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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.
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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.

Claim of Responsibility for Arson Attack on “Israeli” Business in Exarchia
Palestine still continues to struggle. Against such an attack, which aims to annihilate every human presence, to eliminate every trace of the cultural element of the Palestinian people. A continuous crime against humanity, by the Zionists who expand their occupation of the territory of Palestine every day. In a parallel universe, the Greek state pretends not to hear, not to see, not to know anything and makes sure to support the crimes of the Zionists in every way for the sake of the “strategy of the alliance”. It gives free rein to kidnap, illegally detain, humiliate and torture even European activists, while Greek shipowners unmolested conclude agreements with the Zionists. The big businessmen of tourism rub their hands in front of the bloody money left by the thousands of IDF soldiers who come to the country for vacation. The same goes for the big real estate owners and brokers who enrich themselves with the “Israeli” capital invested in the country.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/33305/

Conspiracy Theories, Recriminations and Insults Fly As the Far Right Melts Down Over Makerfield
In the far right’s warped and exaggerated fantasy world, one of two brave men stand between Britain and Andy Burnham’s Muslamic socialist hordes sweeping the country on a fleet of publicly owned buses. It’s time to choose your fighter. In one corner, we have Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader who casually accepted a £5m gift from a Thailand based crypto-billionaire because he thought he was a special boy. In the other is Rupert Lowe, leader of even-further-right Restore Britain, who recently told Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg on GB News he would be “a true Tory if I were anything”. These are the last great hopes of the British working class, if you believe people with names like MarmiteReverieBrit with 500,000 followers on X. Restore Britain was the result of a messy split between Lowe and Farage that made the shenanigans in Your Party look like gentle banter. Lowe’s party has since attracted the support of the world’s richest man Elon Musk and some of Britain’s most openly racist influencers and activists, and has cornered the market for saying uncompromisingly rightwing things that bait social media algorithms. The deep personal animus betwPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Trump taps ally Bill Pulte to serve as top intelligence chief
Pulte – who has no known experience in national security – has used his role at the powerful housing agency, which oversees regulations of the federal housing lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to publicly level a string of extraordinary allegations at Trump’s political opponents and enemies.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/trump-bill-pulte-director-national-intelligence

Amazon's Ring sued over facial recognition feature, latest privacy concern for doorbell maker
Familiar Faces, which is optional, uses artificial intelligence to identify ​and remember people so that when they return to a home or a ⁠business, notifications can include specific names. Those affected “did not consent to have their privacy rights ​violated at the entrance way,” according to the suit. “Millions of other Americans passed by a Ring ​security camera and unknowingly had their facial recognition information collected.”
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/amazons-ring-sued-over-facial-recognition-feature-latest-privacy-concern-2026-06-02/

Super PAC Network Backing Connie Chan Received Hundreds of Thousands from AIPAC
San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan has pledged not to accept support from “AIPAC or its lobbyists and representatives” in her bid for California’s 11th congressional district, but federal campaign records show that the pro-Israel organization is working behind the scenes to funnel money to support her candidacy.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/aipac-connie-chan-san-francisco-primary

Landlord endangers tenants in condemned 292-unit apartment complex in Kalamazoo, Michigan
The inspections that triggered the condemnation were prompted by tenant complaints to Kalamazoo Township on April 28, according to records obtained by Fox17. According to News WWMT, several tenants had complained to management for moPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Dispatches from Delaney Hall: Confronting ICE and State Police
Following the strikers’ consistent demand to meet with Governor Mikie Sherill — who, four months ago, said ICE agents need to be held accountable for their illegal actions, and who, two months ago, made it illegal for ICE agents to wear masks only after pressure from the movement — we joined their call at the gates for her to show up and meet with them as they invoke their rights for medical care, nourishing food free of worms, and basic accountability for the innumerable human rights abuses inside. Sherrill took four days to show up. She asked to go in. Staff apparently told her no. She got in front of cameras near the sidewalk to say she’d ask again (at some other time in an unspecified future). And then she left. Monday night, after Martín was relocated to the Elizabeth Detention Center, more demonstrators arrived and visitation hours for families were closed, citing the demonstrations as a risk — not, of course, their coerced labor or their shameful provisions. (As of the time of this writing, visitation hours have still not been restored.) Tuesday evening, after teaching all day, a coworker and I went straight to Delaney Hall and joined the line of people who locked arms opposite ICE agents, the majority of whom covered their faces with masks. We chanted and held a line at the south gate to keep vans from leaving with more people. That evening, we were chased across the street — away from Delaney Hall — and attacked. Some of us were singled out.
https://www.leftvoice.org/dispatches-from-delaney-hall-confronting-ice-and-state-police/

Authorities in Minnesota Kill 9 People, Shoot 14 in Last Six Months
Law enforcement officers in Minnesota have shot at least 14 people across the state in the past six months, killing 9 of them. With the exception of three shootings by federal officers in January, two of which were fatal, the other 11 shootings were conducted by police, sheriffs, and deputies. No less than 1,201 people were killed by police in the U.S. last year, after 2024 set a record high with American police killing at least 1,271 people. Officers were charged with a crime in 8 of the 1,201 killings in 2025, according to Mapping Police Violence.
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Schumer Among Top Dems Who Marched at NYC Israel Parade With Accused ‘War Criminal’ Smotrich
The Israeli government sent about 10 members of the Israeli Knesset to take part in the event, including two members of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit Party. Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu, who said last year that Israel was “rushing toward Gaza being wiped out,” was also part of the delegation.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-parade-nyc

Minnesota Republicans rebuked for Derek Chauvin moment of silence
More recently, however, Chauvin has become something of a cause celebre for political rightwingers and conservative influencers, including Ben Shapiro, who has asserted Floyd was not suffocated but died of a pre-existing medical condition. Calls for Trump to pardon Chauvin have been amplified by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and ally of the US president. Analysts say such a move by Trump would not secure Chauvin’s release from prison but would see him transferred instead to a state facility.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/minnesota-republicans-derek-chauvin-moment-of-silence

Millions pour into Nevada primary ads. A third of the money is untraceable.
It reflects the increasingly prominent role that so-called “dark money” groups are playing in American elections, especially since a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling gave more leeway to corporate donations to these groups. These entities do not have to disclose their donors because they are registered as a 501(c)(4), a type of nonprofit that can raise unlimited funds and lobby on issues that exclusively “promote social welfare.”
https://apnews.com/article/nevada-campaign-ads-dark-money-8ae26858db2eb894c49d75bb9dd27c53

North Carolina police officer seen punching woman during arrest faces assault charge
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation announced Monday that 22-year-old Karson Hyder was chPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

155 years since the Paris Commune: Who shall rule society?
One hundred and fifty-five years later, the 1871 Paris Commune remains one of the clearest guides to understanding both the possibilities and the limits of revolutionary struggle. Its enduring significance lies not simply in the fact that it was the first historical attempt by the working class to establish its own power and confront the bourgeois state in practice, nor in the extraordinary heroism of the Communards, but in the lessons it provided on the central question of every revolution: What must be done with bourgeois power?
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/05/155-years-since-paris-commune-who-shall-rule-society.html

