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Trump’s latest social media post outlines a new hostile action against the people of Iran:

'Any country that does business with the Islamic Republic of Iran will face a 25% tariff on all trade conducted with the United States.'

@PressTV

Why capitalism cannot avoid continuous crises of Overproduction. The concentration of capital, and its failure to recycle all the surplus value back into the economy

The much maligned US immigration agency ICE has now been arresting Native Americans in its round-ups of so-called “immigrants”. The agency is formally tasked with removing people not born in the United States, which makes the detention of Indigenous people, native to this land, entirely outside even its own legal pretext. These arrests are not about immigration. They are acts of racialised class control, enforced through skin colour and state power.

This is not an irony or a mistake. It is the logical outcome of a long term settler state that has always asserted the right to decide who belongs on stolen land. From the Indian Removal Act to the reservation system, from the Dawes Act to the carving of artificial borders through Indigenous nations, native existence has been criminalised whenever it obstructs expansion and profit.

The United States is not accidentally racist. It is a settler-colonial capitalist project built on enslavement, land theft, and the violent disciplining of labour. Agencies like ICE function to police the working class, terrorise surplus populations, and enforce racial hierarchies that suppress wages and fracture communities.

Law, citizenship, and “border security” are not neutral principles but tools of class rule, dressed in moral language and exported globally as freedom. What is happening now is not a deviation from American values, but their clearest expression. The mask has slipped revealing the true face of imperialism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/15/native-americans-ice-minneapolis/

Shocking stat of the day:

The top 10% of US earners now reflect a record 49% of all consumer spending.

This percentage has risen +13 points over the last 30 years, marking a dramatic shift in spending power.

At the same time, the bottom 80% of earners represent just ~37% of total consumer expenditures, down -11 percentage points since 1995.

This means the top 10% account for a record 33% of US GDP, as personal consumer expenditures account for 68% of total economic output.

Meanwhile, the bottom 80% account for just 25% of the US economy.

Asset owners are the only winners in this economy.

• Kobeissi

US oligarchs have all the money. American’s often claim Russian oligarchs have all the money and everyone in Russia is dirt poor but the statistics* are Russia (33.0) is closer to Norway (26.5), then it is to the US (41.8). Other sample numbers UK (32.4), Germany (32.4), Spain (33.4), Australia (33.8).

*Gini index = lower the number the more equal and higher the number the more inequality

@Slavyangrad

Blaming Trump for every crime committed by the US state is counter-productive. Biden, Obama, Bush — all of them presided over war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The problem isn’t the individual at the top, it’s the system itself. Imperialism doesn’t disappear when you swap out one servant for another. If we want real change, we have to expose imperialism in all its forms to the working class, not personalise a machinery that grinds on regardless.

The U.S. Empire.
Grease on its hands. Blood on its flags. Chains for anyone who won’t submit.

The role of social democracy and the bureaucratic layer of the ‘professional-managerial-class left’ is clear, whether it be the British Labour party and those nominally ‘outside’ of it like Jeremy Corbyn, or the US Democrats and those nominally ‘outside’ of it like Cornel West.

It exists to prop up imperialism and tie the working class in the west to its own exploiters via social chauvinism, bribery, and the cooptation of our mass movements.

Millions of well-meaning workers are being misled by bourgeois education and history. Those of us who have an instinctive ‘gut reaction’ against Iran, but are not really sure why, need to stop and think: Am I victim of western media lies?

We must not allow ourselves to be duped by our class enemies. If we want to get free, we are going to have to remove the blinkers from our eyes and the traitors from our midst.

https://thecommunists.org/2026/01/21/tv/joti-brar-nick-cruse-fake-left-supports-regime-change-iran/