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Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration had proposed adding roughly 580 officers to the New York Police Department (NYPD) — an increase that would have required tens of millions in additional spending. But earlier this week, he abandoned the plans after a controversy erupted within the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), whose leadership put out a statement alongside other organizations criticizing Mamdani for the move.

One week after the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, a humanitarian crisis is developing, with the death toll approaching 2,600 and tens of thousands of people missing. In addition to the immense grief this devastation has caused, the population will face health risks, illnesses, and potential epidemic outbreaks linked to the collapse of basic services, the accumulation of rubble, and the lack of adequate emergency infrastructure.

The following speech was delivered at the Labor Notes Higher Education Workers meetup. In it, a CUNY graduate student and PSC member speaks about the Fired Four campaign and the joint picket with Starbucks workers as an example of labor solidarity in action. The CUNY Fired Four are four adjunct faculty members who were fired last summer in retaliation for their Palestine solidarity activism.

After three weeks of uncertainty, shifting trends during the vote count, and a margin of just a few tens of thousands of votes, Peru now has a president-elect. Far-right candidate Keiko Fujimori won the presidential runoff against Roberto Sánchez and will bring Fujimorism back to the Government Palace, twenty-six years after the fall of the regime led by her father, Alberto Fujimori.

Trump 2.0 has been marked by a barrage of attacks on social movements. A key pillar of this repression has been the use of extreme legal measures against individuals who represent broader progressive sentiments. Consider Kilmar Ábrego García, the immigrant who resisted his wrongful deportation to El Salvador, or Mahmoud Kahlil, the former Columbia University student and Palestine activist who was one of several pro-Palestine university activists targeted by ICE.

On Friday, June 26, 2026, at 7 p.m., the Ulsan Dong-gu Ilsan Beach Square hosted the HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Migrant Workers’ Struggle Cultural Festival.

Following recent wins by Minneapolis anti-ICE protests, ICE was forced to withdraw 700 agents from the city. The protests also led to the resignations of Greg Bovino and Trump toady Kristi Noem from the Department of Homeland Security. Recent protests in Detroit have similarly shut down several ICE detention facilities. Direct mobilizations against ICE have been working. Schroyer’s appointment marks the appearance of a new strategy.

Jacobin’s Piece on Chris Smalls: An Attack on Class Independence in the Labor Movement Levin’s article transforms a debate about Amazon organizing into an argument for binding the labor movement more tightly to Democratic Party politics. Photo credit: Seth Wenig/AP On June 4, Jacobin published a review of Chris Smalls’s memoir, When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class.

Pride has its roots in the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City, when the LGBTQ+ community, Black and Latino youth, and trans and gender-nonconforming people fought back against police brutality, state harassment, and the criminalization of their lives. This year, we must honor this spirit, recognizing that the fight for sexual and gender liberation is part of the international struggle to overthrow the exploitative and oppressive capitalist system.

This Sunday, June 28, marks 57 years since the Stonewall Uprising and the symbolic birth of the modern gay liberation movement. Every year since then, Pride marches, parades, and other celebrations have been held on the last weekend in June to commemorate the occasion.