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The attacks on us all

Solidarity Steering Committee — 2025-04-05T10:02:11Z

A multi-front attack is in full swing — not only on supporters of Palestinian freedom, but on everyone's First Amendment and civil rights. The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, the peremptory deportation of Brown Medicine Dr. Rasha Alawieh, the attempt to detain and deport Columbia University Ph.D student Ranjani Srinivasan who's fled to seek asylum in Canada, and the seizure of Georgetown University scholar Badar Khan Suri — none of these, and many more cases that haven't attracted public attention, are happening in isolation.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / United States (USA)

Defend Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib!

Solidarity Steering Committee — 2019-02-26T09:56:56Z

The vicious, dirty – and bipartisan – smear campaign against the first two Muslim women in the U.S. Congress, Ilhan Omar (MN) and Rashida Tlaib (MI), is just beginning. No one should imagine that Rep. Omar's dignified apology for her tweets about the Israel lobby, which have been willfully twisted to accuse her of “anti-Semitic tropes,” will put an end to the attacks on her – or that Rep. Tlaib's calling Donald Trump a “motherf****r” is what anyone is really upset about.

- IV529 - February 2019 / United States (USA), Racism and Islamophobia

The Caravan “Crisis” â€” Myth and Facts

Solidarity Steering Committee — 2018-11-05T10:54:29Z

There's a lot to be said about the caravan of Central American refugees, hundreds of miles from the U.S. border as they struggle through southern Mexico in hopes of achieving asylum in the United States. Here we will only touch on some of the most basic facts.

- IV526 - November 2018 / United States (USA), Migration, Honduras

Trump's Road to War – Why?

Solidarity Steering Committee — 2018-05-10T14:22:23Z

DONALD TRUMP's WITHDRAWAL of the United States from the Iran nuclear agreement has set a path toward another Middle East war. It is not necessarily a war that will erupt right away or in the short term, and it may be averted if the United States is politically isolated and there's a mass revival of an international antiwar movement. That's what every sane person, and certainly every socialist and peace activist, should hope and work for.

- IV520 - May 2018 / United States (USA), MENA (Middle East/North Africa), War drive/Anti-war movements, Iran

Standing Up for Palestine: BDS More than Ever!

Solidarity Steering Committee — 2017-12-09T06:57:53Z

If there was any “Israel-Palestine peace process,” Donald Trump torched it with his December 6 announcement recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the transfer of the U.S. embassy to that bitterly contested city. But there are two more important underlying realities.

- IV515 - December 2017 / Palestine, United States (USA), Israel

No Trump, No War, No Way!

Solidarity Steering Committee — 2017-09-24T07:24:41Z

If it weren't frightening, it would be funny: “Big Twit Calls Out Rocket Man,” as Donald Trump ramps up his insults and threats of war against North Korea. Let's look at some of the issues behind the antics and escalating rhetoric.

- IV512 - September 2017 / United States (USA), North Korea

Build the Left to Defeat the Right

Solidarity Steering Committee — 2016-11-10T07:38:08Z

We publish below a further article on the US Presidential election from the Steering Committee of Solidarity. Solidarity is a sympathising organisation of the Fourth International in the USA.

- IV502 - November 2016 / United States (USA)

After Dallas: The Struggle Continues

Solidarity Steering Committee — 2016-07-09T07:29:31Z

Last night, during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas called in response to the killings of Alton Sterling and Philandro Castile, one or more snipers shot at least a dozen police officers. As of now, five are dead, as is at least one suspect in the shooting. Before his death in a standoff with police, the suspect indicated that he was upset with police shootings and with Black Lives Matter, and that he wanted to kill white people. He said he was working alone, and has no connection to Black Lives Matter or any other organized group. Our comrades in Dallas report that protesters were just as surprised and frightened as the police when the shooting started, and at least one protester was shot.

- IV498 - July 2016 / United States (USA), Racism and Islamophobia

After Iowa and New Hampshire: A Political Revolution Underway?

Solidarity Steering Committee — 2016-02-12T14:49:40Z

Bernie Sanders' campaign is sweeping like a meteor across the political sky. After a dead heat with Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses and a smashing victory in New Hampshire, his challenge to the establishment is no longer discounted as an amusing sideshow in the world of so-called “real politics.”

- IV493 - February 2016 / United States (USA)

All Night, All Day, We Will Fight for Freddie Gray! In Solidarity with Baltimore

Solidarity Steering Committee — 2015-05-01T13:30:34Z

Sixteen days after the arrest of Freddie Gray, Baltimore police and government officials have no word for their city on why he died. No statement, no explanation, no insight as to how this young man emerged from police custody with his voice box crushed and 80% of his spinal cord severed. Outrage at this injustice and the pattern of racist violence it represents has sparked ongoing demonstrations, a drive to organize and unite against police brutality, and a politicization unprecedented in the city's recent history.

- IV484 - May 2015 / United States (USA), Racism and Islamophobia