New Future

The Detroit City Council recently voted on the annual budget. While there were important changes, the 2025-26 budget ignores the needs of Detroit’s working class.

Judges in the UK have ruled that the term “woman” in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex, not gender identity. A global grassroots movement for trans rights — one that fights in the workplace and the streets — is needed.

Below we reprint in full a statement from U. S. political prisoner, Mahmoud Khalil, written from a cell in a detention center in Louisiana.

Trump’s zigzags on tariffs could undermine his credibility in an escalating trade war with China, which threatens to violently “decouple” the two economies.

The Trump administration has made much of Harvard’s supposed failure to address antisemitism in the wake of campus protests against the genocide in Gaza, but the attacks on the university have less to do with “civil liberties” than consolidating power and punishing critics.

On Wednesday, Alejandro Vilca, a socialist deputy with the PTS, was tear-gassed during a weekly pensioners protest in Argentina. He offers a powerful example of socialists’ role in electoral politics.

After 58 days on strike, Alamo United workers in New York City forced Sony to reverse its layoffs, reinstating all fired staff. Their victory shows what’s possible when workers unite as one fist.

Increasing attacks by the Far Right in French universities has become dangerous for the student movement. Our comrades from Le Poing Levé (Fist Up) are calling for the creation of action committees to combat these attacks and turn universities into battlegrounds against the Far Right.

During a meeting at the White House, President Nayib Bukele reaffirmed that El Salvador will act as an international branch of the U. S. Border Patrol, even detaining U. S. citizens.

Tens of thousands of people are showing up to his “Fighting Oligarchy” rallies, angry not just at Trump but at the capitalist system and both parties that uphold it. That energy must be harnessed into the independent organization of the working class from below.

Despite claiming to offer an alternative to Shawn Fain's chauvinistic defense of U. S. industry, Sean Crawford and Labor Notes are just putting forward a slightly more progressive vision of business unionism.

Amazon calls a recent worker death a “third-party” tragedy, but the real culprit is brutal conditions that put corporate profits over worker safety.

On Thursday, hundreds of thousands in Argentina joined a national strike, bringing industry, transit, and other services to a standstill. The country’s working class is showing the way to fight the Far Right.

On Friday, a Louisiana judge ruled that the Trump administration can deport Mahmoud Khalil. This isn't a legal setback: it is a political assault on free speech, the student movement for Palestine, and on immigrant rights.