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The Voting Rights Act And The Need For Movement Politics

May 9, 2026 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
The recent Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decision in the case of  Louisiana v. Callais is but the latest example of a direct attack on Black people by the state. This decision is the last nail in the coffin of the Voting Rights Act, and in the aftermath of this blow, there is deep anger, fear, and confusion felt by millions of people. While those feelings are both righteous and understandable, it is still frustrating to watch as some of the fake friends who could have prevented this outcome shed fake tears alongside those who are actually being victimized.

Why Power Analysis Is Key To Fighting ICE

May 4, 2026 James L. VanHise, Waging Nonviolence. , , ,
The ICE campaign to round up millions of immigrants is grounded in tactics designed to inspire public fear and passivity. Dressed in tactical gear and wielding deadly weapons, masked agents strive to project an image of invincible power as they rampage through communities, smashing into cars, breaking down doors and wrestling people into unmarked vehicles. Nevertheless, many activists have refused to be intimidated, successfully confronting agents on the street to prevent harassment and arrests. Such ad hoc resistance has its limitations, however, since ICE activities often occur out of public view.

Lessons From The Gaza Student Encampments, Two Years On

April 30, 2026 Ethan Eblaghie, Mondoweiss. , , ,
On April 17, 2024, Columbia University students hoisted tents onto the grass of the East Butler Lawn, initiating an international reckoning with the Israeli genocide in Gaza. The initial encampment was met immediately with a police sweep and the mass arrest of student participants, but this did not deter activists and only prompted a second mass entry into the adjacent lawns mere moments later. I was at the second encampment as an admitted student attending spring orientation. The dynamism of that moment feels surreal now – hundreds of people waving hand-painted banners and flags, cheering to song and chant, and the almost comical, stiff communication from the university as it attempted to maintain a veneer of business as usual, all a portent of the institutional reprisal to come.

How To Organize An Assembly-Based Movement

April 27, 2026 Joao Franca, Next City. , , ,
Angelines’s daily life used to be like that of many other housewives: looking after the children at home, taking the eldest to school, then shopping, cooking and tidying the house while looking after her youngest. The first time she saw an eviction being stopped was on television, although it was happening in the very district she lived in, Usera in Madrid. “Lots of people were talking about it, because the police got quite violent with the people who are now my compas,” she remembers. “But back then, I watched and thought: How can they be throwing people around like that?”

What We Can Learn From The Playbook That Defeated Orbán

April 15, 2026 Daniel Hunter, Waging Nonviolence. , , ,
On Sunday night, the streets of Budapest were filled. Tens of thousands of Hungarians poured into the streets along the Danube River, singing folk songs and waving flags celebrating the end of Viktor Orbán’s rule. A young man named Mark Szekeres, his face painted with the colors of the Hungarian flag, told CBC News: “This election was about a clash of civilizations. Either you belong in a Western-type democracy or an Eastern-type dictatorship.” For 16 years, Orbán controlled the country as the classic strongman. Orbán’s electoral defeat was sound — so much so that he conceded defeat before all the votes were counted.

Harlem, The Black Panthers, And The Return Of ‘Power To The People’

April 4, 2026 Daniel Warner, Counter Punch. , , ,
The echoes of 1960s Harlem—free breakfasts, Black Panther patrols, school protests and strikes—returned as I watched modern Black Panthers confront ICE outside Philadelphia City Hall. A late-January 2026 documentary from Radio-Canada followed their patrols and confrontations with officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The report brought back memories of the movement’s heyday in the 1960s, when I was an honorary member. The history of the Black Panthers is deeply tied to protests for civil and political rights, particularly for Black Americans, but also for other marginalized communities.

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

April 1, 2026 Stephen Millies, Struggle-La Lucha. , , ,
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.

In Memoriam Berta Cáceres

March 14, 2026 John Perry, Popular Resistance. , , , , , ,
Ten years ago Berta Cáceres, a campaigner against dams and mining projects that were displacing rural communities in Honduras, said that death threats had forced her to lead a ‘fugitive existence’. Most of the threats came from a company, Desarrollos Energeticos SA (DESA), that was planning a hydroelectric project on the Gualcarque River, sacred to Cáceres’s Indigenous Lenca community. Hired killers were tracking her movements. An attempt to assassinate her on 5 February 2016 was aborted. On 1 March, Cáceres said goodbye to her youngest daughter, who was returning to college.

