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Women, capitalism, and the struggle against oppression – A Marxist critique of Silvia Federici
The communist movement has a proud legacy when it comes to fighting oppression, linking this struggle to the fight against class society itself. This is the tradition that International Working Women’s Day was based on, when it was first proposed in 1910. The Marxist position on oppression is often attacked, however. One of those who slams Marxism is Silvia Federici. This article deals with the main points raised by Federici about women and the role they play in the family under capitalism, and defends the true revolutionary legacy of Marxism and its position on women.
https://communist.red/women-capitalism-and-the-struggle-against-oppression-a-marxist-critique-of-silvia-federici/

School Strike in Germany: 50,000 Against Military Service
At 11:00 am, teenagers started flooding Potsdamer Platz. They came from schools around the city, marching in groups of 50 or 100, waving banners and banging drums. “Not one person and not one penny for the Bundeswehr,” they chanted. “I don’t want to die for a country that doesn’t offer me anything,” said Karl, 18, a student at Evangelische Schule Berlin Zentrum in Mitte. “They talk about protecting us while cutting funding for education and culture.” On January 1, Germany’s military began sending out questionnaires to people born in 2008 as they turn 18 this year. Young men are required to fill out the form; it’s voluntary for women. After that, men may be asked to submit to a physical exam. It’s a soft launch for reintroducing conscription, which was paused indefinitely in 2011. Now, claiming that a Russian attack could be imminent, the government wants to expand the Bundeswehr from 184,000 to 270,000 active soldiers in less than a decade.
https://www.leftvoice.org/school-strike-in-germany-50000-against-military-service/

Netanyahu’s Iran War Is Also the War of Global Neocon Elites
On the second day of the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran, US secretary of state Marco Rubio indicated that the decision to go to war waPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

DOJ running quiet operation in Miami to hunt for charges on Cuban leaders, per sources
A Justice Department-led effort to seek to prosecute leaders of the communist nation on the nation’s southern flank has been ongoing since mid-February, which could help propel a change in Cuba’s leadership, the people told MS NOW. The U.S. attorney in Miami, Jason Reding Quinones, created the multi-agency working group, emphasizing internally that it had an urgent goal: find and pursue leaders of the Cuban government or Communist Party for prosecutable violations of federal law.
https://www.ms.now/news/doj-running-quiet-operation-in-miami-to-hunt-for-charges-on-cuban-leaders-per-sources
https://archive.ph/YJOYo

Trump to forge ahead with immigration crackdown driven by top aide Stephen Miller
the White House deputy chief of staff and the architect of Trump’s immigration agenda - retains control of the issue, three U.S. officials said. And Trump’s pick to become homeland secretary, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, is viewed as closely aligned with Trump’s approach. “Stephen is a survivor,” one of the officials said, requesting anonymity to discuss internal dynamics. The official said Noem’s firing was not a referendum on Trump's restrictive ​agenda, but rather on the execution of it.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-forge-ahead-with-immigration-crackdown-driven-by-top-aide-stephen-miller-2026-03-06/

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here
a new report gives us direct evidence that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has used location data taken from the internet advertising ecosystem to track phones. In a document uncovered by 404 Media, CBP admits what we’ve been saying for years: The technical systems powering creepy targeted ads also allow federal agencies to track your location.
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CP of Greece, D. Koutsoumbas: The people will find a way out of this burning world by joining forces with the KKE
“Developments speak for themselves and shatter the complacency you have fostered for so long, while confirming the persistent warnings of the KKE”, said Dimitris Koutsoumbas, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE, at the start of his speech in Parliament on 4 March. Addressing the Prime Minister, he refuted the propaganda that “as long as US forces are here, no one will bother us”, at a time when US bases across the region are coming under attack. D. Koutsoumbas also addressed those who try to disconnect the role of the bases from their very presence Greece, pointing out that it is precisely the governments and Euro-Atlantic parties that have supported their presence. “You are hypocrites and liars”, he said bluntly. He stressed that the bases must go, because the Greek people will not tolerate their country being turned into an aggressor against other peoples in order to enhance the position of the ruling class —that is, those who exploit their labour. The GS of the CC of the KKE highlighted the need to denounce the agreement granting infrastructure to the US and NATO forces, and called for the return of all Greek Armed Forces units stationed abroad.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Greece-D.-Koutsoumbas-The-people-will-find-a-way-out-of-this-burning-world-by-joining-forces-with-the-KKE/

Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no
I’ve got some good news and some bad news for you today. The bad news is, well, everything. As you may have noticed, the world is on fire. The good news, however, is that a savior may be at hand. Kamala Harris, a politician who has never won a presidential primary and lost the popular vote to Donald Trump in 2024, hasn’t ruled out running for president again. Harris has kept a fairly low profile since November 2024, focusing most of her energy on promoting 107 Days, her account of her truncated presidential run, and appearing as the guest of honour at the 2025 Australian Real Estate Conference. But she has also made it clear that she still has an eye on the White House: in an interview with the BBC last OctoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US House rejects war powers resolution to end Trump’s hostilities with Iran
By a vote of 212-219, the House voted to reject a war powers resolution proposed by Thomas Massie, a Republican representative, and Ro Khanna, a Democratic representative, which would have forced the US to withdraw from the conflict until Congress authorized military action. The vote was largely along party lines, with two Republicans breaking with their party to support the resolution, and four Democrats voting against it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/05/us-house-war-powers-resolution-vote

GOP Senator and AIPAC Darling Tim Sheehy Accused of Breaking Anti-War Veteran’s Arm
US Sen. Tim Sheehy came under fire Thursday after the former Navy SEAL was involved in an incident in which a Marine Corps veteran and Green Party Senate candidate’s arm was fractured after he disrupted a hearing to protest the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/tim-sheehy-breaks-marine-s-arm

Trump fires Homeland Security head Kristi Noem, names Mullin as replacement
The staffing change, he added, will take effect starting March 31. It marks the first major cabinet-level shake-up of Trump’s second term so far. Trump praised Noem upon her departure from the cabinet-level post, writing that she “has served us well, and has had numerous and spectacular results (especially on the Border!)”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/5/trump-says-he-will-replace-homeland-security-chief-kristi-noem
https://archive.ph/iSWSE

Court says Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can't call civil rights group a 'terrorist organization'
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued a preliminary injunction against the governor's actions related to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. DeSantis issued an executive order on Dec. 8 calling CAIR a "terrorist organization," wPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Nikos Mottas : Mass Expulsion in Lebanon as Israel Expands War: “We Don’t Know Where to Go”
The recent alert in Cyprus following threats of Iranian drone and retaliatory missile strikes once again exposes a dangerous reality that governments in Athens and Nicosia persistently attempt to obscure: the presence of U.S., NATO and British military bases turns both Greece and Cyprus into potential targets in an expanding imperialist war. For days now, the wider region has been moving ever closer to the possibility of a generalized confrontation in the Middle East. The escalation triggered by the aggressive policies of the United States and Israel against Iran has already created a climate of extreme tension across the entire Eastern Mediterranean. Within this volatile context, the British sovereign bases in Cyprus—long used as operational hubs for military interventions in the Middle East—have been placed on heightened alert amid warnings that they could become targets of retaliation.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/03/shut-down-all-us-british-bases-in-greece-and-cyprus.html

Hundreds in Minneapolis Protest the War on Iran
“From Iran to Palestine, stop the U.S. war machine,” chanted the crowd of hundreds that showed up to Chicago Ave. and Lake St. in south Minneapolis on Feb. 28 for an emergency anti-war protest against the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran. Just hours earlier, at least 165 people — mostly schoolgirls — were killed when bombs struck an Iranian elementary school. “These shameful attacks happened right in the middle of U.S.-Iran negotiations,” said Sarah Martin, from Women Against Military Madness (WAMM), into a megaphone hooked to speakers sitting in the back of a truck in the lot of the building that formerly housed Roberts Shoes. “While the Iranian Foreign Minister and his Jordanian counterpart announced that the negotiations were going well, Trump ordered the military attack.” As of March 4, over 1,000 Iranians have been killed by U.S. and Israeli air bombings, including the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with many of his family members and several high-ranking officials. Speakers at the protest shared a main theme; they didn’t trust the government’s reasoning for the preemptive attack, while many noted how thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Senate votes down resolution to prevent Trump from continuing war with Iran
The 47-53 vote on a war powers resolution introduced by Virginia Democrat Tim Kaine broke largely along party lines. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the sole Democrat to vote against the measure, while Rand Paul of Kentucky was the only member of the Republican majority to support the resolution.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/04/us-israeli-iran-war-senate-vote-congress-prevent-trump

