Crooked Bough News Round-up

— Getting to the root of health: Reflections from Cuba by a U.S. healthcare worker

 

at 4/16/26 3:36pm

The people of the U.S. deserve a system that actually works for us, and the Cuban people deserve to run theirs without a genocidal blockade. We can’t settle for this; we have to fight for better. Our health depends on it.  

[Category: Cuba, Features, Healthcare, Reflections, cuba]

— Nationwide, communities say: ‘Get Flock off our streets, no mass surveillance’

 

at 4/15/26 10:03am

What's the intersection of mass surveillance technologies, mass deportation and racist policing?

[Category: Analysis, Technology, ICE, immigrant rights, mass surveillance, technology]

— High gas prices now brought to you by the U.S. Navy

 

at 4/13/26 3:22pm

After telling the country we needed to keep the war going to stop Iran from blockading the Strait of Hormuz, Donald Trump announced that he is… blockading the Strait of Hormuz.

[Category: Analysis, Features, iran, Strait of Hormuz, Trump]

— Da’Quain Johnson: Latest victim of Grand Rapids police murder

 

at 4/13/26 1:44pm

Da’Quain Johnson’s murder is just the latest instance of violence inflicted by Grand Rapids police. In just the past four years there have been 12 officer involved shootings in the city.

[Category: Militant Journalism, Grand Rapids, michigan, police brutality]

— Hoy, hace 20 años, cientos de miles de personas marcharon por los derechos de los inmigrantes frente a la huelga general del Primero de mayo: ‘Un día sin inmigrantes’

 

at 4/10/26 1:41pm

El 10 de abril de 2006, millones de inmigrantes tomaron las calles en todo Estados Unidos en una de las jornadas de protesta más masivas de la historia moderna.

[Category: Español, Immigration, derechos de inmigrantes, Huelga general]

— On this day: Hundreds of thousands marched for immigrant rights in lead up to May 1 “Day Without An Immigrant” General Strike

 

at 4/10/26 10:19am

On April 10, 2006, millions of immigrants took the streets across the United States in one of the largest days of protest in modern history.

[Category: Features, Immigration, People's History, general strikes, immigrant rights]

— PSL Statement: Why Trump failed in his criminal war against Iran – and why we need to keep up the pressure

 

at 4/7/26 7:08pm

What Trump has accomplished is proving beyond a doubt in front of the entire world that he is a ruthless war criminal and murderer, with no regard for human life.

[Category: Analysis, Features, PSL Statements, anti-war, iran, Trump]

— Attacks on birthright citizenship part of right wing agenda to roll back hard-won democratic rights

 

at 4/7/26 8:44am

People's movements must keep up the fight to defend and expand democratic rights.

[Category: Analysis, Features, U.S. Politics, democratic rights, immigration, u.s. working class]

— Declaración del PSL: Por qué Trump fracasó en su guerra criminal contra Irán – y por qué no podemos ceder ahora

 

at 4/6/26 11:23am

Ante la firmeza del pueblo iraní y la indignación del mundo, la administración Trump se ha visto obligada a dar un paso atrás, al menos por ahora, ante el abismo de la catástrofe.

[Category: Analysis, Español, Features, Iran, PSL Statements, Antiguerra, Irán, Trump]

— The war comes home: How working-class communities in the South are pulled into endless U.S. wars

 

at 4/4/26 12:17pm

Working-class communities provide the labor the sacrifice. A political economic elite decides the wars and who to send to die.

[Category: Analysis, Features, Iran, Middle East]

— The flame that illuminates a path for Africa: Burkina Faso’s Progressive Popular Revolution and President Ibrahim Traoré’s new “Revolution Manifesto”

 

at 4/4/26 8:29am

Let everyone in the administration, in all spheres, be revolutionary like our fighting forces. In your daily ways of doing things, you must bring new ideas that must innovate. If you continue to do what we have been doing for decades and you expect a new result, then you are crazy, as someone would say. Change your methods, revolutionize your lives, revolutionize your ways of doing things, propose new ideas. That is how we will succeed in the bet of our development.

[Category: Africa, Analysis, International Analysis]

— Should service members die for a Pentagon that will cover up their death?

 

at 4/3/26 7:41am

The Department of War’s Central Command has so far released casualty counts begrudgingly, misleadingly, or not at all.

[Category: Analysis, Features, Imperialism and War, iran, u.s. working class, veterans and active duty, war]

— Socialist response to Trump’s televised address on Iran War: Trump promises genocidal destruction of the Iranian people

 

at 4/1/26 8:05pm

In his anger and desperation to bring about something that can be passed off as a U.S. victory, Trump is pledging the wholesale destruction of Iran and its people.

[Category: Analysis, Features, PSL Statements, anti-war, iran]

— Artemis II mission is latest in $100 billion push to extend U.S. capitalism off Earth

 

at 4/1/26 4:52pm

The latest U.S. crewed space flight has blasted off, but it’s far from the triumph of humanity once celebrated as science fiction comes to life. In reality, it’s the latest move in Washington’s drive for imperial domination of space — a race it’s losing to China and the Global South.

[Category: Analysis, Technology, space race]

— New WNBA collective bargaining agreement shows the power of union organizing

 

at 4/1/26 4:12pm

While professionals in a handful of sports make millions of dollars per year, the median salary of athletes in 2024 was just $62,360. Even in leagues where players make millions, their individual salaries are minuscule compared to the superprofits raked in by team owners. The exploitation of athletes, coaches, other workers and taxpayers is built into the foundations of the country’s multi-billion dollar sports industries. 

[Category: Analysis, Labor, sports, Women's Rights]

— The Light is On: Lessons from Cuba

 

at 3/31/26 1:47pm

Solidarity is sitting in the dark on a porch in Havana telling stories, catching a night breeze when the country’s power grid collapses. It is hugging a pediatric doctor who cries as she shares that they lack electricity to perform transplants on children in urgent need. It is walking with people who cannot get on the bus because there is no fuel. It is holding hands with a community leader who says his organization feeds 11,000 people a day—but that this work would be less needed or would not exist at all if the U.S. government recognized the humanity of the Cuban people and lifted the blockade.

[Category: Cuba, Features, Reflections]

As of 4/18/26 2:47pm. Last new 4/18/26 2:47pm.