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European Communist Action: The anti-imperialist struggle of the peoples must be strengthened
The European Communist Action condemns in the strongest possible terms the imperialist attack launched by the United States and Israel against the people of Iran, as well as the bombings and Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon. These developments are linked to the plans of the US, NATO, the EU and their allies, especially Israel, to “reshape” the Middle East, as part of their confrontation with their rival powers. Particularly dangerous is their attempt to seize control of the Strait of Hormuz. These developments carry the risk of a generalization of the war —a conflict in which dozens of countries are already involved in one way or another— leading to even greater bloodshed. A key role in this involvement is played by the US–NATO bases located across Europe, which serve both as military strongholds and as targets for retaliation.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/03/european-communist-action-antiimperialist-struggle-of-peoples-must-be-strengthened.html

For Lorenzo Orsetti
For the anniversary of the martyrdom of Lorenzo Orsetti, Ş. Tekoşer Piling, Italian martyr of the Rojava Revolution, we publish the letter of an Indonesian friend, that found hope and inspiration in the struggle of Lorenzo. Lorenzo fell on 18th March 2019 in the struggle against ISIS, and his revolutionary approach to life, that arrived to us through his writings and video messages, became an inspiration to young people in Italy and beyond.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/30175/

John Reed: Ten Days that Shook the World Chapter X: Moscow
The Committee for Salvation, the Duma, the Central Committee of the Socialist Revolutionary party—proudly claiming Kerensky as a member—all passionately protested that he could only be held responsible to the Constituent Assembly. On the evening of November 16th I watched two thousand Red Guards swing down the Zagorodny Prospekt behind a military band playing the Marseillaise—and how appropriate it sounded—with blood-red flags over the dark ranks of workmen, to welcome home again theirPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Feds move to dismiss charges against officers accused of falsifying warrant in Breonna Taylor raid
Federal prosecutors under former President Joe Biden pressed charges against the officers. Under President Donald Trump, though, the Department of Justice asked that Brett Hankison, the only officer serving prison time related to Taylor’s killing, be let out of prison while he appeals his conviction. Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, said in a Facebook post that she is extremely disappointed in Trump’s Justice Department.
https://apnews.com/article/breonna-taylor-shooting-charges-dropped-da7af3049b7eb8a24c1333e0be3c1788

Johnson Delays FISA Vote Amid Bipartisan Push for ‘Major, Necessary’ Privacy Reforms
Privacy advocates and lawmakers across the political spectrum have long called for reforms to FISA’s Section 702, which empowers the US government to surveil electronic communications of noncitizens located outside the United States to acquire foreign intelligence information, without a warrant.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/what-is-fisa-section-702

US House Democrat blasts Commerce's 'highly concerning' $1.6 billion USA Rare Earth deal
In a ‌10-page letter, Representative Zoe Lofgren, the ranking member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, wrote that the proposed deal would let the Commerce Department keep an equity stake even if it decides not to invest while also leaving the company reliant on a $1.5 billion private capital raise led by Cantor Fitzgerald [RIC:RIC:CNTOR.UL], ​the financial firm previously led by Lutnick and now run by his sons.
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-house-democrat-blasts-commerces-highly-concerning-16-billion-usa-rare-earth-2026-03-20/

Millions of Americans Joining the Ranks of the Uninsured Thanks to Trump-GOP Cuts in 2025
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Iraq-Iran war: the forging of the Islamic Republic
Seeing an opportunity, on 22 September 1980 Saddam Hussein invaded Iran. The Iranian military had largely dissolved following the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Islamic Republic, less than a year old, was far from having consolidated its power. The Islamists faced the grueling task of rebuilding the Iranian bourgeois state, as power remained effectively in the streets. It was the entry of the workers, through the general strike of the autumn of 1978, that transformed middle-class bazaar and student protests into a real revolution. The workers formed neighbourhood and factory shuras (soviets), they demanded higher wages, and in some instances took over their factories. They fought so that the tyranny of the bosses – who were closely aligned with Pahlavi during the revolution – would never return. But the complete failure of the communists to present any clear alternative, against the backdrop of growing repression, allowed the revolution to be hijacked by the Islamists led by Ayatollah Khomeini. While the revolution itself had involved communists, including the Stalinist Tudeh Party, communist guerrillas such as Fadaiyan-e-Khalq, ‘Islamic-Marxists’ Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), and secular nationalists such as the National Front, the Islamists did everything to isolate the communists and the left. Khomeini began to use the clergy to hijack many of the neighbourhood shuras, which were transformed into ‘Islamic Revolution Committees’ around local mosques. These later formed the foundations for the Islamist paramilitary organisations. At this point, Khomeini was bolstered by western imperialism, which preferred him to the communists. The US had even negotiated the neutrality of remnants of the Pahlavi army prior to the victory of the revolution.
https://marxist.com/iraq-iran-war-the-forging-of-the-islamic-republic.htm