Record Numbers of US Workers Are Raiding Their 401(k)s in Trump Economy
Even as President Donald Trump has declared that the US is in a “golden age” with the “greatest” economy on record, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that a record number of US workers are dipping into their retirement savings. The Journal cited recent data from Vanguard Group showing that 6% of the 401(k) plans it administers took a hardship withdrawal in 2025, up from 4.8% that took such a withdrawal in 2024.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/401k-hardship-withdrawals-record

Workers at top 20 US low-wage firms rely on public assistance, report says
Nearly a quarter of Walmart employees (29.3%) and half of Amazon workers (48.4%) in the Nevada – which collects Medicaid enrollment numbers among employees at large companies – were on Medicaid in 2024, according to the report. Among the four states that disclose Snap data related to large companies – Colorado, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Michigan – 10,920 Walmart workers and 9,633 Amazon workers were enrolled in Snap in 2024.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/04/workers-medicaid-snap-low-pay

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis backs a new bill targeting unions; those who support him won't be affected
After losing 209 union elections, the Freedom Foundation and DeSantis are pushing a new bill – Senate Bill 1296 – through the legislature this year. And this bill rewrites the rules for those union elections. UPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The Attack on Iran Is an Attack on All of Us
The US and Israeli attack on Iran is morally repugnant. It is calculated only to benefit an elite of racist, Islamophobic warmongers. It will not benefit Iranians or ordinary people anywhere on earth. There are genuine grassroots movements resisting the Iranian government, which is a blood-soaked authoritarian regime—as are the US and Israeli governments that are attacking it. But participants in Iranian social movements do not want Donald Trump to attack Iran. As some of them wrote last month, “Any military or imperial intervention can only weaken the struggle from below and strengthen the Islamic Republic’s hand to carry out repression.” Social movements in Iran have been resisting an oppressive government for decades. But the establishment of a puppet regime serving the US and Israel will not help them. In attacking Iran, Trump does not necessarily seek to overthrow the government, but simply to subordinate it to his will, unseating the top figures in order to put himself in place of them. He did precisely that in Venezuela in January 2026. The kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro did nothing to change the distribution of power in Venezuelan society; the chief result of Trump’s intervention has been that he has put the pieces in place to loot the country of its natural resources for the benefit of elements of the ruling class of the United States. Like other autocrats around the world, Trump aims to sideline ordinary people, reducing all politics to a matter of tyrants contending for power at the expense of those they rule. He will gladly sacrifice the lives of Iranians, Israelis, and US citizens for his own benefit.
https://crimethinc.com/2026/02/28/the-attack-on-iran-is-an-attack-on-all-of-us

The Left Could Learn Something From Trump’s Tariff Gambit
Trump’s presidency, for both better and worse, has been a real-world experiment in, and live demonstration of, the power of the presidency and its ability to affect change even when it doesn’t have Congress’s slow, grinding legislative work on its side. Tariffs are not the first time Trump has done this, acting quickly in total disregard for the legal niceties or future opinions of judges. Liberals, progressives, and socialists don’t like the purposes he’s put this strPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Bill to establish statewide oversight of jails in Washington dies in Legislature
The effort reflects the extreme reluctance some hawkish Democrats have towards voting for the resolution introduced by anti-interventionist Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). Unlike the Khanna-Massie measure, the centrist Democrats' alternative resolution would give the administration 30 days to end hostilities with Iran. It would also allow them to maintain "a troop presence in the region for defensive purposes."
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/03/democrats-iran-war-powers-trump-vote-house
https://archive.ph/5Mfjt

DoJ renews fight against law firms that stood up to Trump in abrupt reversal
The US justice department abruptly reversed course on Tuesday and decided it would defend executive orders made by Donald Trump to try to penalize law firms that represented clients or causes the president did not like.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/03/doj-drop-law-firms-case-trump-executive-orders

Tech giant Google is behind controversial data center proposal in Hermantown
The tech giant behind a massive and controversial proposed data center in the northeast Minnesota community of Hermantown has been revealed to be Google, which just last week announced that it is also behind the development of another controversial data center near Rochester, in the small community of Pine Island.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/03/03/google-behind-controversial-data-center-proposal-in-hermantown

Mamdani, Hochul unveil first New York City neighborhoods to get free child care for 2-year-olds
The first four communities that will receive 2,000 2-K seats this fall are Washington Heights and Inwood, Fordham and Kingsbridge, East Brooklyn including Canarsie, Brownsville and Ocean Hill, and Ozone Park and the Rockaways.
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Statement of the Tudeh Party of Iran: The Death of the Dictator, the People’s Demand for Transition from the Anti-People Regime of the Guardianship of the Jurist, and the Necessity of an Immediate Ceasefire and Creating the Conditions for the People to Determine Their Own Destiny and Lives
Following the aggressive attacks by Netanyahu’s criminal regime and U.S. imperialism on Iranian soil, Ali Khamenei—the regime’s Supreme Leader and a dictator who over the past thirty-seven years, through destructive policies and the reactionary ideology of “political Islam,” drove the country to the brink of war and destruction—along with a number of his family members and close associates, as well as some commanders of the Revolutionary Guard and repressors of the people, have been killed. Over the past thirty-seven years, as the absolute Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei determined the country’s major economic policies and political direction and was the principal figure responsible for the bloody and violent suppression of any protest against the destructive policies of the Islamic Republic. By implementing economic policies aimed at securing the interests of big capital, he drove tens of millions of Iranians into poverty and deprivation. His family and close associates also plundered the nation’s wealth and resources. The death of the regime’s Supreme Leader can mark the beginning of developments that open a path toward the people’s rule over their own destiny and lives and the dawning of freedom and justice in the country. At the same time, we know that U.S. imperialism and its regional allies—especially Netanyahu’s racist government—and their Iranian agents such as Reza Pahlavi, harbor sinister plans to destroy the country and its capabilities, to turn Iran into a U.S. semi-colony in the region, or to entangle Iran in prolonged ethnic-religious civil wars (as in Libya or Syria), with the aim of completely destroying national sovereignty and fragmenting Iran.
https://www.tudehpartyiran.org/en/2026/03/01/statement-of-the-tudeh-party-of-iran-the-death-of-the-dictator-the-peoples-demand-for-transition-from-the-anti-people-regime-of-the-guardianship-of-the-jurist-anPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Hegseth says US won’t get ‘bogged down’ in Iran – but doesn’t rule out sending troops
The US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, has called the joint US-Israeli strikes in Iran the “most lethal and precise air power campaign in history”, indicated the US did not plan to effect a democratic transition in Iran – and refused to establish a clear timeline for how long the US operation will continue.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/hegseth-iran-war-first-remarks

Iran strikes inject chaos into Dem primaries
In North Carolina, progressive House candidate Nida Allam is seizing on the issue as an 11th-hour appeal against Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-N.C.) before their March 3 primary. Graham Platner, the firebrand left-wing Senate candidate in Maine, organized an "emergency protest" against war in Iran on Sunday. Several other candidates in contested Democratic primaries have sent out fundraising appeals and other campaign messages about the issue, mostly positioning themselves against the administration.
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/02/iran-trump-foushee-allam-nc-platner-democrats
https://archive.ph/hWwfE

Florida bill would create a CIA-style counterintelligence, counterterrorism unit
House Bill 945 would require FDLE to establish the CIA-style unit at one of its regional operational centers and assign a team to each of the state’s seven regional domestic security task forces. The bill says the unit’s mission would be to “detect, identify, neutralize, and exploit” what it defines as adversary intelligence entities — a category that includes foreign governments, corporations, nongovernmental organizations, insurgent groups and “any…person whose demonstrated actions, views, or opinions are a threat or are inimical to the interests of this state and the United States.”
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2026/03/02/this-florida-bill-woulPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Pakistan enforces curfew following protester deaths
PAKISTANI authorities deployed troops and imposed a three-day curfew in northern cities today after 32 people died and dozens were injured in violent protests following the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader in US-Israeli strikes. Thousands of Shi’ite demonstrators attacked UN offices in Skardu city on Sunday, vandalising the Military Observer Group’s field station.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pakistan-enforces-curfew-following-protester-deaths

