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Upper middle income country, what?
Ordinary Filipinos raised their eyebrows upon hearing the announcement that the Philippines has been classified as an upper middle income country. According to the World Bank, the rating was based on the country’s gross national income (GNI). An upper middle income country has to reach GNI per capita of between $4,496 and $13,935. In 2024, the Philippines GNI per capita stood at $4,470. What does this really mean? Economists describe GNI as encompassing the total income earned by a nation’s people and businesses, including earnings from foreign investments and economic aid. In other words, GNI does not measure poverty. If at all, it is an indication of the worsening inequality in the Philippines.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/07/03/upper-middle-income-country-what/

Let’s Rise Up, Fight, and Win Against Imperialism and Its War Machine NATO! — Joint Statement (DKP/Birlik, DKP/BÖG, MKP, MLKP, TKEP/L, TKP-ML)
NATO is the counter-revolutionary war machine of the imperialist capitalist order. It was an enemy of the people yesterday, and it continues to play the same role today. NATO is the center of terrorism in the camp led by US imperialism. It continues to turn the Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and Europe into a bloodbath in line with the interests of imperialist monopolies. It wages genocidal wars against resistance centers in every corner of the world. The genocidal war waged by Zionist Israel in Palestine/Gaza and Lebanon since October 7, 2023, is fueled by NATO. All NATO components, including Turkey, are accomplices in the genocide perpetrated by Israel. The Turkish bourgeoisie, under the helm of the AKP-MHP, has also become complicit in the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon through its trade with Israel. To wage a revolutionary struggle against NATO means to wage a struggle against the presence of imperialism in Turkey, Kurdistan, and the Middle East.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/34772/

J. V. Stalin: Marxism and the National Question III. PRESENTATION OF THE QUESTION
A nation has the right freely to determine its own destiny. It has the right to arrange its life as it sees fit, without, Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Federal audit finds Puerto Rico awaiting billions of dollars nearly a decade after deadly hurricane
As of December 2025, nine large FEMA-funded projects were completed, most of them related to generation; 133 projects remain at different stages. The agency also has obligated about $1.3 billion to 24 critical generation projects, seven of which have been completed. The report noted that repair work often means planned outages and finding replacement parts can take up to two years. Of the $2.9 billion allotted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to modernize and repair the grid, only about $589 million had been disbursed as of February.
https://apnews.com/article/gao-audit-puerto-rico-hurricane-federal-funds-grid-83134b2000052d9f539f5e8875c2b339

‘Everyone dies of cancer’: the Puerto Rican island poisoned by the US navy
From the 1940s until 2001, the US navy practised bombing and shelling techniques in Vieques, expanding its control to more than 70% of the island. Ever since then, thousands of bombs and smaller explosive devices remain scattered across the island’s east side and in the surrounding waters, leaving about a third of the island off-limits to its own residents.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/01/cancer-island-us-navy-vieques-puerto-rico

Bipartisan coalition of state AGs take on tech over age verification
In an amicus brief filed to the Supreme Court last week, the coalition argued for the legality of Texas’ App Store Accountability Act, which would require app stores and developers to verify the age of their users and obtain parental consent for any purchases by minors.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/04/bipartisan-coalition-of-state-ags-take-on-tech-over-age-verification-00986548
https://archive.ph/Np6Os

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Victims of Communism?
Putting aside whether the recent DSA electoral wins pose an existential threat to the capitalist class, the underlying fear has a material basis. As the billionaire class, and now, grotesquely, the trillionaire class, reap record profits, the quality of life in the heart of global capitalism and imperialism appears to be in rapid decline. Among the top leading causes of death for young people in the United States are drug overdoses, death by suicide, and gun deaths. Life expectancy has cratered across the board. For American Indian people, the decline in life expectancy is particularly acute, falling in recent years from an already abysmal of 71 years down to 65—with South Dakota reporting a median age of death for American Indian people of death at a staggering 58 years. Despite more than a million COVID deaths in the United States, the drop in life expectancy is caused by more than the pandemic; it includes massive inequalities and social and economic factors.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/03/victims-of-communism/

Why Does Andy Burnham Have so Little to Say on Foreign Policy?
In these listless days of Keir Starmer’s premiership, we’re all gasping for a crumb of real news. Ministers of state are being asked to weigh in on whether kids should be allowed to stay up for the England match this weekend, while the rest of the Parliamentary Labour Party is trying to hover around Andy Burnham’s eyeline in case he gives them a job. Labour, taking a breather after many months of public screeching, has decided to take its dirty laundry indoors. The selection of James Purnell as chief of staff last week gave us all something to chew over: but until we learn who gets the chancellor brief (Ed Miliband? Yvette Cooper? A secret third thing?) we’re all trying to patch together a sense of the next prime minister’s domestic agenda through set-piece speeches and unofficial briefings. The MP for Makerfield has been running a tightly controlled operation. He hasn’t taken many questions from the scrum at recent public appearances, preferring instead to sit down on his own terms with Andrew Marr on LBC, post TikToks with varying levels of seriousness, and answer questions on Reddit later this afternoon. It’s a fine balance between not appearing to hide and not tankPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Is Kamala Harris trying to win back Democrat voters with a pro-Palestine approach?
Other than Mamdani, Harris has reportedly met with one member of the Uncommitted National Movement, the protest group founded by Layla Elabed and Abbas Alawieh, which urged the United States government to impose an arms embargo on Israel and call for a ceasefire during Israel's genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
https://www.newarab.com/news/harris-trying-win-back-voters-pro-palestine-approach

Pope Serving as ‘Chinese Communist Agent’ by Criticizing AI, Says Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel
According to a Thursday report from CNN, Thiel told the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on Tuesday that the pope was inadvertently serving as a “Chinese communist agent” when he released a 42,000-word encyclical that called for strict regulation of AI, a technology that the pontiff said heightens the “risk of dehumanization” throughout the world.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/peter-thiel-pope-ai

'Stretched to the limit': Heat wave prompts US electrical grid emergency
PJM supplies power to about 65 million customers in Washington, D.C., and in all or parts of 13 states, including Delaware, Michigan, Maryland, Kentucky, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Wright's emergency declaration, which went into effect at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday and will run through 11:59 p.m. on Friday, also directs PJM to conserve energy by curtailing power to data centers that have backup generators and other non-emergency facilities that use a lot of electricity.
https://abcnews.com/US/stretched-limit-heat-wave-prompts-us-electrical-grid/story?id=134369230

A California farmer is giving away tons of nectarines that he’s not allowed to sell
Since 2023, the third-generation farmer in the agricultural community of Reedley in California’s Central Valley has been fighting a lawsuit filed against him by Giumarra Brothers Fruit Co. The suit centPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Communist Party of Ireland on the Irish Presidency of the EU: "There is simply not a better or more peaceful EU to be won"
As the Irish government assumes the Presidency of the European Union from July our people will continue to be bombarded by over-exaggerated claims about the democratic nature of the EU and the extent of the Irish government influence on decisions, selling us the myth that we are at the heart of the EU power structures. This is simply untrue. The Irish government follows orders as a willing servant of the EU. It has intentionally abandoned all serious levers of national economic sovereignty and national political independence. Since the adoption of the Nice and Lisbon treaties, militarism has been baked into the structure of the EU. Economic and social policies favour big business and attack workers rights. These treaties cemented the “primacy of the market” over national social and economic policies. For example, the restrictions on state-led housing strategy and ensuring both housing and healthcare favours global financial institutions and mega-corporations.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/07/communist-party-of-ireland-on-irish-presidency-of-eu.html

When the Personal Is Political — and When It Isn’t
This commitment to linking the subjective and the structural has shaped feminist theory and practice for decades. Feminists have often combined structural analyses of oppression with an interest in ethical conduct, personal experience, and self-transformation. Political emancipation has been understood not only as a collective project but also as a personal one. Feminism, in this sense, has never been concerned solely with changing the world. It has also been concerned with changing the self. Today, however, this relationship between ethics and politics has become increasingly complicated. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has transformed not only economies and states but also the ways individuals understand themselves and their responsibilities. As many critics have observed, neoliberalism encourages us to see ourselves as autonomous, responsible subjects whose successes and failures are largely products of our own choices. Social problems are increasingly interpreted as matters of individual responsibility rPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Hind Rajab Foundation calls on top prosecutor to investigate Ben Gvir ahead of NYC visit
The groups are also urging James to meet with what they say are local victims of Ben Gvir, including one Palestinian American subjected to starvation and torture in Israeli prison, as well as 10 participants in the 2025 and 2026 Global Sumud Flotillas who were subjected to abuse directly by Ben Gvir.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hind-rajab-foundation-calls-top-prosecutor-investigate-ben-gvir-ahead-new-york-visit

Trump administration says the ICC has no jurisdiction over Americans
The U.S. ​Department of ‌Justice on Thursday said ​it had ​told the International ⁠Criminal Court ​in a ​letter that the United States ​would not ​cooperate with any ‌ICC ⁠investigations and that it rejected the ​view ​that ⁠the court had ​any ​jurisdiction ⁠over Americans.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-says-icc-has-no-jurisdiction-over-americans-2026-07-02/

Trump puts allies on notice: AI power comes first
For the White House, it's now about how partners can help the U.S. win the AI race. For decades, shared values and security interests have underpinned alliances with Europe and other partners around the world. Under Trump, that's no longer enough. As AI becomes central to economic and military power, frontier AI models, chips and infrastructure are turning into new instruments of American influence.
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/02/trump-allies-ai-power
https://archive.ph/xlqTm

ICE arrests 10,000 in 5 days, a sharp late-June surge in Trump’s deportation push
The arrest numbers, obtained from a person familiar with the information who spoke anonymously to discuss data that has not been publicly released, comes after the agency shifted its approach from high-profile arrest sweeps in major American cities to Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

International Anti-NATO Summit to be held in Istanbul
The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) has designated 4-12 July as Anti-NATO Summit in response to the NATO Summit taking place in Ankara within the same week. As part of the week’s activities, the party will organize marches and public events in several cities across the country, while also hosting an international summit in İstanbul.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/07/international-anti-nato-summit-to-be-held-in-istanbul.html