Brazil’s Left After Lula
The geopolitical uncertainty has upped the ante of what was already set to be a deeply contentious race this October between Lula’s broad coalition of moderates and leftists and the far-right challenger, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the forty-four-year-old son of the imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro. Much will be written about the campaign in the months ahead, but a cPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

‘Not Another Penny for Another Endless War,’ Ilhan Omar Says as Trump Seeks $200 Billion
As US President Donald Trump on Thursday confirmed reporting that he’s seeking $200 billion more from Congress to continue waging his unpopular war of choice on Iran, Rep. Ilhan Omar was among those forcefully pushing back.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/congress-iran-war

Wall Street cops propose new slate of easier big bank rules
The proposals from the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation would lower bank capital requirements — that is, the financial cushion that regulators require banks to hold against potential losses — for the largest and most systemically important firms by nearly 5%. Bank capital requirements for the smallest banking organizations would fall by almost 8%.
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/19/fed-bank-wall-street-regulation
https://archive.ph/vAVLN

Georgia woman charged with murder after police say she took pills to induce abortion
If state prosecutors decide to move forward with the murder charge brought by local police against Alexia Moore, her case would be one of the first instances of a woman being charged for terminating a pregnancy in Georgia since it passed a 2019 law banning most abortions.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/georgia-murder-charges-abortion

Judge ends asylum claim of Minnesotan boy detained by ICE, report says
U.S. Immigration Judge John Burns issued the decision to end ​the asylum claims of Liam and his family. Attorney Danielle Molliver who represents the ​family, told the station the decision would be appealed, a process that can take months, if not years. The lawyer did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment.
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Call of the (Expanded) Meeting of the Central Committee of the Tudeh Party of Iran to All National and Freedom-Loving Forces of the Country On the Formation of a Peace Committee and the Establishment of an Immediate Ceasefire and Lasting Peace
Dear compatriots, national and freedom-loving forces of the country, The war ignited by U.S. imperialism and the criminal government of Israel is a horrific catastrophe that has placed the existence and territorial integrity of our homeland in grave danger. Thousands killed and wounded, the destruction of the country’s productive infrastructure, and the blow dealt by this devastating war to the popular movement—which had posed a serious challenge to the survival of the regime of Velayat-e Faqih—are among the immense hardships this war has imposed on our people and our country. For this reason, the (expanded) meeting of the Central Committee of the Tudeh Party of Iran has concluded that under the current critical conditions, one of the most important tasks facing all progressive and freedom-loving forces in the country is to strive to establish a broad peace movement, both inside and outside the country, in order to immediately halt this imposed war on our homeland. For the reactionary rulers, war is a “blessing” that allows them to cover up the crisis of legitimacy that emerged after the bloody suppression and killing of people driven to desperation by economic hardship, inequality, and deep class divisions. Under wartime conditions, reactionary rulers attempt to silence all dissent while continuing their anti-people policies and maintaining their grip on power. In recent days, we have witnessed this process through the arrest of hundreds of civil activists and dissidents following threats by Ejei (head of the judiciary), Radan (commander of the national police), and other leaders of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and the regime.
https://www.tudehpartyiran.org/en/2026/03/18/call-of-the-expanded-meeting-of-the-central-committee-of-the-tudeh-party-of-iran-to-all-national-and-freedom-loving-forces-of-the-country-on-the-formation-of-a-peace-committee-and-the-establishment/

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US to require $15,000 bond to visa recipients from 12 more countries
President Donald Trump's administration will require citizens from 50 countries to post bonds of $15,000 to apply for U.S. entry, a State ​Department official said on Wednesday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, ‌said 12 countries are being added to a list that already includes 38 other nations, largely in Africa.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-require-15000-bond-visa-recipients-12-more-countries-2026-03-18/

AIPAC finally notches some Democratic primary wins
Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller defeated former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and progressive state Sen. Robert Peters in the state's 2nd congressional district. Miller was supported by nearly $4.5 million in ad spending from AIPAC-affiliated group Affordable Chicago Now, according to AdImpact. … former Rep. Melissa Bean beat progressive rival Junaid Ahmed in the race to succeed Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), another unsuccessful Senate candidate. Elect Chicago Women spent $3.3 million in support of Bean while Chicago Progressive Partnership spent another $700,000 painting Ahmed as a wealthy ally of Elon Musk and fossil fuel interests.
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/18/aipac-illinois-primary-biss-abughazaleh-bean
https://archive.ph/yopSz

