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Every year, all members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation participate in a National Fund Drive. Like a union or many other types of working-class organizations, we know the only way to be politically independent of the capitalist class is to be financially independent from it, so we are appealing…

Photo: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa at the summit venue alongside the flags of the BRICS countries. Credit — Presidency of South Africa   Today, a key summit opened in Johannesburg bringing together the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. These nations – the BRICS – are…

As voters go to the polls this Sunday, Guatemala’s democracy is being tested. The international community, which has been alarmed by the Guatemalan government’s attempts to interfere with the process, has put strong diplomatic pressure on the government to allow for free and fair elections and a peaceful transition of…

Photo credit — Gage Skidmore Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia announced last night the fourth criminal indictment of Donald Trump. Trump is charged with 13 felonies as part of his effort to overturn the results of the election on the basis of false claims of election fraud, but he is…

Photo: courtesy of Democracy Now! A grand jury in Georgia has indicted Donald Trump — and 18 others — and charged them with organizing a “criminal enterprise” to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. Trump faces a total of 13 counts in the indictment. Others indicted include former White…

Progressive organizations and prominent individuals have just released an important sign-on letter to reject the new McCarthyism that is accompanying the U.S. government’s Cold War agenda against China. Add your name to the letter here! We stand together against the rise of a new McCarthyism that is targeting peace activists,…

Maldivian Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid inaugurates his country's new DC embassy on June 15, as Ambassador Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed and other dignitaries look on. (Photo courtesy of Embassy of Maldives)   The newest embassy in Washington belongs to a tropical paradise that could soon be doomed by climate change. The…

Photo: Maryland International Agriculture & Environment Conference After months of hard work, The Salvadoran American Chamber of Commerce of the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area (SACOC) is thrilled to announce that their next mission trip to El Salvador is finally coming together! "We are filled with excitement as we anticipate the…

Today is being remembered in the United States as the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War. But the bitter truth is that the war never really ended. This is true not only in the technical sense – the U.S. and North Korea have an armistice in place,…