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    Community defends migrant workers

    Antonio Golán and Paul Fleckenstein report on the growing resistance in the community of South Burlington, Vermont following an ICE raid last month.

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    Stop the War Now! 

    A March 26, 2026 panel discussion on the devastating US-Israeli war on Iran and Israel’s war on Lebanon. 

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    Anti-West politics in Iran

    Ever since a U.S.-British coup brought the Shah of Iran to power in 1953, says Nasser Asgary, anti-Westernism has served as an common “analytical lens” for the country’s politics—both for the current regime and for the opposition.

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    The Iran war comes home to India

    The shock of the Iran war is showing up first in India by creating hardships in everyday life—and exposing the country’s social fracture lines. Snehal Shingavi explains.

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    2025, An uneven year for a labor movement still in trouble

    Kim Moody analyzes union growth in 2025, noting that while union coverage was up, strikes were down.

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    Wars on the people: Repression and resistance at home and abroad

    On April 9, 2026, United Left Platform will host a panel on the Trump wars at home and abroad.

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    Resistance to ICE’s war on Chicago

    Members of the Chicago Tempest Collective compiled these oral history interviews with anti-ICE activists in Chicago.

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    Minneapolis shows the way

    Friday’s mass strike actions in Minneapolis could be a major step forward for resisting Trump’s racist campaign of street terror—and an example for activists in other cities to follow. A Tempest National Committee statement.

  • A photo of Nicolás Maduro driving an army car with others in it, holding his fist up, with a crowd of people behind. Photo is filtered with a faded brownish texture.

    The end of pretenses

    The January 3 attack on Venezuela, says Anderson Bean, was the collision of U.S. imperial escalation with a regime that had dismantled the very social forces capable of defending sovereignty from below.

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    ICE is waging class war

    ICE terror is an attack on the whole working class. Anthony Teso explains.

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    We can’t vote our way out of this mess

    The Tempest National Committee looks to the emergence of mass protests as the way to challenge Trump’s authoritarianism.

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    Being on strike when your employer is a union 

    Staff at the York University Faculty Association have been on strike since October 27, 2025. Chris Little and Jeffery R. Webber sat down with CUPE 1281 members, Nicole Leach and Manuel Marqués, to discuss the reasons behind the strike and the development of the dispute to date.

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    ¡Contra la guerra imperialista de Estados Unidos contra Venezuela!

    Anderson Bean entrevista al socialista venezolano Gonzalo Gómez sobre la escalada de la intervención estadounidense en Venezuela, sus antecedentes, lo que está en juego y una estrategia de resistencia al imperialismo.

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    Against U.S. imperial war on Venezuela!

    Anderson Bean interviews Venezuelan socialist Gonzalo Gómez about the escalation of U.S. intervention in Venezuela, its background, stakes, and a strategy for resistance to imperialism.

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    United Left Platform Calls for Mass Resistance to U.S. Attack on Venezuela

    The United Left Platform statement against U.S. imperialist aggression in Venezuela.