Juneteenth – Celebrate the Past and Continue the Struggle
Today, June 19, 2025, we celebrate Juneteenth – the most popular annual celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. As we celebrate though, the Trump administration and its many allies in the media and among its right-wing supporters are stoking racism against Black people, Muslims, migrants and non-white people. This open upsurge […]
Fall of a Family Dictatorship in Syria – What Next?
The stunning fall of Bashar Al-Assad took place in less than two weeks. On November 27, armed groups began an offensive in northwestern Syria, near the city of Aleppo. After retaking Aleppo on November 29, they advanced southward, and the army of the regime began to crumble. After taking two other key cities along a major […]
Juneteenth – The Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation
June 19th, known as Juneteenth, is the recognition of the last day of chattel slavery in the U.S. It was first celebrated by formerly enslaved people in Texas the year after Northern troops defeated pro-slavery forces there. This was two months after the end of the Civil War. It was the last battle against slavery […]
Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid: One Battle in the Struggle for Freedom
On June 2, 1863, during the U.S. Civil War, two Union Army gunships (the Harriet A. Weed and the John Adams — both converted ferryboats) carrying 150 soldiers proceeded up the Combahee River, about twenty miles south of Charleston, in the heart of South Carolina’s lowland rice region. Guided by a woman with nearly 14 […]
Sudan: Heading Towards a New Civil War?
This is a translation of an article that appeared in Prensa Obrera on April 17, 2023, the website of the Trotskyist Party, Partido Obrero of Argentina, (Workers’ Party). The armed clashes which broke out this weekend in Sudan aroused fears of a new civil war in this African territory. The army, under the command of […]
John Brown’s Raid on Harpers’ Ferry: One Battle in a Long Struggle
John Brown and his followers stand as an example of how working people of different skin colors and backgrounds can join together and take action against the oppressing ruling classes. For that reason, we recognize John Brown’s raid as part of the long struggle to end oppression and create a just and equal world for all people.