January 2026 – Page 11 – Struggle

Venezuela declares state of emergency, calls for international solidarity

January 3, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha

Editor’s note: The following is the official communiqué issued by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on January 3, 2026, in response to U.S. military strikes on Caracas and surrounding areas. President Trump announced the operation […]

The United States attacks Venezuela and kidnaps its president in an illegal operation

January 3, 2026 Taroa Zúñiga Silva and Vijay Prashad

A little after 2am, Venezuela time, on 3 January 2026, in violation of Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, the United States began an attack on several sites in the country, including Caracas, the […]

No war on Venezuela! National day of action Saturday, Jan. 3

January 3, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha

List of demonstrations (check back for frequent updates) Anchorage, Alaska The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Living Memorial 3:00 p.m. Charlotte, North Carolina Romare Bearden Park 4:00 p.m. Eugene, Oregon Eugene Federal Building […]

Nicolás Maduro (left), President of Venezuela, and Miguel Díaz-Canel (right), President of Cuba, during a session of the Sao Paulo Forum held in Havana in 2018. foto: Rosa Miriam Elizalde

And then 2026 arrived

January 2, 2026 Rosa Miriam Elizalde

Nicolás Maduro remains in Miraflores Palace, and Cuba celebrates the 67th anniversary of the Revolution today. January 1, 2026, dawns with this uncomfortable truth for the opinion machine that has spent months predicting the imminent […]

Louisiana mothers organize daily ICE watch

January 2, 2026 Gregory E. Williams

On New Year’s Day, I spent the afternoon with activists watching for ICE in Slidell, a small Louisiana town about 40 miles northeast of New Orleans. We sat in parked vehicles outside a Latine grocery […]

While Trump spoke of peace, the CIA escalated war against Russia

January 1, 2026 Gary Wilson

While the Trump administration spoke publicly of peace talks, the CIA escalated a covert war on Russia’s oil infrastructure with the president’s approval. A recent New York Times report documents this dual track, detailing how […]

Comrade Lee Paterson ¡Presente!

January 1, 2026 Colby Byrd

“We can no longer be in a situation where big business rules over the lives of poor, working and oppressed people.” – Comrade Lee Patterson Comrade Lee will forever be a guiding light to me. […]

Lee Patterson, five decades in Baltimore’s class struggle, dies at 70

January 1, 2026 Lev Koufax

Lee Patterson died peacefully in his sleep on Dec. 21, during a short stay in hospice care for complications from renal and heart failure. He was surrounded in his final days by loving comrades and […]