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Defending Immigrants and Voters Helps Unions Defeat Fascists
Protests of Minneapolis ICE murders led to charges of conspiracy against 15 people, mostly union activists who see fighting fascism as part of their struggle for better lives.
Protecting Democracy and Voting for Basic Needs
Working class voters in 2026 have no choice but both to fight MAGA and demand that government meet our basic needs. In Michigan, Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is fighting for Medicare for All. Will America succumb to this chicanery again, as our country and our planet descend into chaos?
This is What Democracy Looks Like: Video
Video ! The recent Democratic primary victories of Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and Angie Nixon in Florida sent shock waves through both Republican and Democratic establishments.
U.S Government Tries to Restore Declining Global Power
Our government dominates Latin America by collaborating with fascist regimes as
it intensifies military aggression against Venezuela and especially Cuba.
This is What Democracy Looks Like
The recent Democratic primary victories of Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and Angie Nixon in Florida sent shock waves through both Republican and Democratic establishments.
ICE Divides So Fascism Can Conquer
As corporations replace workers with new technologies, they and the government blame the undocumented for the lack of jobs. Heroes are rising to speak out against this.
Labor History and 21st Century Revolutionary Possibilities
The fight to defend what they have from being taken away is leading towards workers taking the offensive. That means winning a cooperative, peaceful, and ecologically sustainable world.
Public Education — Developing Our Intelligence, Not Their Profits!
Housing costs drive families away, weakening their schools’ tax base. Privatizers swoop
Medicare for All for Real
Medicare was won when a powerful movement coincided with capitalism’s need for a stable, expanding workforce. That era ended, but the struggle for healthcare continues.
Did the American Revolution Fail?
1776’s Revolution was captured by the new country’s elites, but its calls to end monarchy and slavery echo in today’s struggle to abolish capitalist property.
Did the American Revolution Fail?: Video
A Video: 1776’s Revolution was captured by the new country’s elites, but its calls to end monarchy and slavery echo in today’s struggle to abolish capitalist property.
DEFEND VOTING RIGHTS, OR “DEMOCRACY DIES IN OUR FACE”
African American political representation is at risk as Southern legislatures
take advantage of attacks on voting rights by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Juneteenth and the Unfinished Work of Freedom
The abolition of chattel slavery transformed the nation, but that wealth was never redistributed to the people who had been enslaved. Private property survived, and the ruling class reorganized around new ways to exploit labor, control land, and divide workers along racial lines.
Defending the Environment Is Revolutionary
Resolving the climate crisis while ensuring decent living standards for all is not
possible in a system where capitalists treat nature as if it were a commodity
IRAN WAR: DELUSIONS OF U.S. EMPIRE
The public should know the human and economic costs of wars waged in our names.
Trump admits “Americans' financial situation” had no part in his decision to attack Iran.
From A.I. Apocalypse to Political Revolution
A.I. disrupts the economy and the political system. Will a new party structure be organized through the movement of the working-class or imposed by a fascist oligarchy?
THE COMING POLITICAL REALIGNMENT
The “A.I. revolution” is tearing both political parties apart, and the U.S. war on Iran intensifies
this polarization. In an anti-corporate third party the workers can deepen their consciousness.
Storm, Whirlwind, Earthquake – Thomas Paine, Abolitionist
From Abolishing KINGS to Abolishing CAPITALIST PROPERTY. 250 years after the partial revolution abolishing monarchy and 160 years after abolishing slavery, we are entering the era of the revolution to abolish capitalist private property.
Unhoused Win Battle Against Fascist Encampment Destruction
A coalition of unhoused, tenants, and immigrants stunned LA officials in court when the
judge ruled they had lied about encampment “cleanups’ that trashed people’s belongings.
Defeating Jim Crow 2.0
AI-driven fascism combines new technology with the old racialized repression,
to protect class privilege instead of the people.
Abolish Rent: The Housing Movement Strikes Back
Homeowners, tenants, and unhoused face an enemy class that controls the housing market.
Rent strikes can be steps toward realizing “a world without landlords, a world without rent.”
Today’s Fascism Arises from an Economic Revolution
By the National Council of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Fascism is Not New to America
Fascism began as the violent, racist rule of the U.S. South after Reconstruction.
Today’s growing fascism makes working class unity possible and necessary.