Burning Britain: This record heatwave is a sign of what’s to come
Up and down the country, many people have been enjoying the sun over the bank holiday. As one of the most overworked populations in Europe, this rest has been very welcome. But this week’s temperatures – with highs of 35°C breaking the record for the hottest temperature in May – are exposing how unfit Britain is for the threat of global warming, and how the impacts of climate change are felt unequally. Hell on earth: During the infamous 2022 heatwave – when temperatures hit 40°C – 3,000 excess deaths were reported. 999 operators reported a 500 percent spike in heat-related calls. Studies on ‘heat mortality’ show that the most vulnerable to high temperatures include those living in the most deprived households, the elderly, those with chronic health conditions, as well as black and Asian communities. If you’re lucky enough to live in good health, in a large house in the suburbs with air-conditioning, or drive to work, then heatwaves are heavenly. But if you live in cramped housing, have to commute on stuffy public transport, or suffer from a chronic health condition, heatwaves can be hell on earth.
https://communist.red/burning-britain-this-record-heatwave-is-a-sign-of-whats-to-come/

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Chapter VI (Victory of Bonaparte)
The coalition with the Montagne and the pure republicans, to whiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

House GOP stealthily moves to reshape US military in ‘unprecedented’ fashion: report
That provision is titled the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,” and according to Ben Freeman, a foreign policy analyst at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, it would “provide a higher level of military-industrial integration [with Israel] than the U.S. has with any other country in the world.”
https://www.rawstory.com/israel-2676973301/
https://archive.ph/dbOhv

Conviction of Spokane ICE Protesters Raises Free Speech Concerns
With the conviction of three anti-ICE protesters in Spokane, Washington on federal “conspiracy” charges Thursday, civil rights advocates and legal experts fear that the Trump administration may have just been handed a powerful tool to criminalize dissent. Jac Archer, Justice Forral, and Bajun Mavalwalla II, nicknamed the “Spokane 3,” were indicted last year for their actions at a protest in June 2025, where they attempted to physically obstruct ICE agents from transporting two Venezuelan immigrants to an ICE processing facility in Tacoma.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/spokane-3-convicted-conspiracy

ICE agent charged in Operation Metro Surge shooting is arrested in Texas
Castro was taken into custody by law enforcement officials from Texas and Minnesota Friday morning on charges of assault in the second degree and falsely reporting a crime in connection with the shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis during an attempted immigration arrest on Jan. 14. The incident occurred during the Department of Homeland Security’s three-month-long immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, which the agency dubbed as “Operation Metro Surge.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-agent-charged-operation-metro-surge-shooting-arrested-texas-rcna347567

New Jersey state police assert control outside migrant detention center
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Regime Change Through Indictment: Raúl Castro and the BTTR Flights
The indictment, which also nets five Cuban air force pilots, alleges that aircraft of the ostensibly humanitarian organisation BTTR (Brothers to the Rescue) were fired upon by Cuban MiG aircraft on February 24, 1996. Three had taken off from South Florida heading to Cuba that day. Two unarmed civilian Cessna aircraft were destroyed, allegedly flying outside Cuban territory. Three American citizens and one resident of the US were killed. The charges include one count of conspiracy to kill US nationals, two counts of destruction of an aircraft and four counts of murder. At the time, Castro was the Minister of Defence overseeing the Cuba Revolutionary Air and Air Defence Force (DAAFAR). He is said to have ordered the five pilots to follow and eliminate the three BTTR aircraft. The indictment does a superb job in making glaring omissions. There is no mention of the nervous mood of US officials at the time, notably those at the Federal Aviation Administration, State Department and White House. No mention, either, of the compounding recklessness of the BTTR missions. The flights were intended to seek and assist Cubans sailing to the US and imperilled at sea. They were, however, unauthorised and deemed provocative to the Cuban government, not least because they also pursued a propaganda campaign in Cuban airspace. FAA records made available by the invaluable offices of the National Security Archive and used in William LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh’s Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana (2014) are not exactly glowing about the BTTR, led by its obstinate founder, José Basulto.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/28/regime-change-through-indictment-raul-castro-and-the-bttr-flights/

Tony Blair Is a Demon the British Left Needs to Exorcize
Blair’s latest intervention in British politics takes the form of a rambling diatribe, almost six thousand words in length, that purports to offer counsel to an ailing Labour Party. He published the screed on the website of his own Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, avoiding the need to engage with anyone who might have dared to suggest the need for some cuts. In this case,Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

‘We won’t stop until they’re free’: protesters outside a New Jersey ICE facility in their own words
Masked protesters circulated, handing out water bottles, personal protective equipment and oranges. A few attenders who travel across the country to ICE protests wherever they occur – such as a man with a karaoke machine in a giraffe costume – trolled the ICE agents, successfully getting a giggle out of one of the few agents with his face exposed. Passing tractor-trailers on the busy industrial road punctuated protest chants with long, extended honking in solidarity.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/28/new-jersey-ice-protesters

Workers at Alabama factory vote against union representation
The election results, which were certified May 15, dealt with representation by the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers. Employees voted 36-35 against union representation, according to the NLRB website. The union represents nearly 50,000 workers in heavy industry, shipbuilding, manufacturing, railroads, mining and other industries. The election was limited to 83 full-time and regular part-time production, maintenance, and quality employees at the factory. Seventy-one cast ballots.
https://www.al.com/news/2026/05/workers-at-alabama-factory-vote-against-union-representation.html
https://archive.ph/1zO3O

Israel Day Parade puts NYC's political rifts and police response on full display
City officials said there were currently no known threats against the parade. … Citing threats against Jews, Tisch said this year’s parade will get the largest security detail the NYPD has ever assigned to the event, with the largest number of officers, the largest number of heavy weapons teams ever deployed and comprehensive screening of every person entering the route, including spectators, vendors, participants and press.
https://gothamist.com/news/israel-day-parade-pPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

1039 - Novel Gustatory Experiences feat. Bryan Quinby & Chris James (5/25/26) (Chapo Trap House)
Bryan Quinby and Chris James from Guys are here for an analysis of the newest “assassination attempt” on President Trump. We also talk about lunch, early Chapo touring memories, and cap things off with a discussion of Tyler Austin Harper’s ode to Miller Lite in The Atlantic.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/1039-novel-gustatory

The Democrats Are Determined Not to Learn From Their Failure
Beyond vague calls for “addressing cost-of-living concerns” and pabulum about proving to Americans that the Democrats “think like them, with similar passions and priorities, and politics,” there is no real introspection about what exactly it was about Harris’s campaign that led Americans to reject her. There’s an early point about the fact that policies usually associated with Democrats — like Medicaid expansion, a higher minimum wage, and sick leave — have been voted for directly even by conservative voters, but there is no discussion of the fact that these policies were more or less absent from the actual Harris campaign. The report opens with a pocket history of the party’s seesawing fortunes over the past decades, but it’s remarkably devoid of even the barest material political content. Barack Obama’s failure wasn’t related to his austerity push or letting bankers off the hook after the 2008 financial crisis; it was just a vague failure by Democrats at “cementing a relationship with working Americans.”
The 2016 loss was a result of an unspecified “series of dramatic events, massive election interference, and poor strategy,” not Hillary Clinton’s closeness to corporate interests and awful foreign policy record. Shadowy outside interference is likewise cast as the reason for the party’s ongoing failures today, a “conscious effort by foreign and domestic actors to shape electoral choices” through a “barrage of extremist misinformation,” apparently via X. The authors extol the Democrats’ rightward lurch under Bill Clinton, for “turning the tide of defeat and ushering in a new era of political achievement” by working to “reclaim the vital center of American discourse,” which “is where most people live.” But there’s little consideration of how the “achievements” of that era fed iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US has the troops in place to attack Cuba
The armada in the region is slightly smaller than it was in January when the U.S. captured Maduro. But the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier strike group entered the Caribbean in May, along with several guided missile destroyers and cruisers that can launch precision missiles at targets onshore. An array of advanced American drones and surveillance aircraft have also circled Cuba for months, according to flight tracking sites. The USS Kearsarge amphibious ships and escorts, which carry 2,500 Marines, are off the coast of Virginia preparing for a new deployment, and could replace some ships heading home.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/27/cuba-us-military-attack-00938740
https://archive.ph/ovkFv