For Millions of Impoverished Americans, an Unhappy National Birthday
Many years ago, I worked at a motel as a groundskeeper. A woman—I’ll call her Anna—lived there with her children. One of her friends would sometimes come to look after the kids when she had to work or run errands. They had several cats who spent most of their time living in the family’s car since the owner would not allow the felines to stay in the room. Both the people and the cats lived there for months. Anna was one of thousands of Americans who live in motels. Poor credit histories, high rents, and prohibitively steep upfront costs, such as security deposits, compel many to find alternative long-term lodging that at least has some basic amenities: a kitchenette (or just a microwave) and a shower. Although weekly rates are higher than renting even modestly priced apartments, there is often little choice. The rooms can be cramped, and they are sometimes run down. Safety can be a concern, and privacy is virtually impossible. Yet, people go to work, send their children to school, and make these places temporary homes. Out of an approximate 755,000 unhoused people in the United States, there are no reliable estimates for the number who live in motels. I have passed by the one in the picture above (I didn’t work at this particular motel) many times; it’s in the neighborhood where I now live, and it sometimes makes me think of Anna and her family. Her kids would be adults by now, yet another generation calls such places home.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/01/for-millions-of-impoverished-americans-an-unhappy-national-birthday/
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Democratic socialist Melat Kiros poised to become the first Gen Z woman in Congress
The win in the solidly blue district that makes up most of Denver means that Kiros, a 29-year-old Ph.D. student and lawyer, is all but likely headed to Washington, D.C., next year. She would replace DeGette, 68, who has held office since 1997, the same year Kiros was born.
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/01/nx-s1-5876122/colorado-primary-election-melat-kiros-democratic-socialist

Democratic congressman asks the CFPB to investigate ‘rent now, pay later’ companies
Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Florida, sent a letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Acting Director Russell Vought urging the bureau to investigate rent now, pay later companies and hold them accountable for potential violations of federal consumer financial protection laws. In the letter, obtained by The Associated Press, Frost also asked the bureau to explain what it is doing to protect renters and whether landlords are steering tenants toward rent-financing products.
https://apnews.com/article/maxwell-frost-cfpb-rent-bilt-housing-3c87c2441a3167f04ccb9734b74e7eb9

Watchdog Warns of Trump Plot to Push Alito, Thomas Off Supreme Court While GOP Still Controls Senate
A progressive legal action group is warning that it pointed to something potentially very real: That President Donald Trump could try to push aging right-wing justices like 76-year-old Alito, as well as 78-year-old Justice Clarence Thomas, to retire early so he can replace them with young judges who can cement a right-wing majority for decades.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-force-justices-retirement

New Orleans residents on warning to abandon sinking city: ‘Nobody wants to leave home’
Relocating a city of the size of New Orleans is unheard of in the US, which has no national strategy for the growing number of people displaced by crumbling coastlines and extreme weather. Even much smalPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

India’s Cockroach Janta Party: a lightning rod for Gen Z rage
“Those in power think citizens are cockroaches and parasites. They should know that cockroaches breed in rotten places. That’s what India is today.” These are the words of Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) – the ‘Cockroach People’s Party’, a play on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), the ‘Indian People’s Party’. In just a few days, the party garnered over 22 million followers on Instagram, 220,000 followers on X, signed up one million members, and has the ruling BJP government terrified. What started as a satirical online joke has become a lightning rod for the profound anger and indignation of India’s youth that is terrifying our rotten ruling class.
https://marxist.com/india-s-cockroach-janata-party-a-lightning-rod-for-gen-z-rage.htm

Left must not give Burnham a blank cheque
Burnham himself is a blank piece of paper onto which everyone in Labour projects what they most want to see. He was firmly in the New Labour mainstream during the Blair-Brown governments, lurched to the right during his own leadership bid in 2015 but then reinvented himself as an interventionist mayor in Manchester, within the considerable limitations of the post. In recent weeks, as he was seeking election in Makerfield, he articulated a range of positions – on standing up to the bond market, on electoral reform, on justice for the Waspi women – only to walk them back almost immediately. Given that Keir Starmer was partially undone by his endless U-turns, this is hardly reassuring, given that Burnham has not even been subjected to the full-force pressure of vested interest that will be brought to bear on him in Downing Street.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/left-must-not-give-burnham-blank-cheque

Pride: From Stonewall to Social Revolution
Every June, politicians, corporations and state institutions wrap themselves in rainbow colours and speak of diversity and inclusion. Yet the history of Pride did not begin in boardrooms or parliament. It began in resistance. The Stonewall upPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

22 Democrats Join GOP to Block Lebanon War Powers Resolution, Enabling Netanyahu’s Sabotage of US-Iran Ceasefire
Despite top House Democrats, including Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY) and Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gregory Meeks (NY), giving rhetorical backing to the resolution this time around, The Intercept reported that they did not formally whip the vote.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lebanon-war-powers-vote

Supreme Court spurns Trump on birthright citizenship, allows transgender sports bans
The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a painful defeat on Tuesday by rejecting his move to restrict birthright citizenship on the final day of its momentous term, while also letting states ban transgender student athletes from women's sports teams and striking down more ​campaign finance limits.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/supreme-court-spurns-trump-birthright-citizenship-allows-transgender-sports-bans-2026-06-30/

US threatens to cut funds for Kansas school district over transgender policies
The U.S. government said on Tuesday it will bring enforcement action against the Kansas ​City Public School District in Kansas over its ‌transgender policies that could include judicial proceedings and loss of federal funding. In a statement, the Education Department alleged that the school ​district's policy not to disclose a student's transgender status ​even to parents violated the Family Educational Rights ⁠and Privacy Act.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-threatens-cut-funds-kansas-school-district-over-transgender-policies-2026-06-30/

AIPAC, Big Tech Back Diana DeGette Over Melat Kiros With $2M Spending Flood
The June 30 primary in the Denver area has drawn national attention in the wake of Tuesday’s sweeping set of wins by democratic socialists in New York. Kiros has run as a critic of unchecked AIPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

(TrueAnon)Episode 558: Zone Time
We’re joined by Natasha Dow Schüll to talk about GAMBLING, MONEY, The Machine Zone, the Ludic Loop, and MORE.
https://www.patreon.com/TrueAnonPod/posts/episode-558-zone-162397774


Josip Broz Tito: Concerning the National Question and Social Patriotism
What are the phenomena of nationalism? Here are some of them: 1) National egoism, from which many other negative traits of nationalism are derived, as for example — a desire for foreign conquest, a desire to oppress other nations, a desire to impose economic exploitation upon other nations, and so on; 2) national-chauvinism which is also a source of many other negative traits of nationalism, as for example national hatred, the disparagement of other nations, the disparagement of their history, culture, and scientific activities and scientific achievements, and so on, the glorification of developments in their own history that were negative and which from our Marxist point of view are considered negative. And what are these negative things? Wars of conquest are negative, the subjugation and oppression of other nations is negative, economic exploitation is negative, colonial enslavement is negative, and so on. All these things are accounted negative by Marxism and condemned. All these phenomena of the past can, it is true, be explained, but from our point of view they can never be justified. In a socialist society such phenomena must and will disappear. In the old Yugoslavia national oppression by the great-Serb capitalist clique meant strengthening the economic exploitation of the oppressed peoples. This is the inevitable fate of all who suffer from national oppression. In the new, socialist Yugoslavia the existing equality of rights for all nationalities has made it impossible for one national group to impose economic exploitation upon another. That is because hegemony of one national group over another no longer exists in this country. ….
https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1948/11/26.htm


Earthquakes in Venezuela Show Consequences of State Neglect, Social Inequality, and Imperialism
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Petro maintains leadership role on Colombia’s left
The two leaders met at the Casa de Nariño in response to the loss of the elections to the far-right candidate, which led to fighting among the leftist coalition that formed around the Historic Pact party to support Cepeda’s candidacy.Gustavo Petro and Senator Ivan Cepeda will jointly lead the political opposition to President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, they announced after a meeting at the presidential palace. In a post on social media platform X, Cepeda said that Petro “is our supreme leader and the architect of the first progressive government.”
https://colombiareports.com/petro-maintains-leadership-role-on-colombias-left/

Colombian Forces Destroy 81 Illegal Mining Operations in the Choco Department
The Army stated that the action directly impacts the illicit economies of the Clan del Golfo, also known as the Gaitanista Army of Colombia (EGC), considered the largest criminal organization in the country. According to military intelligence, the Clan del Golfo obtains part of its income from illegal mining in the Colombian Pacific region, in addition to drug trafficking, extortion, and armed territorial control.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombian-forces-destroy-81-illegal-mining-operations-in-the-choco-department/

El Salvador's Bukele seeks party nod for third term after constitutional change
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has registered to seek his party's nomination for the 2027 ​presidential election, pursuing a third term after allies in ‌Congress changed the constitution to allow indefinite re-election, the head of the ruling Nuevas Ideas party said on Sunday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvadors-bukele-seeks-party-nod-third-term-after-constitutional-change-2026-06-29/

Collapsed hospitals and morgues raise health fears in Venezuela's earthquake zone
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Peace Abroad, War Next Door: Pakistani Airstrikes Devastate Afghan Civilians
In the village of Mana, located in Afghanistan’s Khost province, close to the Pakistani border, men who normally pass their days farming instead spent the morning of June 10 digging fresh graves for their murdered relatives and neighbors. The night before, shortly after midnight, Pakistani drones and fighter jets flattened the neighboring homes of two brothers, Siraj and Babri. Nine members of a single family were killed, most of them women and children. The two brothers’ homes stood beside one another in Mana. Neighbors worked through the night dragging the dead and the wounded out of the debris. Across the two households, ten more people were wounded, several of them in critical condition. The survivors were rushed first to a small district hospital, before being transferred to the largest provincial hospital in Khost. A doctor at the hospital, who asked not to be named because medical staff have been warned against speaking to journalists, told Drop Site that 11 bodies were brought in after the strike, including women, children, and men—every one of them a civilian. Among the wounded survivors were three children.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/peace-abroad-war-next-door-pakistani