Protests against attack on Iran continue
The leaders of Ganatantrik Jukta Front, a combine of seven political parties, on Monday noon at a protest rally condemned the attack and called on the attacker to stop the attacks and resolve the crisis through discussion. The coordinator of the combine, Bazlur Rashid Firoz, who chaired the rally, called on the US and Israeli government to stop the attacks immediately. Communist Party of Bangladesh general secretary Abdullah Kafee Ratan, Bangladesh Jasod general secretary Nazmul Haque Prodhan, Democratic Revolutionary Party general secretary Mushrefa Mishu and others spoke in the rally.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/foreign-affairs/292829/protests-against-attack-on-iran-continue

Jailed for losing a pregnancy: how progress on El Salvador’s harsh anti-abortion law is unravelling
Advocates say those emergency powers have quietly expanded into hospitals, ensnaring women who suffer miscarriages, stillbirths and other obstetric emergencies. “We are experiencing a new spiral of criminalisation against women,” says Herrera, who is the former president of Citizens’ Group for the Decriminalisation of Abortion. In a further sign of the increasingly restrictive environment, the group, which was the only organisation in El Salvador campaigning for the decriminalisation of abortion, announced its legal dissolution on Monday, saying the political climate had become “incompatible” with its work.
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The Tudeh Party of Iran strongly condemns the aggressive attack by the criminal Israeli government and US imperialism against Iran!
Early this morning, our country was attacked by extensive missile and air strikes by the racist Israeli government and the United States. This blatant aggression against Iranian territory occurs while the Iranian and US government officials, with the mediation of regional countries, have been engaged in negotiations over the past few weeks to resolve disputes over Iran’s nuclear program. Donald Trump, in a video message announcing a “massive military” attack by the US on Iran, declared the goal of this attack to be the destruction of Iran’s nuclear and missile capabilities and, at the same time, regime change in Iran. This aggression against Iranian soil, which will undoubtedly result in the loss of lives of our compatriots and the destruction of the country, has been welcomed by forces such as Reza Pahlavi and the Mujahedin-e Khalq, which is undoubtedly condemned by all the freedom-seeking and national forces of our country.
https://www.tudehpartyiran.org/en/2026/02/28/the-tudeh-party-of-iran-strongly-condemns-the-aggressive-attack-by-the-criminal-israeli-government-and-us-imperialism-against-iran/

CP of Israel, CPI & Aljabha/Hadash condemn the Israeli-US aggression against Iran and warn of the dangers of a comprehensive war
The Communist Party of Israel & The Democratic Front for Peace & Equality (Aljabha/Hadash) condemn the war of aggression launched by Israel in the early hours of Saturday morning, February 28, against Iran, and affirm that this attack is a joint Israeli-American aggression, warning that it may ignite a large-scale regional or global war. CPI and Aljabha/Hadash reaffirm that Israel is not only an instrument of global American imperialism, but also a partner in it and in its efforts to impose American imperialist hegemony over the world and its natural and economic resources, and to subject all governments to US political and economic interests. This includes all parts of the world - especially the Middle East and Latin America.
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OpenAI to work with Pentagon after Anthropic dropped by Trump over company’s ethics concerns
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, announced the move on Friday night. It came after an agreement between Anthropic, a rival AI company that runs the Claude system, and the Trump administration broke down after Anthropic sought assurances its technology would not be used for mass surveillance – nor for autonomous weapons systems that can kill people without human input.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/28/openai-us-military-anthropic

Private Prison Falsified Records in Detainee’s Death in ICE Custody
Despite these findings, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement declined to punish the facility’s politically connected operator, GEO Group. Instead, records show the agency gave GEO even more money to run the facility after the man died: $4 million in additional funds, just three months after the death review was completed. After an April 2024 visit at the facility, ICE’s acting director called GEO a “valued partner.”
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/26/ice-geo-group-moshannon-death-falsify/
https://archive.ph/83WRM

HUD proposes time limits and work requirements for rental aid
The decision to impose new restrictions would be up to local housing authorities and private property owners who rent to people using a housing voucher, known as Section 8. Time limits could be as short as two years, and work requirements up to 40 hours a week. Those who are elderly or disabled – a majority of people with federal rental subsidies – would be exempt.
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5728988/hud-proposes-time-limits-work-requirements-for-rental-aid

Trump officials move to kill system that protects US from chemical disasters
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Your Party has the chance of a fresh start
YOUR PARTY now has the chance to make a fresh start following the conclusion of the election to its first central executive committee, the party’s collective leadership. The poll saw supporters of the slate backed by Jeremy Corbyn secure a clear majority, meaning Corbyn will be named the new left party’s parliamentary leader. He rightly called the result a vote “for a mass, socialist party that takes the fight to Starmer and Farage.” He added that the party now has “a precious opportunity to unite our movement around a bold vision for this country — one that creates a more caring, equal and peaceful world for all. “Together, we can provide hope to those who are fed up with inequality, disempowered by poverty and disgusted by war — and build a society that cares for all,” he said. That was certainly the original vision for the party when it was first launched by Corbyn and fellow MP Zarah Sultana last summer. It has, however, spent the intervening months systematically burning through the enormous initial goodwill their announcement secured, to the point where its viability as more than a marginal force in political life may be questioned.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/your-party-has-chance-fresh-start

Lebanon’s Communists and the Disarming of Hezbollah
In the east and south of Lebanon, Israel continues its bombing campaign. After the latest attacks, in which several Hezbollah members were killed, the group has raised its rhetorical pitch. It has again vowed to fight back, despite being severely weakened after the 2024 war. For the last four decades, Hezbollah had held an effective monopoly on Lebanese resistance against Israel. But it was neither the first to pick up arms nor to support the Palestinian cause from Lebanese soil. So Hanna Gharib, general secretary of the Lebanese Communist Party (LCP) tells me, at the party’s headquarters in Beirut. “We started the resistance,” he points out. Even before the foundation of Israel in 1948, the Lebanese Communists fought side by side with Palestinian left-wingers against Zionist right-wing militias. When the civil war broke out in Lebanon in 1975, the Communists again joined the fight. “We liberated three-quarters of the territory when Israel invaded in 1982. We Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Trump suggests US could carry out ‘friendly takeover’ of Cuba
Although he gave no further details, it has been widely reported that US officials had met with Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, the grandson of 94 year-old Raúl Castro, on the sidelines of the Caribbean leaders summit, Caricom, as part of negotiations on opening up the island. Trump on Friday said: “They have no money, they have no anything right now. But they’re talking with us and maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/27/trump-cuba-regime-change

Senate Dems united on Iran procedure but not policy
Nearly all Democrats are insistent that Congress needs to be consulted, but they are less clear on whether the U.S. should strike Iran to thwart its nuclear ambitions. Schumer, like many of his colleagues, is avoiding complicated policy questions by emphasizing Democratic unity on procedural matters. Asked by Axios whether he personally supports a strike on Iran, Schumer said: "The administration should come clean and tell the American people their goals." It's a line — and essentially a policy dodge — he's repeated all week.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/iran-senate-democrats-schumer-war-powers-strike
https://archive.ph/RCIYE

Near-blind Rohingya refugee dies after US agents left him far from home
A nearly blind Rohingya refugee from Myanmar has been found dead in Buffalo, New York, days after the United States Border Patrol left him miles away from his home following his release from a county jail, authorities said.The body of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, was located by police officers in the city in upstate New York on Tuesday evening, a Buffalo Police Department spokesperson said on Wednesday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/26/near-blind-rohingya-refugee-dies-after-us-agents-left-him-far-from-home
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Glyfada Floods Reveal Greece’s Deep-Rooted Infrastructure Failures and Social Inequality
On January 21, streets in Athens turned into rivers at night. In the southern suburbs – like Glyfada – streets turned deadly. Roads were destroyed by floodwaters, while cars were pushed down the streets from the wave. During the flooding, a 56-year-old woman lost her life caught in the current during the storm. She was found trapped beneath a vehicle. Firefighters rushed to the scene to rescue her, but she was pronounced dead during her move to the hospital in the ambulance. In the following days, the Mayor of Glyfada publicly targeted Greece’s main electricity distributor – Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO). They called for legal actions due to the assumption of the company’s infrastructure negligence. The municipality of Glyfada pointed out that HEDNO’s cable works had been the cause of worsening the flooding situation. They argue that it had created debris that would unleash more than 1,200 cubic meters of water and dirt downstream. They also pointed out how HEDNO failed to provide any safety documents for the public. HEDNO responded that they were not responsible, and they have suggested inviting judicial review.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/glyfada-floods-reveal-greeces-deep-rooted-infrastructure-failures-and-social-inequality/

