University administrators testified in a Congressional committee hearing which, through equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, sought to smear academic unions as antisemitic and demand harsher repression on campuses.
President Trump has reduced the deployment of National Guard troops from Los Angeles. But the fight against ICE and the Far Right isn’t over, and unions and community organizations need to step up.
The union representing faculty and staff at CUNY in New York City denounced attacks on academic freedom and called for the reinstatement of faculty fired for their activism. They linked congressional hearings on antisemitism to a broader effort to silence Palestine solidarity and progressive organizing on campus.
Tomorrow the House Education and Workforce Committee will hold yet another hearing on antisemitism at universities. The far-right politicians leading them don’t care about Jewish people, students, or education; they use these hearings to attack the Palestine movement, queer people, the Left, and universities.
Four faculty members have been fired and a student has been suspended, likely as a result of pro-Palestine activism. We have arrived at this McCarthyist attack after a number of previous attacks on free speech, Muslim students and the movement for Palestine. We must stand up and draw a line in the sand: no more repression at CUNY.
Nursing student Baki Devrimkaya faces trial in Berlin for defending a peaceful lecture hall occupation in solidarity with Gaza. His case is part of a wider crackdown on Palestine activists amid growing global resistance to genocide and imperialist violence.
This is a declaration by the Internationalist Revolutionary Socialist Youth, part of the Trotskyist Fraction—Fourth International . Amid war and repression, youth worldwide are rising against imperialism. We call for a revolutionary, socialist path rooted in class struggle and internationalist solidarity.
On Thursday, Baki of Klasse Gegen Klasse will face charges for assault. Yet video evidence show that he was the one being spit at, hit, and insulted at a pro-Palestinian protest.
CUNY is purging pro-Palestine students and faculty. At least 4 pro-Palestine faculty have been fried and at least one student has been suspended. It is time to stand up and fight back against these attacks on our free speech and right to protest.
President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will benefit the wealthy and hurt the poor and marginalized, particularly by gutting health care and the social safety net. The working class can stop it, and fight to nationalize health care under workers' control.
The Trump administration unleashed federal troops in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. To defend our migrant siblings and stop the administration’s anti-immigrant attacks, we need full unity of the working class, unions, and social movements.
Trump’s budget reconciliation bill will put $170 billion toward the war on immigrants. There are still weak points in the Far Right’s anti-immigrant agenda, and opportunities to strengthen the movement for immigrant rights.
On Prime Day, the Amazon Labor Union IBT-Local 1 is organizing a rally on Staten Island to denounce the grueling working conditions and the high rate of injuries that spike during peak periods — while Amazon continues to rake in billions in profits. Join us at the rally to stand with Amazon workers, immigrant workers, and against billionaires.