Trotsky, 1905 and the Permanent Revolution
The theory of the ‘permanent revolution’, developed by Leon Trotsky in the 20th century, remains one of the most important and misunderstood ideas in all of Marxism. In this article, Joe Attard delves into the origins of Trotsky’s ideas, and how they were shaped by the events of the 1905 Revolution in Russia. The Russian Revolution of 1905 went off like a bombshell, blowing apart all scepticism about the fighting potential of the Russian masses toiling under the heel of tsarist absolutism. While the workers were ultimately crushed after a year of open combat with tsarism, they laid the foundations for even greater battles to come. Leon Trotsky was virtually alone in understanding the real significance of 1905, which catalysed ideas he had already been developing into his greatest theoretical contribution: the permanent revolution. There is a dialectical relationship between individuals, ideas and events. Lev Davidovich Bronstein (the birthname of ‘Leon Trotsky’) enPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Donald Trump nominates ex-state trooper Lance Schroyer as ICE director
United States President Donald Trump has nominated a former Oklahoma state trooper to serve as the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), one of the primary agencies charged with carrying out his mass deportation campaign. On Saturday, Trump revealed Lance Schroyer as his pick, praising his 29 years of law enforcement experience, as well as his service as a US Marine.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/27/donald-trump-nominates-lance-schroyer-to-serve-as-ice-director
https://archive.ph/HBjMJ

Appeals court rejects Trump EPA bid to abandon rule restricting deadly soot pollution
The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel is a setback for the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda and its repeated efforts to boost coal, a reliable but polluting energy source. The decision by the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit leaves intact, for now, a tighter standard set in 2024 on pollution from coal-fired power plants, factories and other industrial sources.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/27/trump-epa-court-ruling-soot-pollution

Trump administration asks US Supreme Court to endorse immigration detention policy
The administration made that request in a filing, made public on Friday, asking the Supreme Court to overturn a May decision by a federal appeals court, which had rejected its ​reinterpretation of a decades-old immigration law that now underlies its mass detention policy.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-administration-asks-us-supreme-court-endorse-immigration-detention-policy-2026-06-26/

Leon Black accused of stonewalling Congress as Epstein hearing ends abruptly
Speaking to reporters outside the room, Comer said that “the Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

10 years after the Brexit vote: where next for Britain and Europe?
The aftershocks of this political earthquake are still being felt today. British capitalism bears the scars of losing free access to the market of its biggest trading partner. Government ministers are talking about a ‘reset’ between the UK and Europe. Careerists like Wes Streeting, meanwhile, have gone even further, calling for Britain to rejoin the European Union (EU). On the other side, Reform UK – formerly known as the Brexit Party – is currently riding high in the polls. And its leader, the prominent Leave campaigner Nigel Farage, is eyeing up a residency in Number 10. A decade on from the EU referendum, therefore, it is clear that the subject of Europe still haunts British politics. This raises a number of pertinent questions. How did Brexit come about in the first place? What attitude should communists have towards ‘the European project’? And what is the perspectiv
https://marxist.com/10-years-after-the-brexit-vote-where-next-for-britain-and-europe.htm

Elections in Colombia Signal Another Victory for the Right in Latin America
Abelardo de la Espriella appears poised to become Colombia’s next president. At the time of writing, he maintains a narrow lead over Iván Cepeda, a member of outgoing president Gustavo Petro’s Pacto Histórico (Historical Pact) party. De la Espriella, a far-right millionaire, is the latest candidate in a recent wave of Trump allies in Latin America to make significant electoral gains. With nearly all ballots counted in one of the most hotly contested elections in the country’s history, de la Espriella has won 49.6 percent of the vote compared to Cepeda’s 48.6 percent. Just 250,830 votes currently separate the two candidates, according to this preliminary tally, and 1.6 percent of Colombians cast a blank ballot. Both President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have already congratulated de la Espriella. However, the final, official outcome may differ. Indeed, in the 2022 election, Pacto Histórico gained half a million votes compared to the preliminary count. In this sense, U.S. imperialism is clearly trying to put its finger on the scale, prematurely calling the election for its ally before the outcome has been finalized. NonethelePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US supreme court blocks thousands of lawsuits over Roundup maker’s pesticide warning labels
The ruling “should help significantly contain the Roundup litigation after nearly a decade of legal battles”, Bayer wrote in its statement. “The ruling should result in the dismissal of current warning-based claims and bar future failure-to-warn claims.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/25/monsanto-supreme-court-pesticide-case

Congress Urged to Reject Trump’s $88 Billion Request for Iran War
In a letter sent to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought said that most of the requested funding “will address urgent needs related to Operation Epic Fury (OEF), in addition to other critical needs such as responding to the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa and supporting hardworking American farmers.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-war-supplemental-funding

Supreme Court clears way for Trump administration to revive restrictive policy for asylum seekers
The justices, in a 6-3 decision, overturned a lower court order blocking the practice that limited the number of people who could apply for asylum each day, first under the Obama administration and then expanded during President Donald Trump’s first term.
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-immigration-trump-d36d0092617c7115780c06de38e2000f

DHS watchdog to review ICE detainee deaths, use of force
The new reviews follow an increase in deaths among migrants in ICE detention, including the death of a detainee at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, this year that was ruled a homicide and is under investigation by the FBI, according to DHS.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/dhs-watchdog-announces-new-ice-reviews-rcna351729
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“Starmer is the symptom, not the disease”, says the Communist Party of Britain
"Keir Starmer is a symptom of Britain’s political crisis, not its cause. His successor must realise that unless Labour ditches Starmer’s toxic cocktail of austerity, economic insecurity and war, the next political crisis will bring a far-right government to power. Starmer’s resignation less than two years after a general election in which Labour won a parliamentary majority of 174 seats, confirms the failure of his authoritarian New Labour tribute act, and the increasing instability of Britain’s ruling class.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/06/starmer-is-symptom-not-disease-says-communist-party-of-britain.html

Tudeh Party of Iran, "War Profiteers" and the Need to Achieve a Lasting Peace!
…. In the midst of these clashes, after the Islamic Republic’s retaliatory attacks on US bases in the region, Trump threatened to attack Iran much harder and seize Iran’s oil resources, including Kharg Island. Trump’s outrageous remarks exposed the aggressive nature of US imperialism to the judgment of world public opinion even more than before. However, after the world expressed concern and condemned Trump’s position, and considering the adverse consequences that the long-term closure of the Strait of Hormuz would have had for the world economy, including the United States itself, Trump, claiming that the leaders of the Islamic Republic had been in contact with him and were serious about peace, announced that the principles of a general agreement or understanding with the Islamic Republic to end the war had been finalized and that an agreement or memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the two countries would be signed soon. The events of recent months have shown once again that the Islamic Republic is facing a series of internal and external challenges, each of which alone can endanger the stability of the ruling political system. However, what today, along with the external threat, seriously challenges the ruling regime is the internal situation of the country. Iran's economy is going through one of the most difficult periods. Chronic inflation, devaluation of the national currency, increase in poverty and unemployment, and the spread of social inequaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
After a three-week trial, a jury found eight of nine protesters guilty of “providing material support to terrorists”, among other crimes. For the Sotos, this “material support” included owning a “printing press” used to print anarchist zines and being part of a leftist book club, the federal government argued. The couple had already left the scene by the time guns were drawn. All eight of the defendants sentenced so far have received unusually harsh sentences – 30 to 100 years – essentially life in prison.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/24/prairieland-texas-ice-protests-zines

Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Tucker Carlson in ditching the GOP
"Tucker is not the only one who is done supporting the Republican Party," Taylor Greene wrote in a post on X Monday. "There is A LOT of us that are absolutely fed up and will not support a party that betrays its voters and country. That does not mean we are turning into Democrats either."
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/23/marjorie-taylor-greene-joins-tucker-carlson-in-ditching-the-gop

Judge bars immigration arrests at US courthouses in a setback for Trump
The Trump administration’s reversal of long-standing policy against arrests at immigration court resulted “not from merely unreasoned decision-making but a complete lack of decision-making,” wrote U.S. District Judge Casey Pitts of San Francisco. Authorities failed to address the “chilling effect” of arrests on whether people attend court hearings.
https://apnews.com/article/judge-rules-against-immigration-courthouse-arrests-e99e8e3a27647a716917217cc1c207ab

Millions lose food stamps under Trump cuts. Arizona is hardest hit
Nowhere have the changes to America’s second-largest social safety-net program taken hold as rapidly as in Arizona, whePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tensions Escalate Between Resistance Groups in Mandalay Region
Four members of the People’s Defense Force (PDF), the NUG’s armed wing, were killed and several others injured by PLA land mines while inspecting camps abandoned by withdrawing PLA forces, according to locals and the PDF group. The intergroup dispute stemmed from the PLA’s arrest of an alleged junta informant within an NUG-controlled rural area of Taungtha Township.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/tensions-escalate-between-resistance-groups-in-mandalay-region.html

Gig Companies Are Using Your Data to See How Low a Wage You’ll Accept
Ride-hailing companies have long used algorithms to determine how much to pay drivers for a trip – and tech vendors in the US are now exporting that model to other sectors, according to a Washington Center for Equitable Growth report from last year. According to the report, platforms like Uber and Lyft track users’ personal data – like how often they find work through the app and for what wage – to find workers who will accept the bare minimum without the protections that come with fixed-term contracts.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/22/gig-companies-are-using-your-data-to-see-how-low-a-wage-youll-accept/

Sri Lanka: Thousands of farmers protest over rising costs and low rice prices
Farmers are demanding a guaranteed minimum price of 140 rupees ($US 0.44) per kilogram of paddy, reductions in the prices of fertiliser and agrochemicals, and a subsidised fuel quota.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/24/spbc-j24.html

ASEAN and Russian leaders meet in Kazan amid global energy crisis
The summit took place as the G7 met simultaneously in Évian, France. The two gatherings—one pledging to tighten the sanctions strangling Russia, the other deepening cooperation with Moscow—capture in a single week the accelerating fracture of the postwar capitalist order.
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Starmer resigns – but a whirlwind is being prepared
Andy Burnham’s victory over Reform in last week’s Makerfield by-election has started an avalanche in British politics, giving Keir Starmer the final push needed for him to resign as Labour leader and prime minister. The scale of Burnham’s win put him in a very strong position personally. With the wind in his sails, The Man Who Beat Reform is now marching south to Westminster to seize the crown. Last Friday, following the Makerfield result, Starmer was still signalling his intention to battle on. But the pressure over the weekend was too great. With the threat of mass resignations from his cabinet, the PM was forced to announce his imminent departure from Downing Street this morning. Those hoping for a smooth transition are likely to get their way. Rather than a bloody leadership contest, a simple ‘coronation’ seems to be on the cards, with potential challengers like Wes Streeting stepping aside. Burnham could be moving into Number 10 as early as next month. But far from calming matters, this changing of the guard is only going to light the fuse on a new, even more explosive period, as the crisis of British capitalism intensifies.
https://communist.red/starmer-resigns-but-a-whirlwind-is-being-prepared/

