We are disturbed and disgusted by the recent revelations brought to light in an investigation into a wide-spanning online network of thousands of men from around the world shared videos and tips of how to drug and rape their unconscious partners in a private Telegram channel. We unreservedly condemn the perpetrators of these heinous acts, especially those men in the network who were selling sleep drugs, or photos, videos, and livestreams of themselves committing extreme sexual violence, creating an underground, illicit market where depictions of said assaults were bought and sold as commodities.

On March 30, the Israeli Knesset passed a law granting Israeli courts the power to hand down death sentences against Palestinian prisoners without fully guaranteeing their right to a defense. This reveals the fascist nature of Israeli Zionism, which not only tortures and murders women, children, and the elderly, but also resorts to physical elimination in prison. This death penalty is not applied to Israeli citizens under the same legal framework.

Now is the time to remember that the liberation of transgender and nonbinary people is but one front in the struggle against all forms of exploitation. Our hope rests in linking our liberation movement closely with the fight to topple capitalism, and in its place build a future where all working people can exist in security and stability. Access to healthcare, housing and employment free from discrimination and precarity: How long have our communities fought for these basic rights within the limits of bourgeois politics?

The American Party of Labor takes a firm stance in support of Dolores Huerta and the other victims of Cesar Chavez’s alleged abuse. 

While Chavez was no communist, any revolutionary or proletarian organization needs to fiercely combat chauvinistic tendencies and take a strong stance against all forms of sexual misconduct by their members and allies. Sexual misconduct, abuse, and male chauvinism are reproductions of reactionary patriarchal bigotries which will have no place in the future we’re building, and as such have no place in our organizations. 

Workplaces, especially in construction trades, are not only unsafe for women due to these misogynistic interpersonal relations, but also because of a lack of access to proper protective equipment, yet the capitalists who operate these industries have little incentive to rectify these problems as it is more profitable to push women out of the workforce and back into their homes to perform unpaid reproductive and domestic labor.

This latest chapter in the U.S. war on Latin America and its children has been greatly escalated by child-trafficker and infanticide-enabler President Donald Trump, serving the oil industry interests that have directed U.S. military action for decades. The administration has invented crimes where none exist, doling out the death penalty with weapons of war, without trial, without due process, without any burden of proof, to crimes that even if guilt was established, are not death penalty offenses. The Trump administration is labeling Venezuelan leaders as “narco-terrorists” to justify this invasion, despite pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez after being convicted on similar charges.

The American Party of Labor resolutely and in no uncertain terms condemns the military assault on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

While events are still unfolding and reports are scattered and contradictory regarding the internal situation in Venezuela, it is clear that in the early morning hours of Jan. 3, US military forces bombed military targets in that country and captured and sequestered President Maduro. Reports indicate that President Maduro has been forcibly taken to the United States to face criminal charges.

The recent bombing of Venezuelan civilian fishing boats by US naval forces, the imposition of inhumane economic sanctions, and the baseless accusations that Venezuela has become a center for fentanyl production constitute a grave escalation in Washington’s war on the Venezuelan people. These actions, carried out under the false banner of “national security” and “the fight against drugs,” reveal once again the naked imperialist ambitions of the United States.

US imperialism has launched its strategic plan to redesign the Middle East with the genocidal attack by Israeli-Zionist forces on Gaza. After taking a step forward in Lebanon, with the support of the Saudis and the Gulf Arab Emirates and the initiative of Turkey and Israel, it has implemented regime change in Syria and targeted Iran, whose influence in the region has been limited by the weakening of its allies.

When the federal government sends in a militarized police force to kidnap and beat community members and organizers, war has been declared on the people. The Trump administration is committing acts of state terror. / Cuando el gobierno federal envía una fuerza policial militarizada para secuestrar y golpear a miembros y organizadores de la comunidad, se ha declarado la guerra al pueblo. La administración Trump está cometiendo actos de terror del Estado.