How lawyers got their hands on thousands of private patient records
The admission by GuardDog Telehealth came in response to a lawsuit brought by Epic Systems, the nation’s largest vendor of electronic medical records software. In January, Epic alleged that a “syndicate” of companies had improperly gained access to patient records and was selling them to lawyers for potential use in litigation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/03/18/digital-privacy-healthcare-epic-systems-lawsuit/
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The trade union movement needs a political strategy
UNITE the union has decided to cut its affiliation to the Labour Party by more than half a million pounds a year, or more than 40 per cent. The immediate reason is the continuing incapacity of the government to resolve the bin strike in Birmingham, triggered by the determination of the Labour-run council to cut workers’ wages. Indeed, some of the money saved in affiliation fees will go towards paying court fines imposed in the course of the dispute, which has now been going on for more than a year. To that extent, Unite’s move is wholly understandable. It surely responds to the real anger the union’s membership will feel about the Birmingham dispute. The move also follows strident but accurate criticisms of Labour’s record on a range of issues by Unite general secretary Sharon Graham. She has described the government as “devoid of purpose” and failing to act in the working-class interest. Graham was one of the strongest critics of the winter fuel benefit cut, of the watering down of the Employment Rights Act and the attack on welfare. On all these issues she has spoken for millions across the country who feel profoundly let down by Keir Starmer’s government. The burning question now is how the trade unions can lead the movement in imposing a new course on Labour before power is handed over to Nigel Farage and the Reform hard right.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/trade-union-movement-needs-political-strategy

In the New Geo-Economic Order, Price Shocks Are Here to Stay
Less than three years after the disruptions of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine subsided, the world economy confronts another sustained energy and supply chain shock. The war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran, and Iran’s retaliatory strikes against US military assets and oil production infrastructure across the Persian Gulf, have brought shipping through the all-important Strait of Hormuz to a near standstill. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has declared the closure the “largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.” Some 34 percent of globally traded crude oil, 19 percent of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, and 16 percent of the trade in refined petroleum products such as dPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

UFW acts on allegations against César Chávez
UFW said what is alleged against Chávez is incompatible with the union's values, per the statement. The union said it has no firsthand knowledge or direct reports but considers the allegations serious enough to act.
https://www.axios.com/local/san-antonio/2026/03/17/united-farm-workers-ufw-cesar-chavez-march-allegations
https://archive.ph/LtAbm

Trump counter-terrorism chief quits over Iran war, blaming Israel
Kent’s letter lauded Trump’s foreign military actions in his first administration, such as the killing of Qassem Suleimani and “defeating Isis” while avoiding being drawn into “never-ending wars”. But he charged the president with abandoning this posture after an influence campaign.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/17/joe-kent-resigns-director-national-counterterrorism-center

New York City seeks to stop defending former Mayor Eric Adams in sex assault suit
In a court filing Tuesday, attorneys for the city's Law Department asked to be allowed to withdraw from defending Adams from a suit alleging he sexually assaulted a woman when he was a transit cop in 1993.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/new-york-city-seeks-stop-defending-former-mayor-eric-adams-sex-assault-rcna263937

Florida Republican student group sues university after suspension over Nazi salute post
On Saturday, University of Florida (UF) blocked campus operations of the school’s College Republicans after the group’s state leadership said it had disbanded the chapter for engaging in “a pattern of conduct that violated its rules and values, including a recent antisemitic gesture”.
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From Bay of Pigs to Speedboats: Trump Still Doesn’t Get It
There are moments when the class character of imperialist aggression reveals itself with brutal clarity. February 25, 2026, was one such moment. Cuban border guards intercepted a Florida-registered speedboat just one nautical mile off Cayo Falcones in Villa Clara province. The vessel carried ten armed Cuban exiles operating from U.S. soil. When the patrol approached to enforce sovereignty, the infiltrators opened fire. Cuban forces defended themselves, killing four − including at least one U.S. citizen − and wounding six. Weapons, ballistic vests and military-style equipment were seized. Havana correctly described it as a foiled “armed infiltration for terrorist purposes.” Washington, as always, denied any government role. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it “not a U.S. operation” and announced yet another “independent investigation.” This is not an isolated incident. This is the latest chapter in U.S. imperialism’s six-decade war to crush the Cuban Revolution − the very same criminal methods the CIA employed against Fidel Castro and Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara. Let us recall the historical record without embellishment.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/03/from-bay-of-pigs-to-speedboats-trump-still-doesnt-get-it.html

