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AFL-CIO leader: MLK Conference must launch fight for the future
BALTIMORE—Trade unionists and community activists, 1,100 of them, are gathered here at the AFL-CIO’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Conference not just to remember history, but, as many here say, to intervene in it. “We are gathered to honor Martin Luther King’s sacrifices as we fight for our future,” said Alex Rias, AFL-CIO […]
- By : Eric Brooks
- January 16, 2026
Should the international community put sanctions on the U.S. government?
What a start to the New Year! The shocking invasion of Venezuela by the U.S. and the brutal kidnapping of the head of state and his wife, the by ICE of a 37-year-old mother of three on the streets of Minneapolis followed the very next day by a Border Patrol agent shooting of a couple […]
- By : Albert Bender
- January 16, 2026
Essential lessons from the book ‘The Capital of Slavery’
Dr. Gerald Horne recently published The Capital of Slavery: Washington, D.C., 1800-1865. The book’s title represents how Washington, D.C., was the capital of a country whose political-economic system was based on the enslavement of Africans. Slavery wasn’t the sideshow; it was the main event, and it was foundational to the capitalist system of the United […]
- By : Stu Becker
- January 15, 2026
War is on the horizon
There’s a war on the horizon, and its targets will be the people of the United States. In the past year, we’ve seen an increase in ICE and policing of local communities regardless of the citizenship of those being policed. This is, of course, connected to the escalation of aggression across Latin America and adventures […]
- By : Damion Dixon
- January 15, 2026
Social progress in Venezuela real reason for Trump’s invasion
In the early hours of Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, the Trump administration conducted a military assault on the sovereign Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and kidnapped its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. At least 100 people were killed, including 32 Cuban nationals. This flagrantly illegal act is being lauded by most Republicans, while […]
- By : Michael O’Dea
- January 15, 2026
A war without headlines: Israel’s shock-and-awe campaign in the West Bank
A shock and awe. The phrase is apt in describing what Israel has done in the occupied West Bank almost immediately following the events of October 7, 2023, and the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. In her book The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein defines “shock and awe” not merely as a military tactic, […]
- By : Ramzy Baroud
- January 15, 2026
Unions rally at Capitol to protect constitutional rights
WASHINGTON—There’s another big reason, left unmentioned until near the end of a mass rally of unionists in D.C. on Wednesday to push senators to undo right-wing GOP President Donald Trump’s wreckage of union contracts covering 1.5 million workers. What Trump did to them, especially to their constitutional rights to free speech and their legal right […]
- By : Mark Gruenberg
- January 15, 2026
Peoria, Ill., residents implore local officials to block ICE
PEORIA, Ill.—Activists spoke out at the Peoria City Council meeting Tuesday, Jan. 13, urging Mayor Rita Ali and council members to keep residents safe in the event that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brings its brutal enforcement tactics to Peoria. Hind Abi-Akar, former city council candidate and member of Peoria for Palestine, spoke first when […]
- By : Mitch Mitchell
- January 15, 2026
The many lies of Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio, an American of Cuban descent and Secretary of State of the United States, has been characterized throughout his political career by a lack of ethics, corruption scandals, an extreme tendency to lie, far-right positions, and an unhealthy obsession with overthrowing the progressive governments of sovereign nations in Latin America—mainly Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, […]
- By : Hedelberto López Blanch
- January 14, 2026
Trump’s war on D.C.’s Black youth
Since the start of the military occupation in the capital city, the Trump administration has framed Washington, D.C.’s crime issue as a problem for which the youth are mostly to blame. The president’s political allies and complicit local politicians like Mayor Muriel Bowser have amplified this focus on the youth of the city via harmful […]