Bolivia: Union Leaders’ Agreements with Paz Are a Betrayal of the Movement
Just when Rodrigo Paz most needed to show that he is regaining political initiative, he has received a lifeline from the union leaderships of Huanuni and Colquiri. While every day and at every roadblock, votes are cast to strengthen and advance the unity of the mobilized sectors and expand the mobilizations against the Paz Government, from above, a different direction has begun to take hold. The COB (Bolivian Workers Federation) effectively abandoned its demand for Paz’s resignation, nullified the prospect of an effective general strike, and opened negotiations with the Paz government. Now, the union leaderships in Huanuni and Colquiri are taking another step in that same direction. These negotiations have only helped Paz and improved his position. Meanwhile, COB leader Mario Argollo is left hanging, without the support of the peasantry, who accuse him of being a traitor, and without the support of his own working-class base, whose unions hPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

USPS worker twice exposed to acid at Arizona mega-facility
Jeffrey Holliday, a 60-year-old Chandler, Arizona resident, quit his job in April after his second exposure to the hazardous chemical, which spilled from packages broken open by the Matrix East/West Sorter (MEWS)—a multi-platform behemoth that processes 50,000 packages per hour and spans nearly three football fields.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/22/oqqg-j22.html

Alan Greenspan, longtime head of the US federal reserve, dies aged 100
He was widely credited with presiding over a period of growth and prosperity in the US while helming the Fed under three Republicans and a Democrat, gaining bipartisan political support in the process. But the country’s housing market collapsed shortly after he left office, ushering in a devastating financial crisis that plunged the national economy into the worst recession since the 1930s and the Great Depression – and prompting a re-evaluation of his legacy.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/22/alan-greenspan-dies-aged-100

Senate passes a bipartisan housing bill aimed at increasing supply and lowering prices
It would offer funding to local governments that build more housing, including Community Development Block Grant money to places exceeding the median rate of homebuilding. It would also provide new dollars for communities to turn abandoned infrastructure into housing, and offers a framework for communities that want to reform outdated zoning regulations, which often limit larger housing developments. The legislation would allow banks to invest more in affordable housing and raise limits on the number of public housing units that can receive private financing through Section 8 funding to rehabilitate properties. And it would remove outdated requirements and expand federal financing to make manufactured homes more affordable.
https://apnews.com/article/congress-road-to-housing-act-senate-21209cb780b76fe9a22881833c2dd535

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France’s Left Can't Abandon Workers to the Far Right Interview with Danièle Obono
In less than a year’s time, France will head to the polls to elect a new president. Two of the dominant figures in French politics over the past decade will not be on the ballot. President Emmanuel Macron is constitutionally barred from seeking a third consecutive term, while Marine Le Pen, leader of the Rassemblement National (RN; formerly Front National), has been barred from running following her embezzlement conviction. In her place, the RN’s thirty-year-old Party resident, Jordan Bardella, is leading polling in both the first and second rounds. The French left, however, remains divided. The relative success of the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) — an electoral alliance bringing together much of the Left, in 2024, which emerged as the largest bloc in the National Assembly — has given way to growing tensions between its constituent parties, most notably Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Insoumise (LFI) and the Parti Socialiste (PS). In an interview, Thomas Glasman met with Danièle Obono, a France Insoumise parliamentarian for Paris and one of the party’s most prominent anti-racist and internationalist voices, who has served in the National Assembly since 2017. They discussed the fragmentation of the French left, the rise of racialized politics, and how to confront an increasingly powerful far right.
https://jacobin.com/2026/06/interview-france-insoumise-rassemblement-national

The Left Voted Tactically in Makerfield – and the Right Should Take Note
Nobody expected the scale of Andy Burnham’s victory in the Makerfield byelection this morning – including many of those around him. A week ago I was told that canvassing returns were looking strong for Labour in the Greater Manchester seat, giving the party as much as 50% of the vote. While I was certain Burnham could win – particularly after speaking to voters here – I still found that figure hard to believe. In the end Burnham won 55% of the vote, beating Reform UK’s Robert Kenyon by more than 9,000 votes. On the BBC shortly after the result, Mike Tapp, a prominent figure on the Labour right, was trying to play down the result, saying Burnham would have to call a general election in the event of becoming prime minister and deviating frPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

DOJ memo stokes fear among disability advocates of a return to institutionalization
Without the federal government requiring that states provide these services – to help disabled people integrate into their communities – advocates and legal experts warn that cash-strapped states could cut them and return to what was once common practice: de facto segregation of Americans with disabilities in nursing homes and large institutions.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/20/nx-s1-5865100/doj-memo-trump-disability-civil-rights-institutionalization

US appeals court blocks Trump admin from enacting new plans to slash consumer watchdog staff
A federal appeals court on Friday blocked the Trump administration's plans to immediately slash the workforce at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection ​Bureau by about two-thirds, delivering a setback to the White House's protracted ‌efforts to shrink the consumer watchdog.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-appeals-court-blocks-trump-admin-enacting-new-plans-slash-consumer-watchdog-2026-06-19/

Mamdani won New York opposing Israel. Now, his movement wants power in Congress.
Goldman, a former prosecutor who helped lead the first investigation and impeachment trial against President Donald Trump, and Lander, who cross-endorsed Mamdani when they were both seeking the mayoral nomination, are both Jews who call themselves “liberal Zionists.” … Further uptown, Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D), the influential Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair, is facing a similar line of criticism from Darializa Avila Chevalier, a doctoral student who participated in pro-Palestine encampment at Columbia University and who has slammed the congressman for taking money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/20/nyc-congressional-primaries-will-test-mamdani-aipac-influence/
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When the Iran War is Over: Why the West Bank May Be Netanyahu’s Next Front
Unable to deliver ‘victory’, Netanyahu turned perpetual war into a political strategy in its own right. The result has been a genocidal war in Gaza, widespread devastation in Lebanon, and a dangerous confrontation with Iran that has repeatedly brought the region to the brink of a wider catastrophe. For a time, this formula proved politically sustainable. Netanyahu successfully enlisted unwavering US support to keep the fires of war burning. At the same time, the failure of Europe and much of the international community to hold a wanted war criminal accountable provided him with the political space necessary to continue his bloody calculations. Yet that formula may be nearing its limits. While this possibility may appear encouraging, it comes with a serious warning. If Netanyahu can no longer sustain the wars that have prolonged his political life for nearly three years, he may escalate where resistance is weakest: the occupied West Bank. Regarding Iran, there is growing recognition that the current confrontation is unsustainable indefinitely and that some form of arrangement will eventually emerge. Likewise, regardless of whether Lebanon is formally included in any future agreement, Israel’s ambition of permanently occupying parts of Lebanese territory remains untenable.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/19/when-the-iran-war-is-over-why-the-west-bank-may-be-netanyahus-next-front/

Philadelphia Ward 22 Democratic Organizing Meeting Controversy, Fraud Accusation & Scuffle Outside
On the evening of Monday, June 8, across the city, Democratic Party ward organization meetings convened to select ward leaders from among committee people, who were just elected in a May 19 primary. The “open wards” movement flipped several wards around the city, but in a controversial meeting, Ward 22 leadership refused to allow a person-by-person vote. In the heated meeting, Cindy Bass, the previous term’s ward leader and city council member, quickly held a voice vote, declared herself once again the chair, and closed the meeting within a few minutes, a recording obtained by Unicorn Riot showed. People spilled out of the Germantown Seventh-Day Adventist Church on ClPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

U.S. intelligence warns Israel is likely to undermine Iran peace deal, officials say
Israel appears intent on maintaining military operations against Iran’s proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon, an aim that would flout a core element of the fledgling agreement that calls for an end to hostilities in that country, according to intelligence reports, including one circulated this week, said the officials.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/06/19/us-intelligence-warns-israel-is-likely-undermine-iran-peace-deal-officials-say/
https://archive.ph/XVWBK

Maine Democrats pick progressive Dunlap in key House race after Golden exit
Maine Democrats nominated state auditor Matthew Dunlap to run in the state's 2nd Congressional District, a closely watched race that could ​help decide control of the U.S. House of Representatives ‌in November, U.S. media projected on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/maine-democrats-pick-progressive-dunlap-key-house-race-after-golden-exit-2026-06-19/

A city’s push for facial recognition on public buses ignites debate over security and privacy
Supporters and opponents alike view the effort as a major litmus test for tapping the AI-powered software on a U.S. public transportation system, positioning Kansas City as the latest epicenter of a fierce debate over whether the safety benefits of artificial intelligence are worth the privacy costs. “The idea of running face recognition on a camera that is pointed on live spaces in public is a line that until recently has never really been crossed in the last 25 years,” said Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst for the Project on Speech, Privacy and Technology at the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Colombia in the Eye of “El Tigre”
On Monday, June 8, I received terrible news from my friend Rosa, a youth activist and the founder of three community gardens in the impoverished neighborhoods of northern Bogotá. Thugs had destroyed one of their spaces, the Pollinators’ Garden in Suba. Emboldened angry men with machetes, shovels, and axes chopped down tomate de árbol and avocado trees, multiplying banana fronds and fruit, lavender, rue, kale, oregano, basil, and many other vegetables and herbs. I wept when I saw photos of the dry brown earth where once I had walked with her and her friends through the overflowing, tangled green. “They weren’t afraid of anything,” said Rosa (whose name has been changed for anonymity). “They did it in broad daylight.” I commiserated. “It’s as if their guy has already won,” she added. Colombia’s second round of elections this Sunday will steer the country into one world or another: a feast of hatred, exclusion, violence, or a continuation of an imperfect progressive experiment. After the first round, on May 31, Senator Iván Cepeda of the leftist Pacto Histórico had 9.64 million votes, and lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella, a newcomer to politics with neofascist aesthetics, unexpectedly pulled ahead, with 10.31 million votes. The candidate in third place, Paloma Valencia, a traditional conservative originally favored by former right-wing President Álvaro Uribe, was eliminated.
https://jacobin.com/2026/06/colombia-election-cepeda-abriella-trump

