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Income inequality has been escalating in this country since around 1980 and continues to get worse. Manufacturing jobs have been disappearing since the late 1970s, and the jobs that have "replaced" them have been substandard. The US labor union movement has done nothing to counter this, and as a result, the percentage of the unionized workforce is below 10%. Our national debt is over $39 TRILLION. Our "leaders" have no solutions for working people, whether they be Democrat or Republican, or leaders of the labor movement. In addition, Donald Trump has now initiated a war in Iran, even though the ...

The US and Israel attacked, deceiving Iran, on 28 February 2026, while Iran was in negotiations with the US. The attack targeted and killed the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, most of his close family members and 40 other high government and military leaders in the official residence of the Leader in Tehran. In a separate attack, US missiles killed a minimum of more than 165 very young girls attending school in Southern Iran. From the mass media and bourgeois analysts' point of view, US-Israel victory was bound to be swift and complete, and the decapitation of the top leadership was ...

Khristian Rakovsky, born in Bulgaria, 1873, was a physician, a political activist. He was a Trotsky ally from early on, who helped found Nashe Slovo, a journal edited by Menshevik leader, Julius Martov. He served as a diplomat during the Russian Civil War. He was chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars from 1919 to 1923. From 1923 he was with the Left Opposition. In 1929 Khristian Rakovsky was exiled for his participation in Trotsky’s faction. In 1934 Rakovsky “capitulated” and swore off future Trotskyite conspiracy. The Soviet leadership had evidence that he was lying. Despite this, Stalin permitted him ...

The presentation will examine the 1979 Iranian Revolution—one of the twentieth century's most significant national democratic revolutions—and the forty-seven years of confrontation with imperialism that followed. It will explore why Islamic forces assumed leadership of this revolution and why it succeeded so swiftly compared to similar movements crushed elsewhere. The analysis then turns to the relentless U.S. policy of regime change, from the very beginning to the present day, including the ongoing aggression of the U.S. and its regional proxy, Israel. Finally, we examine how decades of external pressure have shaped Iran's internal class dynamics, political factions, and the current ...

For an empire seeking “full spectrum” dominance, strategic control of global oil resources iscritical. A prelude to a planned sustained Middle East campaign by the US/zionist forces was theprior attack on Venezuela, possessor of the world’s largest petroleum reserves.The US has focused imperial aggression against the Bolivarian Revolution because ofVenezuela’s regional and indeed global importance. Confronted with resolute resistance inVenezuela and the unity of its political/military leadership, the US escalated the offensive withthe kidnapping on January 3 of Venezuela’s president. The US government and corporate press propaganda campaign endeavors to sow disunity anddemoralization, linked to the latest overt acts of ...

Based on personal experiences during his two to three weeks stay in China with his partner and child, the speaker will put forward observations, stories and interesting encounters. The speaker will try to highlight contradictions in Chinese society, capital and state, and would focus upon the present state of the Chinese economy, education, health and other parameters. The talk will also dwell upon how to characterize China. Should China be characterized as capitalist/state-capitalist or  market socialist (socialism with Chinese characteristics) or semi-peripheral or imperialist or semi-colonial or oppressed or oppressor? Should the emergence of China as a competitor of the ...

Dr. Jack Rasmus will present a realistic analysis of the economic, geopolitical and military forces after four years of conflict — not the wishful thinking that permeates much of the analysis on the left or the propaganda promoted by the imperialists. Dr. Jack Rasmus, Ph.D Political Economy, teaches economics at St. Mary’s College in California. He is the author and producer of numerous books, including The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy From Reagan to Bush (2019), Central Bankers at the End of Their Rope? (2017),  and forthcoming The Twilight of American Imperialism.  Jack is the host of the weekly radio show, ...

Immigration has exposed a chasm between the left and the broader working class. Many Marxists defend "open borders", while the ‘progressive’ spectrum opposes all expulsions of the undocumented on moral grounds. There is little daylight between the positions of the Democratic Party, mainstream media, globalist-funded NGOs, and leftists. They often portray immigration restrictions as white supremacist and xenophobic, rather than attempts to limit capital’s excesses. Yet opinion polls reveal that over 70% the working class (including Latinos and African Americans) support legal deportations and closing the border due to perceived job and wage loss, crime, and social upheaval in their neighborhoods. Donald Trump harnessed ...

