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The Trump-Putin Axis
Posted October 14, 2026
WHAT WAS EVIDENT to many observers from the onset of Donald Trump’s second presidency is now out in the open: Trump and Vladimir Putin are allies in Russia’s war to amputate and subjugate Ukraine. What’s in it for each of them in this gangster partnership?
For Putin, the goal is the end of Ukraine as an independent nation-state and the seizure of at least….
Melt ICE, Defend the Minneapolis 15
Marsha Rummel
Posted October 8, 2026
The Madison, Wisconsin, Free the 15 Defense Committee, along with local unions and community organizations, organized a showing of the touring documentary film “When Ice Melts” followed by a panel discussion on Sunday, October 4 at the Madison Labor Temple.
Over 100 people attended a potluck, watched the film, heard from a panel of activists and followed up with questions.
The panel consisted of the filmmaker Kip Hedges, Kieran Knutson CWA Local 7250 President in Minneapolis, Twin Cities educator…
French Students Mobilize — and Their Supporters Too!
NPA-A
Posted October 7, 2026
SECONDARY STUDENTS ARE taking action; the government is cracking down. The situation in the national education system has been deteriorating for years. Successive governments and various ministers, led by Blanquer
Labor Marching for the Minnesota 15
Randy Furst
Posted October 5, 2026
HUNDREDS OF DEMONSTRATORS, mostly union members, rallied and marched through the streets of Minneapolis on Saturday, Oct. 3. The march was a show of support for 15 political activists who were indicted earlier this year by Donald Trump’s Justice Department for their organized opposition to the ICE assault on the Twin Cities known as Operation Metro Surge….
The Spark That Lit a Prairie Fire: Let’s Organise a Hot Autumn
Anticapitalistas
Posted September 30, 2026
ON WEDNESDAY, 23 September, the police evicted Maricarmen in Madrid. Maricarmen is an 87-year-old woman whose rent was gradually increased by a vulture fund, until the fund decided it wanted the flat for new business ventures. In that sense, her case is not so unusual: in Spain,…
A Reign of Anti-Immigrant Terror
Dianne Feeley
Posted September 22, 2026
IN AUSTIN, TEXAS an ICE agent shoots a food delivery driver after he was rammed and pulled over by an unmarked van. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, from Venezuela, entered the United States legally and is seeking asylum. He is now in ICE detention with his serious gunshot wounds inadequately treated….
Double Standards, Imperial Hypocrisy 25 Years After 9/11 – What Has Changed?
Val Moghadam
Posted September 14, 2026
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS have passed since the September 2001 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon, by a group of Arab men who had commandeered commercial planes. It is worth asking what has changed in inter-state relations within a capitalist world-system dominated by a hegemon.
The first question that has come to my mind recently: What explains….
The Iraq War Shattered the Promise of a New World Order
Posted September 11, 2026
Jannis Hagmann interviews Gilbert Achcar on the impact of 9/11
THE ATTACKS OF 11 September 2001 fundamentally altered US foreign policy and triggered a series of wars that have reshaped the Middle East. 25 years on, Gilbert Achcar reflects on the US response to 9/11 and its enduring impact on the region. He was interviewed by Jannis Hagmann, editor in chief of Qantara.
Qantara: There is this cliché about 9/11: that people remember exactly….
Has the firewall become obsolete?
Folko Mueller
Posted September 9, 2026
State election in Sachsen-Anhalt
Germany is holding four state elections this September, but none has been more anticipated and talked about than the one in Sachsen-Anhalt, which just took place on Sunday, September 6. The reason being that it has been known for some time that the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) had a real chance of winning outright, with exit polls showing the party at around 40%. While the AfD has been at times tolerated by democratic parties as well as ruled outright at…
Labor Day Lessons: Can CIO Best Practices Aid Union Organizing Today?
Steve Early
Posted September 1, 2026
INDUSTRIAL UNION BUILDING in the 1930s has long been the lodestar for the post-New Deal labor left.
If organized labor in the United States could go from historic membership lows in the 1920s to an early 1950s peak union density of nearly one-third of all private sector workers, maybe that great leap forward could be repeated again, sometime in the future?
Other than the public sector worker upsurge of the late 1960s and 1970s — which has propped up (with less success over time) overall unionization…
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