Resignation letter of top Party for Socialism and Liberation cadre Walter Smolarek
I have been a member of this organization for 17 years, more than half of my life. When I first joined, I used to sneak out of my parents' house to attend Party meetings and had to open a P.O. box to receive Party literature. I spent years building Party branches in various cities — Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Asheville, Baltimore, Louisville, Lexington and elsewhere. I was elected to the Central Committee three times, and before that was an observer present at every CC meeting for seven years. I worked for over four years on the Loud & Clear podcast alongside Brian Becker, then later on The Socialist Program. When the National Communications Department was established in 2022, I was made its director, and I havePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Republicans blast Trump's Iran agreement as details emerge
U.S. President Donald Trump's interim deal to end the Iran war met scorching public criticism from some of his fellow Republicans as copies of the signed agreement circulated on Capitol Hill on Thursday. One Republican senator called the framework pact announced this week the "worst foreign ​policy blunder in decades," another said some reported provisions seemed "ill-advised," and some pro-Republican commentators also broke with Trump over the agreement.
https://www.reuters.com/world/republicans-blast-trumps-iran-agreement-details-emerge-2026-06-18/

Teamsters federal monitorship ending after 37 years
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has been subject to oversight since 1989, when it signed a consent decree aimed at eliminating the mob's influence in the union. "Being the general president of the Teamsters, if I even think it, they want to indict me over it," Teamsters president Sean O'Brien joked on his podcast in early 2025 about the union's lingering image.
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/17/teamsters-sean-o-brien-federal-oversight
https://archive.ph/1AYfR

Democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George to be next mayor of Washington DC
Democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George is slated to be the next mayor of Washington DC after her opponent conceded on Thursday. Lewis George, a city council member, ran on a platform of expanding childcare, education and housing, and revoking the district’s cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/18/janeese-lewis-george-dc-mayor

Susan Collins Ads Brag About $190 Million for Rural Hospitals. It’s a Band-Aid on the Gaping Wound She Helped Inflict
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Tudeh Party welcomes U.S.-Iran agreement, warns against "merchants of war"
The Iranian communist party argues that the country remains trapped in a state of political uncertainty despite the reported framework agreement. According to the article, Iran today finds itself "neither at war nor at peace," facing a complex combination of external threats and deep internal crises. The Tudeh Party strongly condemns the recent military aggression carried out by Israel and the United States against Iran, highlighting the devastating consequences of attacks on civilian infrastructure and warning of the dangers posed by continued imperialist intervention in the region. The article points to the bombing of civilian facilities and the threat of a broader regional conflict as evidence of the aggressive nature of U.S. policy. At the same time, the party stresses that the gravest challenges facing Iran stem from domestic conditions. Rising inflation, unemployment, poverty, social inequality and the continued erosion of living standards have placed enormous burdens on millions of workers and ordinary people. The article notes that growing labor, pensioners' and social protests demonstrate the persistence of widespread dissatisfaction with the country's economic and political situation.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/06/tudeh-party-welcomes-us-iran-agreement-warns-against-merchants-of-war.html

The Far Right Is Fueling Racist Violence in Belfast, with State Complicity
Belfast still bears the scars of the decades-long civil and religious conflict known as The Troubles. Walking a single block, you can pass from a Republican neighborhood with tricolor flags and murals supporting Palestine and a 32-county Irish Republic, into a unionist neighborhood where Union Jacks abound and pro-monarchist slogans and images of the king are common. In the latter neighborhood, you can even find the occasional mural supporting the Israeli Defense Forces. And no wonder. Belfast’s history in the 20th century is marked by repeated attacks by unionist groups on Republican (mostly Catholic) neighborhoods, burning their homes and businesses — often with the complicity of the local police and the British army, which at the time occupied all of Northern Ireland undPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Federal prosecutors charge 15 people with impeding agents during Minnesota immigration crackdown
Federal prosecutors have charged 15 people with impeding the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, accusing them of conspiring against the federal government through a range of actions intended to block arrests and deportations. During a news conference Tuesday, Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen said the defendants “violently opposed the enforcement of federal law” by setting up blockades around government buildings, throwing chunks of ice at federal vehicles and “stalking” agents as they moved through Minneapolis.
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-trump-ice-98e30301d67d3a368efbd8fafa72bf17

Pro-Zionist organization files discrimination charges against National Education Assocation
In April, the pro-Zionist Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) last April against the National Education Association (NEA), claiming the teachers’ union created a “hostile environment” for Jewish and Israeli members, particularly at a July 2025 Representative Assembly in Portland, Oregon.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/16/arxr-j16.html

In Senate Race, Michigan’s El-Sayed Hammers Message on Medicare for All
El-Sayed made the case for the program—supported by more than 100 members of the Democratic caucus in Congress as well as 78% of Democratic voters—in a video he posted on social media Monday, asking Michigan voters to imagine being diagnosed with cancer—only to realize they’ll have to drive three hours to get the nearest cancer center, like many residents who don’t live near one of Michigan’s two nationally designated, comprehensive cancer treatment facilities.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/medicare-for-all-abdul-el-sayed

Trump-backed Collins beats Kemp’s pick to take on Ossoff for Georgia Senate
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Errico Malatesta: Let’s Demolish — and then?
I say that to abolish the gendarmerie, and baleful social institutions of whatever kind, we need to know what we want to replace them with — not in a more or less distant future but now, the very same day the demolition work begins. You cannot really destroy, and permanently, without having what we put in its place. To postpone to a later date the solution to the urgent problems that arise would be to give a breathing space to those same institutions that we want to abolish, to recover from tie received blow and to re-impose themselves once more, perhaps under other names but certainly the same in essence. Our solutions will be accepted by a sufficiently large section of the population and we shall have created anarchy, or at least made a step towards it. Or it may be that they will not have been understood and accepted and in that case our work will serve as propaganda, and will be placed before the general public as the program for the near future. But in any case, we must have our solutions: provisional solutions, no doubt; ones that can be revised and modified in the light of experience, but necessary if we do not wish to endure passively the solutions of others, limiting ourselves to the hardly useful role of grumblers who are both incapable and impotent.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1926/lets-demolish.html

Statement of the European Communist Action on the 2026 G7 Summit, which is dangerous for the interests of the people
The main leaders of the Euro-Atlantic capitalist bloc will meet at the G7 Summit, to be held in Évian, France, from 15 to 17 June 2026, to update capitalist arrangements regarding energy, which is highly costly for the peoples, the so-called security and anti-people governance. The 2026 G7 summit will take place in the context of efforts to halt the consolidation of the capitalist bloc led by China, thanks to its capitalist development, which, in alliance with Russia, is challenging the United States for the status of leading economic power. The European Communist Action condemns the anti-worker and anti-popular orientation and policies of the bourgeois governments of the G7, NATO and the European Union which, amidst the growing contradictions and tensions between major capitalist Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

AOC's hot streak on endorsements divides the left
While Sanders has endorsed dozens of progressive candidates up and down ballots across the country this year, Ocasio-Cortez has been more choosy.
Some on the left say she's being overly cautious, and reluctant to support progressives who are taking on her Democratic colleagues in the House.
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/14/aoc-endorsements-democrats-winning
https://archive.ph/ZKI1u

No Crocs or baby onesies - the draconian Delaney Hall dress code ICE uses to deem toddlers ‘too provocative’
In one such visit, a guard nearly rejected them because of Soto’s 11-month-old’s onesie, she said. On another occasion, she told the Guardian, Delaney Hall rejected them because Gabriela’s four-year-old daughter was iuyghings. When Gabriela would ask why their clothes weren’t allowed, guards said they were too “provocative”, she said. “How is that provocative if she’s only four years old?” said Gabriela, referring to her daughter.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/15/new-jersey-delaney-hall-immigration-visitor-dress-code

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says Trump’s Justice Department is investigating him and his wife
A person familiar with the matter denied the existence of an investigation specifically targeting the governor, but said there are multiple federal probes into people around him, including one related to his wife’s taxes. That probe began last year, and political leadership in Washington was not involved in the decision to open it, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss ongoing investigations.
https://apnews.com/article/newsom-trump-justice-department-a9e5bd1f8c2906c23bd68f3e5b6b3f2f

ICE agent shoots at vehicle after being struck by car, officials in New Jersey say
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Elon Musk: What kind of system produces a trillionaire?
"If a man tells you he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'" The old remark by Don Marquis has never been more relevant. Elon Musk has officially become the world's first trillionaire. Predictably, the newspapers, television networks and business magazines are treating it as a historic achievement. A monument to innovation. A triumph of genius. Proof that capitalism rewards talent. But a trillion dollars is not a measure of talent. It is rather a measure of power. No human being creates a trillion dollars. No human being earns a trillion dollars. A trillion dollars represents the labor of countless workers — miners, engineers, technicians, drivers, factory workers, programmers, cleaners, warehouse employees — whose collective work is transformed into private wealth. The billionaire appears at the end of the process and claims the credit. The defenders of capitalism want us to marvel at the size of Musk's fortune. We ask a simpler question: Who produced it? Not Musk alone. Not even remotely.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/06/elon-musk-what-kind-of-system-produces-a-trillionaire.html

Mamdani and the ABCs of Marxist State Theory
More than four months have passed since Zohran Mamdani, a young activist from the Democratic Socialists of America, rose to the position of mayor of one of the wealthiest and most important cities in the world. His electoral victory over the Democratic Party establishment candidate, Andrew Cuomo, was viewed sympathetically by many and seen as an expression of a leftward shift among a generation that led the university campus occupations in solidarity with Palestine and has been radicalizing since the rise of Bernie Sanders. His campaign centered on “affordability,” with proposals including free public transportation, taxes on billionaires, and anti-repression demands, such as the dissolution of the police’s most violent units. For these reasons, his candidacy was widely perceived as a challenge to the U.S. political and social order. Yet, as soon as the task of administering the state apparatus took hold of both the candidate and the organization, they made a series of concessions to economic and political power. These concessions sparked intense debaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