The conflict and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has overshadowed developments in the West Bank. Yet the situations in the two occupied territories are inextricably linked to the convulsions of Israeli politics, the shifts in global geopolitics, and additionally manifested in the West Bank in the actions of the Israeli settler movement fully supported by the Israeli State. We take a look at how this has been impacting Palestinians on the ground, and their resistance to it. Dr. Sharat G. Lin is a political economist with the San Jose Peace & Justice Center, Human Agenda, and the Initiative for Equality. He ...

Dan will be speaking about the recent attack on Venezuela, threats against Iran, Greenland, and the rest of the world, where the US seems to expand the old Monroe Doctrine and claim the whole world as its “backyard.”  Whether this quest could find any traction in reality is something to be seen. Daniel Kovalik served as in-house counsel at the USW for 26 years at its headquarters in Pittsburgh.  While with the USW, he served as counsel for Colombian Plaintiffs against US Corporations, including the Coca-Cola Company, for alleged human and labor rights violations.  He also taught International Human Rights ...

Violent demonstrations have rocked Iran in recent weeks, prompting Donald Trump to promise that "help is on the way" as a US Navy carrier strike group sails to the Middle East, preparing for an attack on Iran. According to the mainstream media and politicians, Iran is a "regime in crisis" that is murdering its citizens to put an end to a mass democratic uprising.  While Trump is making threats, the Democratic Party leadership is criticizing him for not reaching out to build bipartisan support for a military strike against Iran. What is going on in Iran?  Who is in the streets, what are ...

William Camacaro will report on the latest US imperial aggression against Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. Hear about the resolute resistance on the ground in Venezuela, the unity of the political leadership, and the international solidarity movement. The US government and corporate press propaganda campaign to sow disunity and demoralization will be linked to the latest overt acts of war. This is on top of an illegal regime of unilateral coercive measures (“sanctions”), which has been escalated into an outright military blockade. William Camacaro is a Venezuelan-American based on New York City, where he has been organizing on the ground for the ...

Why the real economy is stagnant and on the cusp of recession; why inflation is double what is reported and jobs are contracting; the impact of Trump's policies on taxes and tariffs; the consequences of $2 trillion in military spending and a $1.8 trillion federal government deficit; the growing BRICS challenge and the falling U.S. dollar. The contradictions in 21st-century US capitalism SPEAKER BIO: Dr. Jack Rasmus, Ph.D Political Economy, teaches economics at St. Mary’s College in California. He is the author and producer of numerous books, including The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy From Reagan to Bush (2019), ...

As we look back over the past year, it is hard to avoid the sense that we are living on the edge of world-changing events. We have entered a historic turning point in the global balance of forces. Such shifts often unfold slowly, until a sudden break makes the change unmistakable. Today, the world’s geopolitical alignment is tipping away from the old order and toward a new one. This transformation began after 1991, when the collapse of the Soviet bloc ended the bipolar world and ushered in a brief period of U.S. dominance. But over the past three decades—especially in ...

As a UCLA art major and activist working to establish the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Mary Uyematsu, set out to document the Asian American Movement happening in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. This Movement found its roots in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, and was sparked by the struggles for ethnic studies and the protests against the Vietnam War, and the recognition of the People’s Republic of China. Mary published her photography collection from this Movement in 2020, to document the anti-imperialist issues that politicized our ...

Mexico is the US' largest trading partner and has over three times the population of Canada. Strangely, there has been little news in the US about the immense changes taking place in Mexico. The transformation began in 2018 under President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and continues under President Claudia Sheinbaum. Both leaders represent the MORENA Party, which now holds a majority in the Mexican Congress and Senate despite having only been created in 2014.  Mexico is now drawing US attention, and there are examples of foreign promoted violence in spite of the overwhelming popularity of the Morena leaders.  Our ...