2025 – LOOKING BACK, TO LOOK AHEAD
2025 articles analyzed Trump’s presidency, genocide in Gaza, technological
Job displacement. A mighty anti-fascist movement also arose in 2025.
Mamdani NYC Victory: Defeating Fascism by Meeting People’s Needs
From the Editors of Rally!/Agrupemonos! Voice of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old African-born immigrant and democratic socialist who...
The World We Want: How Do We Get There from Here?
Artificial Intelligence could guarantee basic needs for everyone. Fascism is AI in the wrong hands – capitalist corporations. Successfully resistance will require working class unity.
Uniting Beyond Separate Struggles
As technology replaces people “these bastards are stealing money from the poor
for the 1%”. Survival, and justice, depend on workers fighting fascism as a class.
From the Defensive to the Offensive Against Fascism
This is class warfare – taking over the media and universities while Democrats just
compromise. An offensive against fascism can start the offensive against capitalism.
Fascism Attacks Higher Education
Trump’s attacks on universities reveal how fascism operates with open criminality, facilitated by the politics of compromise of university leaders and corporate Democrats. Attacking equity and inclusion means that treating all people equally is formally rejected. MAGA offers only the rhetoric of white supremacy, since most working class whites won’t be able to afford higher ed or other “privileges.”
Reform and Revolution 2025
Automation is polarizing humanity into one camp possessing the vast wealth of society and the other without adequate means of survival. As this polarization becomes more extreme, the struggle for basic necessities must move from trying to reform the system toward revolutionary transformation.
The Fight Against Fascism in Oakland
It is time to go on the offensive by uniting unhoused people with tenants and the entire larger movement for housing.
Working Families Unite
Trump’s vendetta against Chicago began in his first term, when its people repeatedly expressed their hatred for his policies with mass protests, actually forcing Trump to cancel his appearance at the UIC Forum. Now ICE raids schools as families drop off and pick up their children. Veterans for Peace called on Illinois Governor Pritzker to offer sanctuary if members of the National Guard refuse to go to Chicago.
A New Urban Movement: Public Wealth For Public Good
In Chicago and New York the idea of “public wealth for public good” has led to calls for city-run grocery stores and fare-free transit. This challenges the belief that basic survival must be monetized. Can city government become a builder and provider – not to extract profit, but to deliver justice?
Searise
From the Editors: This poem was submitted to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Katrina disaster and the people’s heroic struggle.
Searise
In a thousand years
the...
The Fight Against Fascism in Oakland
By Oakland Basic Needs Electoral Committee (OBNEC)
The current war on residents of Oakland, CA, is serving as a test case for the consolidation of...
Uniting Against Fascists to Defend Housing for All
It is time to go on the offensive by uniting unhoused people with tenants and the entire larger movement for housing.
The Attack on Immigrants and All of Us
Fascistic ICE raids criminalize a section of the working class, turning us against each other instead of uniting against a government controlled by billionaires. As this drives up living expenses for everyone, public protests are forcing state and local officials to stand up against the federal government.
Octavia Butler Warned Us Of Fascism
Nineteen years after her death, the work of acclaimed writer Octavia Butler has been renewed by the publication of a graphic art version of her prophetic anti-fascist novel Parable of the Talents. Her words and image have also reappeared in Internet news reporting and at rallies against MAGA.
Fourth of July: The American revolution is not finished
Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, a member of the tobacco planter class and a delegate to the rebel Continental Congress, wrote the Declaration of Independence...
Fighting Fascism with Solidarity and Vision
By the League Basic Needs Electoral Committee
Outrage at ICE raids and deployment of the National Guard and Marines in LA has unleashed an explosion...
Defeating the War on Women’s Bodies
By Ethel Long-Scott (California based anti-poverty and women’s rights community organizer, social issues advocate, political campaign strategist, non-profit director and League strategist and builder)
and...
BOMBING IRAN WORSENS SUFFERING IN THE U.S. AND ABROAD
From the Editors of Rally-Agrupémonos, Voice of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Uncounted hundreds in Iran have been killed by bombs dropped...
One Hundred Days of Assault: The War Against Free Speech
Suppressing public dissent allows the ruling class to protect corporate power and the private property system from democratic opposition. Targeting pro-Palestinian protesters exemplifies this bipartisan assault. Republicans support the crackdown while Democrats refuse to defend speech that might upset powerful donors.