The Rise And Fail Of The Griftocrats
I have been writing for decades that Oprah Winfrey was a more effective force insofar as retailing capitalist propaganda than the Joseph Goebbels’ progeny of Fox News/NewsMax outrage peddlers and the corporate-funded nomenklatura/apparatchik clowns of the rightwing think tank shit-circuses. Oprah’s grift emanates from the same capitalist ideological snake oil of self-bootstraps transcendence; withal, if an individual visualizes the capitalist order’s conception of success with the proper measure of rigorous intensity and unquestioning belief in the magical nature of the system then the universe will align with your entitled destiny. If not the failure is all on you — but not, in any manner due to the (rigged against you) system. It was in the Oprah cosmology of con artistry that Jeffrey Epstein confidant and enabler Deepak Chopra retaiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Maduro’s lawyer says US is blocking Venezuela government from paying deposed leader’s drug defense
Less than three hours later, though, the Trump administration snatched back the authorization “without explanation,” though it left in place a license granting permission for Maduro’s wife’s lawyers to be paid, Pollack said.
https://apnews.com/article/maduro-venezuela-criminal-case-9dc08ea33228d05feec7ab3c473dd762

Judge orders Greenpeace to pay $345m over Dakota Access pipeline protest
In court papers filed Tuesday, Judge James Gion said he would sign an order requiring several Greenpeace entities to pay the judgment to pipeline company Energy Transfer. He set that amount at $345m last year in a decision that reduced a jury’s damages by about half, but his latest filing did not specify a final amount.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/greenpeace-dakota-access-pipeline-protest

‘Arsonist as Fire Chief’: Fed Appoints Wall Street Lobbyist to Key Bank Oversight Role
Before joining Fed staff last year as an adviser to the central bank’s vice chair for supervision, Guynn worked for close to four decades at the corporate law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he recently chaired the company’s Financial Institutions Group. According to Guynn’s bio, he has “focused on advising banks of all sizes on their most critical financial regulatory issues and transactions.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fed-wall-street-lobbyist

Lawyers say Pennsylvania student protesters did not know a man who joined scrum was the police chief
The attorneys said the students from Quakertown Community High School who were demonstrating against immigration enforcement policies acted in self-defense and will fight the charges. They include a simple assault charge elevated to aggravated assault, a felony, because the alleged victim is Police Chief Scott McElree. “He charged from his vehicle into the middle of this group of kids,” defense laPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

You can't "reverse engineer" working-class power.
Reverse engineering is something companies do to each other’s products, or what hackers do to defeat copyright protection. It’s not something that is generally done in regard to class politics. It is worth noting that in the Sanders and Corbyn post-mortems in particular, the term was often used sardonically, to underline the impracticality of the notion: neither politician, nor the organizations around them, could manage to conjure, in the space of a few brief election cycles, the massive social movements and working-class institutions that should have been built up for decades beforehand. Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara in 2019 offered a concise description of the current dilemma for socialists who seek state power: “in the United States today, we lack the three ingredients necessary for almost every socialist advance of the past hundred and fifty years: mass parties, an activist base, and a mobilized working class.” Seven years later, Zohran Mamdani was elected Mayor of New York City. A big part of the thrill of Mamdani’s victory was, like Sanders and Corbyn before him, how unlikely it was. Mamdani, in less than a year, went from polling near zero to soundly defeating perhaps the most famous man in New York politics. And, like the other two, Mamdani faced off against a divided, compromised, and incompetent political machine.
https://libcom.org/article/you-cant-reverse-engineer-working-class-power

Employment Rights Act: Seize the opportunity, take the fight to Starmer!
The Economist – a major propagandist for the liberal establishment – has recently sounded the alarm bells to the capitalist class it represents. The Employment Rights’ Act, which passed Parliament at the end of 2025, will be rolled out bit by bit in the coming months – and it risks hurting the bosses’ profits. The Act, they say, will “return trade-union law to the 1970s” – containing many pro-worker reforms that apparently “slipped under the employers’ radar”, and will greatly empower unions. These reforms include: the duty of employers to periodically tell their workers of their right to join a union; the right of unions to enter workplaces to recruit on-site; reduction of the threshold for union recognition to an insignificant proportion of the wPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Republicans brace for Trump's tax-cut demands
President Trump is signaling that tax cuts will be the centerpiece of his State of the Union address Tuesday night — and the cornerstone of his legislative agenda for the rest of the year.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/24/trump-sotu-tax-cuts-house-republicans
https://archive.ph/hXJeq

DOJ Under Fire for Withholding Epstein Files Related to Alleged Trump Child Sex Assault
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee announced Tuesday that an investigation will be opened into the US Department of Justice’s withholding of Epstein files related to an alleged sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl committed by President Donald Trump decades ago.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-sex-assault-child

Justice Department lawsuit says UCLA failed to protect Jewish employees from hostility
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in California, is the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s campaign to punish top universities that it says have been soft on antisemitism. The suit accuses the University of California, Los Angeles of failing to discipline those who were involved in protests, including dozens who were arrested in 2024 for failing to leave a campus encampment.
https://apnews.com/article/ucla-trump-antisemitism-lawsuit-1fc35d3953f8265e4827c5a8e41b9069

Former California charity CEO charged with stealing $1.2m in public funds
Gwendolyn Westbrook, 71, raided the accounts of the United Council for Human Services while she had “near-exclusive financial control” over the non-profit serving homeless and low-income people, according to a statement on Monday from the district attorney’s office.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/24/san-francisco-homeless-charity-ceo-theft

Episode 524: Black February(TrueAnon)
We’re joined by Dylan Saba and Jake Romm to talk Munich, international laws and systems, Iran, Cuba, many things of a global nature…
https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-524-151467586

Your Individual Boycotts Aren’t Helping
An Instagram post of mine about Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) top corporate collaborators went viral a few weeks ago. The fact that it got over four million views and more than 35,000 shares suggests that people are starting to grasp the central role private businesses play in enabling Donald Trump’s paramilitary thugs. But I was puzzled and a bit frustrated by most people’s reactions. I explicitly underscored that I wasn’t making yet another online-based call for individuals to stop shopping at bad companies: " We don’t need vague calls to stop shopping at these places or one-off rallies — we need sit-ins, pressure campaigns, *organized* boycotts, employee and consumer petitions, sickouts, demands from elected officials, and non-violent disruption to force these companies to immediately break from ICE." Yet to my surprise, almost every reply treated my post as a push for individual consumption changes. Here’s a representative sample of comments:
I already boycott Home Depot, and to see Lowe’s on this list makes me sad. I don’t have a local hardware store to choose from. 😢
I cancelled Prime last summer. I promise you’ll save money and be fine 🙏🏼
Good luck avoiding business with Amazon.
Why was a call for collective organized action almost universally seen as a manifesto for personal shopping advice? Part of the answer may just be that people don’t read Instagram captions. But there’s also something deeper going on: individualism and atomization pervade our culture, and even action to change the world can, by many people, only be imagined as individual consumption choices rather than taking action together with other people. This atomization is a relatively new phenomenon. America used to be a country full of clubs, labor unions, churches, neighborhood associations, and bowling leagues. But now, as sociologist Robert Putnam famously put it, we are “bowling alone.” Without strong membership organizations in our daily lives, and with social media exacerbating our isolation, political consumption Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Supreme Court wades into US-Cuba business disputes, with billions at stake
Following the revolution, Cuba's new communist government nationalized U.S. property that now is worth billions of dollars, including factories, sugar mills, oil refineries and power plants. … Title III created a legal remedy for U.S. nationals whose property was confiscated. Such plaintiffs can seek enhanced damages in federal courts from entities that knowingly use the property, including both Cuban state-owned entities and multinational companies. Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all suspended Title III, seeking to avoid diplomatic conflicts with allies like Canada and Spain whose companies have invested in Cuba, before Trump lifted the suspension in 2019.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/supreme-court-wades-into-us-cuba-business-disputes-with-billions-stake-2026-02-22/