How the global crisis is strengthening Russia
The contemporary Russian regime has become adept at navigating global turbulence. Rising oil prices, shifts in trade flows, and disruptions to competing suppliers can all strengthen Russia’s position as a major exporter of raw materials. In this sense, the Middle Eastern conflict may temporarily stabilise the Russian economy. A profound change is underway, driven by the relative decline of US imperialism, which has lost its position of complete supremacy as a world power, along with the organic crisis of capitalism which is leading to a scramble for control of markets, resources, supply chains and spheres of influence, principally between the US and China. And it is precisely in this imperialist carnage that Russia is attempting to establish itself.
https://marxist.com/how-the-global-crisis-is-sPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Hacked data shines light on homeland security’s AI surveillance ambitions
The projects at the Office of Industry Partnership (OIP) include automated surveillance in airports; adapters allowing agents to use phones for biometric scanning; and an AI platform that ingests all 911 call data nationally and builds “geospatial heat maps” to “predict incident trends”, which appears to be a form of predictive policing.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/15/hacked-data-homeland-security

Republican Bill Would Denaturalize US Citizens as Support Grows
One lawmaker, GOP Representative Riley Moore of West Virginia, announced on Friday that he would introduce a bill to denaturalize and deport any naturalized citizen who commits an act of terrorism, plots to commit an act of terrorism, joins a terrorist organization, or otherwise aids and abets terrorism against the American people.
https://www.newsweek.com/denaturalize-us-citizens-for-terrorism-push-gains-support-11676915
https://archive.ph/5eOxn

Afghan asylum-seeker dies after less than 24 hours in ICE custody
Paktyawal, a father of six who had applied for U.S. asylum, was about to take his children to school Friday morning when he was surrounded by masked men who drove up and put him in handcuffs, Rahmanullah Zazy, a family friend and leader in the local Afghan community, told NBC News in an interview.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/afghan-asylum-seeker-dies-less-24-hours-ice-custody-rcna263626

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud
Angela Lipps, 50, spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police identified her as a suspect in an organized bank fraud case using facial recognition software, according to south-east North Dakota news outlet InForum. Lipps told the outlet she had never been to North Dakota and did not commit thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

India: oil refinery strikes – a sign of things to come
On 23 February, 40,000 workers at IOCL (Indian Oil Corporation Limited) at the Panipat refinery expansion project in Haryana went on a strike, which spread across the entire premises. The sudden, radical action was met with a vicious police crackdown and an internet blackout. The government scrambled to erase the protests from the mainstream media. Unsurprisingly, and in full subservience to their capitalist overlords, the Indian corporate media covered the incident as a ‘violent clash’ or ‘security incident’ rather than a powerful, spontaneous struggle for labour rights.
https://marxist.com/india-oil-refinery-strikes-a-sign-of-things-to-come.htm

“History Is Repeating Itself”
The war that the United States and Israel are waging in the Middle East is not solely directed at Iran. In addition to occupying the entirety of Palestine as well as the Golan Heights and other parts of Syria, Israeli troops are currently occupying parts of Lebanon while Israeli airstrikes pummel the country from above. At least 800,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in Lebanon since the beginning of March. Left unchecked, the Israeli government will reduce Lebanon to uninhabitable wreckage, just as it has Gaza. To understand the consequences for people in Lebanon, we reached out to Elia Ayoub, who previously spoke to us about the uprising that took place in Lebanon in October 2019 against the sectarian rule of warlord oligarchs. How should we understand the latest round of hostilities in the context of the last several decades? How does this assault shape the prospects for Lebanese movements for liberation?
https://crimethinc.com/2026/03/11/history-is-repeating-itself-a-lebanese-perspective-on-the-war-on-palestine-lebanon-and-iran

John Reed Ten Days that Shook the World Chapter IX: Victory
People in revolt have a way of defying military precedent. The ragged armies of the French Revolution are not forgotten—Valmy and the Lines of Weissembourg. Massed against the Soviet forces were yunkers, CossacksPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Eight convicted of terrorism-related charges for attack on Texas ICE facility
A jury convicted nine ​people on Friday for their involvement in a shooting at a U.S. ‌Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Texas last year, the Justice Department said. Eight of the nine defendants were found guilty of providing material support to terrorists, rioting, conspiring to use and ​carry explosives, and using explosives during a riot, local media reported.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/eight-convicted-terrorism-related-charges-attack-texas-ice-facility-2026-03-13/

FCC chair threatens to throttle news broadcasts over ‘hoaxes’ about Iran war
In his post, Carr copied a Truth Social post by Trump complaining about “misleading” coverage on Iran. “Yet again, an intentionally misleading headline by the Fake News Media about the five tanker planes that were supposedly struck down at an Airport in Saudi Arabia, and of no further use,” Trump wrote Saturday on Truth Social. Trump singled out the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, saying that they “and other Lowlife ‘Papers’ and Media actually want us to lose the War”, calling the outlets’ reporting “the exact opposite of the actual facts!”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/14/fcc-broadcast-permits-iran-war-news

