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The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) condemns the imperialist-backed terrorist and separatist attacks against the Transition Government of Mali on April 25, 2026. This was a major attack that terrorized the population in several towns, resulting in casualties, among whom the minister of defense, General Sadio Camara, his wife, and grandchildren were killed. The Black Alliance for Peace offers our condolences to the family and comrades in the Malian transition government, as well as the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).

Consistent with our principles, BAP stands in unity with all anti-imperialist fighting …

Human beings often search for meaning in distant philosophies, institutions, or ideologies, but the truth is far more immediate: what confronts us, what resists us, and what shapes our condition is what ultimately defines us. And nothing shapes the human condition more profoundly than the woman who brings humanity into existence. She is not a symbol to be admired from a distance, nor an accessory to the historical record. She is the creator of the species, the first architect of human survival, and the most exploited force in every civilization that …

Artisanal fishers collective, La Guaira, Venezuela

A US military strike on May 4 killed two mariners in an alleged “narco boat” campaign which now has a cumulative death toll of at least 188. The pace of extrajudicial executions is ramping up, according to The Guardian. But why?

The serial murders could be, as the Trump administration claims, a genuine counter-narcotics operation. Or Mr. Trump and company may be conducting a demonstration exercise of executive power. Alternatively, the “kinetic strikes” may reflect more domestic concerns or perhaps foreign policy issues. Another possibility …

When I was invited to write a chapter on men in feminism for a scholarly book, I told the editors that I would have to include discussion of my writing on the radical feminist critiques of pornography and transgender ideology, which are controversial subjects in academic feminism. They assured me that wouldn’t be a problem, but I submitted a draft early because I’ve had editors reject such writing at the last minute. Their response did not surprise me: “The editorial team has met and decided the article does not fit with our mission for the book.”

Rather than abandon the project, …

I do believe I’ll be . . . having the honor of taking Cuba.

— Donald Trump

Donald Trump tightened already suffocating sanctions on Cuba on May 1, at the same time as he made renewed threats to “take” the island as soon as he finishes committing the greatest foreign policy blunder in U.S. history in Iran. The new measure to heap further unmerited suffering on Cubans was justified on the laughable pretext that their government poses an extraordinary national security threat to the United States, which, if it were true, would constitute an equally extraordinary confession of military impotence on the …

They have become adept flouters of international law. When doing so, they justify such violations with streaky, anaemic interpretations of self-defence and security. The Global Sumud Flotilla’s encore effort to break the Gaza blockade, which has been in place with varying forms of severity since 2007, did have one meritorious claim. After vanishing under a news cycle saturated with the Iran War, the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and a global energy crisis, the unpardonably miserable plight of Gazans did make a return to the media stage.

The state of catastrophic misery for those on the Gaza Strip is …

The U.S. Presidential Executive Order, “Imposing Sanctions on Those Responsible for Repression in Cuba and for Threats to United States National Security and Foreign Policy,” signed on May 1, 2026, International Workers’ Day, marks both an escalation of existing policy and a qualitative shift toward total economic warfare, deploying starvation as an instrument of statecraft. The timing of this escalation is not incidental. Issued amid renewed U.S. rhetoric around exerting control over Cuba, the EO signals an effort to consolidate that control in a moment of deepening crisis for U.S. imperialism.
By broadening sanctions to target any entity or …

Above a personal email from a friend (name changed) in early April was a small summation of her short message to me from something called “AI Overview”:

Barbara is getting a Jitterbug phone like Jan’s.
Beth asked Barbara about her writing group…”

Below it in smaller type was the AI author’s message:” ‘By Gemini; there may be mistakes. Learn more”

There was no mistake. And I needed no translations of Beth’s email. Google’s Gemini program was invading my privacy.  And because millions of others and I have written adversely about President Trump in our Gmails, we are now being watched. Could it …

I recently watched a Sky News segment on the need to ban pro-Palestine marches, which nicely illustrates the way the mass media have been working to manipulate the public into believing these demonstrations are causing antisemitic attacks.

Reporting on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s recent assertion that the “repeat nature” and “cumulative effect” of pro-Palestine marches may necessitate a ban on some protests following the Golders Green stabbing, reporter Mollie Malone repeatedly told the audience of Sky News that the marches are happening in the “context” of antisemitic incidents and “against the backdrop” of attacks on Jewish people.

There is no evidence …

Two days ago, Israeli forces violently raided the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) in international waters, and kidnapped unarmed activists at gunpoint, including at least two Canadians.

The …

On this International Workers’ Day 2026, it is clear that the working people of the US must fight and organize more substantially to defeat U.S. wars domestically and globally. From Palestine to Haiti, from Iran to Cuba, from Venezuela to Sudan, from Lebanon to the Philippines, U.S. imperialism deploys military force, economic warfare, and political repression to discipline working peoples who resist its control. Domestically, this same system targets migrants, criminalizes dissent, murders freedom fighters, and intensifies the conditions of exploitation and disposability imposed on the working class.

For nine years, the Black Alliance for Peace has worked to advance this …

May Day, the international day of working class unity and struggle, finds its origins in the historic strike of U.S. workers for the eight-hour workday.

The strike started on May 1, 1886. In Chicago, workers’ defence organizations organized a general strike and tens of thousands of workers walked off the job. Some 80,000 people marched down Michigan Avenue with the cry, “Eight-hour day with no cut in pay.” Police and private security forces from Pinkerton were on hand to suppress the workers, but there was no incident that day. Over the next …

A new study from Nafeez Ahmed and the Age of Transformation looking at over 100 years of historical patterns finds that Trump’s brand of fascism is highly likely to flame out within the next few years. Yes, that’s really exciting to hear. But no, it doesn’t mean we’re home free.

First — a definition of fascism. Seems like everybody has a different one, but I’ll go with Encyclopedia Britannica’s definition of neo-fascists:

“The neofascists advocate militant nationalism and authoritarian values, oppose the liberal …

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Louts pressing false claims, faux principled types seeking to score successes against clearly useless targets. Jules Hurst, in trying to discharge the duties of the comptroller, had some news for members of the House Armed Services Committee: the Iran War had drawn $25 billion from the coffers of Freedom Land which, for the budget wags, amount to the entire budget of NASA for a year. It was further explained that most of that coin went on munitions. The top Democrat on the Committee, Rep. Adam Smith, exuded …

In the run-up to the 2024 election, Donald Trump promised “We will close the border. We will stop the invasion of illegals into our country.” A year later, it was a promise he claimed to have kept. But exactly who are the “illegals”? Loose definitions and manipulated statistics tell a very misleading story about migrants from Latin America.

Earlier this year, a chart appeared on social media sites like X claiming that during President Biden’s four years in office, 8% of Nicaragua’s population entered the US illegally. The chart displayed comparable percentages for five …