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  • A landscape photo of buildings in Tijuana, mountains in the background, and the sky above.

    Rebuilding labor solidarity across the border

    Héctor Rivera and Hannah M report on a binational labor summit between workers in the U.S. and Mexico that took place in April.

  • People standing in a line behind a wall holding signs.

    War, economic crisis, and discontent in Putin’s Russia

    Ashley Smith interviews the editors of Posle, a Russian socialist website, about Putin’s war, regime, popular grievances, and the challenges of resistance under autocracy.

  • Sandra Reed points and speaks over a crowd.

    A tribute to Sandra Reed

    Lee Wengraf writes this tribute to the recently deceased death penalty abolitionist, Sandra Reed. As the mother of the wrongly convicted death row prisoner Rodney Reed, Sandra spent decades both fighting for her son’s freedom while calling attention to the barbarity and racism of the U.S. criminal injustice system. Free Rodney Reed! Sandra Reed presente!

  • A photo of Juniper Blessing, edited in front of pink flowers.

    Violence enabled by the state

    Eric Maroney speaks out about the stabbing death of trans teenager Juniper Blessing.

  • A pink filtered photo of a woman standing in front of a sign saying 'alternative für deutschland'

    Femonationalism in the Alternative for Germany

    Aya Anzouk analyzes the weaponization of feminism in right-wing populist movements, specifically in the influential Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).

  • 3 images of protests.

    May Day 2026

    San Francisco/SFO Airport Tempest members joined hundreds of workers and community members in support of SEIU-USWW SFO airport workers as they campaigned around raising minimum wages to $30/hr. The action blocked vehicle access to the International Terminal starting at 11 AM. As first vice president, Sanjay Garla reported, LAX workers recently won $30/hr minimum wage,…

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  • A photo of Modi and Trump shaking hands next to a photo of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Farah Pahlavi, and Indira Gandhi.

    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.

  • A yellow-filtered photo of a winding dirt road.

    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.

  • A pink-filtered image of a field.

    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.

  • A crowd waves flags of Lebanon and Hezbollah.

    Lebanon and Hezbollah in the wake of empire

    The U.S.-Israel war has expanded into Lebanon. Joseph Daher analyses its impact on Lebanon and on Iran’s ally Hezbollah.

  • A pencil drawing of a man in glasses reading a book.

    Ernst Meyer, Leninist

    Understanding the revolutionary process in Germany, over the first half of the twentieth century, and especially in the period from 1917 to 1928, is critically important for all revolutionaries. John Marot reviews Florian Wilde’s contribution to this understanding in his biography of one of the leaders of the German revolutionary movement, Ernst Mayer.

  • A photo of the backs of two people looking toward a building with Ukranian flags flying in front.

    Four years of resistance in Ukraine

    Ukrainian socialists Maryna Mykhalova and Snizhana Oleksun address the International Committee of the Fourth International.

  • An orange-tinted collage of an oil tanker on the ocean and a gas sign to its right.

    A crisis everywhere, shared unequally

    The Iran war is spreading misery around the world, starting with the most vulnerable places. Sirantos Fotopoulos argues that the source of the war—and the misery—is the system of energy-for-profit.

  • Venezuela después del golpe

    Ashley Smith conversa con Federico Fuentes sobre la Doctrina Donroe, la crisis del chavismo y la resistencia antiimperialista. 

  • A close-up of a globe against a pink background.

    The Revolutionary Development of Global Marxism

    Paul Le Blanc reviews books on global Marxism by Simin Fadaee and Kevin Anderson.