After protests outside synagogues, New York makes it a crime to block entry to a house of worship
The governor signed the law after a series of protests outside synagogues hosting real estate events promoting emigration to Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Pro-Palestinian groups have argued that the events are part of a yearslong campaign to drive Arabs out of Israel and the land it controls. They also maintain that the events facilitate the growth of illegal Jewish settlements in occupied territories. … The new law creates a misdemeanor criminal charge for people who interfere with access to houses of worship.
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-protest-buffer-zones-worship-houses-496d550e0c97aa2b250e7e36d445239d

US draws up plans to halt immigration, customs processing at 'sanctuary city' airports
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the Trump administration is drawing up plans to stop processing international travelers and cargo at ​major U.S. airports in "sanctuary cities" that have declined to cooperate with an immigration crackdown. The ‌move could effectively halt international air travel and commerce at major airports in Democratic states, with millions of foreign tourists expected to stream in for next month's start of thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

France: Statement by Nikos Maziotis for Evening of Support for Anarchist Prisoners
From Domokos prison in Greece, anarchist prisoner Nikos Maziotis sent a message of solidarity on the occasion of the Let’s Make a Front evening organized by Secours Rouge Toulouse in support of anarchist prisoners around the world.
"Dear comrades, thank you for inviting me to the event you are organizing and I send you a big hug. I also send a big hug to all detainees, revolutionaries, anarchists, anti-capitalists around the world. There is a direct link between the struggle and solidarity for the release of political prisoners and the revolutionary struggle for the overthrow of the international system of state and capital. As we used to say here in the past, whoever forgets the prisoners of social and class war also forgets the war itself. However, unfortunately, the relationship between solidarity, imprisoned activists and the fight against the state and capital is not obvious and does not apply in many cases to at least some of those who define themselves as a movement. Regarding solidarity, speaking of the Greek space, there are all kinds of divisions regarding the position towards imprisoned activists. Divisions linked to the differentiation between legal and illegal means of struggle, armed struggle and urban guerrilla warfare, their defense or the invocation of their innocence. …"
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/33120/

The international significance of Erdoğan’s preemptive coup against the CHP in Türkiye
The regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Türkiye is staging a preemptive political coup before the eyes of the entire world. Erdoğan first removed the elected leadership of the Republican People’s Party (CHP)—the main parliamentary opposition party and leading party in the polls—through a politically motivated court ruling, then ordered riot police to forcibly seize the party’s headquarters. What is unfolding in Türkiye is not a purely national event but a manifestation of an international collapse of democratic forms of rule rooted in the deepening crisis of the capitalist system. US President Donald Trump, having lost the November 2020 elections, mounted a failed coup on January 6, 2021, seeking to remain in power illegally. Erdoğan, for his part, is attempting to forestall a likPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

As US stock market hits new highs, 2 of 3 Americans are cutting back on spending, survey shows
A separate gauge of consumer sentiment released last week by the University of Michigan fell to a record low this month. Soaring gas and food costs have worsened inflation that is outpacing the average growth in paychecks, reducing most Americans’ purchasing power. Americans have soured on President Trump’s economic policies, polls show, potentially creating problems for Republicans heading into the midterm elections.
https://apnews.com/article/confidence-inflation-economy-4f681cecfa63fe251f5bb12bb4b949c6

Trump officials to send Ebola-exposed Americans to Kenya rather than bring them home: NYT
The Trump administration wants to send U.S. citizens living abroad who are exposed to the deadly Ebola virus to Kenya rather than bring them home, according to new reporting by the New York Times. Three people familiar with the Trump administration's plans spoke with the NYT, which noted that previous administrations brought Americans home for observation and treatment.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-officials-to-send-ebola-exposed-americans-to-kenya-rather-than-bring-them-home-nyt/

Trump administration proposes NDAs for federal workers to crack down on leaks to journalists
Former government employees would need "written permission from an authorized agency official" to speak to journalists about information the Trump administration deems "confidential" after leaving their jobs, according to the draft. Former employees who violate that rule could face civil and criminal penalties, according to the draft. The U.S. government would be entitled to all "royalties" that employees receive from disclosing information that violates the agreement, according to the draft. The OPM did not immediately ​offer further explanation.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-proposes-non-disclosure-agrPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Party of Labour of Austria, Against the radical cuts at universities
As part of the federal government’s massive attacks on the working class with the new budget, universities are now coming under fire following a series of anti-people measures. Earlier this week, it became public knowledge that universities, colleges and university hospitals will be affected by cuts on a scale never before seen in history. The announced cuts in the higher education sector reflect the interests of capital, which seek to further commercialise education, science and public services under the pretext of supposed budgetary constraints. Here, too, the contradictions of capitalist crisis policy are evident: whilst billions are being made available for rearmament and subsidies for corporations, students and staff at universities, colleges and university hospitals are expected to bear the costs of war and crisis. Universities are already underfunded in many cases, and an increasing number of job positions are funded through so-called third-party funding. Universities are thus becoming upstream research institutions for the monopolies that fund university jobs as long as the respective research project is in their interest.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/Party-of-Labour-of-Austria-Against-the-radical-cuts-at-universities/

Is British Steel the Next Green Betrayal?
Just days after Britain’s right-wing party Reform won a huge number of local government seats in Lincolnshire, home of the UK’s last remaining coal-fired steel mill, Keir Starmer’s Labour government announced it will bring forward legislation to nationalize British Steel. But rather than save the mill and Labour’s remaining votes in the region, the move puts thousands of jobs at risk. British Steel has been in financial trouble for the past half decade. The ailing firm was bought by the Chinese steelmaking company Jingye Group in 2020. But despite a range of government financial incentives, Jingye claimed they were unable to run the mill profitably, losing around £700,000 a day. In 2022, the then-Conservative government entered into negotiations with Jingye Group to support the transition from coal-fired blast furnaces to electric arc furnaces, to ensure legal climate targets for decarbonization wPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Protesters clash with ICE agents outside New Jersey detention center
Tensions mounted late on Sunday, however, when dozens of protesters heard that guards were preparing to move detainee Soto – who on Friday announced a hunger and work strike. The strike is demanding the immediate release of elderly and young detainees, as well as those with medical conditions, according to The City. Soto’s wife, Gabriela, has been organizing protests outside the facility. Gabriela , 28, tried visiting him on Sunday and as she was in the queue, spotted a man being pushed into a van.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/25/new-jersey-ice-immigration-protest

