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A man is attacked with a sjambok at an anti-immigrant March and protest in Jeppestown in May 2026. (Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee/GroundUp.) Afrophobia in South Africa is often presented as a problem of ‘foreigners versus locals’, as though it emerges naturally from cultural hostility or competition between poor people. But this explanation hides the deeper political and economic realities that produce anti-immigrant violence and xenophobic mobilisation.

The Northeast Los Angeles Alliance for Democracy held this webinar on June 21, 2026 with Iranian American, Cuban, Ukrainian socialist feminist speakers. It was moderated by MaryLinda Moss of the NELA Alliance for Democracy. VIDEO

I have written this essay because I have been irked by the media’s discussion of whether or not our country has fulfilled the ideals of its founding fathers. So, I wished to clarify just what their ideals were. The United States has been from the beginning the site of an enormous, long-drawn-out struggle between the wealthy property-owning ruling classes and the working classes.

Below are excerpts from Frieda Afary’s presentation to a webinar entitled “How to Be Anti-War in a Multipolar World” sponsored by the Northeast Los Angeles Alliance for Democracy. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rgz456NfSV9WEQmMTNojgZk_vrUaQvap/view On February 28, when the U.S. and Iran launched another brutal and destructive war on Iran, and wreaked havoc to the region and the world economy, some expected a U.S. deal with a faction of the Iranian army (IRGC).

Fort Worth, Texas – Judge Reed O’Connor, a George W. Bush appointee to the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, today sentenced immigrant and artist Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada to 30 years in federal prison over possessing and moving a box of zines—politically expressive pamphlets.

Samuel Farber originally published this article in Spanish on his Facebook page on June 19, 2026, just as Cuba announced a new economic policy. Farber had written the article before those changes were announced. – Editors Recently several articles have appeared on Facebook regarding the political program that should be adopted in a post-Communist Cuba.

Marjane Satrapi, the acclaimed French-Iranian author, artist, and filmmaker whose groundbreaking graphic memoir Persepolis transformed the world’s understanding of Iran and its people, has died at the age of 56. Her death, on June 4, marks the loss of a singular voice who transformed personal memory into collective history and became a powerful advocate for freedom, human dignity, and women’s rights.

Protests in support of a hunger and labor strike by immigrant inmates at Delaney Hall, a detention center in Newark, New Jersey have been militant. There have been conflicts between protestors and various police agencies. Dozens have been arrested. Activists held up large signs reading, “NO CONCENTRATION CAMPS.’ The immigrants in detention are protesting maggot-infested food, overcrowding, lack of blankets, and inadequate medical services.

Members of a comando popular or people’s militia. Source: AGN The April 1965 revolution in the Dominican Republic was part of a broader trend of worldwide revolutions and anti-colonialist revolts that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, placing it alongside the epochal turning points embodied by the anti-colonialist struggle in Vietnam, the Cuban Revolution and the Algerian War of Independence.

While the eyes of the world are fixed on the Strait of Hormuz, China, Russia’s war against Ukraine, and sometimes on the US created crisis in Cuba, Colombia is in the middle of a very close, tense and consequential election. The results will have repercussions throughout Latin America. The Pacto Historico (Historic Pact), the rising left wing party here, is poised to win a historic second presidential election.