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January 21, 1924: Death of Comrade V.I. Lenin, founder of the Bolshevik Party, leader of Russia’s socialist revolution, great teacher of the world working class.

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NATIVE POLITICAL PRISONER LEONARD PELTIER HAS BEEN GRANTED CLEMENCY!

HE'S COMING HOME!

He will serve the remainder of his sentence under home confinement. He will be out of prison and able to be with family and friends after nearly 50 years of his suffering in prison, numerous legal appeals, and beseeching president after president to release him.

He is not pardoned. But this is much better than dying in prison among strangers.

Biden Grants Last-Minute Clemency To Leonard Peltier

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Protests against Donald Trump's inauguration in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, January 20, 2025.

Photos: Gregory E. Williams, Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly

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Israeli authorities have released dozens of Palestinian prisoners, including women and children, from Ofer Prison west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

The release took place late Sunday night into Monday morning, marking the first phase of the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, facilitated by international and regional mediators.

The freed prisoners were transported in buses marked with the emblem of the International Committee of the Red Cross, escorted by Red Cross vehicles, as they made their way back to their homes.

Among those released was Khalida Jarrar, a prominent leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who was greeted by her family in Ramallah. Journalist Bushra At-Tawil, also among the freed, arrived at her home in Al-Bireh.

In addition to those from the West Bank, Israel freed several Palestinian prisoners from Jerusalem, directly releasing them to their homes in the city.

Palestinian human rights organizations confirmed that 90 prisoners, including 20 children, were part of this first batch, a much-needed step toward alleviating the suffering of Palestinian families torn apart by the ongoing occupation.

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For those who are catching up, here's a summary of the new regime's very broad and far-reaching attack on trans people's lives. There's much more in the executive orders, including a federal bathroom ban.

These measures will be challenged in court, but given how eagerly media and social media have joined the Trump bandwagon, there is no reason to think agencies, private companies and institutions won't start imposing them immediately.

FIGHT BACK!

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"Nowhere is the power of capital, the power of a handful of billionaires over the whole of society, so crude and as openly corrupt as in America. Once capital exists, it dominates the whole of society, & no...form of franchise (voting) can alter the essence of the matter.”

— V.I. Lenin (1919)

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Declaration of the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity for Cuba

From the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity we salute the victory of the Revolutionary Government, the Cuban people and the international solidarity that fought tirelessly for four consecutive years for Cuba to be removed from the List of Supposedly Sponsoring Countries of Terrorism (SSOT List) where it should never have been.

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Louisiana Gov. Landry kidnaps unhoused people ahead of Super Bowl

By Louisiana Workers Council

Before daylight on January 15, Gov. Jeff Landry took the next step in taking over New Orleans. On Landry’s commands, armed state police rounded up unhoused people who had been camping close to the French Quarter and the Superdome, which is hosting the profitable Super Bowl on Feb. 9. Personal items, IDs, medicine, medical and social service records were destroyed. At least 1 arrest was made. 

Bypassing the city government, Landry bussed unhoused people to a “transitional” warehouse shelter that had been set up in an industrial area. The mainly Black residents of the nearby neighborhood were not informed or consulted at all. The shelter — which is surrounded by a barbed wire fence — had no heat, showers, beds, or eye-level windows. One unhoused hospitality worker called it an internment camp. 

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ILWU Local 10 labor activist Howard Keylor passes

By Jack Heyman, retired member of ILWU Local 10

Howard Keylor, a longtime Local 10 member and longshore activist, died on October 5, 2024, shortly before his 99th birthday. He strongly upheld ILWU’s Ten Guiding Principles that state: “Labor solidarity means just that. Unions have to accept the fact that the solidarity of labor stands above all else, including even the so-called sanctity of the contract. We cannot adopt for ourselves the policies of union leaders who insist that because they have a contract, their members are compelled to perform work even behind a picket line. Every picket line must be respected as though it were our Own.”

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PFLP on ceasefire agreement and ongoing zionist massacres

By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

The brutal massacres committed by the zionist enemy in recent hours across wide areas, resulting in the martyrdom of dozens of innocent civilians — most of them women and children — are a living testament to the ongoing zionist holocaust in Gaza, carried out with U.S. support and partnership.

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‘I’ve been to the mountaintop’: A call to action then and now

By Penny Pinotti

On Jan. 11, members of the Baltimore community gathered at the Harriet Tubman Solidarity Center for a screening of “At the River I Stand,” a film documenting the Memphis sanitation workers strike in 1968. The working class civil rights struggles intertwined in this strike drew Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Poor People’s Campaign to Memphis. Just two months later, Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968. 

Although the film depicts struggles that took place 57 years ago, the issues in the film are strikingly similar to issues faced today. Two sanitation workers in Baltimore City were killed in 2024 due to unsafe working conditions: Ronald Silver II died at work in August due to heatstroke and Timothy Cartwell was crushed to death by the garbage collection truck on which he worked in November. 

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Senate Democrats capitulate to racism on anti-immigrant bill

By Stephen Millies

Thirty-three Democratic Senators — led by Charles Schumer — voted on Dec. 9 to push along the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act, virtually guaranteeing its eventual passage. This legislation will allow the deportation of immigrants, including children, who are merely charged — not convicted — of shoplifting and other minor offenses.

Whatever happened to the “presumption of innocence”? Weren’t we told in grade school that defendants in the United States were considered innocent until proven guilty?

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'The Intifada Continues' by Kamal Kaabar (1993)

Via Agitprop

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On January 16, 1855, Karl Marx's daughter Eleanor Marx was born in London. She was a writer, actress, union organizer and socialist activist. She was a key figure in the development of the socialist women's movement and the construction of the communist project.

"We socialists aspire to a time when there is no longer one class that supports two others, but when the unemployed are eliminated from both the top and the bottom of society."

Via Agitación

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A young Red Guard, bearing three Mao badges and his copy of "Quotations from Chairman Mao", poses for a photograph in Wuhan, 1968.

Via Red Book

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Faulty conceptions of trans womanhood are a recurrent point of failure for feminisms past and present. When presented with the dilemma that is the trans woman, most people have chosen to recoil in horror and emphasize their separation from us, rather than accept the notion that we might have common cause. Our revelation of gender’s porosity is sometimes regarded with a macabre fascination, often fetishized, but rarely taken as proof that our point of view is one worth considering.

We are, currently, at just such an inflection point. The trans moral panic has been (predictably) revealed to be a singular facet of a wider patriarchal agenda to retrench male-supremacy and regulate people’s gendered autonomy under the heterosexual regime. Under these nativist, natalist logics, the state cannot permit reproductive assets any bodily autonomy, and must deny them the right to shape their own sex. Your body is a resource for The Nation to mine, and will be legally enshrined as such.

Which leaves you with a choice.

You can take the same option that many have taken before you, time and time again. You can tell yourself that if you agitate loudly enough against her and declare that you are nothing like her, distinguishing yourself sufficiently from the trans woman will spare you her fate. You can try to convince yourself that if you sacrifice some bodies to the gaping maw of the beast, surely it won’t hunger for yours.

Or, on the other hand.

You can declare, for the first time in history, that maybe the tranny has a right to exist. That maybe, her freedom to determine her embodiment is indelibly tied to yours. That maybe, just maybe, she’s worth fighting for.

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January 15, 2018: Death of comrade Victor Anpilov, a leading revolutionary figure in the modern history of Soviet and Russian workers.

Leader of the 1993 Moscow Uprising against capitalist restoration, political prisoner of the U.S.-Yelstin regime, founder of the Labor Russia movement, “the conscience of the USSR,” passed away at the age of 72.