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On Day 25 of the largest nurses strike in New York City history, 13 nurses walked up the steps of 555 West 57th Street in Manhattan, sat down in front of the entrance, and refused to move. The building houses the Greater New York Hospital Association, the lobbying arm that coordinates contract negotiations for Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian — the three hospital systems whose nearly 15,000 nurses have been on strike since mid-January.

In California, 31,000 Kaiser health care workers have been on strike since Jan. 26, with 4,000 more pharmacy and lab workers joining as of Feb. 9. In New York, 15,000 nurses have held the line for nearly a month. In Minneapolis, teachers won contract language barring ICE from schools, and a general strike on Jan. 23 forced the federal government to pull 700 agents out of the state.

Since the “ceasefire” took effect on Oct. 10, 2025, Israeli forces have attacked Gaza on 101 out of 116 days, killing more than 556 Palestinians and wounding 1,500. The Israeli military has violated the agreement at least 1,450 times through airstrikes, artillery and direct shootings. At the World Economic Forum in Davos in late January, none of that came up. The language there was "reconstitution," "economic acceleration," "post-conflict transformation." The gap between that vocabulary and the reality — a 10-day-old infant killed by tank fire in Gaza City on Feb.

With the death of Marxist thinker and anti-imperialist advocate Michael Parenti, many on the left have been reflecting on his life. For anyone committed to the working class struggle, Michael Parenti represented a strong voice against fascism and U.S. imperialism in an academic landscape dominated by State Department mouthpieces.  I read Parenti for the first time in the autumn of 2016 at the ripe age of 23.

Feb. 8 — More than 6,400 educators in the San Francisco Unified School District are set to begin a district-wide strike Monday morning, Feb. 9, following more than a year of failed contract negotiations. It will be the city’s first teachers’ strike since 1979 and is expected to close schools serving roughly 48,000 students. Members of United Educators of San Francisco voted overwhelmingly to authorize the walkout, with 97.6% approving strike action.

The son of President Muammar Qaddaffi, Saif Qaddafi, was assassinated on Feb. 3 by local forces, some of whom contributed to the destruction of a flourishing Libya. A background to the murder and Libya’s struggles for reconstruction. In 2011, as NATO was bombing Libya, the son of Muammar Qaddafi, Saif Al-Islam Qaddafi (hereafter, Saif), told a reporter that they would fight NATO.

Jan. 31 — Yesterday afternoon, thousands gathered at the George H. Fallon building in Baltimore to join nationwide protests calling for an end to ICE’s reign of terror. The building, which houses ICE’s field office in the state, gained attention last week when a video spread on Reddit, depicting a cramped space where detained men were clustered together in foil blankets.

Media Autopsy is a series where I put a news article from another source under the microscope and discuss what it’s missing.It’s a way for me to talk about news coverage that got my goat, while also teaching you how mainstream media can manipulate you. Let’s explore what traditional journalism incentivizes, how we get it wrong, and most importantly, how we can do it better next time.

Como decía Nelson Mandela, “El verdadero carácter de una sociedad se revela en el trato que da a su niñez”. Pues aquí, en esta colonia, el comienzo de este nuevo año ha sido muy doloroso para nuestra niñez y por extensión, para todo nuestro pueblo consciente, amante de nuestra infancia. Los casos de maltrato infantil no solo han aumentado comparado a los años anteriores, sino que la naturaleza de estos actos revelan un grado inmenso de crueldad, actos atroces, difíciles incluso de describir.

President Diaz-Canel says no fuel has reached his country since December. On Feb. 5, President Miguel Diaz-Canel announced that Cuba has a strategy to expand the use of its own energy sources in response to the crisis caused by the U.S. blockade on oil shipments to the island. Since Dec. 3, when the U.S. began a naval blockade against Venezuela, Cuba has not received a single drop of fuel.

A report with John Parker and Dozthor Zurlent, moderated by Liz Antonio Hernandez, in Los Angeles Feb. 2 — This past weekend, I attended a crucial report-back session featuring John Parker, a community and international solidarity activist and coordinator of the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice in Los Angeles. John recently returned from Venezuela, where he participated in an international anti-war solidarity conference in December 2025.

