Author: Gary Wilson

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New York nurses strike over patient care, demand hospitals bar ICE

January 22, 2026 Gary Wilson
Bronx, New York, Jan. 22 — Nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx walked off the job this week, shutting down routine operations as they pressed a demand that has not previously appeared in […]
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In the U.S.

Solidarity actions for Minneapolis general strike spread to 300 cities

January 22, 2026 Gary Wilson
Solidarity actions called for Jan. 23 in support of the Minneapolis general strike have spread rapidly across the United States, jumping from “dozens” of cities to at least 80 in just four days. The expansion […]
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In the U.S.

From Minneapolis to Texas: ICE means death, get ICE out

January 20, 2026 Gary Wilson
On Jan. 14, Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported that Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, had died in federal custody. He was pronounced dead at 4:09 p.m. at Camp East Montana, an immigration detention site in west […]
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In the U.S.

80 years without a general strike. Then ICE came to Minneapolis

January 19, 2026 Gary Wilson
For most of U.S. history, general strikes have been rare — not because workers lacked the will to fight, but because the ruling class moved quickly and violently whenever that power surfaced.  When workers across […]
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Labor and strikes

Kaiser nurses set to strike as health care giant profits from ICE detention camps

January 18, 2026 Gary Wilson
When 31,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and health care workers walk off the job on Jan. 26, they will be fighting for safe staffing at a nonprofit health system sitting on $66 billion in reserves — […]
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Indigenous peoples

From Minneapolis to Arizona, ICE targets Native peoples

January 18, 2026 Gary Wilson
Jan. 17 — Immigration and Customs Enforcement has escalated a nationwide campaign of racial profiling and arbitrary detention against Indigenous people, seizing members of federally recognized tribes in Minnesota, Arizona, and Oklahoma in what tribal […]
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In the U.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 […]
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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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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 […]
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Around the world

Economic warfare and the imperialist stranglehold on Iran

January 11, 2026 Gary Wilson
On the morning of Jan. 8, Zahra Mohammadi stood in line outside a bakery in southern Tehran for three hours. When she finally reached the counter, the price of flatbread had doubled since the day […]