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2025 in Review: Stark Battle Lines, Big Potential

Jenny Brown Labor Notes
The working class is in the fight of our lives. The unity between Trump and the billionaires exploiting us isn’t even hidden anymore. It will take a lot of organizing and ironclad working-class unity to match these forces, but the fight is on.

This Week in People’s History, Dec 31-Jan 6, 2026

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Photo of a multi-media exhibit concerning the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march
Black Power Grows in a Tent City (1965), Lead Pollution Is Profitable, So Shut Up! (1996), ‘Two, Three, Many Vietnams’ (1966), No Responders Left Behind (2006), Protecting Kahoʻolawe from Bombs (1976)

Escalation in West Papua

Douglas Gerrard London Review of Books
The conflict in West Papua may be the world’s most unequal war: raids on military bases have improved the TPNPB’s fighting capacity, but they still often face Indonesian jets and missiles armed only with bows and arrows.

Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson Is Caught in a Trap

Preston H. Smith II Jacobin
The challenges Chicago’s progressive mayor, Brandon Johnson, has faced demonstrate that Mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York will have to out-organize what’s soon to be a mighty opposition to his every move from finance, insurance, and real estate intere