Rideshare drivers unionize in Massachusetts, creating the App Driver’s Union
The ADU will represent more than 70,000 rideshare drivers in Massachusetts, meaning it will be able to sit at the bargaining table with companies like Uber and Lyft to negotiate on the drivers’ behalf. The move comes nearly 18 months after voters in Massachusetts approved a ballot question that gave rideshare drivers the right to form unions.
https://whdh.com/news/rideshare-drivers-unionize-in-massachusetts-creating-the-app-drivers-union/

Dems eyeing 2028 bids court Warren
Both potential contenders for president are more moderate than Warren, a frequent target of President Trump and conservatives because of her push for consumer protections and corporate regulation. Warren also has been talking with former Biden and Obama officials about how a future Democratic president could reshape the federal government in light of Trump's DOGE cuts, a person familiar with the discussions told us.
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/24/democrats-2028-contenders-warren
https://archive.ph/uFL1W

OpenAI-linked PAC doubles down in Kentucky
Leading the Future — which has close ties with OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz — has had more success in GPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Fatah’s Eighth Conference: A Stark Expression of the Defeat of the Comprador Class and the Fragmentation of the Movement
The division within Fatah is not merely an organizational dispute or a difference in viewpoints, as some attempt to market it, but rather a reflection of the collapse of an entire project founded on the illusion of the “independent state” and the Oslo Accords. It is the project of a comprador Palestinian class that stole all Palestinian institutions, seized the keys to the prisons and the seal of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and whose functional role is to entrench the reality of occupation while securing its own interests and privileges. The movement that once led the “Palestinian national project” has, under the dominance of a parasitic stratum, individual leadership, and bureaucratic security apparatuses, been transformed into a crisis-ridden framework devoid of legitimacy and national direction, disconnected from the pulse of the Palestinian street and from the liberation struggle taking place on the ground. It is even disconnected from Fatah’s own base and supporters. The loud popular question today is: where is the movement while the Palestinian people are subjected to a genocide?
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/33047/

Congress Is Trying to Preempt State Robotruck Regulations
After months of industry lobbying, House lawmakers inserted a provision into a must-pass transportation funding bill that would block states’ from setting safety standards for self-driving trucks, buses, and other commercial vehicles — despite mounting calls for tougher safeguards. On Sunday, House lawmakers announced a deal on a congressional funding package for surface transportation and highways, which would determine policy and spending for the country’s roads, bridges, trains, and highways for the next five years. Buried in the one-thousand-page legislation was a provision that would grant a longtime wish of the autonomous vehicle industry: override state autonomous commercial vehicle regulations and instead install a light-touch national framework allowing nearly unrestricted expansion of self-driving trucks across the nation’s highways and roads. According to the Truck Safety Coalition, an advocacy group of trucking accident victims and survivors, the proposal sacrifices “commoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

‘Biggest Wealth Divide in Modern History’: Graphic Shows Shocking Reality of US Economy
“Absolutely incredible,” commented Kobeissi Letter. “Over the last six years, the S&P 500 has risen +130% while US Consumer Sentiment has collapsed by -55%, to its lowest since data began in 1952. We are witnessing the formation of the biggest wealth divide in modern history.” Kobeissi Letter produced the graphic one day after the University of Michigan’s latest survey found consumer sentiment hitting the lowest level on record.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-k-shaped-economy-graphic

A New Orleans attorney was punished for exposing a clergy abuser
When an attorney representing survivors of a clergy abuse scandal that drove the city’s archdiocese into bankruptcy learned about Hart’s past, he took steps to get him removed from the Brother Martin high school, an all-boys institution that draws dance team members from a girls-only college preparatory school. A federal judge presiding over the church’s bankruptcy fined the lawyer, Richard Trahant, more than $400,000.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/23/richard-trahant-new-orleans-clergy-abuse

California Gov. Newsom declares state of emergency for Orange County chemical leak as officials search for solutions
It was previously believed that the temperatures were cooling inside the Garden Grove industrial tank, at GKN Aerospace, estimated to contain 7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate. However, after crews embarked on a risky operation inside the danger zone, they learned temperatures were increasing at a rate of about one degree per hour. It was at 90 degrees on Friday night after starting the day at 77.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/garden-grove-chemical-leak-plans-orange-county-california-evacuations/

San Francisco immigration court shuts down after purge of judges, leaving asylum cases in chaos
Asylum denial rates have soared as thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

TKP-ML CC Statement: İbrahim Kaypakkaya Is Our Compass!: We Have Not Forgotten May 18, And We Will Not Let It Be Forgotten!
It has been 53 years since the assassination of the communist leader İbrahim Kaypakkaya. This period of time—long for a human life but short for societies—has validated a significant portion of the theses İbrahim Kaypakkaya put forward. The class struggle and social practice have more than sufficiently confirmed the views he defended as a young communist leader. History has proven İbrahim Kaypakkaya right. As his successors, we continue to draw inspiration from his struggle and expand his legacy by internalizing his stance toward life—the very stance that enabled him to create miracles. The 1960s and ’70s were years when political, social, and national liberation struggles developed and intensified, both globally and in our country. The momentum gained in ’68 had, by the time the ’70s arrived, undergone a qualitative leap within the framework of political struggle; the tools, methods, and paths of political struggle underwent a radical transformation. The youth’s struggle merged and developed with the spontaneous actions of the working class, peasant masses, and the laboring people as a whole.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/32985/

Grenfell: Nine years, £150 million spent and justice still delayed
THE Metropolitan Police announcement that 57 individuals and 20 companies may face criminal charges over the Grenfell Tower disaster was presented this week as a significant milestone in the search for justice. But for survivors, bereaved families, and the wider north Kensington community, the overwhelming feeling is not relief. It is frustration that it has taken more than nine years to reach this point. At long last, the first major hurdle in the criminal process appears close to completion. The Met says its investigation — Operation Northleigh — is nearing the stage where files will be passed to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which will then decide whether criminal charges should follow. Yet the scale of the delay raises unavoidable questions about the institutions responsible for delivering justice.
https://morningstPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US green card applicants will now have to return to home countries to apply, DHS says
Foreigners seeking to adjust their immigration status in the United States to secure green cards will have to do so from outside the country via the state department, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said on Friday, in a move criticized by aid groups, policy analysts and immigration attorneys.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/22/green-card-applicants-trump-administration

Mahmoud Khalil’s attorneys to turn to US supreme court after ruling paves way for deportation
On Friday, the third circuit court of appeals upheld a January ruling by a three-judge panel, which had reversed a lower-court decision ordering Khalil’s release on bail last June. The ruling marks the latest chapter in Khalil’s months-long challenge of the government’s campaign against him. The appeals court’s decision marks a significant setback for him, but his lawyers insist he cannot be deported – for now.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/22/mahmoud-khalil-supreme-court-appeal-deportation

Judge tosses Kilmar Abrego Garcia charges, calls Trump administration prosecution ‘vindictive’
A federal judge in Tennessee on Friday dismissed human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant whose mistaken deportation by the Trump administration became a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s broader immigration crackdown.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/22/kilmar-abrego-garcia-charges-dropped-trump-doj-case-vindictive.html