More than 30,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers to end strike in California and Hawaii
The United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals said in a statement Monday that “significant movement at the bargaining table” prompted an end to the walkout. There were no details about what progress was made during negotiations or what a potential deal might look like.
https://apnews.com/article/kaiser-permanente-strike-california-united-nurses-1726260636f3a6bc5f6efbf830f353e2

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Big Oil Effort to Crush Climate Lawsuits
As reported by the New York Times, the court has agreed to hear arguments related to a petition filed by ExxonMobil and Canadian energy firm Suncor related to a 2018 lawsuit by the city of Boulder, Colorado that seeks financial damages from the companies for their role in causing global climate change.https://www.commondreams.org/news/supreme-court-boulder-climate
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DIANE ABBOTT: The priority should be a plan for growth
THERE are widespread reports that the Chancellor Rachel Reeves will not introduce any tax or spend measures in the Spring Statement on March 3. This would be a mistake. The G7 economies are struggling and the British economy is among the worst. We are effectively stagnating, and unemployment is rising. This is no time for passivity. The economy is failing to deliver for the population, while the turmoil in British politics reflects that. Of course, any commitment not to make things worse for workers and the poor would be welcome. Doing nothing would be an improvement on the last two Reeves’s Budgets, which deepened the austerity that the Tories had bequeathed. It is amazing to me that it is ever disputed that this government has implemented austerity. This was the government that carried out the stealth tax of freezing income tax thresholds, raised energy prices and fares, pushed council tax higher and imposed sub-inflation pay rises in the public sector.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/priority-should-be-plan-growth

Israel’s Economy Has Problems, but It’s Not Collapsing Yet
In the last quarter of 2023, Israel was simultaneously reeling from the shock and trauma of the October 7 Hamas attack on the cities and kibbutzim of the Gaza Envelope and mobilizing for a campaign of revenge and retaliation. Over 200,000 Israelis were evacuated from communities bordering the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, and some 300,000 reservists were mobilized. In the following months, the Israeli economy was dislocated. Consumer spending, imports, and exports declined dramatically. Ultimately, nearly 50,000 businesses went bankrupt. Meanwhile, Israel’s global brand is in the trash can. Its genocidal campaign in Gaza put it in bad odor among progressive circles worldwide and across much of the Global South. But the economic disruption that Israel has experienced to date has been manageable for its leaders.
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/israel-economy-tech-weapons-trade

Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed Chapter VI The Committee for Salvation
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US Department of Labor reports 5,070 US workers killed on the job in 2024
A recent article in DCReport by Jordan Barab, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor under Obama, criticizes the administration’s proposed FY 2026 budget for federal worker safety agencies. Barab notes, “The job safety budget is just $3.68 per worker,” adding, “If budgets are the monetary expression of an organization’s values, Trump’s message to workers is: Drop dead.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/02/21/wtlw-f21.html

Cuban man’s death at El Paso tent camp was result of “spontaneous use of force,” ICE says
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials this week reported that the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at a detention facility in El Paso was the result of the staff’s “spontaneous use of force” to “prevent him from harming himself.” Officials quietly updated the cause of death after previously declaring last month that the man died of “medical distress.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/20/texas-ice-detention-death-use-of-force-camp-east-montana/
https://archive.ph/16sUy

Hundreds of students suspended, schools under close watch over anti-ICE walkouts
Such anti-ICE or “ICE out” walkouts have increasingly popped up after Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot and killed by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis last month. But experts say leaving school grounds is not a form of protest protected under the First Amendment for students, and Republican leaders are warning of consequences for those who participate.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5745489-ice-out-student-protests-texas-florida-oklahoma/
https://archive.ph/gXhqg

Thousands of Minnesotans to be kicked off SNAP due to new eligibility requirements
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Australia as Zionist-Occupied Territory
Australia has always been susceptible to the Zionist siren song. H. V. Evatt was a brilliant lawyer and High Court of Australia judge (at 36, the youngest appointee ever). He was also joint Foreign Affairs Minister and Attorney-General in successive Labor governments, 1941-49. However, Evatt moonlighted as Chair of the UN Special Committee on Palestine in 1947. In that capacity, through crude partisan means (while claiming otherwise), he legitimized the preposterous Resolution 181 (II) of November 1947 for the partition of Palestine – that Resolution itself the product of corrupt threats to voting members. Caroline Graham, sometime journalist and academic, has re-told the Evatt story. Graham cites Evatt’s contemporary – equally reputable lawyer, Pakistani delegate Muhammad Zafrulla Khan – who took umbrage at Evatt’s blocking of a submission of the partition plan to the recently empowered International Court of Justice. For Khan, this was “a confession that the General Assembly is determined to make recommendations in a certain direction, not because these recommendations are in accord with principles of international fairness and justice.” Yet Evatt is feted for his significant role in using UN auspices to legitimize the state of Israel then being forged by terrorist means.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/20/australia-as-zionist-occupied-territory/

Jeffrey Epstein and the psychology of bourgeois decadence
One of the great mysteries of society is what those who do terrible, unjustifiable things, think about their behaviour. How do they justify the unjustifiable? When posing the question, we often answer that they are in denial as to what they have really done; or that they admit it, but tell themselves it was the right thing to do, it is for the greater good, etc. The release of (some of) the Epstein files reveals that not only are the most depraved crimes imaginable being routinely committed by wide layers of the ruling class, but that in many cases those doing so are not in denial. Nor do they bother with any real justification for their acts beyond: “I can get away with it because I am special. The rules don’t apply to me and my friends”.
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Israel has biblical right to the Middle East, Huckabee tells Carlson
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee suggested in a recent interview with Tucker Carlson that, under a biblical interpretation, Israel could claim a right to territory spanning much of the Middle East.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/20/tucker-carlson-mike-huckabee-israel-middle-east
https://archive.ph/jhyZf

US President Trump promises new tariffs, slams Supreme Court decision
Instead of using IEEPA, Trump said on Friday that he would turn to the Trade Expansion Act to impose a 10 percent global tariff for 150 days, replacing some of the tariffs that were struck down by the court.
He added that investigations into unfair trade practices would allow him to expand his tariff campaign as well.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/20/us-president-trump-promises-new-tariffs-slams-supreme-court-decision
https://archive.ph/yfua0

US citizen shot and killed by federal immigration agent last year, new records show
The death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, would mark the earliest of at least six deadly shootings by federal officers since the start of a nationwide immigration crackdown in Donald Trump’s second term. On Friday, DHS said the shooting on South Padre Island last March occurred after the driver intentionally struck an agent.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/20/us-citizen-killed-federal-immigration-agent

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Trump’s Intervention in Iran Will Be a Disaster Interview with Vivek Chibber
The Trump administration has ramped up its bellicose rhetoric against the Iranian regime after it clamped down on the latest wave of protests. And now, a growing number of reports hint that a major war with Iran is a very real possibility — and very soon. In this episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber and Melissa Naschek contrast the Iranian Revolution of 1979 with the current protests and discuss what makes a revolution possible. Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber is produced by Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy and published by Jacobin. You can listen to the full episode here. This transcript has been edited for clarity.
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/protests-revolution-iran-war-intervention

Fearing Immigration: The Australian Coalition and the Return of Bad Habits
Killing political leaders – metaphorically and actually – often ushers in a silly season where the Mad Hatter presides over an imbecilic party. Amidst coups, defections, dethronements and confusions on the right of Australia politics, we see ugly topics return to the fore with ghastly predictability. The Liberals, the Nationals, and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party, are narrowing, rather than broadening the issues of debate. A suspicious, anti-establishment populism, if we are to believe the astrologers in the ranks of psephologists and pollsters, has become vibrantly feral, and top of the list of concerns is immigration. Incapable of even coming up with its own indigenous species of bigotry, the misnamed Liberals, now led by the underwhelming Angus Taylor, seem to be pinching a few ingredients from the MAGA larder of US President Donald Trump. Freshly deposed, the former leader Sussan Ley seems to have had a plan simmering away to ban arrivals from “declared terrorist” zones of the world and impose more onerous surveillance measures on those visiting Australia. (Everyone, the message goes, wants to make their way to Terra Australis.) The draft, plagiarised proposal, called “Operation Gatekeeper”, would deny the grant of visas to anyone coming from areas controlled by loosely termed “Islamist terrorist groups”, a formulation sufficiently vague to hawk at the dispatch boxPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Peace Campaigners Demand Congress Stop Trump From Waging ‘Devastating’ War on Iran
Amid reports that the US is rapidly mobilizing military hardware to the Middle East, Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) announced on Wednesday that they’d attempt to force a House vote on a resolution that would prohibit Trump from striking Iran without congressional authorization.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/peace-groups-iran-war

