In the U.S.

With the death of Marxist thinker and anti-imperialist advocate Michael Parenti, many on the left have been reflecting on his life. For anyone committed to the working class struggle, Michael Parenti represented a strong voice […]

Jan. 31 — Yesterday afternoon, thousands gathered at the George H. Fallon building in Baltimore to join nationwide protests calling for an end to ICE’s reign of terror. The building, which houses ICE’s field office […]

Media Autopsy is a series where I put a news article from another source under the microscope and discuss what it’s missing.It’s a way for me to talk about news coverage that got my goat, […]

The first week of January, Trump sent 2,000 ICE paramilitary agents into Minneapolis, targeting Somali neighborhoods, along with Hmong and Latine communities, and turning the city into a domestic war zone.  Minneapolis’ working-class communities responded […]

New York, Jan. 30 – It’s bitterly cold – the coldest night of the weeklong polar vortex gripping New York City. Despite this, an estimated 25,000 people joined a rally and march to demand that […]

Tens of thousands of workers, students, and community members walked off jobs and out of classrooms Jan. 30 in a coordinated National Shutdown demanding the removal of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from local communities. […]

The Department of Homeland Security is transforming immigration detention into an industrial logistics operation — warehouses, transport routes, and processing centers linked like a delivery network — that treats human beings as freight. ICE Director […]