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Project Esther aims to criminalize Palestinian solidarity. This must strengthen our support for Gaza’s resistance.
There is only one path forward for the pro-Palestine movement: to defy the efforts at destroying our solidarity with the resistance, and build the…
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How liberal Zionists spread the “Israel created Hamas” narrative, & used it to undermine the pro-Palestine movement
This is from a book I’m writing, which will be called “When Tears Can’t Save Them: Why the Pro-Palestine Movement Failed to Stop a Holocaust, & How it…
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June 2025

Victory won’t come on its own: the Axis of Resistance can only win if we wage a popular struggle alongside it
Above: Iran launching its missiles
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The Dems seek to neutralize the mass movement behind Zohran. Only a pro-Palestine united front can prevent this.
The popular base behind Zohran Mamdani is real, and has great revolutionary potential; the risk is in how this potential could become misdirected.
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Kash Patel’s war on dissent, & the “dissident” media figures who’ve sold him as an anti-establishment hero
The Kash Patel psyop has cost our social movements many months of extremely precious time in the fight against repression.
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The Steve Witkoff “peace deal” psyop was what got us war with Iran. The antiwar movement must learn from this.
To understand how our government was able to start this war with Iran, we have to look at how the Trump White House sold a false promise of “peace.” And…
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The antiwar movement will either side with the forces resisting U.S./Israeli aggression, or fail in its task
In a perfect world, there wouldn’t be any question as to whether those who want peace all support the forces which resist aggression.
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MAGA communism’s strategy has been vindicated by the Trump base’s revolt. The next step is mass organization.
This week, the account Texas Patriot made a tweet that’s gotten almost fourteen million impressions.
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The pro-resistance stance on Palestine has been vindicated, & this must translate into support for Iran
The developments we’ve seen since October 7 have provided us all with tremendous lessons in what it means to wage a liberation struggle.
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The antiwar movement’s failures on Ukraine & Palestine came from lack of a united front. With Iran, we must correct this flaw.
Above: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei visiting the DPRK, 1989.
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PSL’s persecution means the end of the era when we were “safe.” We must prepare our orgs to survive the next stage.
In the last week, two developments have happened that show the U.S.
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As the U.S. empire assaults the Mexican nation, communists must aid Mexico like they’ve aided Donbass
What happened in Ukraine after the country’s government effectively declared war on an entire region inside its own borders, and took on a Nazistic…
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