by Yorgos Mitralias As the tragic and shocking events in Minneapolis mean that the crisis in the United States under Trump now seems to be reaching both its peak and its point of no return, we must stop mincing our words in order to disguise the horrible reality of Trumpism, and therefore, from now on, call things by their name. Why? To make our ideas about the nature, objectives, and methods … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2026
VENEZUELA, THE USA AND LATIN AMERICA
WIN discussion January 2025. See it HERE. The violent kidnapping of Venezuela's president Maduro by US special forces, following the election victories of hard right parties in Chile, Bolivia and Argentina, brings nearer a recapture of the entire sub-continent by direct agents of US imperialism. Trump has declared a return to the "Monroe doctrine" – a reassertion of total US domination of the … [Read more...]
Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is the nail in Gaza’s coffin
"Feckless European leaders like Starmer let Israel and the US tear up international law in Gaza. Now, faced with Greenland and Ukraine, they are suffering from a severe case of buyer’s regret". Jonathan Cook, Jan 2026 First published by Middle East Eye] US President Donald Trump has declared the three-month “ceasefire” in Gaza a great success, and now wants to move on to phase … [Read more...]
Minnesota Labor Leaders Talk Organizing Lessons as Strike Movement Goes National – Payday Report – ‘The Day of Truth and Freedom’
Hear from Mike Elk of Payday report Jan 23, 2026 HERE. Tomorrow, tens of thousands of workers in Minneapolis are expected to take to the streets in a mass general strike. The “Day of Truth and Freedom” has been endorsed by all the major labor organizations in Minnesota. Every major school and cultural institution, as well as hundreds of restaurants and small businesses, are … [Read more...]
THE NEW WORLD ORDER
BY ROGER SILVERMAN WORKERS’ INTERNATIONAL NETWORK BLOG The world today is in a more disturbed state than at any time in the last eight decades. The global structure that came into being after the Second World War had divided the world into three sharply defined sectors: the industrially developed capitalist countries (“the West” plus Japan); the Stalinist states (the USSR and its East … [Read more...]
IRAN ON THE BRINK
WIN Discussion January 2026. See the recording HERE. Once again Iran is in turmoil. Mass protests are raging in every city and every province. The state has imposed a total internet blackout; thousands of demonstrators have been mown down, and tens of thousands jailed; but the protests only grow still bolder. Is this the end at last of the ayatollahs’ medieval theocratic dictatorship? Or can … [Read more...]
Murder in Minnesota – Two Eyewitness Reports
See report from Cliff Willmeng HERE See Report from Brandon Siguenza, a US citizen from Minneapolis, below. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and … [Read more...]
Trump in Greenland: old-fashioned colonialism and acceleration of the climate catastrophe!
by Yorgos Mitralias Almost everyone is currently talking, and rightly so, about Trump's clearly stated intention to occupy and annex Greenland “by hook or by crook.” However, no one has even mentioned what would be by far the most important and serious consequence of this imperialist and colonialist act of unbridled Trumpism: the enormous acceleration and worsening of the climate catastrophe … [Read more...]
Statement of the Workers’ Councils of Arak: All power to the councils!
“To the workers of Markazi Province, to our comrades in Khuzestan, and to all the people of Iran.” For decades, our demands for bread have been answered with bullets, and our demands for dignity with prison. But today, the silence has come to an end. We, the workers of Arak’s factories, declare the following: Workplace control: From now on, the management of the Machine Manufacturing … [Read more...]
The Struggle over Starmer’s fate
by Rhys Jameson – 12th January 2026 On the home front the capitalist media has long and loudly criticised Starmer. Mostly, it has to be said in his defence, for issues that had arisen under the previous Tory regime but at the time the media completely ignored. There was however nothing but uniform, if grudging, praise for his foreign policy where he follows the groove worn into the red carpet … [Read more...]