Trump order seeks to protect weedkiller at center of barrage of lawsuits
The president’s move, which also seeks to provide “immunity” for makers of the herbicides, was strongly criticized by health and environmental advocates including some figures in the Make America Healthy Again (Maha) coalition. The order also protects domestic production of phosphorus, which is used in making glyphosate and other agricultural chemicals, as well as a range of other products, including some in military defense.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/19/trump-order-protect-weedkiller

Trump Admin Planning to Roll Back Limits on Toxic Mercury Pollution From Coal-Fired Power Plants
The Trump administration is preparing to roll back limits on levels of toxic mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants. The New York Times reports top EPA officials will announce the rollback during a visit to Louisville, Kentucky on Friday. The World Health Organization considers mercury one of its top ten chemicals of major public health concern, and even small amounts can cause serious health problems, especially in utero and in children.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/19/headlines/trump_admin_planning_to_roll_back_limits_on_toxic_mercury_pollution_from_coal_fired_power_plants

A leaked Pentagon list flagging dozens of universities as risks blindsided schools and military students alike
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Bangladesh after the election: what happened to the July Revolution?
A year and a half ago, Bangladesh’s July Revolution inspired the whole world. After 15 years of Hasina’s dictatorship, the Bangladeshi masses – led by the students – flooded the stage of history and swept her and her Awami League away. Ecstatic hopes were vested in the interim government of Muhammed Yunus, who was supposed to usher in a new era of reform. A year and a half later, those hopes have been dashed. The Yunus government has achieved next to nothing. The country is in chaos. The student leaders have, for the most part, succeeded in betraying and destroying all the hopes vested in them. Demoralisation and disenchantment prevail. Things are gradually returning to how they were before. Now, the long-awaited election has handed power to the Bangladeshi Nationalist Party, Bangladesh’s other corrupt dynastic party. After such an epic revolutionary upsurge, how have things come to this?
https://marxist.com/bangladesh-after-the-election-what-happened-to-the-july-revolution.htm

Jenrick confirms Reform are another Establishment party – and that’s a weakness
ROBERT JENRICK’S confirmation that Reform UK will uphold the economic orthodoxy of Labour and Tory governments over the past several decades is a weakness we should seize on. It is a confession that Reform, despite the branding, is not really about reform at all: it is a party committed to rule by the bond markets and the rich, to the market ideology of Margaret Thatcher that wrecked productive industry across Britain and depressed so many of the regions it now appeals to for votes. Yes, most socialists are already aware that Nigel Farage is a dyed-in-the-wool Thatcherite, a former City trader and millionaire hostile to public ownership, economic planning and the welfare state. Yes, Farage himself began his political career in the Tory Party and so did almost all his Reform colleagues. But the stampede of big Tory names to Reform make it easier to expose the party as one of continuity with the same political elite whose policies and conduct provoke near universal public disgust: the very disgust that feeds support for supposed “insurgent” parties like Reform itself. It is one thing to point to the Tory past of figures alwPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

‘The Tankers Just Keep Coming’: US Military Movements Spike Fears of Imminent Attack on Iran
As an adviser to President Donald Trump told Axios that “I think there is 90% chance we see kinetic action” against Iran in the next few weeks following nuclear talks in Switzerland, US military movement on Wednesday fueled fears of an imminent attack on the Middle Eastern country.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trumps-war-with-iran

Environmental group Extinction Rebellion says it is under federal US probe
"On the evening of February 6, 2026, a former member of (Extinction Rebellion NYC) was visited by two special agents from the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force at their residence, 200 miles outside of New York City," the environmental group said in a statement. The agents asked the former member about their involvement in the environmental group's New York City chapter, the statement said, adding the former member referred questions to their attorney.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/environmental-group-extinction-rebellion-says-it-is-under-federal-us-probe-2026-02-18/

US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
The site will be hosted at "freedom.gov," the sources said. One source said officials had discussed including a virtual private network function to make a user's traffic appear to originate in the U.S. and added that user activity on the site will not be tracked.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-content-bans-europe-elsewhere-2026-02-18/

Illinois governor proposes cancelling tax breaks for datacenters
Pritzker made the proposal, which will need the backing of state lawmakers, during his annual state of the state address, which covers Illinois budget and policy plans. The plan was first reported by NBC News.
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Can unions and the left help shape post-Starmer Labour?
KEIR STARMER shows no capacity to respond to the ongoing fallout over Peter Mandelson’s appointment to Washington — which has engulfed the whole Labour Together faction key to his own rise to power. Nor to the demand, put more forcefully than before by a group of affiliated unions (including the biggest of all, Unison and Unite) as well as most of the party’s remaining socialist MPs, that Labour abandon the faction fights and start to act democratically as the political wing of organised labour. Nor even to world-changing shifts in the global order. His call to raise military spending faster doubles down on existing policy. We cannot expect a meaningful assessment from this government of Marco Rubio’s chilling demand for a new era of colonial expansion and what new conflicts it may embroil us in. It will continue to shuffle along shackled to the United States, mumbling the hypocrisies of the past while obeying the diktats of unrepentant gangsters.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/can-unions-and-left-help-shape-post-starmer-labour

Marcos Jr. Sells Out PH Patrimony, Feeds the US War Machine in Critical Minerals Deal With Trump
The US push for a critical minerals deal with the Philippines is not geared toward building lasting national industries in the country. To date, there are no binding commitments to establish full local processing capacity or ensuring technology transfer. Instead, this critical minerals pact with the Marcos Jr. regime is focused on integrating the Philippines’ substantial reserves of copper, nickel, and cobalt into a US-controlled supply chain. This pattern of resource predation extends beyond the Philippines. In Venezuela, the US escalated military aggression, abducted President Nicolás Maduro, and now exerts control over the country’s oil outputs, boosting Venezuelan oil exports to the US while displacing Chinese offtake. In January 2026, under US control, Venezuelan oil exports climbed to about 800,000 barrels per day, with approximately 284,000 barrels per day going to the US, as Chinese imports fell. This shift serves US imperialist interests, recompenses major US oil companies such as Chevron, and entrenches Trump’s grip on Venezuelan natural wealth at the ePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

U.S. commission fights states on prediction markets: "We will see you in court"
CFTC chair Mike Selig said Tuesday that the commission is filing a friend-of-the-court brief in cases where "American prediction markets have been hit with an onslaught of state-led litigation." The CFTC will "defend its exclusive jurisdiction over these derivative markets," Selig said in a video post. "To those who seek to challenge our authority in this space, let me be clear — we will see you in court."
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/17/cftc-prediction-markets-mike-selig

US judge blocks deportation of Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi
The judge, Nina Froes, had ruled last Friday that the evidence that the Trump administration had submitted to the court was not admissible, due to an inability to “meet its burden of proving removability”. According to the judge’s order, the government failed to properly authenticate a memorandum purported to be signed by US secretary of state Marco Rubio.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/17/judge-mohsen-mahdawi