On day 23 of the strike, nearly 15,000 nurses with the New York State Nurses Association are still holding picket lines across New York City — at Mount Sinai Hospital, Montefiore Medical Center, and NewYork-Presbyterian — in the largest nurses’ strike in the city’s history. This walkout is about more than contracts. It is about whether working-class communities get safe care, whether nurses can do their jobs without being pushed past exhaustion, and whether hospitals will remain places of healing — or become another arm of federal repression.

New York, Jan. 31 — A spirited crowd gathered in the afternoon in Times Square for a rally and march demanding the immediate release of President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. The action marked the concluding day of a broader Week of Resistance in Solidarity with Venezuela. This action, endorsed by over 20 organizations, was called as part of the Week of Resistance in Solidarity with Venezuela (Jan 23-31), with organizers demanding an end to U.S.

On Feb. 15, 2024, Annie Jump Vicente, an extremely visible and outspoken trans rights advocate in WeHo (West Hollywood), was involved in an altercation with a Block by Block Ambassador. Annie Jump says that the Ambassador sexually assaulted her by grabbing her breasts, and that she acted in self-defense.  Annie Jump’s defending herself against the attacker resulted in her arrest and a subsequent felony charge for “an assault with a deadly weapon” (pepper spray), which she has been fighting for the last 24 months.

The first week of January, Trump sent 2,000 ICE paramilitary agents into Minneapolis, targeting Somali neighborhoods, along with Hmong and Latine communities, and turning the city into a domestic war zone.  Minneapolis’ working-class communities responded with an ICE Watch network — thousands of people tracking raids, filming arrests, and rushing to protect each other, often armed with nothing more than Signal chats and tin whistles.

New York, Jan. 30 – It's bitterly cold – the coldest night of the weeklong polar vortex gripping New York City. Despite this, an estimated 25,000 people joined a rally and march to demand that Immigration and Naturalization Service (ICE) agents get out of Minneapolis and everywhere. The action was part of a call for a National Shutdown on Jan. 30, with actions in at least 300 cities and towns across the U.S.

On Jan. 13, the Tribal Council of Red Lake Nation voted unanimously to restrict ICE and other federal immigration agents from entering Red Lake lands without a court order signed by a judge with jurisdiction. The resolution became public Jan. 28, as tribal leaders warned that federal agents were already “moving north.” Under the new protocol, ICE must obtain a valid court order, present it to the Red Lake Department of Public Safety director, submit to a Red Lake officer escort at all times, and leave immediately after the order is served.

Tens of thousands of workers, students, and community members walked off jobs and out of classrooms Jan. 30 in a coordinated National Shutdown demanding the removal of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from local communities. Organizers called for “no work, no school, no shopping,” framing the action as a direct response to escalating federal immigration operations marked by lethal force and mass detention.

The Department of Homeland Security is transforming immigration detention into an industrial logistics operation — warehouses, transport routes, and processing centers linked like a delivery network — that treats human beings as freight. ICE Director Todd Lyons made this explicit at the 2025 Border Security Expo when he described the new operational model as “like Amazon Prime, but with human beings.”

The example of sovereignty that the Cuban people and government have given to the world is the greatest threat to the decadent U.S. empire, now led by President Donald Trump. The administration established in the United States after the rise to power of a neo-fascist elite cannot allow the model of a small island to prevail in Latin America. This island has provided selfless support in recent decades to nations suffering from natural disasters or diseases, despite enduring an illegal economic, commercial, and financial blockade that has lasted for more than 60 years.

When a government turns a tool into an automatic response to any problem, it stops using an instrument and starts practicing a reflex. That is exactly what is happening with the United States’ sanctions policy, and the Cuban case once again demonstrates this starkly. A recent article in Politico reveals that the Trump administration is considering a total naval blockade to prevent oil imports to Cuba.

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The Trump regime wants to roll back Obama-era wage protections for about 3 million U.S. home care workers. Home care is an industry that continues to grow as the U.S. population ages. These workers are essential but hard-pressed by low wages and high costs. Like other service and precarious jobs, the industry is plagued by high turnover at 80% a year.

Jan. 29 — For decades, the United States has tried to starve the Iranian people into submission. From banking bans to the assassination of scientists, Washington has used sanctions, sabotage, and covert force to break Iran’s hard-won sovereignty. Now, the warships have arrived to try to do what the banks could not. As of this week, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its fleet of destroyers have taken up strike positions in the waters off Iran, from the Strait of Hormuz into the Arabian Sea.