American Revolution

Haudenosaunee Roots Of The American Experiment

July 15, 2026 Paul Spinrad, The Main Street Journal. Educate! American Revolution, Democracy, Haudenosaunee, Indigenous Governance

Many centuries ago, the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca, formed a confederacy under the Great Law of Peace that covered much of what is now New York state and beyond. The governance structure of the resulting Haudenosaunee Confederacy, with its balance of centralization and decentralization, influenced Benjamin Franklin’s early Albany Plan proposal for a united government of states, which presaged the U.S. Constitution— even though the Declaration of Independence had meanwhile criticized King George III’s backing of “merciless Indian Savages” to conduct war against the colonists.

While Trump Spends Big On America’s 250th, Communities Protest Across Major Cities

July 8, 2026 International League of People's Struggles, Popular Resistance. Resist! American Revolution, Immigrant Rights, National Day of Action, Trump Administration, Wars and Militarism

Over 80 organizations protested the 4th of July across 9 major cities as part of a National Week of Action called for by the International League of Peoples' Struggle - US (ILPS-US) to highlight 250 years of resistance to U.S. empire. While the Trump administration has spent over $68 million in taxpayer money on "America 250" and "Freedom 250" celebrations, communities took action to share the real history of the U.S.' violence against the people and the active legacy of communities fighting for justice and freedom.

The US And The CPC: A Tale Of Two Anniversaries

July 7, 2026 Carlos Martinez, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! American Revolution, China, Communist Party, Neoliberalism, Socialism, United States

This week features two anniversaries that, taken together, tell much of the story of our age. On July 1, the Communist Party of China marked 105 years since its founding. On July 4, the United States celebrates 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. The two milestones invite a comparison: what have these two political projects contributed to the world? The US was born in a revolution against empire and has spent much of its life building one. By one widely cited reckoning, the US has been at war for over 90 per cent of its history — from the wars of continental conquest to Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Iran.

Requiem For America On The Fourth Of July

July 4, 2026 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! American Revolution, Christian Fascism, Neoliberalism, US Empire

Neoliberalism, better understood by its less sanitized term cutthroat capitalism, is the poison that destroyed our democracy. It gave the billionaire class and corporations the ideological cover to impoverish the working class, impose crippling austerity, hollow out democratic institutions, buy off our two ruling political parties and deform our courts into appendages of corporations and the rich. Neoliberalism drove tens of millions of disenfranchised, desperate people into the arms of Christian fascists, who preyed on their despair and sold them the fantasy of magic Jesus.

250 Years Of Lies, 500 Years Of Uprising

July 4, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha. Resist! American genocide, American Revolution, Indigenous Resistance, Settler colonialism

The so-called “United States” is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026. We, the first people of this land, do not have to look far to spot the hypocrisy of celebrating a document that calls our ancestors “Merciless Indian Savages.” Today, we witness a country that proclaims “freedom” while kidnapping our immigrant neighbors without due process, passing laws that encourage harassment and discrimination against our LGBTQ and two-spirit relatives, and pulling out every political, legal and military strategy to suppress any form of dissent against the state.

The Indian Wars Continue: 150 Years After Victory At Greasy Grass

July 3, 2026 Nick Estes, Black Agenda Report. Educate! American history, American Revolution, Indigenous Resistance, Wars and Militarism

Since the 1776 Declaration of Independence, the United States has only formally declared war eleven times across five conflicts, and yet it has been at war in hundreds of conflicts throughout most of its existence. To answer why the United States is locked into a state of perpetual war, we have to look to the violent seizure Indigenous land. Tracing this history back to the nation’s founding, as illuminated by the new First America podcast series, reveals how Native resistance has radically shaped U.S. history, laying the groundwork for its most violent conflicts and unchecked militarism.

Why Many In Hawai’i Won’t Celebrate 250th Anniversary Of The US

July 3, 2026 Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Resist! American Revolution, coup, Hawaii, History

Even though it’s the 250th Anniversary of the founding of the United States, many in Hawai’i, the 50th territory to “join”/acquire U.S. statehood, will not be celebrating. When you better know the history of how rich and greedy U.S. citizens, many descendants of the missionaries from the 1830s, conducted a coup that overthrew the government of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893 you will understand why for many in Hawai’I, both Hawaiians and settler-colonists like me, there will be no celebration on July 4th. Add to the coup, a go along U.S. Congress, similar to what we have today, that illegally “annexed” Hawai’i in 1898 through a “resolution.”

Gerald Horne On The Real Story Of American Independence

July 2, 2026 Elias Isquith, Black Agenda Report. Educate! American Revolution, History, Slavery, White Supremacy

With a sweeping and widely praised new essay on reparations in the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates has challenged Americans to reconsider how they view their country’s history and to place the influence of white supremacy front and center. Rather than imagine the damages inflicted against African-Americans by white supremacy as having occurred mainly during the antebellum period, Coates asks us to recognize how Jim Crow in the South and redlining in the North denied black people the means to build real, stable lives for themselves, directly explaining the disproportionate poverty we still see in the African-American community today.