ICE arrests dozens of Amazon Flex workers in southeast Michigan
One person from the group has told the WSWS that while full‑scale workplace raids are not being carried out inside Amazon facilities, drivers are being pulled over as they arrive for their shifts. On several occasions, cars loaded with packages have been left in the street after workers were seized by ICE.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/14/dqxh-m14.html

AIPAC's plan to sink progressives: Slam them from the left
Chicago Progressive Partnership — which shares vendors, donors and a treasurer with other AIPAC-linked PACs — went on the air ThursdayPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

How Work Got So Bad
Why does every new technology seem to make work harder and not easier? In 1974, Harry Braverman published a seminal text, Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, to answer that question. Combining a careful study of scientific management and technological innovation with several of Karl Marx’s key concepts, Braverman explained why workers under capitalism are gradually transformed into mere cogs in the machine. In this episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber and Melissa Naschek discuss the process of managers breaking down workers’ skills and why work under capitalism tends to degrade rather than fulfill us. Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber is produced by Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy and published by Jacobin. You can listen to the full episode here. This transcript has been edited for clarity.
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/work-deskilling-labor-capitalism-technology

One Week into the Next Eternal War
On the morning of February 28, A U.S. Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton takes off from Abu Dhabi with a flight plan to Sigonella, it instead begins to circle over the desert gaining altitude, waiting. The go-code is given following an successful Israeli combot mission. It repositions to the gulf of Oman, presumably to watch /respond to the operations in the Chabahar and Minab against the The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval forces. It is part of one of the swiftest and most effective military actions to decapitate an enemies capacity since the six day war, when the Isreali air force decimated it’s Egyptian counterpart. In Minab, a school next to the base is struck, scores of young girls are dead, the numbers keep escalating, droves more are injured. It appears to been hit centre mass, similarly to all the IRGC targets around it, and despite the hundreds of aircraft and drones, live camera feeds, and active monitoring of the entire area the US military is still, days later, “investigating” as their civil propagandists share a random telegram feed and claim it’s evidence that it was an IRGC failure. Those kids are dead because Israel wanted to strike Iran and America jumped on board and decided to show it’s strength. Their personnel watch those kidPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US Appeals Court Upholds Verdict Against Contractor Liable for Abu Ghraib Torture
The three plaintiffs—middle school principal Suhail Al Shimari, fruit vendor Asa’ad Zuba’e, and journalist Salah Al-Ejaili—are represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights and two law firms. CCR noted Thursday that Al Shimari v. CACI was first filed in 2008 under the Alien Tort Statute and “is the only lawsuit brought by Abu Ghraib torture victims to make it to trial.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/abu-ghraib-verdict

Suspect shot dead after crashing truck into Detroit-area synagogue
It was unclear from early news briefings by law enforcement whether the suspect was armed. CBS News reported the suspect had a rifle, citing two sources, which Reuters could not immediately verify. "We can't say what killed him at this point, but ​security did engage the suspect with gunfire," Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard told reporters. A law enforcement official told Reuters the perpetrator was shot dead. ​Whether he took his own life or was killed by security was not immediately confirmed.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/active-shooter-michigan-synagogue-authorities-say-2026-03-12/

Pentagon: First week of Iran war cost about $11B
Outside analysts have offered varying estimates on the expense of Operation Epic Fury, which enters its third week on Saturday. An analysis from the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and International Security put the cost of the first 100 hours of air and naval strikes at $3.7 billion. The conservative American Enterprise Institute has calculated the operational costs so far at between $11.2 billion and $14.5 billion.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/12/iran-war-cost-pentagon-00825666
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Millions of Americans skip meals, stretch medication to afford health care
About 82 million Americans across low-, middle- and high-income braPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

' Yanar Mohammed, A Flame That Will Never Die, and the Women's Revolution Continues
With fierce anger burning in our hearts and an unbreakable resolve, we mourn the assassination of the courageous feminist and leftist leader and fighter Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, who was struck down by the hand of darkness in Baghdad on the morning of March 2, 2026 — as though they believed a bullet could extinguish the fire of feminist struggle and liberation. Two gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on her in front of her residence in the Al-Shaab district, in a crime whose perpetrators we all know. The assassination of Yanar is a fully premeditated political crime targeting the feminist and leftist movements and every voice demanding justice and equality. It is a declaration of war against free women and against all who refuse to submit to the power of repression, sectarianism, and savage patriarchy.
https://libcom.org/article/yanar-mohammed-flame-will-never-die-and-womens-revolution-continues