Why Loyalty Shifts Are Key To Defeating Autocrats

March 10, 2026 Adam Fefer and Maria J. Stephan, Waging Nonviolence. , , ,
After previously representing the ICE agent who killed Renee Good, Minneapolis attorney and Republican politician Chris Madel ended his gubernatorial bid, saying “I cannot support the national Republicans’ stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.” Meanwhile, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which as a group has offered only limited resistance to accelerated attacks on democratic norms, issued an unusual “special message” denouncing indiscriminate mass deportations.

Venezuela After January 3: A Nation Standing In The Storm

March 5, 2026 Medea Benjamin, Popular Resistance. , , , , , ,
On our recent delegation to Venezuela, one quote echoed again and again — a warning written nearly two centuries ago by Simón Bolívar in 1829: “The United States appears destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” For many Venezuelans, that line no longer feels like history. It feels like the present. The January 3 U.S. military operation that seized President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores marked a dramatic escalation in a conflict that Venezuelans describe not as sudden but as cumulative — the culmination of decades of pressure, sanctions, and attempts at isolation.

Data On The Crackdown On Gaza Protests Reflects Increasing Repression In US

February 23, 2026 Tom Perkins, Mondoweiss. , , ,
Protests over the unfolding genocide in Gaza erupted across the U.S. in 2023, quickly becoming the largest mass demonstration since Black Lives Matter a few years earlier. In both cases, the protest movements took aim at state violence and oppression against marginalized groups. Deeper scrutiny of the protests and law enforcement response reveals how the U.S. government at all levels has escalated its repressive tactics during the last five years. One telling statistic shows how a strong majority of cases filed against Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 were dropped or dismissed, but the crackdown on Gaza demonstrators has grown even more draconian and resulted in harsher punishments.

Minneapolis General Strike: Lessons For The Next Round

February 3, 2026 Gary Wilson, Struggle - La Lucha. , , ,
The first week of January, Trump sent 2,000 ICE paramilitary agents into Minneapolis, targeting Somali neighborhoods, along with Hmong and Latine communities, and turning the city into a domestic war zone.  Minneapolis’ working-class communities responded with an ICE Watch network — thousands of people tracking raids, filming arrests, and rushing to protect each other, often armed with nothing more than Signal chats and tin whistles. When ICE paramilitary officer Jonathan Ross shot and killed 37‑year‑old mother of three Renee Good, a legal observer, on Jan. 7, protests exploded across the Twin Cities and helped fuel a statewide general strike on Jan. 23 against the operation.

Progressive Activists, Officials Condemn Venezuela Attacks

January 28, 2026 Silvana Solano Rodriguez, Venezuelanalysis. , , , ,
Delegates from governments, parliaments, and social movements across the globe gathered in Bogotá, Colombia, on January 25 for the inaugural “Nuestra América” summit. Convened by the Progressive International at the San Carlos Palace, the emergency congress aimed to establish a unified strategy against what participants described as a “rapidly escalating assault” on Latin American sovereignty. The high-level meeting, featuring 90 people from more than 20 countries, took place against a backdrop of heightened regional tensions and the Trump administration’s express intent to impose its dictates in the Western hemisphere.

Resisting The Empire Next Door, Protests In Mexico Grow

January 25, 2026 Tamara Pearson, Truthout. , , ,
An anti-imperialist movement is building in Mexico, where the U.S. invasion of Venezuela has been seen as an act of intimidation for all of Latin America. Protests are swelling in response to this latest blow after decades of political and economic subjugation by its neighbor to the north. Across the country, larger-than-usual marches on January 3 and 10 condemned the U.S. attacks on Venezuela. The marches included some pro-Morena groups (the governing party) as well as students, workers, farmers, and Indigenous groups that are critical of Morena.

Commune Leader Discusses Popular Resistance In Venezuela

January 25, 2026 Workers World. , , ,
I have to tell you that, in the midst of all this pain … in the midst of the escalating warmongering that the people of Venezuela, as our working-class president Nicolás Maduro said, remain firm and disciplined. There has been no looting here, there has been no outbreak of popular violence. Here there is cohesion with the political-military leadership of our Revolution, and that is not going to change. Wage all the cognitive warfare you want, wage all the communication warfare you want, because we stand firm with the Bolivarian Revolution, firm with the leadership of Acting President Delcy Rodríguez and our captain Diosdado Cabello.
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