Tulsi Gabbard resigns as director of national intelligence, citing her husband’s health
In her resignation letter, which she posted on social media, Gabbard said she told Trump she would leave her job overseeing the coordination of 18 intelligence agencies on June 30. She said her husband had recently been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and “facPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Trump’s Latest Escalations against Cuba Show the Urgency of Building an Anti-War Movement in the Streets
The indictment against Castro is a case of peak imperialist arrogance. It alleges that Castro ordered the downing of two civilian aircraft flown by Cuban exiles in 1996. What the indictment doesn’t mention is that these exiles were invading Cuban airspace as part of a CIA-backed regime change effort. The Trump administration has the nerve to issue this indictment while the U.S. military continues to bomb civilian fishing vessels it accuses (with no proof!) of drug trafficking. The indictment against Castro is part of a larger pattern of the United States violating other nations’ sovereignty by doing whatever Trump sees fit to neutralize adversarial political figures, whether that’s kidnapping (in Venezuela), assassination (in Iran), and lawfare (in the case of Castro as well as former president, Evo Morales in Bolivia). The revelations of Hondurasgate, which unearthed a plot by Trump and far-right allies to interfere in Latin American elections, show just how far U.S. imperialism will go to control the region long seen as its backyard. All of these developments make it increasingly likely that a U.S. military intervention in some form is a matter of when, not if. It’s possible that the only reason Trump hasn’t attacked Cuba yet is because he’s been bogged down by his failed attempt at regime change in Iran. But it is also because Trump humiliated himself and the entire United States in Iran that he may be even more inclined to attack Cuba, attempting what he sees as an easier foreign policy win ahead of the midterms.
https://www.leftvoice.org/trumps-latest-escalations-against-cuba-show-the-urgency-of-building-an-anti-war-movement-in-the-streets/

South African CP, Eskom’s threat to cut power in Johannesburg is unreasonable and irresponsible
The threat issued by Eskom to cut electricity supply in the City of Johannesburg on the basis of the city’s debt to Eskom is not only unreasonable but also reveals the shortsightedness of Eskom’s leadership and the punitive mentality of the government department responsible for Eskom. The South African Communist Party (SACP) unequivocally condemns the threat as an uPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Video shows ICE violently arresting Oregon farm workers and using facial recognition
The footage shows an agent using his phone to capture the face of one of the detained workers, and agents later admitted in court that they used a facial recognition app during the operation. The case provides a window into ICE’s expanding use of this surveillance technology across the US, which has raised significant privacy and civil liberties concerns, particularly since the app can yield inaccurate results.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/21/ice-immigration-oregon-facial-recognition

Trump's "anti-weaponization fund" torpedoes ICE funding deal
The fund was dropped like "a bomb in the middle of a pretty well planned out reconciliation bill," Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) told reporters. The package for ICE and Border Patrol funding was on track to pass by the weekend. But senators left town without voting on Thursday after a heated two-hour meeting with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. The House will follow suit, and has canceled its Friday votes.
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/21/trump-weaponization-fund-senate-ice-funding
https://archive.ph/V4PtP

Trump’s EPA to roll back refrigerant rule for grocery stores in push it claims will lower prices
The Trump administration is set to loosen a federal rule that requires grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment, in what officials say is a push to lower grocery costs. The head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, said the Biden-era rule imposes costly restrictions that limit the type of refrigerants US businesses and families can use.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/21/trump-epa-refrigerant-rule-grocery-costs

‘Almost Worthless’: Progressives Rip 2024 Autopsy the DNC Didn’t Want You To See
While the auPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Debanking, an Authoritarian Threat to the Left
The twenty-first century brought the utopian promise of an ever more interconnected world. Champions of globalization aspired to ever more international connectivity, meant to discourage powerful actors from creating divisions that might threaten the well-being or existence of others. It was rarely mentioned, however, that global interconnectedness could also allow individual actors in key positions of power to influence decisions across the entire network. Nowhere is this danger more evident than in the now-globalized banking sector. The serious consequences of interconnected global banking and finance have recently threatened the left-wing German solidarity organization Rote Hilfe (Red Aid). Citing the Trump administration’s declaration of an enigmatic German antifa group as a “terrorist” organization, a Göttingen-based bank attempted to shut down Rote Hilfe’s accounts. Similar cases have threatened other left-wing and anti-fascist groups in Germany and across the world. It lays bare the threat that “debanking” — the shutting down of accounts or refusal of services on political grounds — poses to the Left.
https://jacobin.com/2026/05/rote-hilfe-debanking-germany-repression

What Do People Attending a Tommy Robinson March Really Believe?
What do the 60,000-odd people at a Tommy Robinson march believe? Surely – at a minimum – they all like Tommy Robinson? I have news: no. He’s a “Zionist shill”, “a grifter”, I was told by two of his own attendees. One man confidently told us he wouldn’t have come on the march if it had been associated with Tommy Robinson (the march was organised and emceed by Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon). Were they all, at least, united in their hatred of migrants? Not entirely, no – not least because some of them were migrants: Iranian monarchists, to be exact, here at Robinson’s request, they repeatedly told me. They held up banners of Robinson that depicted him and US president Donald Trump in shimmering light as saviours of the Iranian nation. Some called for the UK to immediately invade Iran. They were, at least, keen to underline that they were genuine migrants (as opposed to the fake ones you apparently get these days). Most of the British nationalists we spoke to looked on, bemused aPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report finds
Employers spent company money hiring consultants and law firms specializing in union avoidance and on legal counsel, representation, and litigation services during union elections and organizing campaigns. US employers spend $442m on union-avoidance consultants annually, according to an estimate by the EPI. Amazon alone spent $26.6m in 2025 on union-avoidance consultants, based on filings with the US Department of Labor.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/20/how-much-companies-spend-fight-unions

US Democrats push to rein in Trump on Cuba as White House steps up pressure
A group of ​Democratic U.S. senators introduced a resolution to stop President Donald Trump from using the ‌military against Cuba on Wednesday, as his administration escalated pressure on the island's government by indicting former President Raul Castro. Democrats Tim Kaine of Virginia, Adam Schiff of California and Ruben Gallego of Arizona introduced a War Powers ​Resolution to block the use of the U.S. armed forces against the Communist-ruled ​island.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-democrats-push-rein-trump-cuba-white-house-steps-up-pressure-2026-05-20/

NTSB: Flaw that led to engine flying off UPS plane grew unnoticed under relaxed inspection schedule
The National Transportation Safety Board’s questions also drew out that Boeing relied on older data when it asked to extend the inspection schedule in 2015, and didn’t seem to account for seven instances on other planes of the same model when the key engine mount parts were failing. The Federal Aviation Administration, for its part, approved the request after a month’s review without seeking more information.
https://apnews.com/article/ups-louisville-ntsb-md11-plane-engine-d31d05f24d5a8277c76abae298d30e52

Tennessee man jailed over Charlie Kirk post wins $Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Mining Company Opts Out of Controversial Project Near Sacred Site in Black Hills
On Thursday, May 7, a mining company announced it was stopping operations three days after tribes and advocacy organizations were granted a temporary restraining order in federal court. On May 4, the U.S. District Court of South Dakota granted a temporary restraining order to nine federally recognized tribes and three conservation nonprofit organizations, stopping a controversial drilling project that tribes say threatened a sacred site in the Black Hills. “Pete Lien & Sons, Inc. wishes to formally withdraw the Plan of Operations for the Rochford Mineral Exploration Project and requests the United States Forest Service withdraw the Decision Memo that was entered on February 27, 2026,” wrote Brian Tideman, the Chief Operating Officer of Pete & Lien & Sons to U.S. Forest Service Ranger Jim Gubbels on May 7. “Pete Lien & Sons does not intend to apply for another CE [Categorical Exclusion] or file another Plan of Operations for exploratory drilling at this site.” The mining company’s decision was widely celebrated by tribes and their advocates, with many saying that the withdrawal is a success. The project’s mining permit was recently granted by the U.S. Forest Service on February 27, 2026, where the agency issued a Decision Memo approving the Rochford Mineral Exploratory Drilling Project, near Pe’Sla.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/mining-company-opts-out-of-controversial-project-near-sacred-site-in-black-hills/