Workers Are Leaving the Trump Coalition
Many commentators have repeatedly sounded the alarm about declining working-class support for the Democratic Party in 2024, particularly among non-white working-class voters. Those concerns remain real and are part of a decades-long dealignment of working-class voters from the party once seen as their natural home. But Donald Trump’s erratic, vindictive, and economically damaging first year in office has already given many of those same voters buyer’s remorse. Trump’s 2024 victory was built on a narrative of building a multiracial working-class coalition — particularly by attracting new black and Latino working-class voters — united by frustration with the Biden administration’s perceived failures on inflation, the cost of living, and immigration. That narrative is already falling apart. A recent survey we conducted of 1,940 2024 Trump voters (oversampling working-class black and Latino voters) shows the 2024 Republican coalition fracturing: 20.1 percent of Trump voters — more than one in five — are not currently planning to vote Republican in 2028. We define these “waverers” as Trump 2024 voters who (at least right now) do not plan to vote Republican in 2028. And they are dispPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US consumer prices likely increased in February ahead of Iran conflict
"The recent 15% move alone suggests a 0.15-0.30 percentage point lift to headline inflation depending on how the conflict evolves," said Andy Schneider, a senior U.S. ‌economist at ⁠BNP Paribas Securities. Food prices likely maintained a moderate pace of increase, though Schneider added "a sustained oil price shock would raise fertilizer and transportation costs that could push food inflation higher later in the year."
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-consumer-prices-likely-increased-february-ahead-iran-conflict-2026-03-11/

Coalition Demands Schumer, Jeffries Step Down Over Failure to Fight ‘War-Crazed’ Trump
The coalition, which includes Peace Action and RootsAction, launched a petition declaring that it is “time for congressional Democrats to replace Schumer and Jeffries with leaders who are willing and able to challenge the runaway militarism that has dragged our country into launching yet another insanely destructive war,” this time against Iran.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/schumer-jeffries-step-down-iran

US lawmakers advance bill to lower housing prices
The bill, which has drawn broad support from industry groups, would overhaul ‌regulations to make it faster and cheaper to build new housing. It would also modernize rules for factory-built housing and ban large investment groups from buying more single-family homes, a measure backed by President Donald Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-lawmakers-advance-bill-lower-housing-prices-2026-03-11/

Google founder backs both Republican and Democrat in California governor’s race while ex-CEO fights billionaire tax
New campaign filings also reveal that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has donated to both Republican and Democratic candidates for the California governor’s seat, playing both sides of the aisle. Brin contributed $39,200 last week to RPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Behind the Hunger Strike: Swift Justice Continues Fight for ‘Prisoners’ Rights’
On November 20, 2025, Kenneth “Swift Justice” Traywick started starving himself. Known to the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) as prisoner 00177252, the 50-year-old had recently been transferred from Limestone Correctional Facility to Bullock Correctional Facility — and quickly observed “excessive force” used by the guards, particularly against those held in the ‘mental health dorm.’ As documented by Alabama Political Reporter, his hunger strike began after the “prison reform activist” started speaking out; as confirmed by ADOC, an altercation occurred November 20, 2025, between Traywick and a corrections officer, “resulting in an administration of chemical spray to the face.” Traywick was “contained and escorted” to the healthcare unit, where his strike began. He was prepared; this wasn’t his first strike. Unicorn Riot spoke with Traywick — at ADOC-enforced 15-minute intervals — about his most recent protest, and how it connects to the larger historical and current movements to improve prison conditions and reduce recidivism in Alabama and across the United States. During our conversations, he spoke at length about his fellow ‘inside’ activists Melvin Ray, Robert Earl Council (aka Kinetic Justice) and Raoul Poole, three incarcerated whistleblowers featured in the Academy Award-nominated documentary “The Alabama Solution.” The “bombshell investigation” “exposes a hidden world of violence and corruption” that Traywick says he has witnessed and experienced for the last 16 years.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/behind-the-hunger-strike-swift-justice-continues-fight-for-prisoners-rights/

Keir Starmer Is Too Spineless to Keep UK Out of Iran War
While you were sleeping, more civilian locations in the Iranian capital of Tehran were hit with massive explosions, while Israel carried out dozens of airstrikes on towns in southern and eastern Lebanon. It really is anything to distract from the Epstein Files for US “president of peace” Donald Trump – and, of course, the fulfilment of a long-held ambition for Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Since the US and Israel launched their war of aggression last weekend, more than 1,300 people have been killed in IrPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