We must unite not just to defend free speech, but to build a world where human needs come before profit and Earth is protected not plundered. The battle for democracy is the battle for a new world.
Working Class Power in the Age of AI and Technofascism
By the League Basic Needs Electoral Committee
We stand at a historic juncture. Millions of Americans are protesting across the nation every week against the...
Billionaire Oligarchy Unleashes Technofascism
On April 5, five million Americans protested MAGA attacks on democracy and social services. Technofascism is dictatorship for the era of AI. Even fascist Steve Bannon called Musk’s DOGE “a tech CEO takeover of a government”.
Fighting Fascism By Demanding Housing For All
Some cities declare it illegal to set up communities of the homeless, even threatening to arrest those who reject city-run shelters. The groups fighting Democratic mayors over this are as anti-fascist as those protesting the actions of Trump and Musk.
Immigrant Rights and the Battle for Basic Needs
Workers of all colors are being impoverished, so leaders are sounding the alarm that the attack on migrants is an attack on all.
Immigrant students fight fear by uniting
Federal agents are terrorizing immigrants with raids at workplaces, stores and communities across America. It is easy to forget that in 2006 millions of...
Angelenos fight wildfires, capitalism’s vultures
Disastrous fires around Los Angeles are forcing people to fight over the area’s future, now.
Private Healthcare Insurance Kills
Insurance-driven healthcare treats working class lives as expendable, and the fight for publicly-owned healthcare is inseparable from the fight for a just, equitable society.
Politicize the Tech Revolution by Building Class Unity
Technology like AI displaces workers into an “equality of poverty”, spurring solidarity that gets politicized by showing they are fighting an economic system that must be changed.
United Class Struggle will Determine Our Future
Open class struggle is emerging in U.S. politics for the first time since the Great Depression. Based in the struggle for common needs, revolutionaries can
develop fighters’ class consciousness.
The value of voting within a revolution
The 2024 elections are unleashing storms of controversy around who to vote for and why, around the role of third parties and even whether people should vote at all. In 1971, Black Panther Party leader George Jackson wrote that participation in ruling-class electoral politics is the opposite of revolution.
PRIVATIZATION IN MICHIGAN, A PROJECT 2025 WARNING
In 2010, then-governor Rick Snyder of Michigan signed a new, more authoritarian version of that state’s Emergency Manager law, dispatching appointees to selected cities and school districts throughout the state, where local government and school boards would be replaced.
Project 2025: Scapegoating immigrants
Immigration, asylees, and the border wall are front and center in the national spotlight. With cries of an “invasion by criminals, murderers and rapists” from “sh*t hole countries,” former president Trump is using immigration as a political football to score points with his political base and as a battering ram to drive his Democratic opponents further to the right.
The meaning of the Harris housing plan
Some of the cruelest and most painful attacks on the working class are happening on the housing front. As Will Suphon of Tucson, Arizona explained, “The housing market, the job market, the price of food ... it’s all become rather insane and so many people are being thrown to the wayside. You can do everything right and still end up living in your car.”
Fighting for basic needs in the fall campaign
Something is happening here. What is the significance of the rise of the Kamala Harris campaign? For the workers, it is a dramatic opportunity not only to resist fascism, but to advance the movements for the basic necessities they need to survive.
Defeat the Newsom attack: Housing is a human right
On July 25, California governor Gavin Newsom declared war on unhoused people statewide. First, he ordered encampments removed from state land, with no regard for whether displaced people have somewhere else to go. Then on August 9, he doubled down and threatened to cut housing funding to any city or county that failed to sweep away its unhoused people.
Energy profits plunder Puerto Rican society, ecosystem
Last June 13, residents from Puerto Rico’s coastal town Salinas staged a righteously angry and spirited protest in the courtyard of the most luxurious apartment complex in San Juan’s main urban center. Its principal owner is Nicholas Prouty, a key figure in the damning roster of real estate and finance investors currently feeding off Puerto Rico’s energy and economic crisis, which they caused.
Defeat Project 2025, demand government meets basic needs
Project 2025 is a 920-page blueprint for the dictatorship that corporations openly plan to impose if they can get a “conservative president” elected or installed this November. It unquestionably represents the most immediate and dangerous tendency in the overall fascist offensive and must be defeated.
I QUESTION AMERICA
In 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer called on the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City to recognize delegates of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. This is her testimony about that state's fascist vote suppression and police brutality.