Although a federal court has demanded that Khalil shall not be deported pending judicial review, he is still languishing in an ICE detention center along with 47,000 other American immigrants. But just as the vast majority of these new-found Americans are hardworking proletarians who are vital to the day-to-day economic function of this country and are hyper-exploited by American capitalists, Mahmoud Khalil himself is a student, and a man who has lent his voice and energy to the just cause of resisting Israeli colonialism, and resisting American imperialism.

This threat to cut federal funding to all public and subsidized private education is a direct assault on the political expression of working-class students and families.

This administration has given nearly $12 billion to Israel in just six weeks since the start of the term. Trump and his regime are moving proactively here to undermine the resurgence of a spontaneous upsurge before it breaks out.

We oppose any nationalist attempt to pit the peoples and working class of our respective countries against each other to defend imperial interests. We call to oppose Trump’s claims on Greenland and the Danish government’s and EU’s machinations to maintain their control.

On the last full day of his presidency, Joe Biden granted partial amnesty for Leonard Peltier, a political prisoner who has so far served 46 years of his unjust two consecutive life sentences. It is imperative to stress that Peltier is not granted full clemency, he is simply remanded to house arrest for the remainder of his life. A rare breach in the merciless, ironclad face of the bourgeois legal apparatus, but ultimately characteristic of the Biden presidency: The art of the delayed half-measure. It is a consolation to the oppressed, before the shambling state rears up again for sweeping repression and intensified exploitation under the Trump administration.

The American Party of Labor declares that problems of the U.S. in crisis and the ongoing process of fascistization merit only radical solutions. We are fighting and will continue to fight these fascist measures in our communities and nationally, and we invite you to join us in that fight! We call upon all democratic, progressive, popular, and revolutionary-minded in individuals and organizations to join the struggle to save and extend what few political rights we have, to protect the most vulnerable among us, and to build a future without poverty, hunger, and exploitation.

Many, the usual types, are greeting 2025 in a mood of despondency and despair. A second Trump administration fills them fear with and anxiety. In response, they are falling back on the same old strategies and slogans that failed to defeat Trump in 2016 and failed to prevent his return in 2024. Others, not as usual, but perhaps becoming more and more common, have drawn the wrong conclusion from the ajusticiamiento of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The American Party of Labor is proud and humbled to announce its promotion to full membership within the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO). The decision was made by a unanimous vote among the delegates of over 20 member organizations from around the world at the 2024 plenary of the Conference.

Trump’s re-election is yet another step towards open barbarism and the institutionalization of a reactionary form of politics representative of the general decline of the American capitalist system. Trump’s victory opens a new period of potential violence against minorities, women, all marginalized peoples, and the working class at large, necessitating the organization of immediate resistance.

The Zionist invasion of Lebanon is a criminal war of aggression, ethnic cleansing, and genocide in the service of imperialism. This attack is a war crime that must be condemned by all the peoples of the world. Despite statements from the bourgeois ruling politicians in the U.S. that a broader regional war would be avoided, they have once again proven themselves to be genocidal liars. Just as the U.S. Government claimed they would prevent Israel from a ground invasion of Rafah, yet continued arming Israel as they bombed refugee camp after refugee camp, the U.S. imperialists will continue to send billions of dollars of aid to Israel for Zionist expansion into Lebanon. Our rulers blatantly display their own hypocrisy and their true pro-war interests when they make braggadocious proclamations as Kamala Harris did at the 2024 Democratic National Convention: “As commander in chief, I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.”

A little more than thirty years have passed since the so-called Cold War came to an end, and the world is experiencing a conflict-ridden moment due to the exacerbation of contradictions between the imperialist powers, who continue to fan the danger of a new world conflagration. The seriousness of the current scenario is due to the depth and breadth of the problems that arise, to the forces and factors that act on the world stage, and to the serious implications that, in the future, can increase the current problems. But, at the same time, it is a period in which there is a rise in the struggle and rebellion of the workers, youth, women, peasants, peoples, and indigenous people, who –facing the governments’ anti-popular plans– demand their rights and condemn authoritarian and warmongering policies.