A woman’s hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide
Daphy Michel, 31, died March 2. She was found at a bus shelter in Pittsburgh. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office found her cause of death to be hypothermia and ruled the manner a homicide, “indicating the death was caused by the actions of another individual” and should not be interpreted as a declaration of criminal guilt, the office said in a statement. The office released its findings Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/haiti-woman-homicide-ice-e31e7109eba053b41f6b0319640df042

Cruz breaks with Trump on key endorsements as 2028 looms
Cruz this week announced he was backing Rick Jackson for Georgia governor and Alan Wilson in South Carolina's race for governor. Jackson, a wealthy health care executive, faces Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in Georgia's June 16 runoff. Wilson, South Carolina's attorney general, is up against Trump-endorsed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette in a runoff taking place on June 23.
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/13/ted-cruz-trump-endorsements-2028
https://archive.ph/ZdgZ6

Blaze at 1m-sq-ft California warehouse rages into third day: ‘We’re struggling’
The fire has been raging at the medical supplier Medline Industries’ warehouse in Tracy, a city of more than 100,000 residents located about 55 miles (90km) east of San Francisco. Officials expect to be battling the fire for a few more days.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/13/california-warehouse-fire-tracy

Some people are making guns with 3D printers. A new law seeks to cancel their print jobs
A New York law signed last month and a bill in the California Legislature both would direct panels of experts to come up with standards for firearm blueprint detection algorithms. The technology would analyze every design submitted for 3D printing, compare it to a digital library of fPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The Issue of Israel Is Ending Democracy In Michigan
Slowly at first, and now all at once, Michigan has turned into the central battleground in the country’s war over the U.S. relationship with Israel—and the American public’s ability to debate it freely. Campuses across the country erupted in protest in 2024 against U.S. complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide, with crackdowns of various intensity rolling up encampments, disciplining students, and, in some cases, filing significant charges. Michigan’s law enforcement moved perhaps the most aggressively. When a local prosecutor in Ann Arbor declined to press felony charges on a group of protest organizers, state Attorney General Dana Nessel moved to take matters into her own hands. Now that those charges have been met with acquittals and dismissals, the federal government is stepping in to target them with felonies, announcing a sweeping indictment filed Wednesday against eight pro-Palestinian advocates.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/university-michigan-palestine-protests-federal-indictments-nessel-sayed

Back Andy Burnham in Makerfield
The Green Party has much less support in Makerfield and has, sensibly, chosen to run a more-or-less paper campaign. And this time Burnham is the Labour candidate, the Prime Minister now lacking the authority to impose any more vetoes. There is no need to be starry-eyed about Burnham’s politics. He has been a chameleon over his career and there is less to his much-touted “Manchesterism” than meets the eye. We hold no illusions as to how he might govern as premier. However, he is clearly the only candidate in Makerfield who can beat Reform, according to every poll. And he has made it clear that, once back in the Commons, he will seek to bring Starmer’s miserable leadership to an end. He is thus both the anti-Farage and anti-Starmer candidate all in one. His campaign appears to be stressing his local credentials and popularity at the expense of his Labour affiliation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/back-andy-burnham-makerfield

Camila Azeñas Uzquiano of the Communist Party of Bolivia: Analysis of thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US justice department approves $111bn merger of Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery
The deal was approved by the justice department’s anti-trust division after months of review, and despite the concerns of many people in the entertainment and media industries who believe it will hurt competition by reducing the number of film studios and – most likely – merging two news networks, Paramount’s CBS News and CNN.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/12/paramount-warner-bros-merger

Hispanic Caucus spending "heavily" to save its chair
The race in New York's 13th District, which covers parts of Upper Manhattan and the West Bronx, has attracted huge independent expenditures from outside groups and national media attention. Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.), who chairs the CHC's BOLD PAC, told Axios in a brief Capitol Hill interview Wednesday that the group is "heavily invested" in helping Espaillat secure reelection.
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/11/espaillat-darializa-chevalier-new-york-hispanic
https://archive.ph/WCn3H

Pentagon reviews are blocking wind farms, putting jobs at risk, lawsuit says
The lawsuit against the Pentagon and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was filed in U.S. District Court in Oregon by nine groups, including Renewable Northwest and the Advanced Power Alliance. They allege that a policy of inaction “poses an existential threat to the wind energy industry across the nation by effectively halting all new development activity.”
https://apnews.com/article/wind-energy-climate-trump-lawsuit-1b00b93fdc7351e20f063a1f2f4a43b1

Trump officials cut federal funds to LA homeless services agency
In its letter, Hud alleged that Lahsa had violated federal conflict-of-interest rules, misused government funds by paying for empty hotel rooms and failed to provide documentation verifying housing sites it oversaw. Lahsa said in a statement:Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

CP of Ireland, Statement from the Communist Party of Ireland on the Racist violence in Belfast
The recent knife attack in Belfast has shocked communities across Ireland. Our thoughts are with the victim and their family, and those responsible must face the full consequences of the law. However, what followed has been deeply disturbing. Organised loyalist elements and far-right agitators have sought to exploit this incident to spread fear and division. Homes have been attacked, businesses targeted, vehicles burned, and migrant families subjected to intimidation and violence. Reports that lists containing the names and addresses of migrant families are being circulated are particularly alarming. Whatever differences may exist regarding migration policy, there can be no justification for the targeting of families, the circulation of personal details, or threats against individuals and communities. Such actions represent an assault on basic democratic rights and have no place in a civilised society.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Ireland-Statement-from-the-Communist-Party-of-Ireland-on-the-Racist-violence-in-Belfast/

Responds to Jacobin’s Hit Piece on Chris Smalls
Jacobin magazine, the principal publication associated with the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), released a hit piece earlier this week on Amazon labor leader Chris Smalls. Brother Smalls was one of the main leaders of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), which won the first-ever union in an Amazon warehouse in the United States, at the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island, in 2022. Smalls has also been a prominent activist fighting against the genocide in Gaza and in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Jacobin’s article is a hatchet job against a leading labor activist who has refused to toe the line of the DSA and the business unionist labor leaders. They have turned on Smalls as they will turn on anyone who gets in the way of their efforts to give cover to the so-called progressive Democrats and to the Democratic Party as a whole, which they do despite endless betrayals by Democrats against working people. The crux of the real reason why Jacobin went after Smalls is contained in this sentence: “[Smalls] blames the two-Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

US House blocks extension of powerful surveillance law
Failure to reauthorize the spy tool does not mean the surveillance program itself will go dark. The Fisa court issued a year-long certification authorizing section 702 collection through approximately March 2027, and the statute contains a provision allowing collection to continue under that order even if the law lapses.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/11/us-house-fisa-surveillance-law

‘Bureaucratic Temper Tantrum’: Trump White House Pilloried Over Reported Effort to Deport Iran War Critic Trita Parsi
Failure to reauthorize the spy tool does not mean the surveillance program itself will go dark. The Fisa court issued a year-long certification authorizing section 702 collection through approximately March 2027, and the statute contains a provision allowing collection to continue under that order even if the law lapses.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trita-parsi-targeted-trump

Key Trump economic win disappears: Wage gains wiped out
A year's worth of inflation-adjusted wage gains vanished in just four months, leaving workers little better off than when President Trump returned to office. The reversal shows how the recent energy-driven inflation surge is eating into household purchasing power. Real pay for rank-and-file workers is up just 0.1% since Trump took office in January 2025.
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/11/trump-inflation-wages-economy
https://archive.ph/kkeGT

Florida immigration arrests have quietly surged, with state and local agencies at the forefront
The surge in Florida immigration arrests during Trump’s second term has largely flown under the public’s radar, as many start as run-of-the-mill police traffic stops, the public seems more supportive of the initiative, and participating state and local agencies are roundly rejecting requests for arrest records and body camera video at the behest of the DepaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Germany Is Staging Its Own Palestine Action ‘Show Trial’
Germany is prosecuting five activists alleged to be part of Palestine Action Germany in what their lawyers have described as a “show trial” intended to stigmatise protesters “as [if they were] terrorists” and which legal experts argue shows a “deeply concerning development” in how the state is targeting political protest. The so-called Ulm 5, who are from the UK, Germany, Spain and Ireland, are currently on trial at a high-security court at Stammheim prison in Stuttgart following a break-in at offices of the Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems in Ulm, southwestern Germany, in September 2025. The defendants face charges of trespassing, property damage and using the symbols of a proscribed organisation. They have also been charged with belonging to a criminal organisation under Section 129 of the German Criminal Code – a controversial piece of legislation human rights lawyers say is being used to “blur the line between organised crime and the legitimate exercise of people’s freedom of assembly and expression” such that the case will “have a chilling effect on others who are considering engaging in political protest”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/09/germany-is-staging-its-own-palestine-action-show-trial/

Factory Occupation at Fiat – An excerpt from “March 1973. Red Flags at Mirafiori”
“The moment the struggle becomes your own, it’s a moment of proletarian celebration, where everyone manages to find their own identity; they’re no longer cogs in a machine, they’re a series of minds coordinating and directing themselves and others. Otherwise, what would be the point of occupying a factory?“ We translated this text by Chicco Galmozzi, originally published by Machina. You can watch a longer interview with Chicco Galmozzi here:[https://www.labournet.tv/en/videos/Chicco]. He was a worker and activist with Lotta Continua. In 1974, he participated in the founding of the Communist Committees for Workers’ Power linked to the newspaper “Senza Tregua”, and in 1976 he was among the founders of Prima linea. Arrested in May 1977, he earned his high school diploma and college degree during his twelve years in prison. TPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US military chief Hegseth warns Cuba against acquiring military arms
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has warned that Cuba could invite confrontation with the United States if it seeks to bolster its military capabilities with new purchases. Wednesday’s comments come as US President Donald Trump continues to threaten possible military intervention on the Caribbean island.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/10/us-military-chief-hegseth-warns-cuba-against-acquiring-military-arms
https://archive.ph/shcaK