New strategy for unions is emerging
When times were better, the trade union movement was how many workers fought to achieve the American Dream, but now unions are increasingly necessary just to survive in the new economy. And even a union contract no longer guarantees families a secure future if they belong to the new social class that is rapidly becoming dispossessed of secure employment, housing or healthcare.
Encampments a flashpoint in defense of Gaza
Across our country, university encampments protesting the Israeli Zionist genocide in Gaza have been attacked by administrators, police and even armed fascist gangs.
‘In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians’
This common protest chant embraces a profound reality that we live in dire times when all of us must, in some sense, struggle for our collective survival, existence and liberation alongside the people of Palestine.
Juneteenth: Celebration and continued struggle
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, halfway through the Civil War. The war had been fought to determine which form of capitalist rule would prevail over the country, one founded on slave labor or one based on wage labor.
Reproductive freedom or fascism – fighting for women’s lives
A series of decisions by rogue courts and legislatures has forced reproductive freedom to the center of the 2024 elections, right there with migrant rights, genocide in Palestine, the planet, the economy, and the future of democracy.
Defending Chicago’s migrants from rising fascism
An activist in the movement to defend immigrants recently shared how their struggle echoes that of his own family.
My parents are from the breathtakingly beautiful Westcoast of Ireland, with its rugged coast and crags of lichen-covered rocks. Yet, as my Irish-born father would say, you cannot eat the scenery. Like so many others, his heart never left his homeland, but their stomachs needed to find greener pastures.
Waking up and shaking up local elections in 2024
Oakland, California has become a critical battleground in the escalating war between the working people of America, including millions of people of color, and a corporate billionaire class that is aggressively dedicated to maximizing its profits.
The Crisis of Student Debt and the Fight for Public Education
The CSU system, once hailed nationally for its affordability and accessibility, is now at a crossroads as nearly 400,000 students and their families confront the harsh reality of escalating costs. A new tuition increase has been imposed by the Board of Trustees.
MAGA school-voucher plans flunk in some red states
In this critical 2024 election year, MAGA and other fascist forces use public education as a venue for the performative politics of fear, anger, hatred. They claim they are victimized by certain public school programs, which are actually aimed at meeting the educational and emotional needs of all students.
2024: The war for democracy
Turnout in the 2024 elections will be decisive for at least temporarily stopping American fascists from destroying the little democracy we still have left. Would-be corporate dictators are organized, well-funded, and have plans to seize power at every level, from cities and towns to the federal government.
Poor People’s Campaign brings demands of 140 million Americans to the statehouses
At noon local time Saturday, March 2 in at least 30 state capitals,the Poor People’s Campaign, A National Call for a Moral Revival will hold Mass Poor People’s and Low Wage Workers State House Assemblies and to-the-Polls rallies.
THE PEOPLE DEMAND HOUSING, NOT PUNISHMENT
Wealthy West Coast real estate speculators and their supporters in state and local governments are stepping up their attacks on poor and unhoused people in our communities.
Unforgivable Losses: Opioid deaths and the war on drugs
Skid Row in Los Angeles has historically been an epicenter of state violence and abandonment. Whether policing “quality of life crimes” with Safer Cities Initiative or trashing lifesaving possessions in sweeps, it is a proving ground for new tactics of violence that are then exported around the country and the world.
Gaza war machine ‘made in USA’
The United States could stop the ongoing Gaza massacre of Palestinians by the Zionist government calling itself “Israel” in 24 hours, but it refuses to do so, even though the majority of Americans demand this.
Migrants suffering capitalist chaos
In the United States and Western Hemisphere, we are seeing a global movement of people leaving their homes behind to find life-threatening hardships on their journeys, sometimes crossing up to 14 countries and their borders to get to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Reproductive rights: Democracy warriors on the march
Tyranny of the minority, the ruling class strategy that enslaved and impoverished millions of people deemed fit only to serve the powerful, is once again waging an all-out war on women.
Classes Fight Over Puerto Rico’s Beaches
When a company illegally privatized a public beach, Puerto Rican workers demolished it themselves. They protected their “Commons” against capitalists there and from the U.S. mainland.
Wood Street Commons: Lessons from the front lines
Wood Street Commons organized a self-sustaining community to solve Oakland’s disgraceful homelessness problem. Local officials and police treated its revolutionary vision of a cooperative society as a threat to the system.
