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Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and more
Following is a fact sheet about how Trump’s “big beautiful” budget bill cuts essential services and benefits for workers to give to the wealthy.
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Donald Trump and Panama: A return to 1903?
A mobilization is beginning to defend national sovereignty, trampled by Yankee imperialism and local traitors.
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After Trump’s Harvard ban, China invites students with offers
Harvard faces legal and political turmoil after Trump revokes its ability to admit foreign students, but China responds with open offers.
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SAFTU condemns imperialist blackmail disguised as diplomacy in Ramaphosa’s secret deal with Trump
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) condemns in the strongest terms the disgraceful deception of the South African public by President Cyril Ramaphosa and his delegation during their recent meeting with Donald Trump in Washington.
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No more dog whistles
Under Trump, Racism Isn’t Just the Subtext, It’s the Text.
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For first time, Netanyahu names ethnic cleansing of Gaza as official war aim
On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time officially stated that an Israeli war aim is the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, openly stating what had been the unspoken goal of Israel since October 7, 2023.
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Don’t believe the New Cold War lies, China is leading the world in climate solutions
At the time of the 1949 revolution, China was largely an agrarian society with widespread poverty, famine and lack of infrastructure.
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Under Trump, NED to continue weaponizing “democracy” in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba
The National Endowment for Democracy has had project funding reinstated by the Trump administration.
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The United States and the Bretton Woods Twins
With President Donald Trump and his team launching an aggressive attack on international institutions and threatening to pull out from many of them, there has been speculation about whether they would adopt the same strategy with respect to the Bretton Woods institutions.
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Afrikaner ‘refugee’ arrival is latest tactic in Trump’s South Africa destabilization campaign
The news that a group of “Afrikaners” (Afrikaans-speaking white people from South Africa) have shown up in the United States, invited by the Trump administration as “refugees,” shouldn’t come as a surprise. Donald Trump is obsessed with South Africa; he has been for years.
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People get ready: Protest on the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder
To defeat Trump’s agenda, we need a movement that unites all who can be united, and is ready to stand up and fight back. If the pardon rumors become reality, meet us in the streets.
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Trump’s executive order promises to ‘unleash’ law enforcement and expand police impunity
In April, Trump unveiled an executive order titled “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens” that hands sweeping new powers to police, guts hard-won reforms and punishes cities that refuse to fall in line.
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Fleeing imaginary persecution at home, South African ‘refugees’ may find the grass is not greener in America
The Trump administration’s decision to fast-track asylum for white South Africans—claiming “persecution”—is a political stunt, ignoring that they remain among the wealthiest globally, still controlling most of the country’s land and resources decades after apartheid allegedly ended.
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America is demolishing antiracism five years after the George Floyd uprising
Hammer & Hope asked Black organizers, academics, and writers to consider the state of Black politics five years after the 2020 uprisings and with the re-election of Donald Trump. Their responses, some written before Trump’s inauguration, offer ideas for where we go from here.
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Columbia University suspends 65 anti-genocide students over library protest
Columbia University has suspended 65 students for joining a pro-Palestine and anti-genocide protest inside the university’s main library on Wednesday, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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The Soviet feat and Trump’s ignorance
In commemoration of the Nazi surrender ending the second world war on May 8, 1945.
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Yemen – U.S. concedes Maritime defeat
Last night Trump conceded that the campaign was lost. He order the U.S. fleet to retreat.
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What explains India’s response to Trump?
To a person unfamiliar with India’s history and political economy, the Indian government’s response to Trump’s actions must be puzzling.
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Trump issues executive order requiring English proficiency for truckers, escalating attacks on immigrant workers
In a barrage of executive orders issued last week, including one late Monday afternoon targeting so-called “sanctuary” cities, President Donald Trump launched a naked attack on the democratic rights of immigrants and the working class as a whole.
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As U.S. military prepares for war on China, Silicon Valley tech oligarchs are profiting
The U.S. military is preparing for war on China. It has missile systems in the Philippines aimed at major Chinese cities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the USA is turning “Japan into a war-fighting headquarters”. Silicon Valley Big Tech oligarchs are making hugely profitable investments.