US railroad CSX plans to reduce human track inspections following government waiver
This technology, used in conjunction with human visual inspections, can be used to greatly increase railway safety and reduce derailments, which currently occur at a rate of roughly three times a day in the United States. Instead, they are being used to cut jobs on behalf of profit. Not all track defects are detectable by ATI. A CSX track inspector told the World Socialist Web Site: “The automated systems can only inspect the track they run on, and due to logistical reasons, dispatchers route these trains down the same tracks every time. My territory has passenger traffic, and two additional tracks that the automated systems will never run across.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/10/eplx-j10.html

After a Democrat standoff, Trump signs $70bn immigration enforcement bill
United States President Donald Trump has signed into law a $70bn funding bill for immigration enforcement, capping a months-long standoff with Democrats after the killing of two US citizens. The legislation signed into law on Wednesday provides funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) for at least the remainder of Trump’s term.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/10/after-a-democrat-standoff-trump-signs-70bn-immigration-enforcement-bill
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‘Flamingo Revolution’ erupts against Albanian establishment
For the last nine days, thousands of Albanians have marched through the streets of the country’s capital, Tirana, after the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama handed development rights over Sazan island and the protected coastal area of Zvërnec to foreign capital. Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, claim to have ‘discovered’ Sazan. Kushner’s private equity firm, Affinity Partners, plans to invest $1.6 billion to redevelop the areas into a resort for the rich. But Sazan and Zvërnec have long been a point of pride for Albanians. The development of Zvërnec, where the Trump-Kushners plan to build their luxury resort complex, would bulldoze a nature reserve home to many endangered and protected species – among them flamingos, which have since come to symbolise the resistance to the project itself. Although Zvërnec remains uninhabited, many locals own or work on the land. As work began last week, locals woke up to find the area surrounded by barbed wire and private security guards, forbidding them from setting foot onto the land.
https://marxist.com/albania-flamingo-revolution-erupts-against-albanian-establishment.htm

Financial Speculators See Big Opportunities in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico’s recent tourism boom is often presented as a story of recovery from a two-decade-long economic and fiscal crisis. Accordingly, after years marked by austerity, hurricanes, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the archipelago has reemerged as a desirable destination. Luxury hotels, gated communities, and large-scale tourism developments are expanding, reshaping coastal towns such as Cabo Rojo, Dorado, and Fajardo through projects like Esencia and Moncayo. Public agencies and industry actors, including Discover Puerto Rico, consistently frame tourism as a cornerstone of economic renewal. The image is familiar across the Caribbean: paradisiacal beaches paired with the promise of being open for business. This narrative obscures a deeper reconfiguration of tourism policy in Puerto Rico in ways that extend beyond attracting visitors into a financial and speculative investment sector. At stake is a shift in how development itself is structured, one in which tax incentives and credits tied to tourism increasingPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US stadium and hotel workers threaten strikes ‘to make things fair’ during World Cup
In Los Angeles, California, cashiers, dishwashers, cooks, bartenders, concessions workers and food attendants at the SoFi stadium reached a tentative agreement on Tuesday afternoon, but the union noted it had a contractual right to walk off the job if it determines that federal immigration enforcement is threatening worker safety during the World Cup. The US’s opening match, against Paraguay, is scheduled to take place at SoFi Stadium – rebranded as the Los Angeles Stadium for the tournament – on 12 June.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/09/stadium-hotel-workers-strike-world-cup

White House, Hill relaunch effort to block state AI laws
The last time the Trump administration tried to preempt the states, Republicans were inundated with pushback from advocacy groups and state lawmakers across the country. Blackburn's support, which the White House did not previously have, would be key for passage. The Obernolte-Trahan bill was also met with pushback from groups saying states should be free to regulate.
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/08/white-house-hill-relaunch-effort-block-state-ai-laws

Progressive Nithya Raman advances to November runoff against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass
Raman made a last-minute entry into the race, after she had endorsed Bass for reelection. She was elected to the council with the support of the Democratic Socialists of America, and the election will test whether voters in the heavily Democratic city want to move further to the political left to address long-running problems of homelessness, buckled streets and sidewalks and climbing rent and home prices.
https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-mayor-2026-election-e0ef2b83cd8f94556d1c532227bb49dd

Dems threaten to withhold DCCC dues over California faceplant
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is facing behind-thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

History is Calling us: Let’s Follow Kaypakkaya’s Path! — TKP-ML/MKP
History, within its own cycle, has vindicated Comrade Leader; before long, workers and peasants flocked to the revolutionary struggle in droves. This was what could not be seen in the pitch-black darkness of March 12, and Comrade Leader İbrahim Kaypakkaya has slammed this reality in the face of every form of liquidationism. Today, however, the historical cycle has created a new dilemma. Either a free world will be created through the power of necessity to create the new; or, swept into the vortex of reformism, pacifism, and every current that rejects the revolutionary option, we will become mere pillars of this decaying, obsolete order of the past. This is precisely the dilemma being imposed on the international communist movement and the international proletariat today. The pillars of the imperialist capitalist system have eroded. The imperialist capitalist system is floundering in a crisis vortex. The widening and deepening of the rift between imperialist blocs has intensified the struggle for dominance over market areas and trade routes. Shrinking markets and losses of hegemony are pushing the imperialist bloc led by the U.S. and Britain into a more aggressive and belligerent stance against China and Russia. At this stage, the doors to a new imperialist war of partition are being forced wide open. Conflicts and wars have become widespread, particularly in the Middle East and Africa, in line with imperialist competition. Precisely for this reason, a comprehensive campaign of liquidation has been launched against the communist and resistance movements engaged in armed struggle, aimed at preventing the oppressed peoples of the world from turning to the revolutionary option in the face of this crisis. The concept of annihilation and destruction has been put into action through various means.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/33607/

Sovintern and WAP: False Anti-Imperialism in Red Disguise
In Moscow, the so-called new international socialist network, Sovintern, has been launched under the leadership of the Russian capital's own “left patriots.” The initiative is presented with grand rhetoric about socialism, anti-imperialism, anti-colonial struggle, and international solidarity. Yet behind the red symbols, a different reaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Fourth death in 2 years at Palmetto, Georgia, USPS facility: Demarcus Little dies after reporting feeling unwell
Postal worker Demarcus Little collapsed and died at the Palmetto Regional Processing and Distribution Center (RPDC) in Georgia Wednesday night, according to local media reports. According to a coworker’s account reported by CBS News Atlanta, Little told a supervisor he was not feeling well and was dizzy, then collapsed shortly afterward.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/06/dkwc-j06.html

‘Every day the policy changes’: chaos and confusion for Filipino workers over US immigration rules
Jay is one of thousands of Filipinos in vital care-giving roles in America whose lives have become more precarious under the Trump administration’s chaotic crackdown on immigration, forcing some into more vulnerable working conditions. It is an experience he has already lived. Together with his colleague Lei*, Jay was employed in a residential aged care home where he was made to work months without a single day off. Lei slept underneath the stairs; Jay in a storage room.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/08/filipino-workers-us-trump-immigration-rules

ICE facility in Louisiana reports its second detainee death in less than 2 months
Mamuka Artmeladze, a 43-year-old from the country of Georgia, was found unresponsive June 4 at Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana, ICE announced in a press release Sunday. ICE said staff began lifesaving measures before he was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, where a doctor pronounced him dead less than an hour later.
https://apnews.com/article/ice-detainee-death-winn-a1ab66753aa4a1effdff0b7abef2240f

The spectacular collapse of a case against ICE protesters: ‘It’s not justice, but it is a win’
The final nail for the prosecution came during a 21 May hearing just days before trial, when the US district judge April M Perry sharply criticized federal prosecutors over misconductPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Capital Wants Us Dead: Rage Against the Democide Machine - Jeff Shantz
For two years we have been confronted with the genocide of Palestinians by the Israeli state (and its imperialist supporters)—documented hourly in the most horrific detail. We see our disabled, unhoused, and sick neighbors being actively killed through murderous policies and state actions, police gunning people down in the streets, migrants murdered by border regimes. Yet, the movements in North America continue to be fixed repetitiously in a futile politics of moral appeal, condemnation, symbolic action, or shaming those who have no shame. This is a politics of submission unto death. It holds nothing of fight for survival that being confronted by an active murderous threat calls for—indeed demands. We see instances of capitalist democide all around us in the so-called liberal democracies. Street sweeps and decampments of unhoused people, the removal of social supports for disabled people and their replacement by assisted death programs, criminalization of drug users and the dismantling of harm reduction and safe consumption spaces and resources that keep people alive, the rounding up of migrants and their imprisonment in “detention centers” where people are disappeared into death, the enclosure of Indigenous territories by and for extractives industries (that also kill the land that sustains life). All of these are active programs of murder by capital and its states. The aims and intention are death. This is democide—the killing off of “domestic” populations by the states that occupy and control the territory on which the targeted populations live. This can take many forms, from active mass murder by government to withholding of necessities or neglect such that civilians are killed. It can be genocidal.
Deaths in these cases are not externalities or collateral damage or unfortunate byproducts, or unintended outcomes of these policies and practices. They are the intended and, it must be said, desired outcomes for states driven by a capitalist class that no longer has willingness to see any profit lost to maintain elements of the working class it deems unnecessary for production or consumption and/or which is physically getting in the way of circulation or production. Death is the point.
https://libcom.org/articlPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Dems help GOP kill Tlaib's Lebanon war powers measure
It's a blow to the anti-war left just one day after the House passed a similar measure constraining Trump's ability to wage war in Iran. Wednesday's Iran vote was the result of months of behind-the-scenes efforts by Democratic leadership to get the party's most staunchly pro-Israel lawmakers on board, along with a handful of Republicans. But Thursday's vote reveals that there are still deep divisions between progressive and centrist Democrats on Middle East policy despite their unity on Iran.
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/04/lebanon-war-powers-rashida-tlaib-democrats-vote
https://archive.ph/J3HcD

Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Holding Billions in Food Aid Funds ‘Hostage to Its Political Agenda’
The attorneys general of the District of Columbia and 20 Democrat-led states sued the department and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins in March, arguing that “USDA has now thrown unconstitutional and unlawful roadblocks between the programs created by Congress and the states that rely on them, threatening critical nutrition support, vital agricultural research, and the safety of our national food chain and communities.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-snap