Randy Fine faces censure and resignation calls over post on Muslims and dogs
A wave of Democrats are calling for Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) to be formally reprimanded or to resign over a social media post he made saying he would choose dogs over Muslims. Fine posted on X on Sunday: “If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) in a statement Tuesday called Fine “a disgrace to the United States Congress” and “an Islamophobic, disgusting bigot.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5742244-randy-fine-censure-calls-muslims-dogs-post/
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Crypto super PAC wades into Illinois House primaries
The super PAC, Fairshake, will spend at least $1 million each against Illinois state Rep. La Shawn Ford, who is running to replace retiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The End of the Future
The United States has long since become a developed country undergoing underdevelopment. Life expectancy is falling. People sleeping on park benches, in subway cars, or by the side of the road are on the rise. Whole towns and small cities have died along with the industries that once gave them life. Highways, bridges, tunnels, and electrical grids — indeed, the entire material infrastructure of public life — are scandalously rotted. Public services are run down, closed, or auctioned off to private enterprises. Child labor, once thought extinct, an industrial medievalism of the sweatshop era, now shows up in nearly every sector of the economy from industrial laundries and auto-parts plants to fast-food eateries and construction sites. Adult jobs, once thought secure, got converted into various forms of precarious or temporary employment. Two-wage-earner families now earn what one-wage-earner families used to. Pensions guaranteeing a retirement income have either been replaced by ones tied to the fickle oscillations of the stock market or not replaced at all. The social safety net, a metaphorical exaggeration even in its best days, has become a Dickensian embarrassment. Rural America is despoiled terrain, abandoned or the site of superexploitation by logistics and distribution networks. “Deaths of despair” — through drug and alcohol addiction, suicide — have become epidemic, in cities and in the countryside. Rights once taken for granted — the right to vote, the right to join a union — are now contested or, for all practical purposes, denied. In the words of famed management consultant Peter Drucker, “No class in history has ever risen faster than the blue-collar worker. And no class in history has ever fallen faster.” All within less than a century. Back in the days of tsarist Russia, during the late nineteenth century, a revolutionary movement known as the Narodniks (the word meant “going to the people”) tried to arouse the Russian peasantry to overthrow the tsar. It didn’t catch on. One activist of that era mourned that “history goes too slow.” We might say about our own moment that history has gone in reverse. This in turn has generated a peculiar political response both on the Right, where it might be expected, but also on the Left, where it is strikingly strange. Call it “the politics of restoration.”
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San Francisco Teachers’ Strike Ends with Major Gains
San Francisco teachers will return to work on Wednesday following the end of their strike, securing important wins like sanctuary protections for immigrant students and higher pay. The strike created a sense of solidarity and empowerment that can extend to unions and social movements in the Bay Area and beyond.
https://www.leftvoice.org/san-francisco-teachers-strike-ends-with-major-gains/

Pelosi's new campaign: Boost Newsom for 2028
Pelosi has one of the strongest donor networks in Democratic politics. She's been a key validator for Newsom as he's emerged on the national stage and become one of President Trump's most visible foes. "She's a Gavin fan-girl and she doesn't crush on many people," one former Pelosi aide said. "I will say this: She's hardly ever wrong. When she says she sees something, it's a real thing." Former Pelosi aides told Axios the former speaker was always eager to publicly vouch for Newsom whenever asked, and that she's privately expressed admiration for how he has navigated Trump with a combination of defiance and charm.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/15/pelosis-new-campaign-boost-newsom-for-2028
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Trump donor who criticized offshoring to close Ohio plant and move work to China
Paulson made a significant portion of his wealth by betting against the housing market that crashed in 2008. A longtime Trump donor, he served on Trump’s economic policy team during his first presidential campaign and raised $50.5m for the president at his Palm Beach home in April 2024. He was in the running to serve as secretary of treasury during Trump’s second term but withdrew because of “complex financial obligations”.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/16/john-paulson-conn-selmer-ohio-factory-china-trump

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As the Nuestra América Flotilla Prepares to Defy the U.S. Blockade, Let’s Build an Anti-Imperialist Movement in Solidarity with Cuba
Since last month, Cuba has been experiencing one of its deepest crises ever as a result of a U.S.-forced oil embargo. The goal is to deepen the social and economic crisis in Cuba so that the U.S. can coerce the country into bowing to imperialist interests and to pave the way for a full-on restoration of capitalism. Trump has threatened tariffs against any country that supplies oil to the country. Mexico has completely cut off critical oil deliveries, and Brazil has made steep drops in their shipments. Recently, the U.S. blocked Venezuelan oil shipments to the island. These moves make these countries’ complicit in Trump’s imperialist aggression, which demonstrates the need for an urgent anti-imperialist response organized by the working class and masses around the world. Amid this crisis, several organizations have announced the Nuestra América flotilla to sail to Cuba with food, medicine, and other essential supplies. The flotilla is set to sail next month from ports across the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, with the aim of reaching Cuba in March as a living challenge to the U.S. blockade and a concrete act of solidarity with the Cuban people.
https://www.leftvoice.org/nuestra-america-flotilla-prepares-to-break-u-s-blockade-of-cuba/

Palestine Action Has Defeated the Government: What Happens Next?
As the proscription of Palestine Action has been ruled unlawful, a legal expert from Cage International told Novara Media this means the thousands of arrests and hundreds of charges against people protesting the ban should never have taken place, because the law itself was unlawful. Once the ban is fully lifted, the actions of thousands of people holding placards that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” will be treated as perfectly lawful – as if the ban had never happened. People who have been arrested under the Terrorism Act will also have grounds to sue the relevant police force once the proscription order is fully quashed. Police forces could be opened up to “thousands of legal claims”, former government lawyer and co-founder of Defend Our Juries Tim Crosland told Novara Media. “The basic principlPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

UPS preparing to offer second driver buyout, as it plans 30,000 layoffs in 2026
During a quarterly earnings meeting on January 27, UPS Chief Financial Officer Brian Dykes announced that the company plans to cut another 30,000 jobs this year and implement a second driver buyout program to accelerate the process. The Teamsters responded on Monday by announcing they were filing a lawsuit against the buyout.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/02/14/blpl-f14.html

Courts Have Ruled That ICE Illegally Jailed People More Than 4,400 Times in Less Than Five Months
Judges across the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since the start of October that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has illegally detained immigrants, according to a Reuters investigation published Saturday. As President Donald Trump carries out his unprecedented “mass deportation” crusade, the number of people in ICE custody ballooned to 68,000 this month, up 75% from when he took office.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-illegal-arrests

Colorado meatpacking workers authorize strike over horrific plant conditions despite deportation threat
Workers at the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colorado, the third largest beef plant in the US, voted 99 percent in favor of strike action this past week. The largely immigrant workforce endures extremely hazardous conditions for extremely low pay, with the constant threat of deportation by ICE agents.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/02/14/hkit-f14.html

Syracuse Common Council votes to install Axon readers despite pushback
Tensions arose as around 20 protesters interrupted the meeting, causing the council to briefly adjourn and remove, but not arrest, two people, syracuse.com reported. Several local activists and political groups organized the protest, which urged councilors to “melt” the contracts with companies that collaborate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Episode 522: Fool Me Nonce (TrueAnon Podcast)
We have a quick peel session with Marcus Barnett about Keir Starmer’s multiple pedophile problems and the amazing future in store for the greatest island in the UK.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-522-fool-150662644

For Migrant Workers in Spain, Gender-Based Violence Is Rife
Aged eighteen, just three months after giving birth to her second child, Dalisay emigrated to Spain. Leaving her daughters in the care of her sister in the Philippines, she started a job as a live-in domestic worker in Madrid, sending money home each month. Not long after moving into her employer’s family address, the husband began an unusual routine. “He would wait until his wife was away on a business trip and then walk around the house naked,” she recalls, scrunching a tissue in her hand. Dalisay felt uncomfortable about her employer’s behavior but hadn’t yet recognized it as gender-based violence. “I was scared and I knew I had to get out of that situation,” she says, dabbing her tears. “If I hadn’t, I think something much worse could have happened.” Teresa, sixty-four, a qualified English teacher from the Philippines, has been employed as a domestic worker in Madrid for three decades. In one job, she was repeatedly exposed to her employer’s genitals, in his home. “The first time it happened, I was very frightened,” she recalls. “I dropped my basket of laundry and ran away, I left the house. I didn’t know what to do. It was a very scary time.” But when asked if she considers this as gender-based violence, she shakes her head — initially not believing it was. Teresa and Dalisay didn’t consent to seeing this. Yet both wrestled with these ex-employers’ right to be naked in their own homes, where public-private boundaries are blurred. What they experienced could be defined less as nudity than exhibitionism: a compulsion to behave sexually or expose one’s genitals in public. If this happened in their own homes, this was also someone else’s workplace.
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/migrants-spain-gender-based-violence