While Spending Billions on Iran War, Trump Quietly Moves to Boot Millions More Off Food Aid
The change sought by the US Department of Agriculture would curb broad-based categorical eligibility in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Broad-based categorical eligibility allows states to automatically qualify residents for SNAP if they are already enrolled in other aid programs, such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, thus reducing administrative hurdles and costs.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-food-aid-cuts

A new lawsuit calls for 'immediate' student-loan forgiveness for borrowers enrolled in Biden's affordable repayment plan
The SAVE plan, created by former President Joe Biden and intended to allow cheaper payments and a shorter timeline to debt relief, has been blocked since the summer of 2024 due to litigation. However, a court declined to rule on President Donald Trump's proposed settlement that would have eliminated SAVE, and the borrowers said in their lawsuit that it means the department should process debt relief for eligible borrowers through the plan.
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-lawsuit-save-plan-immediate-student-loan-forgiveness-borrowers-trump-2026-3

New York judges add new obstacle for low-income tenants with housing vouchers
A New York appeals court on Thursday struck down a landmark state law that bans discrimination against people who use government assistance to pay their rent, delivering a major setback to tens of thousands of low-income renters looking for apartments — and to local and statewide efforts to house them.
https://gothamist.com/news/new-york-judges-add-new-obstacle-for-low-income-tenants-with-housing-vouchers

West Virginia can ban Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgery, US court rules
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld West Virginia's ban on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgeries, the latest viPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

1017 - Mogging in Agharta feat. Will Sommer (3/9/26): Chapo Trap House
Will Sommer returns to the show to talk more about the Iran War, this time through the lens of a rapidly fragmenting Republican elite. We discuss the war between the Israel skeptics like Tucker Carlson and the hawks like Mark Levine, and how this ties into a hijacked shipment of nicotine pouches and the transvestigation of Laura Loomer. We also talk about Candace Owens’ docuseries on Erika Kirk, another leaked racist groupchat, and the emerging multiracial coalition of White Supremacy.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/1017-mogging-in-agharta-feat

Reject Blair, reject war
THERE can be no surprise that Tony Blair has said he believed Britain should have backed the illegal US-Israeli attack on Iran from the start. It shows that he has learned nothing from the disaster of backing George Bush’s criminal war against Iraq 23 years ago, a decision from which his reputation will never recover. The former Labour prime minister thus joins Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage in berating Keir Starmer for being insufficiently pro-Trump. Indeed, you are unlikely ever to hear a breath of criticism of the US president from Blair. Trump has appointed him to the “executive board” dealing with Gaza operating under his notorious and preposterous “Board of Peace,” the only non-US citizen so honoured. Matters of legality or even decency always take second place, with Blair, to his belief that Britain must at all times subordinate itself to the whims of whoever is in the White House. No president can be too deranged, no war so gratuitous, that Blair-Farage-Badenoch will not step up in support. They persist even in face of Trump’s gross US imperialism and brazen authoritarianism.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/reject-blair-reject-war

March 8 between the legacy of working women’s struggles and socialist feminism
In this context, it becomes important to connect feminist struggle with broader social struggle against austerity and privatization policies and to develop new forms of organization combining political action, social mobilization, and trade union pPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Court records reveal gutting of DHS oversight: ‘Incredibly dangerous’
Hundreds of pages of court filings in a key legal battle in federal court serve to contradict the Trump administration’s repeated claims that the DHS watchdogs are performing “all required functions”. The allegations of failings within the shrunken oversight offices at the DHS, tasked by Congress with investigating civil rights and related concerns, come as the department grapples with public criticism of killings by immigration agents, escalating arrest tactics and plans to increase immigrant detention.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/dhs-oversight-court-record-review

A federal jury awards $667K to Muslim men who were pepper-sprayed by prison guards while praying
The money will be distributed among eight men who were handcuffed, pepper-sprayed and placed in solitary confinement after praying in the housing area at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre on Feb. 28, 2021.
https://apnews.com/article/missouri-muslim-prison-prison-inmates-lawsuit-3938ff0820c6eeb8b9a88ba5c302660e

Ken Martin's dysfunctional DNC alarms Democrats
Democratic sources tell Axios that Martin has shown a thin skin and that he personalizes criticism in a way that can be self-defeating. Many DNC officials, donors, and other Democrats believe honest feedback would be greeted with hostility. Thirteen months into his tenure as DNC chair, the limelight — and the criticism that has come with it — appear to have taken a toll on Martin, who often seems melancholy and put-upon, his allies told Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/08/dnc-ken-martin-crisis
https://archive.ph/RqbnE

