Month: January 2026

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Around the world

Release Chantal! Stop all U.S. aid to the Philippines

January 16, 2026 Andrew Matatag
Chantal Anicoche is a friend of mine.  We have shared meals together, gone to protests together, and sat together in meeting after meeting figuring out how we can help our people in the Philippines. On […]
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Labor and strikes

Striking nurses expose for-profit health care

January 16, 2026 John Parker
New York nurses are on strike. With 15,000 walking out on Monday, Jan. 12, this is the largest nurses’ strike in the city’s history. These nurses represent three different, privately owned hospital systems and are […]
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Around the world

Greenland on the chessboard of U.S. imperialism

January 16, 2026 Lotte Rørtoft-Madsen
On 14 January, a few hours before the historic meeting in Washington between representatives from Greenland and Denmark and their U.S. counterparts, J. D. Vance and Marco Rubio, Denmark and several of its NATO allies […]
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In the U.S.

Antisemitism and the fascist drift of the MAGA right

January 16, 2026 Gregory E. Williams
A 19-year-old man has allegedly confessed to setting fire to a synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi. Stephen Spencer Pittman, of Madison, Mississippi, carried out the arson before dawn on Jan. 10, destroying the Beth Israel Congregation’s […]
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Bombing Somalia, raiding Minnesota: Two fronts of the same war

January 15, 2026 Gary Wilson
The intensified bombardment of Somalia and the assault on Somali communities in Minnesota are not separate policies. They flow from the same source: a capitalist system that requires military domination abroad and uses raids, deportations […]
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Palestine

Three Palestine action activists end hunger strike after Elbit UK loses $2.7 billion contract

January 15, 2026 Palestine Chronicle
“Elbit Systems is living on stolen time – we will see it shut down for good, not because of the government, but because of the people.” – Prisoners for Palestine. Three Palestine Action-affiliated activists ended […]
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Palestine

As genocide drags on in Gaza, Israel escalates war within 1948 borders

January 14, 2026 Lev Koufax
Three months into the fake U.S.-imposed “ceasefire,” both Zionist forces and the elements continue to batter Gaza. The numbers are a dry ledger of atrocity: over 875 ceasefire violations, more than 400 murdered under the […]
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In the U.S.

ICE detains Indigenous people in Minneapolis, tribes cite treaty violations

January 14, 2026 Gary Wilson
Federal immigration agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have seized at least five Indigenous people during raids in Minneapolis in early January, triggering furious denunciations from tribal governments who say the arrests violate binding […]
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Labor and strikes

NYC nurses in historic strike: From ‘heroes’ to ‘disposable’ in the eyes of hospital profiteers

January 13, 2026 Sharon Black
New York, Jan. 13 — Do you remember when New York City nurses were heroes? When they showed up every day at the height of the pandemic, risking their lives to save thousands from a […]
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Around the world

The siege of Iran: Giuliani boasts that sanctions are ‘working’

January 13, 2026 Gary Wilson
On Jan. 11, at a high-priced gala in a carpeted ballroom, Rudy Giuliani let the mask slip. Speaking to a group of well-funded exiles, the former New York mayor and longtime fixer for the powerful […]