New Future

In response to the shooting of a police officer, Newark Solidarity Coalition, a community activist group in Newark, published a statement contextualizing the issues that impact their community and countering mainstream media framing of the recent events.

Israel has launched new attacks in Gaza, killing over 100 Palestinians and putting into question the already fragile ceasefire. Israel’s relentless massacre makes clear that its goal is the continued destruction of Palestine.

Columbia University has expelled, suspended, and revoked the diplomas of 22 students who protested Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Among them is the president of the Student Workers of Columbia union — just days before contract negotiations. This is a blatant attack on the right to protest.

The Syrian civil war is far from over, and HTS (Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham) is now taking over from the al-Assad regime and committing new atrocities, in the form of the massacres perpetrated after HTS's seizure of power or in recent days against the Alawite population.

The recent discovery of three clandestine crematoriums on a ranch in Teuchitlán (Jalisco), and another one in Tamaulipas, put on the agenda once again the crisis of violence and forced disappearances that Mexico has been experiencing for almost 20 years, a crisis developed by the militarist PAN and PRI neoliberal governments and inherited by the supposed “progressivism” of Morena’s “Fourth Transformation. ”

Three leading left intellectuals and political activists in the United States offer their perspective on Trump's offensive against the rights of the working class and oppressed, breaking from the Democratic Party, and the role of socialists in this moment.

The Far Right wants to crush our movements and convince us resistance is futile. Thousands of people aren’t buying it — and they’re mobilizing to free Mahmoud Khalil.

On Wednesday, thousands gathered in support of a demonstration by retirees against austerity. They were joined by political and trade union organizations in solidarity, and held out until late at night despite massive repression by the government.

Student workers at Columbia are bearing the brunt of Trump’s attacks on higher education and fighting back.

Our failure to act now will only embolden the Trump administration and the Far Right

The Trump administration is escalating its attacks on the Palestine movement by threatening to deport Mahmoud Khalil. To decisively stop his deportation and protect our democratic rights, we need to stand up in our workplaces, universities, and in the streets.

Trump’s statements on the war in Ukraine have opened a historic crisis in transatlantic relations. These upheavals have brought the issue of war back to the forefront, raising the need for an anti-militarist and anti-war policy.

As universities and the government crack down on the student movement for Palestine, activists are organizing broad campaigns to get their charges dropped.

In the face of mounting attacks from the Trump administration, ALU-IBT Local 1, the Amazon Union at JFK8 on Staten Island, published a statement in solidarity with immigrant workers. This statement is an important example of how unions must mobilize in defense of immigrants. At Amazon, many workers are immigrants and refugees whose work statuses are under threat.