Ahead of midterms, Republicans confront cooling support from young men over Trump policies
Trump’s pledges in his 2024 campaign to curb inflation, boost economic growth, and toughen immigratPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tractors and Tensions: Greek Farmers Rush to Athens Demanding Urgent Reforms
On February 13, farmers across Greece mobilized, converging from Afidnes toward Syntagma Square in Athens after a nationwide committee organized roadblocks. Their demands were clear: urgent government reforms, including reductions in production costs and the immediate disbursement of subsidies. Conversations with the ruling party, New Democracy, led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, have brought no comprehensive solutions. In response to governmental neglect, farmers organized a protest. It began in Afidnes, where farmers gathered from all across Greece and waited with tractors lined up, ready to roll toward the parliament in Athens. For the farmers, this was a powerful act of defiance — a show of solidarity that aimed to gather more international recognition for their issues. Farmers of all ages came together, from teenagers to elders — they stood with anticipation, sharing both grievances and discontent toward the system.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/tractors-and-tensions-greek-farmers-rush-to-athens-demanding-urgent-reforms/

The Silence is Not Peace; The Lack of a GI Movement in the US
The silence is not peace, nor is it acceptence, nor resignation. It is the vacuum seal of a pressure cooker. Iran has been struck and it has struck back. The Ayatollah is dead. Missiles arc over the Middle East like scythes. In Europe, Argentina, Austrialia and other 'western' countires, the streets are on fire with riot and protest. In the United States, dissenters are being collected—not in mass internments, but quietly, efficiently, on phony charges that dissolve into the algorithmic fog. The state has actively used the police, the surveillance apparatus, and other means to repress dissenters and silence critical voices. Lawfare, kidnappings, and the surveillance state keep our best organizers compressed, paranoid, and less effective. They are forced to operate within rhetorical gaps and permitted moves in a saloon poker game where the dealer's gun always prevents victory. Polymarket ticks quietly upward: 20 percent odds a nuclear weapon is used before 2027. But real ones know that small things like this are soft disclosure that the use of a "tactical" nuclear weapon is alPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

After jail, house arrest and an ankle monitor, a reprieve for a ‘Cop City’ protester: ‘The process was the punishment’
The arson charge in Fulton county carried a sentence of up to 20 years. Superior court judge Emily Richardson agreed last week to having Mazurek take what’s known as an Alford plea to a reduced charge of criminal damage to property and a decade of probation. The case’s long unwinding follows several others connected to the movement against Cop City in recent months – including a judge’s dismissal, in September, of Rico, or racketeering, charges against 61 defendants. State attorney general Chris Carr has appealed.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/07/cop-city-protester-case-no-conviction-arson

US Argues ‘Emergency’ of Iran War Means Israel Needs 20,000+ More Bombs Without Congressional Approval
The US State Department is hiding behind the war against Iran that was started by US President Donald Trump last week to justify an emergency order to ship more than 20,000 bombs—estimated at a value of $660 million—to Israel, skirting a pending approval process for the sale by Congress.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-bombs-for-israel-iran-lebanon

US agency did not perform safety checks of more than 100 food ingredients, analysis finds
The review of FDA records by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) non-profit reveals that diverse products across the food pyramid, such as Capri Sun drinks, Kettle and Fire organic broth, Acme smoked fish, and Quaker Oats snack bars, use a range of substances that have not undergone review by regulators.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/07/fda-food-product-safety-checks-substances

Police investigating after device thrown at anti-Islam protest in New York City
Police are investigating the incident that started late Saturday morning when someone from the anti-Islam protest associated with conservative influencer Jake Lang shot pepper spray intPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pelosi's new campaign: Boost Newsom for 2028
Pelosi has one of the strongest donor networks in Democratic politics. She's been a key validator for Newsom as he's emerged on the national stage and become one of President Trump's most visible foes. "She's a Gavin fan-girl and she doesn't crush on many people," one former Pelosi aide said. "I will say this: She's hardly ever wrong. When she says she sees something, it's a real thing." Former Pelosi aides told Axios the former speaker was always eager to publicly vouch for Newsom whenever asked, and that she's privately expressed admiration for how he has navigated Trump with a combination of defiance and charm.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/15/pelosis-new-campaign-boost-newsom-for-2028
https://archive.ph/IhoiQ

Trump donor who criticized offshoring to close Ohio plant and move work to China
Paulson made a significant portion of his wealth by betting against the housing market that crashed in 2008. A longtime Trump donor, he served on Trump’s economic policy team during his first presidential campaign and raised $50.5m for the president at his Palm Beach home in April 2024. He was in the running to serve as secretary of treasury during Trump’s second term but withdrew because of “complex financial obligations”.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/16/john-paulson-conn-selmer-ohio-factory-china-trump

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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