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Where’s Elon? Trump and Musk’s predictable “breakup”
In a very short time—and due largely to the grassroots “Tesla takedown” protests that started in February—Musk became a major political liability to Trump. Musk’s “chainsawing” of the federal workforce and essential services, along with his embrace of far-right politics, transformed him into one of the most hated figures in global politics. Even Trump knew it was time to cut him loose.
The Middle East in flames—yet again…
A fundamentalist, grafted, illegitimate, and imperialist thug-state like Israel can never be a liberator of the Iranian people, nor does it have any right to intervene in or launch “pre-emptive strikes” on any country in the region.
Resistance grows against Trump’s authoritarian power grab
Millions of people joined in the protests on June 14th in defiance of Trump’s latest authoritarian power grab, with the largest drawing up to 100,000 demonstrators. A sea of people—most carrying handmade signs—swarmed downtowns in major cities. Many described their opposition to mass deportations as a key motivation to take part.
CECOT: The tip of the iceberg
From a Marxist perspective CECOT is a behemoth of state power used by the ruling class to protect ruling class interests. Migrants, often fleeing persecution or poverty caused or exasperated by global capitalism, are considered surplus labor. Rather than being integrated into the U.S. economy or granted basic rights, they are criminalized and cast as a threat to national security and economic stability.
The “big, beautiful bill”
At the end of the day, the bill represents the entirety of the Trump/Republican domestic policy agenda. And even though the senate may tinker around on the edges of it, it will pass the Congress largely intact. In the senate, where the GOP holds a 53-47 majority, three Republicans can vote against it and it will still pass with Vice President JD Vance casting the deciding vote.
Greece: The missed opportunity and the defeat of 2015
Antonis Davanellos, a leading member of the Workers’ Left (DEA) in Greece, analyzes Tsipras’s betrayal and the consequences for the far left.
International law: Israeli impunity is a feature, not a bug
International law was never just about justice. It’s always been about managing global power. Its rules, exceptions and institutions are built around the interests of dominant states. There’s no law separate from politics, only laws that serve certain political agendas.
The grassroots opposition to Trump can—and must—grow
Any genuine resistance to the Trump agenda is to be welcomed and built on. But we also must “tell no lies” and “claim no easy victories,” as the Bissau Guinean revolutionary Amilcar Cabral put it in the 1960s. The state of the opposition to Trump is weak now.
Trump’s war on migrants (Part I)
Trump, and Biden before him, have used charges of “antisemitism” against all pro-Palestinian protesters to justify violently cracking down and expelling students who had taken part in opposing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Trump has ratcheted up punishment to detention and deportation, using the Cold War era “Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952″—which allows the State Department to deport non-citizens who it deems pose a threat to “U.S. foreign policy.” This was a key tool used in the persecution and deportation of communists during the McCarthy era, which for good reason has been likened to the witch hunt against pro-Palestine activists today.
Why the Democratic Party won’t save us from Trump
In the early days of the Trump administration when most establishment Democrats were treating Trump as a political colossus and telling their supporters that they couldn’t do much to stop him, the Sanders/AOC road show helped rank-and-file members of the liberal side of U.S. politics to break from feelings of isolation and despair. But Sanders and AOC are engaged in a project that the Rev. Jesse Jackson used to call “keeping hope alive” in the Democratic Party…
“Genocide in action” as 60-day blockade plunges Gaza into mass starvation
OCHA has reported that 92% of infants and pregnant and breastfeeding mothers are not meeting their nutrient requirements, while the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) released a statement Friday warning that malnutrition among children is on the rise across the enclave.
The other catastrophe: Genocide and famine in Sudan
In general, wars in which white soldiers from the global North—whether American or European, including, of course, Russians—do not directly participate receive very little global attention. This is the case of Sudan, which is witnessing a war between two exclusively local parties, even if fueled by regional parties, particularly through their support for the genocidal Rapid Support Forces militia.
‘Dystopian’ Trump plan for massive expansion of ICE detention centers exposed
“This expansion is a disastrous waste of billions of taxpayer dollars that will only line the coffers of the private prison industry,” said one ACLU attorney.
Return of the robber barons—or worse?
Trump seemingly wants to surpass Ronald Reagan, who famously fired all members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) when they went on strike in 1981—thus giving a green light for corporations to likewise fire striking workers and permanently replace them with strikebreakers.
