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No Kings In America, Real Resistance In Rome

The “No Kings” slogan sounded promising when it exploded across the United States in 2025: a mass rejection of authoritarianism, unchecked executive power, and the cult of the strongman. But like so many liberal-led mobilizations in the Trump era, the U.S. version has revealed itself as carefully managed theater — heavy on performative outrage, light on principle, and deliberately blind to two of the greatest crimes of our time: Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the illegal U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. The contrast with the Italian “No Kings and Their Wars” mobilization in Rome could not be starker.

How Do We Get From ‘No Kings Day’ To No Billionaires?

Eight million people demonstrated across the United States on March 28, against Trump in the third “No Kings Day.” There were protests in 3,300 communities in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Some were huge, like in New York City, where as many as 200,000 protested (and more than 300,000 marched for Minneapolis earlier this year). Tens of thousands also turned out in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Philadelphia’s march stretched a mile. These millions represent the vast majority of the working class that hates Trump and opposes Big Oil’s war against Iran. Many sympathize with the Palestinians.

Donald Trump And The Truth About Robert Mueller

The public denunciation of a political enemy on the day of his death would be shocking if those words were uttered by anyone other than Donald Trump. The screed was vintage Trump: blurting out whatever he wanted without considering the thoughts and feelings of others, or any traditional niceties about not speaking ill of the dead, especially those who, as the saying goes, aren’t even cold in the grave.  But the decidedly rude response also had a significant element of truth. Despite his many lies about issues big and small Trump is not wrong about Robert Mueller’s pursuit of innocent people.

Trump’s De Jure Racism Provides Cover For Liberals And Democrats

Last week, following President Trump’s re-tweet of a video meme that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, the U.S. exercised a national conniption that saw even members of the Republican Party, including Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), calling out the president’s racism and demanding the he take the social media post down and apologize. To be clear, the outrage was and is certainly warranted as depicting Black people as monkeys and apes is a centuries-old racist trope with the ultimate aim of dehumanization and placeism as it pertains to the positional status of Black people in the larger hierarchy of racial capitalism. 

ICE Exposes Democratic Party Irrelevance

The Trump administration focuses relentlessly on immigration enforcement as a political tool. That focus isn’t surprising considering that an important goal of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement is to Make America White Again, or rather more white than it is now. Trump is so fixated on deporting immigrants from the Global South that he even takes this rhetorical show on the road, using part of his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to get his fellow white nations to also act against what he has referred to as an “invasion.”

No, Tim Walz and AOC, The National Guard Won’t Save Us

On the heels of mass protests demanding justice for those killed by federal agents and demanding ICE out of our communities, the capitalist state has escalated its assault with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) executing ICU nurse Alex Pretti in broad daylight.  In response, Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted on X, “A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists.” Meanwhile on Truth Social, Donald Trump called Pretti a gunman, justifying the killing and attacking various Democrats.

I Used To Be A Critic Of The Two-Party System

I am told that if I don’t like what “my government” is doing, I should write “my representative.” So I dropped Senator Adam Schiff a note about the US war on Venezuela. The senator’s reply, with my translations of his Washington-speak (in italics) provided in brackets, is as follows: “I have been opposing the administration’s unlawful use of force against targets [a sovereign country] in the region…the U.S…conducted an operation [act of war] on January 2-3, 2026, to capture [kidnap] the illegitimate [lawful] leader [president] of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. Maduro is a thug [not Trump] who has terrorized and oppressed [defended] the Venezuelan people for far too long [Trump should have done it sooner], and he will now face trial in a New York [foreign jurisdiction] court.”

Illegal Orders, Liberal Hypocrisy, And Fake Outrage

A group of six United States senators and members of congress recently released a 90-second video in which they assert that members of the military can and in fact should refuse to carry out orders that are illegal. Article 92 in the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) states that lawful orders must be obeyed and unlawful orders should not be carried out. While the assertion should not be controversial, the question of what is lawful or unlawful is not always clear. Military service personnel are at great personal risk should they attempt to make the distinction themselves.

‘Pelosi’s Law’: Why Democratic Leaders Think They’re Winning By Losing

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.

Mamdani And The Liberal Repackaging Of Power

In the shadow of genocide, while Gaza burns and its skies bear witness to one of the most one-sided assaults in modern history, a Muslim man ran for mayor in the heart of empire and won. People celebrated, calling it a win for progress, diversity, and even justice, as if a scheduled political election had reversed history. As if liberation had arrived not in the form of dismantling state power but by crowning someone who could speak against it politely from within its walls. Zohran Mamdani’s ascent was a familiar ritual – liberalism’s favourite act: taking the language of resistance, draining it of substance, and performing it just long enough to pacify those who still remember how to rage.

Democrats’ Treachery Ends The Shutdown

In “The Shutdown and Neverending Hostility to the Welfare State,” written just two weeks ago, this columnist made the following statement. “If the Democratic Party can’t stand up to defend programs that feed poor people and pay for healthcare, then it literally has no reason to exist at all.” That essay presented a long list of infamous Democratic Party chicanery that chipped away at the already inadequate welfare state in this country. The democrats may talk a good game, but in the final analysis they will join with their duopoly partners in the Republican Party to practice the politics of austerity.

Mamdani Will Follow The Path Of AOC, Bernie, And Brandon Johnson

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. 

The Working Class Must Not Pay The Price For The Government Shutdown

Twelve days into the government shutdown, Vice President JD Vance threatened federal workers that they would feel the pain if Democrats did not agree to Republicans’ plan: “The longer this goes on, the deeper the cuts are going to be. To be clear, some of these cuts are going to be painful.” Beneath his usual grimace of performative empathy, Vance exposed the callous truth of this face off between the Democratic Party and Trump’s GOP: workers’ lives are nothing but a bargaining chip for the two imperialist parties. Left out in the cold by the Democrats and Republicans, the working class and poor are left to sort it out for ourselves. All workers, public sector and private alike, must demand that our unions take the side — not of the representatives of the bosses — but of the workers and oppressed, using their might to force an end to the shutdown, an end to layoffs and full backpay for all those furloughed, full employment and a living wage for all to feed their families, universal healthcare, and an independent, combative plan of action to fight all of Trump’s attacks on the working class.

DC Disrupters Shut Down Mayor Bowser At Democrats Meeting

Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, November 5, a group of activists again disrupted Mayor Muriel Bowser at a speaking event, this time at the DC Democrats November General Body Meeting. The direct action, called by the Families Not Feds campaign, is the latest in a series of actions targeting DC’s mayor for capitulating to the racist Trump agenda. The environment the mayor created by conceding to the Trump agenda led to, on October 27, federal police shooting into the car of an unarmed Black man that the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) covered up.

It’s Open Season On Public Sector Workers

First Trump and Musk take a chainsaw to their ranks, then the Democrats, in effect, lock out those who still have jobs. Approximately 100,000 government employees have lost their jobs since Trump took over. If that wasn’t bad enough, now the Democrats, trying to show that they really aren’t wimps, have shut down the government. Seven hundred and thirty thousand public sector employees are working without pay while another 670,000 have been furloughed. Working people of all shades, shapes, and sizes are suffering collateral damage.
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