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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.

Authoritarian regimes rarely criminalize dissent all at once; they normalize repression step by step. Authoritarianism is a political system that suppresses political freedoms and civil rights, using various levers of control to shift power...

If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here: McCarthyism.