Suit filed against controversial planned Stratos datacenter project in Utah
Filed by the Alliance for a Better Utah and five unnamed residents of the Box Elder county area where the center is being developed, the lawsuit comes as Shark Tank co-host O’Leary agreed to scale back the physical footprint for the project.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/06/stratos-datacenter-utah-suit

Federal inspector reports chokehold, pen stabbing at ICE facility
At the Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana, investigators found multiple use-of-force incidents that "did not fully comply" with standards, according to a report from the Homeland Security Office of the InspectPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

California Primaries: Cracks in the Democratic Coalition and Promising Results for Socialists
Midterm primary elections rarely receive much attention. But in a year when control of the congress hangs in the balance, California’s primaries have raised a lot of eyebrows. As one of the few states with open run-off primaries — where only the top two winners, regardless of party, are allowed to advance to the general election — its elections have become a barometer for national politics. And if Tuesday’s results are any indication of the sentiment of the rest of the electorate, the Democrats could be in trouble come November. Though the party establishment seems to have fended off several challenges from both the Right and the Left, including a progressive challenge for Nancy Pelosi’s house seat in District 11, the results reveal that when given a choice, many voters are opting for candidates to the Left of the Democrats. In Los Angeles, in particular, progressive challengers performed well and candidates associated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) won several elections and will advance in many others.
https://www.leftvoice.org/california-primaries-cracks-in-the-democratic-coalition-and-promising-results-for-socialists/

How Secret Pro-Israel Money Flooded the Labour Party and Ended with a Ban of Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur
Piker and Uygur were not banned by the Labour Party—they were banned by the Labour Together party. The primary architect of the Labour Together project is Morgan McSweeney, who was, until recently, Starmer’s chief of staff and widely understood as the real force running the government. McSweeney resigned in February after it was revealed he had pushed Peter Mandelsohn as the UK’s ambassador to the U.S., despite knowing of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. I know McSweeney’s capacity for destroying free speech—and especially criticism of Israel—first-hand. I have been investigating the Labour Together Project since 2021, setting out my findings in my book, “The Fraud.” As a result, I was one of multiple journalists targeted by Labour Together. I was reported by Labour Together to the UK’s cybersecurity agency, in an apparent attempt to catalyze criminal investigations into me and my colleaguesPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Memo orders ICE to stop reporting deaths of newly released detainees
The move, first reported by the Washington Post, rescinds a 2021 policy implemented by the Biden administration that required ICE to report to Congress and investigate deaths of detainees that occur within 30 days of their release. The goal of the 2021 policy was to ensure that ICE could not avoid accountability for deaths by releasing severely ill people from custody. Detainees with brain damage or suffering from infection, for instance, have died shortly after ICE released them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/05/ice-deaths-data-memo

San Francisco’s Case Against Pro-Palestinian Activists Who Blocked Bridge Heads to Jury
The Tax Day demonstration was part of an international movement — activists also shut down traffic on Interstate-880 in Oakland, and staged similar protests in San Diego, Seattle, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Chicago and across Mexico, Vietnam and Australia. In her final statement, Assistant District Attorney Angela Roze quoted a person who was stuck on the Golden Gate Bridge that day: “We all have a right to protest, but I should have had a right to leave,” she said. “In this case, the defendants unilaterally decided to take that right away from everyone on the road.”
https://www.kqed.org/news/12086262/san-franciscos-case-against-pro-palestinian-activists-who-blocked-bridge-heads-to-jury

DOGE Wanted to Falsely List Millions of People as Dead in Social Security Database: Whistleblower
Schofield said a DOGE employee told him in a phone call that they wanted to add 2.7 million living people to SSA’s “Death Master File,” cutting them off from essential financial services so they would either leave the country voluntarily or show up to local SSA offices to complain, where they would be promptly arrested.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/social-security-doge-whistleblower

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Unions must act politically to defeat Reform
OPINION polling showing that trade union members increasingly support Reform over the Labour Party is alarming — but not surprising. A survey reported in The Times found that the two parties each had the support of around 28 per cent of trade unionists. And in the two major unions organising blue-collar industrial workers, Nigel Farage’s far-right outfit has a clear lead. Reform was preferred by 36 per cent of Unite members, as against 30 per cent for Labour, while among GMB members the corresponding figures were 31 per cent to 22 per cent. Unison members narrowly preferred Labour, but the dimensions of the problem are clear, even if the figures hardly justify Farage’s bombastic claim that “Labour is no longer the party of the patriotic working class. That mantle now belongs to Reform.” The party founded to advance trade union interests is now increasingly spurned by trade unionists themselves.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-must-act-politically-defeat-reform

Interview with Pakistani communist Adam Pal: “We are ready to fight this to the end”
Ehsan Ali, a leading member of the Inqalabi Communist Party (RCP) and Chairman of the Awami Action Committee (AAC) in Gilgit-Baltistan, was arrested on 10 March alongside other AAC leaders after discussing peaceful protests in the region. Lotta Angantyr, the British RCP’s national organiser, spoke with Adam Pal, leader of the Pakistani section of the Revolutionary Communist International (RCI), to find out more about the political situation in the country and the conditions that our comrades are facing in the struggle for socialism (see below). Since Ehsan Ali’s arrest, an international solidarity campaign to demand their release has been launched by the RCI, and is now supported by Genocide Watch and Amnesty International, as well as public figures like Jeremy Corbyn.
https://communist.red/interview-with-pakistani-communist-adam-pal-we-are-ready-to-fight-this-to-the-end/

The Hand-Me-Down Alliance: Australia, AUKUS and Op-Shop Submarines
One can never accuse the APost too long. Click here to view the full text.

House Dems Join GOP to Help Advance Deeper US-Israeli Military Integration
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) introduced an amendment to strike Section 224—which would establish a formal “United States–Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative”—from the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act. The proposed NDAA authorizes $1.15 trillion in baseline military spending, while the Trump administration’s full defense request seeks an unprecedented, debt-exploding $1.5 trillion in armed forces and related funding for the coming fiscal year.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ndaa-section-224

Consumer protection agency deletes thousands of pages as Trump administration seeks to dismantle it
The deletion of the bureau’s website content, which was first reported by Bloomberg, is just the most recent part of a larger plan to “undermine an agency that’s helped people”, said Adam Rust, director of financial services at the Consumer Federation of America, a non-profit consortium of consumer rights organizations.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/04/trump-administration-consumer-financial-protection-bureau

New Jersey police sergeant charged with stealing journalist’s camera bag at immigration protest
Darryl Brown, a sergeant in the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, was caught with the missing items after the photojournalist used a geo-tracking device to trace her missing gear to his home, the state’s attorney general said Thursday.
https://apnews.com/article/delaney-hall-new-jersey-immigration-fd0ff7bfbae8585bba35c7b88bfe9eb0

California and New York weaken climate rules as red states ramp up green energy
California on Friday scaled back its cap-and-invest program, offering more than $3bn in free pollution allowances to polluting companies. Earlier the same week, New York weakened its groundbreaking climate law, delaying a plan to regulate carbon from 2024 until 2028 and reducing emPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Philippines: Why The NPA In Negros Island Will Never Be Defeated
Once again, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has dusted off its worn-out script, loudly proclaiming to the public that the New People’s Army (NPA) in Negros has suffered an “irreversible collapse” and is “totally defeated.” Following the encounters in Toboso and Cauayan, the reactionary state is desperately trying to convince the public, and perhaps themselves, that the flame of the People’s War on the island has been extinguished, to appease their imperialist masters and its local toadies. However, these premature victory celebrations are nothing new. As Comrade Jose Maria Sison said, the reactionary state suffers from a chronic, incurable blindness: it mistakes a temporary twist in the road for the end of the journey. For over fifty years, the ruling class has repeatedly declared the revolution dead, only to find themselves continuously haunted by its presence. Their declarations of “victory” are mere illusions, completely contradicted by the material conditions in Negros. The fundamental error of the NTF-ELCAC’ analysis lies in their mechanical and bourgeois worldview. They foolishly believe that a revolutionary movement can be eradicated by targeting individual cadres or liquidating specific command structures.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/33381/

No Babies? Blame Capitalism.
No longer just a problem of the industrialized North, birth rates are declining for everyone, everywhere, all at once. In its panic about the implications of below-replacement fertility and its search for a culprit, the global commentariat has cast a wide net. In an April 2025 article in the conservative Catholic First Things Magazine, titled “Feminism Against Fertility,” Darel E. Paul blames the decline in Western fertility rates on young women who wish to remain childless because “they have more important priorities or simply like being single.” In a May 7, 2026, guest essay for the New York Times, the insightful Anna Louie Sussman blames the baby bust on widespread anxiety about an uncertain future. Soon after, a piece in the Financial Times cited a University of Cincinnati study to posit that the emergence of smartphones bears the largest responsibility for the recent decline in youth romantic connectionPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 federal workers
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday making it easier to fire 8,000 of ​some of the best-paid government workers, part of a broader effort to overhaul ‌the federal workforce. The order, released by the White House and the Office of Personnel Management, strips job protections from a mostly senior group of federal workers earning up ​to almost $200,000 a year and who are deemed to be "influencing" government policy.
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-signs-order-make-it-easier-fire-8000-federal-workers-2026-06-03/

US House passes war powers resolution to curb Trump’s authority in Iran
The vote’s impact is largely symbolic, as it is unclear whether the House version, which is a concurrent resolution and does not need to be signed by the president, carries the force of law, even if it also passes in the Senate. But it was a striking demonstration of the nascent willingness among a segment of Republicans to defy Trump, who has kept a vise-like grip on the party on Capitol Hill, through his willingness to exact retribution against dissenters.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/house-passes-war-power-resolution-trump-iran

Democrats fume about Lebanon vote
Tlaib's two-page measure would direct President Trump to "remove the United States Armed Forces from Lebanon" within 7 days of when the measure is passed. … Tlaib's office said in a press release: "The United States is assisting this destruction through the weapons, intelligence, logistics, and diplomatic cover it provides the Israeli government, and Congress has the power and duty to put an end to this illegal invasion."
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/03/lebanon-war-powers-house-democrats-tlaib-israel
https://archive.ph/M66g6

NYC to install traffic sensors to trackPost too long. Click here to view the full text.