Recent Elections: Crisis And A Continent’s Youth In Revolt
November 14, 2025
Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch.
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Africa, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democracy, Dictatorship, Elections, Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism, Political repression, Tanzania, US Imperialism
The past few months have seen three elections across Africa, in Tanzania, Cameroon, and Côte d’Ivoire. Each exposed a deepening democratic crisis on the continent. While the ballot boxes were filled and the slogans of “stability” and “unity” were loudly proclaimed, the underlying reality was very different; repression, exclusion, and a profound disconnect between the political class and the masses, especially youth.
In all three cases, aging leaders clung to power through electoral processes that were anything but democratic.
The US War On China, Venezuela, And The International Left
November 14, 2025
Megan Russell and Michelle Ellner, Counter Punch.
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China, US Imperialism, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism
Everywhere you look, the United States is at war– at home, through military occupation of cities, institutional violence, and state-sanctioned kidnappings, and abroad, through economic coercion, proxy warfare, and endless intervention. In times like these, when it is far too easy to be overwhelmed by the inexhaustible nature of the war machine, we must remember that these are not separate crises, but different fronts of the same struggle. And to resist one is to resist them all.
The enemy, in every case, is U.S. imperialism.
Canadian Auto Isn’t In ‘Crisis’, It’s In Danger Of Extinction
November 14, 2025
Sam Gindin, Socialist Project.
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auto industry, Canada, China, Tariffs, Worker Rights and Jobs
Canadian autoworkers have faced many crises over the years, but the present threat is distinct. Lana Payne, President of Unifor, has warned that “If we don’t push back hard against him [US President Donald Trump] and against these companies, we’re going to lose it all.” So far, the debate over what to do has started and stopped with Trump’s tariffs. But the threats go deeper, both for auto companies and for our ability as workers and citizens to determine democratically what kind of society we want – that is, for Canada’s substantive and not just formal sovereignty.
Civil Disobedience: Preventing Tyranny
November 13, 2025
Mick Hall, Consortium News.
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Capitalism, Civil Disobedience, History, Police
Australian psychiatrist and author Dr. Niall McLaren believes civil disobedience presents a means of stopping domination hierarchies in a society spiraling towards outright fascism.
McLaren believes humans have a natural disposition towards forms of domination and if left unchecked, a political system of “narcisso-fascism” arises. McLaren told In Context:
We see this playing out in the world every day, but none clearer than in the U.S., where their president is obsessed to the point of mania with forcing everybody to do as he tells them: ‘Do as we say or we’ll slap tariffs and sanctions on you, we’ll deport you or blow you up.’ He doesn’t care how much he damages people or even his own country, as long as he can order people around, he’s happy. As is typical, he constantly tests the limits.
Impending Strike In Las Vegas Exposes Labor Abuses Nationwide
November 13, 2025
C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout.
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Las Vegas, Service Industry, Service Workers, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs
Nearly 400 food service workers are set to go on strike at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas this week over wage disputes. They are underpaid and haven’t seen a raise in many years. This is the predicament facing many workers in the service industry, even though they play a critical key role in the contemporary capitalist economy. Gig and service sector workers are indeed among the most overexploited segments of the working class — struggling with low pay, lack of legal protection, and insecure employment.
Mamdani Will Follow The Path Of AOC, Bernie, And Brandon Johnson
November 13, 2025
Stansfield Smith, Popular Resistance.
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Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Liberal class, Zohran Mamdani
The disenfranchised, cast aside people of the US find hope when an AOC, Brandon Johnson, Mamdani and Bernie Sanders campaigns and wins public office. These campaigns overcame corporate backed opponents, relying on people power not corporate financing, organizing many thousands of our fellow working people to participate. Yet, possessing public office does not change the economic and class structure of this country, where the real ruling power lies. Our country’s system, on the local, state, and national level, is a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.