“There’ll be riots”: Farage gets in line to implement austerity
These days, Reform’s approach has taken a sharp pro-market turn, in order to curry favour with the capitalist elite. The party has been accepting the defection of opportunist Tories, and implementing austerity in local councils under its control – councils that are, in true establishment fashion, also swimming in corruption scandals. Farage is beginning to make it clear on which side his bread is buttered: on the side of capital, as his Reform’s list of party donors attests. Recently, Farage has come out with statements about Britain needing to become a “much tougher society”. As part of this new, “tougher” vision for the future, the Reform leader has promisedPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Students block access to RUM despite court order.
Students at several campuses launched demonstrations to demand the resignation of UPR President Zayira Jordán Conde after she removed several chancellors. The protesters also said the president is doing little to defend the university from budget cuts and attempts to privatize it.
https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/students-block-access-to-rum-despite-court-order

Workers on New York commuter rail end their strike after wage deal
The workers, represented by five labor unions, began ​their work stoppage on Saturday to force the ​state-controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority to agree to a new contract at the bargaining table. The workers said they had ​not received any wage increases in three years.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/workers-new-york-commuter-rail-end-their-strike-after-wage-deal-2026-05-19/

US claims ‘emergency refugee situation’ as it admits 10,000 more white South Africans
The US government has said it will increase the number of white South Africans it admits as refugees this year from about 7,500 to 17,500, claiming that “unforeseen developments in South Africa created an emergency refugee situation.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/19/us-government-increase-white-south-africa-refugees

Former Hartford police officer charged in fatal shooting of a Black man in mental distress
The officer, Joseph Magnano, was fired by the Hartford Police Department following the Feb. 27 shooting of Steven Jones, a 55-year-old man with a history of mental illness who had been walking through the street holding a large knife. Magnano was charged Monday by the Connecticut Inspector General after he turned himself into law enforcement, according to Hartford Police Union President James Rutkauski.
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Why Is the Labour Right Desperate to Rehash Brexit?: It’s like 2016 all over again.
For those of you a little out of puff after last week’s avalanche of Labour leadership maneuverings, remember: it’s a marathon not a sprint. Stay hydrated, folks, and find your pace, because we’ve exactly a month to go before 18 June. That’s the date now being reported (though still unconfirmed) on which the good people of Makerfield will select their new MP – and possibly the next prime minister. Forget the future, though: it’s history that’s been occupying Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham this weekend. Even though only Streeting has declared his intention to run, everyone and their dog knows they’re our current contenders for the Labour crown. That may explain why the recently ex-health secretary, very much the longshot in this race, decided to truly set le chat amongst i piccioni on Samstag. Yes, chicos, we’re Brexdebating like it’s 2016 all over again. “Leaving the European Union,” Wes Streeting told a meeting of the Labour right Progress group this weekend, “was a catastrophic mistake.” That’s quite the stall to set out when you’re pitching for the biggest job in politics. Guaranteed to turn the stomach of one chunk of the electorate, overstimulate the hope cores of another, and send the rest into a spiral of screaming pub lunch flashbacks, little could be more divisive. Were Streeting leading the Labour party to a general election tomorrow, ‘Catastrophic’ would be graffitied across his political tombstone the very next day. Of course, Streeting is not running for popular election anytime soon. But Andy Burnham probably is. The Greater Manchester mayor has, from the comfort of his northern throne, mused similarly in the past. “Long term,” he said of the EU at Labour conference last September, “I’m going to be honest, I’m going to say it: I want to rejoin it.”
https://novaramedia.com/2026/05/18/why-is-the-labour-right-desperate-to-rehash-brexit/

China, the “Thucydides Trap” and the Illusion of “Anti-Imperialist Multipolarity”
President Xi Jinping’s invocation of the so-called “Thucydides Trap” during the recent hosting of Donald Trump was not a neutral geopolitical observation. It reflected a real and sharpening contradiction within the imperialist systePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

At least one person killed in shooting at Islamic Center of San Diego
Police rushed to the center on Monday and “neutralized” the shooter, according to authorities. Authorities had not yet confirmed any fatalities or injuries, but chairman of the mosque that was targeted confirmed to outlets that a guard had been killed.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/18/active-shooter-report-san-diego-islamic-center

Trump officials plan to repeal limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
The Trump administration’s plan comes just two years after the US Environmental Protection Agency set legally enforceable drinking water limits for six of the most dangerous Pfas compounds that have been studied. The chemicals include some of the most toxic substances, and are linked to a range of cancers and other serious health problems.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/18/trump-administration-epa-pfas-water

Trump creates $1.8B "anti-weaponization" fund after dropping IRS suit
The dismissal comes as Trump has reportedly considered launching a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded compensation fund for those who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration, including Jan. 6 defendants.
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/18/trump-irs-lawsuit-dropped
https://archive.ph/ev0Qq

US states reject anti-vaccine bills as public health groups fight MAHA
Dozens of state anti-vaccine bills backed by "Make America Healthy Again" supporters have failed after public health groups won over Republican state lawmakers, marking a series of defeats for the backers ​of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Why Capitalism’s Origins Matter: Review of Mother of Capital: How Rent Gave Birth to Modernity by Matthew Costa (Pluto Press, 2025)
How did the medieval world give birth to our modern system of capitalist accumulation and competition? A new book by Matthew Costa, a Marxist historian and mandarin at New South Wales’s treasury, offers a compelling answer and synthesizes a vast body of writing on this topic. Mother of Capital: How Rent Gave Birth to Modernity provides an engaging account of the transition from feudalism to capitalism, a subject that has been debated among historians and economists for centuries.
https://jacobin.com/2026/05/review-costa-transition-feudalism-capitalism

Labour and the myth of the twin extremes
AS LABOUR turns its eyes to Andy Burnham as a possible saviour, rival demonstrations in London underline the depth of Britain’s political crisis. The far-right — once again absurdly misnamed — “unite the kingdom” rally called by Tommy Robinson embodies a threat most Labour MPs have woken up to. Reform’s sweeping wins at the May 7 local elections have precipitated a full-on political crisis. Though a “Burnham bounce” based largely on popular loathing for Keir Starmer, whose exit now seems tied to the Manchester mayor’s availability to replace him, suggest Labour would be favourites to win a Makerfield by-election should Burnham indeed be the candidate, even he is only narrowly ahead of Reform. A Reform win is a plausible outcome and would leave Labour with even fewer options than it has right now, besides reasserting the rise of intolerant nationalism as the dominant theme in British politics. Robinson has chosen his demo date not to unite the kingdom of course but to maximise divisions by facing off against the annual Nakba demonstration, commemorating the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes during the establishment of the state of Israel and demanding the UN-recognised right of return denied them and their descendants ever since.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-and-myth-twin-extremes