Germany's veil of silence over Israel's atrocities is now a blood-soaked shroud
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Puerto Rico Criminalizes Abortion As Murder
Puerto Rico’s Governor Jenniffer Gonzalez signed Project 923 into the 18-2026 law, criminalizing abortion as murder and drawing strong condemnation from human rights groups, who deem it a gross violation of bodily autonomy and due process.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/puerto-rico-criminalizes-abortion/

Cuba hardliners ask Trump's DOJ to indict Raul Castro
"We respectfully request the Department of Justice consider indicting Raul Castro, who is responsible for the cold-blooded murders of three Americans and a U.S. permanent resident in the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shoot-down of two civilian aircraft by Cuban Mig fighter jets," the letter said. The letter was written authored by Miami Republicans Mario Diaz-Balart, Carlos Gimenez and Maria Elvira Salazar. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican from New York who is of Cuban descent, co-signed the letter.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/13/cuba-trump-raul-castro-indict
https://archive.ph/zrpuU

Mistrial declared in the case of Stanford students charged after pro-Palestinian protests in 2024
The jury voted 9 to 3 to convict on a felony charge of vandalism and 8 to 4 to convict on a felony charge of conspiracy to trespass. After deliberating for five days, jurors said they could not reach a verdict. Judge Hanley Chew asked each one if more time deliberating would help break the impasse, and all answered, “No.”
https://apnews.com/article/stanford-propalestinian-protest-trial-39368c0f262ec66f4c2935622ce3779d

‘No Concessions’: San Francisco Teachers End 4-Day Strike After Winning Raise, Family Healthcare
United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) said its bargaining team reached a two-year tentative deal with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) at around 5:30 am local time Friday. The 120 public schools that were closed due to the walkout by around 6,000 teacherPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

All Charges Against Baki Have Been Dropped!
The trial was supposed to last until the evening. But on Tuesday, Baki Devrimkaya emerged from Berlin’s Regional Court before noon, where he was greeted by dozens of supporters with banners and chants. The case had been dismissed—resulting in neither a guilty nor a not guilty verdict. Instead, the charges will disappear in exchange for a €450 donation to medico international, an NGO that opposes the genocide in Gaza. Back in December 2023, Baki had been a steward at a pro-Palestinian protest at the Free University of Berlin. Right-wing agitators attempted to disrupt the event by destroying posters featuring images of murdered Palestinian children, insulting students as “Nazis,” and physically attacking stewards. Multiple videos show Baki standing in front of these bullies, remaining peaceful even as they shoved him. Absurdly, Baki was charged with “assault” and “insult.” At a first trial last June, these charges had to be dropped as the evidence showed the opposite: Baki was the one being assaulted and insulted. Instead, the judge convicted Baki of “coercion” for standing in front of a person with outstretched arms for about 50 seconds. He was sentenced to a €450 fine. This would create a dangerous and bizarre legal precedent, potentially criminalizing every form of stewarding at left-wing events. Baki appealed the charges, and yesterday his three lawyers were able to get the coercion charge dropped as well. The right-wing paper Tagespiegel is lying when it claims in a headline that Baki was sentenced to a fine—there was no determination of guilt.
https://www.leftvoice.org/all-charges-against-baki-have-been-dropped/

Majority want major shift left– but can the opportunity be seized?
AS THE Westminster political crisis unfolds, the hopes and fears of the capitalist class were spelt out plainly in two separate articles in The Telegraph, appearing on the same day this week. The first was headlined “Why bond markets may be Starmer’s closest friend.” The Prime Minister has indeed run out of others. The article’s argument was simple. The international money markets will rally to try to save Britain’s useless premier. The omnipotent markets threw a wobbly when Rachel Reeves burst into tears at Prime Minister’s Questions last yearPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US antitrust chief Gail Slater ousted from Trump justice department
Her defenestration followed a strained relationship with the attorney general, Pam Bondi, who had reiterated to the White House in recent weeks that their differences over the direction and management of the division were irreconcilable. Slater also found herself isolated outside the department, most notably with JD Vance – once her most powerful ally – who grew weary of hearing complaints that Slater had invoked his name, one of the people said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/12/us-antitrust-gail-slater-ousted-trump-administration

NewYork-Presbyterian nurses defeat strong-arming by NYSNA bureaucracy, continue strike
On Wednesday, nurses at New York-Presbyterian Hospital overwhelmingly rejected the sellout contract, which leaders of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) tried to impose through an entirely illegitimate vote. Out of approximately 4,200 NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) nurses who were eligible to cast ballots, 3,099 voted to reject the deal and 867 voted to approve it.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/02/12/vphf-f12.html

DHS shutdown imminent as Senate leaves town without deal
Despite two weeks of negotiating, Democrats said Thursday that they were no closer to a deal with Republicans to avert a shutdown. Democratic leaders are demanding reforms to ICE. The standoff over funding for DHS started after a string of federal law enforcement shootings in U.S. cities this year, particularly the killing of two American citizens in Minneapolis in January.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/12/shutdown-homeland-security-senate-negotiations
https://archive.ph/soYn7

Trump revokes US scientific finding behind climate change regulations
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The Only Option is a Total Existential Confrontation: PFLP
‘Our people have no choice but to engage in a comprehensive existential confrontation’ The Popular Front: The decisions of the “actual annexation” represent an essential shift in the level of Zionist criminality and the biggest escalation since 1967; it is a declaration of all-out war against Palestinian existence, and the transition from military administration to direct colonial sovereignty, with the aim of finishing off our people and cause once and for all These new Zionist criminal measures bury the “Oslo” phase and the illusions of a settlement forever, and clearly reveal a Zionist plan to impose comprehensive security, military, and administrative guardianship, through which they will transform our cities and villages into ethnic ghettos run by Zionist war criminals.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/28192/

Socialists in Latin America Demand Brazil and Mexico Send Oil to Cuba Now!
After the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores in Venezuela, and the threats against Iran and Greenland, Trump is now once again targeting Cuba. The United States is reinforcing its criminal embargo against Cuba, now sanctioning companies and countries that sell oil to the island, directly or indirectly. Mexico stopped sending oil to Cuba, once again aligning with the criminal economic offensive driven by Donald Trump’s authoritarian administration against the island. President Claudia Sheinbaum first tried to deny the news, before finally confirming it. She has publicized that Mexico is sending boxes of food to Cuba, a PR move for Mexico, This suspension of energy supplies coincides with an executive order from Washington, which threatens to impose punitive tariffs on countries that sell crude oil to Cuba. This measure is designed to deepen Cuba’s isolation, escalating the decades-long criminal and illegal blockade. Economic collapse is now very likely. Furthermore, the Trump administration is threatening sanctions against companies and countries that sell oil to the island, which could include the Brazilian company Petrobras. Oil is essential to guaranteeing energy, transportation, hospitals, and basic living conditions for the Cuban people. The United States is using this dependence on oil as a weapon of economic warfare. The U,S. sanctPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US officials lift 10-day closure of El Paso airspace after balloon mistaken for drone
While some officials claimed that Mexican cartel drones invaded US airspace, in recent days a balloon was reportedly mistaken for a drone. The initial, vague citation of security concerns prompted still more questions as conflicting narratives surrounding this surprising closure and its abrupt reversal have since emerged.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/11/faa-close-airspace-el-paso-texas-airport

'It's time to get aggressive', Border Patrol agent says in Chicago shooting video
Martinez, a Montessori school teacher in Chicago, was following the agents to warn residents of their presence when the collision occurred. In the bodycam video released Tuesday, one agent could be heard saying "do something, bitch" shortly before the vehicles made contact. An agent in the vehicle, driven by Border Patrol agent Charles Exum and bearing an Uber carshare sign, said they were being boxed in. "It's time to get aggressive," the agent said, adding, "we're going to make contact."
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/its-time-get-aggressive-border-patrol-agent-says-chicago-shooting-video-2026-02-11/

Right-Wing Catholic Off Trump Religion Panel After Israel-Gaza Remarks at Antisemitism Event
Noting that Israeli forces have killed “tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza,” Prejean Boller asked panel participant and University of California Los Angeles law student Yitzchok Frankel, who is Jewish, “In a country built on religious liberty and the First Amendment, do you believe someone can stand firmly against antisemitism… and at the same time, condemn the mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza, or reject political Zionism, or not support the political state of Israel?” “Or do you believe that speaking out about what many Americans view as genocide in Gaza should be treated as antisemitic?”
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