Fighting for human needs in the 2024 elections
The deteriorating economic situation for millions of Americans is generating both a rising tide of people fighting for their basic needs and a ruling-class turn toward fascist solutions to crush the resistance.
Abolition and Cultural Work: Making the Revolution Legible
A new form of abolition is arising today. First it aimed ending America’s systems of prisons and police; today it goes to the heart of the matter: “Abolition requires that you change one thing: everything.” (Ruth Wilson Gilmore, revolutionary scholar).
Criminalizing the poor and homeless of Los Angeles
California has a sordid history of criminalizing poor and homeless people with laws against sitting, lying, or sleeping/camping that date back to the 1870s. Just after the abolition of slavery in 1865, Penal Code 647e declared that “No person shall sit, lie, camp on public or private property without the owner’s permission.”
Capitalism Cannot Withstand AI
The famous scientist, Stephen Hawking once warned that artificial intelligence (Ai) would be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity.” The issue is which human social force – which economic class of people – controls it.
Defending Democracy, Reclaim Our Humanity from Florida to California and All States in between
The fascist monsters in Texas have carried out the recent torture and murder of migrant workers, women, children, even babies. They are killing in our name! In the web of lies they and haters like them spin, they are trying to frighten us into giving up our human rights.
Stop Cop City: a Climate Catalyst
Cop City is the name people have given to the proposed largest police training facility/mock city in the United States, in Atlanta, Georgia. To build it, the police foundation and their corporate donors will have to destroy 85 acres of the largest urban green space in the country, in a Black working-class neighborhood.
From the Editors: Fascists operate on two fronts: illegal and legal
During July 2023, millions celebrate Independence Day, honoring the American Revolution that broke this country out of the British Empire. Openly social fascist forces across the nation will manipulate its symbolism to dig deeper into sections of the population which are dissatisfied with the growing problems surrounding their lives and communities, yet which lack a vision of the path toward solutions.
Planetary forces must unite to defeat private property
2030. That is the year by which climate scientists have warned us that unless 50% of annual carbon emissions are erased an irreversible tipping point will be crossed. At that point, all of the mechanisms that have kept Earth’s climate balanced are at risk of becoming fundamentally destabilized. How did we get here?
Juneteenth 2023: Where Woke refuses to die!
The most reactionary ruling class forces in the United States have launched a massive attack on the reality of the Black experience in America. Black history is American history -- and the denial and falsification of Black history is the denial and falsification of the history of America and the reality of America’s multiracial working class.
Public schools next school year: A world to win
The old school year ended this spring, centered once again on school shootings. In response to public demands to control assault rifles, many state governments have turned instead to controlling the free speech of teachers, LGBTQ people, African Americans and all marginalized groups.
Ukraine war is really an attack on the working class everywhere
In the first quarter of the 21st century, the U.S. government is embroiled in another large-scale military conflict that the American people are funding....
Housing is the answer to homelessness
All across America, brutal encampment sweeps are tossing tents, blankets, and other belongings into trash compactors, and dispersing people into atmospheric rivers – or...
Chicago 2023: This election is different
Chicago is undergoing an historic election for mayor, city council and the newly formed Police District Councils (PDCs). Nine candidates vied for the mayor’s...
The fight for reproductive freedom, health care and bodily autonomy demands the fight for democracy
A Trump-appointed judge in Texas is now poised to outlaw medication abortions in all 50 states, a nationwide ban that will impact some 40...
The UC strike – A new generation rising in the labor movement
By the National Public Education Committee of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
In November, 48,000 academic workers – graduate students and post-docs...
Reconstruction era lessons for fighting fascism
This is not the time to become complacent about our democratic rights to protest and to vote. Although some fascist politicians were defeated in...
Puerto Rico energy crisis fuels class action
Since the industrial revolution, the world has run on fossil fuel: oil, coal, coal, gas and hydroelectrical energy. Capital depends on it, wages war...
From the Editors: Spreading strikes signal rise of new social force
U.S. strikes increased 91 percent from 2021 to 2022, the largest one-year escalation in 30 years according to Bloomberg. The global pandemic is exacerbating...
Reconstruction era lessons for fighting fascism
This is not the time to become complacent about our democratic rights to protest and to vote. Although some fascist politicians were defeated in...
Housing for all: Not one penny for war
By the Executive Committee for the National Council of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Nearly a year since the Russian invasion of...
