Harris, Biden and Bill Clinton in 2023 -- public domain image By Norman Solomon Ten years after Donald Trump first ran for president, he stands at the helm of Titanic America. How did this happen? No factors were more pivotal than the outlooks and actions of the Democratic Party leadership. Scrutinizing them now is vital not only for clarity about the past. It also makes possible a clear focus on ways to prevent further catastrophe. Here’s actual history that corporate Democr

Via Granma and the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish U.S. actions against Venezuela have been marked by a steady escalation of economic and diplomatic sanctions dating back to Obama and including the first Trump Administration and the Biden Administration, all of which laid the groundwork for US military aggression. 2015 March: Then-U.S. President Barack Obama declared a national emergency against Venezuela, after considering that the political situation in

The West serves as the simultaneous judge and executioner, the honest researcher and the weapons manufacturer, the violator and the self-appointed defender of human rights. Lloyd Austin meets with Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel on December 18, 2023 -- public domain image By Ramzy Baroud, Common Dreams First, let’s dissect this puzzle. On February 29, 2024, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sent shockwaves when he informed lawmakers in the House Armed Services Commit

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Despite Smalls having been profiled by every major media outlet in the U.S. when he successfully led the union drive at Amazon, not a...

The Trump administration is seeking to further intensify the already crippling, illegal economic blockade against Cuba. This blockade has...

Our reliance on armed agents of the state has led to fascism. The only way out is to abolish policing and militarism. An ICE operation in...

From agriculture to restaurants, more and more food in the United States is produced by child labor. That’s putting whole communities at...

89 seconds to midnight announcement, January 28, 2025 -- image via video screenshot By Biljana Vankovska In 2022, I was invited to...

May 10 in Ukraine -- Number 10, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska The past few days have felt like a decisive chapter...

The relentless resistance that defined Trump’s first term has faded into an unsettling quiet. A perfect storm of factors has granted him...

The left in Canada must reject the faux Canadian nationalism of neo-liberal politicians like Mark Carney as well as its outdated "left"...

Blinken, Biden and Austin in March, 2024 -- public domain image Two US based organizations -- Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) and...

Trump’s inclination to mix policymaking with business deals and profiteering is an ideal situation for education reformers like his...

Public domain image of Donald Trump on February 9, 2025 The Central Committee of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), met on February 8...

Public domain image By Vijay Prashad The fragility of U.S. power was clear when a small Chinese startup released the DeepSeek machine...

Statement: The New Communist Party of Yugoslavia condemns the shameful actions of U.S. imperialism against Cuba The New Communist Party...

On day one of this presidency, Trump signed a flurry of executive orders. What are they, do they have staying power, and what do they...

Both the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and Communist Party of Spain (PCE) are strongly condemning the decision of the incoming Trump...

The South African Communist Party (SACP), the Communist Party of Mexico (CPM) and the Socialist Workers' Party of Croatia (SRP) are all...