Columbia University student hunted by ICE, Yunseo Chung, sues Trump administration
On Tuesday, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing Chung from being abducted by ICE.
•Sandy English, John Conrad
John Conrad
IYSSE holds meeting in New York City to oppose the detention of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil
The meeting, titled “Free Mahmoud Khalil! Mobilize the Working Class Against Trump’s Dictatorship,” was attended by workers from various industries and students and staff from schools across the city.
•John Conrad
Hundreds rally in defense of Mahmoud Khalil in New York City: “There is fascism happening in this country”
Students, teachers and community members at the rally warned that the disappearance of Khalil was an attack on everyone's democratic rights.
•John Conrad, Robert Milkowski, Jacob Crosse
Reject the sellout contract on the East and Gulf Coast docks! Build a rank-and-file committee of dockworkers to oppose the ILA-company-Trump conspiracy!
Worked out with the collaboration of the would-be dictator Donald Trump, it is part of a massive assault on the democratic and social rights of workers across the country.
•John Conrad
US East coast dock union’s “solution” to automation in new contract: work harder!
Under the proposed agreement which dockworkers will vote on next Tuesday, they will have to “out-perform” new technology in exchange for keeping their jobs, ILA President Harold Daggett declared in a video statement.
•John Conrad, Tom Hall
New York University complies with Trump attacks on basic democratic rights
The university administration’s willingness to collaborate in attacks on immigrants, transgender people and anti-genocide students has clearly emerged.
•John Conrad, Philip Guelpa
Trump’s executive orders put New York City college students in the crosshairs
Faculty and staff at Columbia University and New York University in New York City are central targets of Trump’s executive orders to cancel student visas and deport students whom it slanders as “perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence.”
•John Conrad, Tim Avery
Report to New York City-area rally exposes role of Danish shipping giant Maersk in Gaza genocide
The rally offered valuable information on the role played by the Danish shipping conglomerate Maersk in the genocide in Gaza, but proposed no policies to mobilize dockworkers against capitalism and war.
•John Conrad
Trump promotes “America First” nationalism to head off potential second strike on US East Coast docks
The same president who has promised to deploy the military to deport undocumented immigrants and even their citizen relatives will use similar ruthless methods against the working class, against whom such measures are ultimately aimed.
•John Conrad, Tom Hall
New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a DSA member, enters New York City mayoral race
Mamdani’s employment of pseudo-radical slogans is a desperate effort to boost the image of both the Democratic Socialists of America and the Democratic Party as a whole.
•John Conrad, Fred Mazelis
“We run everything”: East Coast dockworkers defiant on eve of contract expiration
With a contract covering 45,000 US East and Gulf Coast dockworkers expiring midnight Monday, the rank and file is determined to carry out a strike to defend jobs and working conditions.
•John Conrad
Trade groups again appeal for government intervention as East Coast dockworkers’ strike deadline nears
The letter reflects fears that rank-and-file anger will break out from under the union apparatus like it did earlier this month at Boeing.
•John Conrad
New York University faculty and staff group announces limited strike action to oppose criminalization of anti-Zionism
A group of faculty and staff at New York University (NYU) in Manhattan has announced its intention to withhold administrative tasks for the fall semester until the university ceases its attacks on free speech on campus.
•John Conrad
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein selects academic Butch Ware as running mate
The Greens are a capitalist party that offers no alternative for workers and young people seeking to oppose war abroad and austerity at home.
•John Conrad
Dockworker union issues 60-day strike notice ahead of potential walkouts on US East Coast
A strike would not only bring whole sections of the economy to a halt, it would also embolden workers across the country and the world to press for their own demands and become the start of a broader offensive by the working class.
•John Conrad
Columbia University removes three administrators on bogus charges of antisemitism
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) demands the immediate reinstatement of the three Columbia University administrators removed from their positions in late June on bogus charges of antisemitism.
•John Conrad, Tim Avery
Ocasio-Cortez donates over $250,000 to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Ocasio-Cortez, a key political prop of the Biden administration, is emerging as a significant financial prop of the Democratic Party in the 2024 elections.
•John Conrad
Socialist Alternative boosts presidential campaign of Cornel West
Whatever their radical rhetoric, the principal concern of Socialist Alternative and Cornel West is to preempt a challenge to capitalism, US imperialism and one of its principal instruments of class rule and war—the Democratic Party—from the working class.
•John Conrad, Isaac Finn
Reject The New School-UAW sellout contract! Resume the strike by academic student workers!
There is nothing “historic” or “groundbreaking” about this proposed contract, which includes a no-strike clause and amounts to crumbs offered up by the university.
•John Conrad
As East Coast docks contract nears, maritime shippers and Biden administration rely on union bureaucrats to keep workers in line
A strike by East Coast dockworkers would have a tremendous impact, not only on the United States, but the entire globe.
•John Conrad