Sanders takes his fraudulent “Fight Oligarchy” show on the road

In an effort to divert the mounting opposition from workers and young people to the fascistic policies of the Trump administration, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has launched a speaking tour urging them to lobby moderate Republicans.

As Congress approves RFK to destroy public health, Jacobin says “Keep the booze flowing”

Jacobin magazine, associated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), published a politically backward and reactionary article last week titled “The Case for Social Drinking.” In it, writer Ryan Zickgraf railed against reports that Americans' alcohol use has significantly declined in recent years, a healthy trend.

Jacobin preaches complacency, covers for Democratic complicity in Trump’s moves to dictatorship

There is nothing new in the efforts of Jacobin and the DSA to sow complacency and politically disarm the working class. This was their response to Trump’s attempted coup of January 6, 2021.

Students, faculty attend meeting to oppose attacks on pro-Palestinian protesters and democratic rights at the University of Michigan

Over 150 people attended a meeting held by the pro-Palestinian Tahrir Coalition on Tuesday to oppose the escalating attacks on students protesting the US/Israeli genocide in Gaza by the University of Michigan. Members of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality spoke at the meeting, fighting for an independent working class-based socialist response to fascism, war and genocide.

Gershwin centennial concert at University of Michigan highlights composer’s extraordinary range

The concert as a whole demonstrated the astonishing range of George Gershwin’s music—from the Broadway musical stage to the concert hall to the opera house (Porgy and Bess)—fusing blues and jazz rhythms with popular melodies and the late romantic classical tradition. It was music at once popular and uplifting, and profoundly democratic in its impulses and intentions.

University of Michigan bans pro-Palestinian student group as part of escalating assault on democratic rights

The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at UM denounces the ban on Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, the local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, and demands that it be immediately lifted and SAFE be allowed to function freely as a student organization on campus.

Trump seizes on Biden commutations to pledge resumption of federal executions

Promotion of the death penalty is a critical component of Trump’s bid to establish a presidential dictatorship. It is part of the anti-immigrant agitation that is central to his America-first, ultra-nationalistic ideological offensive and fascist incitement.

Trump stokes right-wing hysteria over alleged drone sightings

For the past several weeks, panicky reports and conspiracy theories have proliferated of “mystery” drones along the eastern seaboard of the US. They have been spearheaded by far-right political forces and social media influencers and facilitated by wall-to-wall coverage by the corporate media, including the broadcast networks and the cable news channels.

Alan Woods, leader of pseudo-left RCI, hails election of Trump as “kick in the teeth” to US ruling class

Woods repeats Trump’s fraudulent claims of being an anti-establishment figure while minimizing the dangers the working class faces from a Trump presidency.

The pardon of Hunter Biden and class “justice” in America

There is one “justice” for the ruling class and something entirely different for workers and poor people.

Thanksgiving in America 2024: Social devastation for the working class, billions more for the oligarchs

On Thanksgiving Day 2024, the broad mass of the population has precious little to be thankful for. The crushing weight of inflated costs for all necessities—housing, food, healthcare, childcare, transport—continues to weigh on working class families. But there is an entirely different reality in the environs of the rich and the super-rich.

Withdrawal of Gaetz will not alter fascist character of Trump’s cabinet or impede its installation

There should be no illusions that the withdrawal of former House member Matt Gaetz and his replacement by Pam Bondi as Trump’s pick for US attorney general will alter the fascist character of Trump’s cabinet or block Trump from obtaining Senate approval and Democratic Party acquiescence in his nominees.

Trump’s Republican Party nears control of all levers of federal government

Four days after the US elections, fascist President-Elect Donald Trump’s Republican Party is nearing control of all levers of federal governmental power.

Pseudo-left forces coalesce behind dead end of pressuring the Democrats

PSL presidential candidate Claudia De la Cruz in vote-swap deal with Green Party’s Jill Stein

The pre-election rush of these middle-class radical groups to coalesce behind Stein and the Greens exposes their reactionary role in opposing a political break by the working class with the Democratic Party and the capitalist two-party system.

Bernie Sanders calls on workers and youth outraged over Gaza genocide to vote for Kamala Harris

The pro-imperialist “socialist” from Vermont argued there would be a “much better chance of changing US policy” under war criminal Kamala Harris.

As Harris campaigns with Liz Cheney, Bernie Sanders hails war criminal Joe Biden in New Hampshire

As Kamala Harris crisscrossed battleground states with ultra-right warmonger Liz Cheney, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders appeared alongside Joe Biden in New Hampshire to tout the pro-corporate Inflation Reduction Act.

Nikole Hannah-Jones promotes racial politics and the “1619 Project” at the University of Michigan

Declaring that her 1619 Project had been “borne out” by US political developments, Hannah-Jones employed its racialist falsifications of history to promote the campaign of Kamala Harris, while seeking to sow divisions on the basis of race within the growing movement of the working class.

DSA Democrat Ocasio-Cortez campaigns for war criminal Harris, maneuvers on Gaza genocide

The DSA Democrat is a stalwart supporter of the Biden administration, which has from the onset of the Israeli campaign of mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza last October 7 provided the Zionist regime with the arms and political and diplomatic support required for it to carry out its ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Trump preparations to overturn presidential election far exceed 2020

Republican groups are flooding the courts with suits designed to sow chaos, confusion and delay in the event of a Harris victory, while Trump and his fellow fascists in the GOP incite para-military violence on the basis of anti-immigrant agitation along the lines of their hysterical campaign against Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.