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Marx Chapter IV (Rise of Louis BonaparPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

North America’s largest commuter rail system shuts down as workers strike
The unions and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the public agency that runs the railroad, have been negotiating for months on a new contract, with talks stalled over the question of workers’ salaries and healthcare premiums. President Donald Trump’s administration tried to broker a deal, but the unions were legally allowed to strike starting at 12:01 a.m. Kevin Sexton, national vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, said no new negotiations have been scheduled. “We’re far apart at this point,” Sexton said early Saturday. “We are truly sorry that we are in this situation.”
https://apnews.com/article/lirr-new-york-commuter-rail-strike-union-a9b20b5de53a944c9da4263d289a845f

US Postmaster General floats ending six-days-a-week mail delivery, closing most local post offices
Steiner’s opening report to the meeting called on Congress “to remove the mandates that ensure the Postal Service loses money: For example, days and levels of service, the ability to close unprofitable offices, and the underpricing of First-Class Mail. If we had flexibility on those three main issues, we could go a long way towards becoming profitable, but the American public would see reduced levels of service and higher rates.” This amounts to the abolition of USPS as a public service, converting it openly into a for-profit model and setting the stage for its privatization. More than 70 percent of local post offices are unprofitable, according to USPS’ own estimates. Combined with cuts to “days and levels” of delivery service, this would lead broad swathes of the country, especially rural areas, without reliable access to mail.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/15/ouau-m15.html

New Virginia law banning `assault firearms’ prompts quick lawsuits from gun-rights groups
The limits on “ assault firearms,” as they are described by the legislation, are among two dozen new restrictions and regulations on guns enacted by the Democratic governor in her first few months in office. That marks a sharp policy reversPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Statement by the Palestinian Resistance Factions on the 78th Anniversary of the Nakba
The Nakba continues through killing, massacres, expulsion, discrimination, impoverishment, siege, starvation, international silence, and US partnership. What is happening in the Gaza Strip and all Palestinian territories is a chapter in the series of ethnic cleansing and genocide that has not stopped for 78 years of zionist oppression and brutality, revealing the nature of the zionist project as a colonial, racist, uprooting tool. 78 years since the Nakba of the Palestinian people have been enough to build a revolutionary, resistance-minded, and fighter generation that believes in freedom and aspires to be free from the injustice of the “israeli” enemy and the return of every displaced Palestinian to their homeland. Return is a right for us that does not expire with time, and we will not compromise our land, sanctities, and legitimate rights, regardless of the sacrifices. Our people and our fighters will rise from under the rubble to build their homeland and future anew.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/32709/

Episode 547: Revolution in Palestine(TrueAnon)
We’re joined by Abdel Razzaq Takriti for a wide-ranging discussion about the political forces and parties of the Palestinian revolution. You can check out Abdel’s project with the Dig, the Thawra Project, here.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-547-in-157967000=

The General Strike in Wales
When the General Strike began on 4 May 1926, the coalfield communities of South Wales answered the call with militancy. Throughout the valleys, workers moved quickly to organise and coordinate themselves for the strike. This was a period of inspiring class struggle, which proved the courage and militancy of the working class and their ability to run society for themselves. In the Rhondda, strike committees were formed within hours of the strike beginning on 4 May. By the following day, they were controlling the region’s transport. They decided what lorries could carry and where they could go, and issued permits accordingly. They liaised with railway workers to prevent the movement of coal without their permission. They Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Labor leaders call collective bargaining veto a ‘betrayal’ by Virginia governor
Virginia’s Democratic governor, Abigail Spanberger, vetoed a bill on Thursday that would have restored collective bargaining rights for 50,000 public sector workers in the state. Union leaders say the veto is a “betrayal” and “slap in the face” after the governor campaigned last year on promises to restore collective bargaining rights. Though majorities in both chambers of Virginia’s general assembly passed legislation that would restore bargaining rights to most public sector workers, Spanberger introduced an amended version of the bill last month that was eventually rejected by the assembly.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/15/collective-bargaining-bill-veto-virginia-governor

FAA cuts target for air traffic control staffing
The report said the time controllers spend on position managing air ⁠traffic has declined despite a 4% increase in traffic. It added it could increase time ​on position from around four hours per shift to more than five hours. The ​FAA said "deploying modern staffing models and scheduling tools will improve controller staffing efficiency and reduce the need for excessive overtime."
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/faa-cuts-target-air-traffic-control-staffing-2026-05-15/

Pentagon quietly shut legally required program to prevent civilian deaths by military, watchdog finds
A report released by the department’s inspector general concluded the US military no longer has the people, tools or infrastructure needed to comply with two federal statutes requiring it to maintain a functioning civilian casualty policy, and operate a Civilian Protection Center of Excellence (CP CoE). Donald Trump’s administration has been accused of making deep cuts to the Pentagon’s civilian harm mitigation and response (CHMR) program, designed to handle training and procedures critical in limiting civilian harm in theaters of war.
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Housing ourselves and others: 50 years of the Advisory Service for Squatters
Last October, the Advisory Service for Squatters celebrated its 50th anniversary, though squatting has been around much longer. In October 2024, we published the 15th edition of the famous Squatters Handbook, which had to be more detailed and complex than earlier editions. Squatting used to be a mass movement; a way for almost anyone in need to house themselves or make space for social use, against the domination of buildings by money and power. But after decades of attacks, sacred property values have been gradually restored, patrolled by the law and the increasingly bloated security industry. In 2012, a law was passed to criminalise squatting in empty residential buildings in England and Wales.
https://libcom.org/article/housing-ourselves-and-others-50-years-advisory-service-squatters

Indian communist parties suffer historic defeat: how did we get here?
The April-May state elections were an historic turning point in Indian politics. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP conquered West Bengal, while the Left Democratic Front (LDF) lost control of Kerala. For the first time since 1977, not a single Indian state will be led by a communist party. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) – the largest and, in words, the most radical of the two main communist parties – described the results in Kerala as a “serious setback.” This is something of an understatement. The Indian National Congress – the main party of Indian capitalism – won 63 seats. Its allies in the United Democratic Front (UDF) won another 39, giving the UDF 102 of the 140 seats in Kerala’s state assembly. Meanwhile, the vote share for the CPI(M)-led coalition of four parties, including the Communist Party of India (CPI), fell by 12 percent. These results are nothing short of a catastrophe. However, this did not come out of the blue. It is the culmination of decades of decline for India’s communist parties, which have abandoned the ideas and methods of Marx and Lenin in favour of criminal class collaborationism. Let us look at the lessons for the working class and youth today.
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Supreme court allows abortion pill mifepristone to continue to be available by mail
The decision came nearly a half hour after the court missed its own 5pm EST deadline. Louisiana has no standing to challenge mail-order abortion, the court found, sending the case back to the fifth circuit. The suit is expected to return to the court on an official appeal, instead of emergency requests from drug manufacturers, in another term.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/14/supreme-court-mifepristone-abortion-pill-upheld

==Muslim American groups say Republicans are weaponizing congressional hearings=
Muslim ​American groups said congressional hearings that Republican lawmakers cast as aimed at making the U.S. "sharia-free" ‌are being weaponized against Muslim minorities in the United States by stoking fear against them. Republicans, who hold a majority in both chambers of Congress, titled a Wednesday hearing by a House Judiciary Subcommittee as "Sharia-Free America: Why Political Islam and ​Sharia Law are Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution." A similar hearing was also held in February.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/muslim-american-groups-say-republicans-are-weaponizing-congressional-hearings-2026-05-15/