Major Cities Across The US Take Action Against Trump And America 250

July 2, 2026 International League of People's Struggle, Popular Resistance. Resist! American Revolution, Donald Trump, Fourth of July, National Day of Action, Wars and Militarism

United States – Hundreds of activists and community members across the country refuse to take part in celebrating the 250th birthday of the United States, "America 250," and instead will hold mass actions and protests in major cities to denounce Trump and the violent legacy that the U.S. and Trump continues today. This violent legacy is reflected in the 60,000 migrants locked up in detention centers, a budget allocating $85 billion to ICE and upwards of $1.15 trillion for military spending towards escalating wars, and initiating agreements like the most recent Pax Silica agreement, to solidify its global supply chain and US interests for computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The Founders Never Meant The US To Be A Democracy

July 2, 2026 Doug Henwood, Portside. Educate! American Revolution, Democracy, Founding Fathers, oligarchy

One of the great contradictions of American life is that we think of ourselves as a democracy, a model for the world, but one with a profoundly rich elite that exercises enormous influence over politics. Although we often feel (correctly) that democracy is eroding in the United States, we shouldn’t forget that, despite our image, our state was never designed to be a democracy. Our situation, in which an insanely rich oligarchy is nudging aside the last remnants of popular power, emerges from the governmental structures that James Madison and his fellow Founders intended.

We The People March On Washington

July 1, 2026 We The People 250 March, Popular Resistance. Resist! American Revolution, Constitution, Fourth of July, popular power, Washington DC

We The People 250 is a coalition convening a march on Washington on July 4, 2026 to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence. Bringing together movements and organizations from across the country, the march is a peaceful, people-powered stand against authoritarianism, demagoguery, and political violence. We the People is an affirmation of 250 years of struggle to bend this country toward justice and a clarion call that leaders in every party stop accommodating its demise. The coalition takes its name from the first three words of the Constitution: We the People.

Finding Real National Pride On America’s 250th Birthday

July 1, 2026 Sarah Van Gelder, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! American genocide, American Revolution, Fourth of July, Racism, Reparations, Slavery

During this year of celebrating our nation’s 250th anniversary, I’ve been experiencing an unexpected emotion: pride. For months, it’s been something far different — a mixture of disappointment, disbelief and disgust at the undermining of our freedoms, our wellbeing, our children’s futures and even our prospects for survival. But recently, something shifted for me. I saw the excitement and global unity of World Cup fans. I talked to small business owners here in my small town in Washington state who were placing signs in their windows to let immigrants know they are welcome.

Leonard Peltier: Nothing To Celebrate At America 250

June 29, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha. Educate! American Revolution, Donald Trump, Leonard Peltier, Sovereignty

On July 3, fireworks will burst over Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe (the Six Grandfathers), the sacred Lakota mountain the settlers renamed Mount Rushmore. The four presidents blasted into the rock will glow above the Black Hills — land the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty set aside for the Lakota Nation. The U.S. seized Pahá Sápa (the Black Hills) in 1877, after gold was found there. In 1980 the Supreme Court ruled the taking illegal. The Lakota refused the money the court offered and demanded the land back. They are still waiting. The monument was another conquest.

America’s ‘Independence’ Celebrates 250 Years Of Jingoism And Genocide

June 28, 2026 Joseph Massad, Middle East Eye. Educate! American Revolution, Genocide, Slavery, White Supremacy

merican jingoism remains the ruling ideology of the United States, on the right as well as the left and centre. The upcoming 250th anniversary of independence, which the country will celebrate on 4 July 2026, is yet another occasion to express America's ultranationalism and rewrite the country's sordid history of oppression and genocide as a story of "freedom". President Donald Trump, the hero of white supremacists and conservatives, has declared that "With a single sheet of parchment and 56 signatures, America began the greatest political journey in human history." Former president Barack Obama, the best thing that ever happened to white American liberals, enthusiastically agrees: "Since we're a few weeks away from America's 250th birthday, it is worth remembering just how radical the whole idea of self-government really was back in 1776." He adds that the Declaration of Independence asserted "that we are all created equal, endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights". Obama then offers a mild reprimand for what seems to be an oversight on the part of the white slave-owning settlers who declared independence.

The American Colonial Resistance

June 21, 2026 Jamila Raqib, Waging Nonviolence. Educate! American Revolution, Economic Democracy, History, Independence

Nonviolent struggle has a long and rich history, and has been widely practiced in different parts of the world, by diverse populations, for different objectives. But much of this history has been neglected or ignored in favor of highlighting stories of violence and war. This gives people the false idea that the progress, human rights, and the democratic freedoms we hold dear were won through violence and war, and it is violence and war that they must use to conduct their struggles. One of the most historically significant nonviolent struggles in the world took place right here in this country, long before the Civil Rights Movement.

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