January 2026 – Page 5 – Struggle

‘We will get ICE out of Minnesota’: Community, unions mobilize for Jan. 23

January 17, 2026 Melinda Butterfield

Imagine federal agents are besieging your neighborhood. Gas canisters and explosives are popping off all around. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have just shot someone nearby. You pile your children, including your six-month-old baby, […]

Children’s rights vs. cells

January 17, 2026 Berta Joubert-Ceci

The contradictions in this colony are immense. Not only do the people face the imperial power of the United States, but they are also held hostage by the internal squabbles of a local administration that […]

Derechos de niños vs. células

January 17, 2026 Berta Joubert-Ceci

Las contradicciones en esta colonia son inmensas. No solo el pueblo se enfrenta al poder imperial gringo, sino que está secuestrado por las peleas internas de una administración local que ganó las elecciones con menos […]

Kalaallit Nunaat (aka Greenland) vs. Trumpland: the fight for sovereignty in the geopolitical Arctic

January 17, 2026 Sharon Black

“Finance capital in general strives to seize the largest possible amount of land of all kinds in all places, and by every means, taking into account potential sources of raw materials and fearing to be […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]