Crypto industry scores win as Clarity Act regulation bill clears Senate hurdle
During the hearing, both Republicans and Democrats committed to continue working through areas of disagreement, including how best to ensure bad actors using digital assets can be caught and ethics language to address the issue of elected officials, such as Trump, profiting from crypto.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/clarity-act-congress-crypto-senate.html

DOJ Reportedly Set to Drop Fraud Charges Against Billionaire After He Hired Trump Attorney
The New York Times reported on Thursday that the DOJ—now headed by former Trump attorney Todd Blanche—is working on ending its case against Adani, who waPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Wartime Iran’s Political Transformation
For seven weeks, American and Israeli air power dominated Iranian skies. High-altitude surveillance, precision strikes on military infrastructure and apartment buildings in Tehran, and near-uncontested flight paths defined the opening phase of the conflict. Iran absorbed the blows and responded not with the guerrilla tactics of Baghdad’s roads but with long-range missiles, mass-produced drones, and a defensive posture that held the line. In the final days before the ceasefire, an F-15 and an A10-warthog were downed by optical tracking systems. Whether this was a replicable technical achievement or a fortunate anomaly remains to be seen. What was not ambiguous, however, was the fact that Iran was able to close off the Strait of Hormuz to maritime traffic. In response, global energy markets convulsed. The war had become a world event. Politics also shifted in Iran. Just a few months ago, in January, the main question there was economic. Inflation. Housing. The price of food. The Masoud Pezeshkian government’s austerity package had hollowed out household budgets and sent tens of thousands into the streets. Today the question is imperial. The war has not erased material suffering — it has reframed it. The choice presented to every Iranian is no longer about fiscal policy or subsidy reform. It is about sovereignty versus incorporation into an imperial order that already governs much of the region. Donald Trump’s ill-advised war has revealed Iran as a unique formation in modern history: a neoliberal anti-imperialist state. Austerity at home, resistance abroad. On paper, a contradiction, in practice, the state’s operating logic. This is why Iran oscillates between protests against austerity and displays of national solidarity — sometimes within the same month.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/starmer-toast-stop-farage-now-britains-left-wing-forces-must-unite

Starmer is toast. To stop Farage now, Britain's left-wing forces must unite
The architects of New Labour have eviscerated the Labour Party twice, once when former Prime Minister Tony Blair took Britain into the Iraq War in 2003, and now under the leadership of Keir Starmer. Unlike other Labour crises - such as the short-lived rebellion ofPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Senate fails to curb Trump’s war on Iran even as Republican opposition grows
The war powers resolution proposed by Jeff Merkley, a Democratic senator from Oregon, failed in a 49-50 vote. All Democrats with the exception of John Fetterman of Pennsylvania supported its advancement. Since the conflict began in February, Democrats have repeatedly offered such resolutions, without success. But for the first time on Wednesday, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski voted in favor, joining fellow Republicans Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine. All other Republicans in attendance voted against it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/trump-iran-senate-war-powers

Democrats bypass Mike Johnson on Ukraine aid with GOP help
This is the eighth time in the last three years that a discharge petition has been used by some combination of Democrats and Republicans to do an end-run around GOP leadership. Just in the 119th Congress, lawmakers have succeeded in garnering the necessary 218 signatures to force votes on a half dozen bills covering everything from proxy voting in the House to releasing the Epstein files to extending Affordable Care Act tax credits.
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/13/ukraine-aid-discharge-petition-mike-johnson-kiley
https://archive.ph/tb3IL

House Progressives Demand Pentagon Answer for Alleged Abuse in US-Ecuador Operation
Backed by anti-war and human rights organizations, 20 “deeply concerned” progressives in the US House of Representatives sent a letter to the Pentagon on Wednesday demanding answers about “reports of serious human rights violations and the bombing of what appear to have been civilian facilities during joint US-Ecuador military operations conducted in northern Ecuador.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ecuador-us-troops

REI union workers call for boycott of co-op’s biggest annual sale
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The Greens Can Win National Power. How Much Do They Want It?
“Amateurs talk strategy,” the US general Omar Bradley reputedly once said, “professionals talk logistics.” As the dust settles on an extraordinary set of elections, with Labour smashed in Wales, the West Midlands and the Manchester and Liverpool city regions, that is how to make sense of what just happened. Reform UK, whatever you think of their policy platform, are the party of logistics. While Labour’s siren voices call for a ‘comms reset’, faster delivery or even a change of leader, Britain’s teal-hued insurgents are focusing on scale and speed. The cliche is hackneyed, but also underscores they are a business as much as a party: this is an organisation run like a VC-funded startup. All of that is interesting Aaron, I hear you say, but the next general election is three years away – who knows what might change before then? This is partly the point. What should really worry Labour, and anyone who wants to stop a Reform government, is how the gap between the establishment parties and Farage’s troops is growing by the week. Certainly, Reform’s great vulnerability is that, for now, it depends on the most charismatic figure in British politics. But once you start controlling dozens of local authorities, that will change. Unlike UKIP and the Brexit party before them, Reform is building a party cadre. For a leftist, it’s almost admirable.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/05/08/the-greens-can-win-national-power-how-much-do-they-want-it/

Bolivia’s Social Movements Mobilize Against Privatization
“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land,” Frantz Fanon wrote in The Wretched of the Earth: “the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.” Marching for over twenty days from the tropics into freezing high-altitude terrain, many wearing nothing more substantial on their feet than plastic sandals, land workers and indigenous representatives arrived in the capital of La Paz this week to defend their territories. They were met by the miners’ union, the Federación Sindical de Trabajadores Mineros de Bolivia (FSTMB), and highland representatives from the peasant union, the Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores CampPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Shield Exposed as ‘Trillion-Dollar Boondoggle’ by CBO
“Although the notional NMD system… would be far more capable than defenses the United States fields today,” the report states, “it would not be an impenetrable shield or be able to fully counter a large attack of the sort that Russia or China might be able to launch.” “The strategic consequences of deploying an NMD system with the capacity considered here are unclear,” the report continues, “because they hinge on an adversary’s perception of the defense’s capability and how that adversary chose to respond.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-golden-dome-cbo

US annual consumer inflation posts largest gain in three years as prices increase broadly
The back-to-back rises in the Consumer Price Index reported by the Labor Department on Tuesday, reflected strong gains in the costs of energy products amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. ‌Food prices surged last month and inflation also spilled over to the services sector, with higher rental costs and airfares.
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-consumer-prices-increase-further-april-2026-05-12/

‘Number of People Who Don’t Have Enough to Eat’ Surging Due to Trump-GOP Aid Cuts
According to US Department of Agriculture data, participation in SNAP dropped by 8% nationwide in the six months following the law’s signing. A recent analysis by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities found that around 2.5 million people have lost food aid since the legislation took effect.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/hunger-surges-after-trump-cuts

Pentagon gives new $29bn Iran war price tag, downplays munitions concerns
The estimate is an increase from the $25bn Hurst previously reported to members of Congress in late April, when the administration of US President Donald Trump first offered an official price tag for the conflict. Several experts, however, questioned the Pentagon’s ledger, saying the real cost to US taxpayers is likelPost too long. Click here to view the full text.