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High tide of protests worldwide

The Trump administration is attempting to criminalize union members for organizing against its immigration crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year. That’s because it correctly sees labor as a threat to its authoritarian designs.

Thinking strategy in a time of hard choices

Midwest mid-crisis

The future of protesting in the US may have been decided in a cramped courtroom in Fort Worth, Texas, last week. An appeal is coming, but the conviction of several protesters on charges of providing “material support” for terrorism is a chilling sign

The administration took aim at the Twin Cities because of the George Floyd uprising, a sense of disciplining the population. Unions which want to be fighters for the working class have to be a part of this fight.

An uprising against Daniel Noboa’s far-right agenda exposes how Washington fuels violence across Latin America

Launched in 1975 from Pinochet’s Chile, Operation Condor was a secret police operation of “cross-border repression, [whose] teams … launch[ed] assassination missions and other criminal operations in the United States, Mexico and Europe.”

Lift the lamp higher

A recent successful court case brought by university professors against the Trump administration’s ideological deportations is an important win for supporters of Palestinian liberation and opponents of rising authoritarianism in the US.