Israel seeks to defend Druze after attack by Syrian gov’t

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025
July 21 demonstration by Druze in Majdal Shams, in Israeli-run Golan Heights, in solidarity with Druze in southern Syria who fought off attack by Syrian government-backed militias.

At the center of a recent deadly fight in southern Syria is the Syrian government’s attempt to impose its rule in the predominantly Druze region. This is in contrast to what is often presented in the capitalist press as long-simmering…


People in Kentucky town win fight to free youth from ICE jail

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025
Some 200 people rally in Bowling Green, Kentucky, June 11, part of effort to win freedom for 18-year-old Ernesto Manuel-Andres, seized and detained by ICE. He won release June 25.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Over 100 people came out June 25 in this south-central Kentucky manufacturing center to welcome home 18-year-old Ernesto Manuel-Andres after he was released from detention in Louisiana by immigration authorities. The predominantly U.S.-born crowd cheered as…


Amid deepening crisis of capitalism Washington, Beijing step up rivalry

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025
Warships, planes from U.S., U.K., other capitalist powers escort aircraft carriers USS George Washington, left, and HMS Prince of Wales, right, in Timor Sea July 18. U.S. rulers, allies and Beijing are all preparing for Pacific conflicts to come, threatening another world war.

China’s state capitalist rulers are moving to extend their economic and military reach across the Pacific in a growing challenge to Washington’s decadeslong supremacy there. The U.S. rulers are determined to win out and protect their markets, resources and profits…



Temporary Protected Status restored for Haitians

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025

MIAMI — Hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in the United States on TPS — Temporary Protected Status — who have been protected from deportation will now be allowed to remain until at least Feb. 3, 2026, with the right…


Manchester union rally backs striking UK refuse workers

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025

BIRMINGHAM, England — A lively public meeting in support of striking Birmingham refuse workers, members of Unite, was organized by the Manchester Trades Union Council July 9. “Birmingham Council thinks the way out of their debt is to put workers…


Protests overturn ICE arrest of students in NY, Massachusetts

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025
Milford High School students, teachers demand classmate Marcelo Gomes da Silva be released from ICE detention June 2. Protests were successful, Gomes da Silva was released June 5.

NEW YORK — Joselyn Chipantiza-Sisalema, a 20-year-old student originally from Ecuador who is enrolled in a GED program here, was greeted by family and friends July 16 at the Port Authority bus terminal. She had just been released after three…


Thugs attack Jewish-owned San Francisco cafe, twice

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025

A small group of Jew-hating thugs attacked Manny’s, a café and community center in the Mission District of San Francisco, in the early evening June 9. The attack came as the café was hosting a meeting on San Francisco city…


State officials increase executions as opposition grows

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025

On July 15 Michael Bernard Bell, 54, became the eighth death row inmate to be executed in Florida this year, and the 26th killed overall in the U.S. This already surpasses the 25 executions nationwide for all of last year.…


Putin sends released POWs back to the front to be killed

Vol. 89/No. 27 - August 4, 2025

The savage character of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against the Ukrainian people today means not only deadly aerial attacks on their cities, but also a callous contempt for the lives and families of Russian workers and farmers in uniform.…