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Jan 15, 2026 - Enforcement Regime: Immigration hardliners in the US state

By Michael Macher

On September 30, hundreds of federal law enforcement officers raided a 130-unit apartment complex in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood. After rappelling from a Black Hawk helicopter, rifle-wielding agents hurled stun grenades, kicked down doors and dragged residents out of their apartments, zip-tying and detaining some of them for hours. The operation, ostensibly targeting an alleged stronghold of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang, resulted in thirty-seven arrests of mostly Venezuelan immigrants. Dramatic footage was posted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on social media.

Source: The Bullet No. 3249

Jan 14, 2026 - The Attack on Venezuela: The Return of Spheres of Interest?

By Heikki Patomaki

The oil tanker hijackings, the US invasion of Venezuela, and the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Adela Flores, violate many laws. These include the UN Charter, the law of the sea (especially UNCLOS), and the 1988 Convention on Drug Trafficking. The attack is also problematic for the US's own political and legal system. The Trump administration acted without congressional authorisation and ignored other legal considerations. In this article, I consider to what extent the attack only deepens the ongoing retrogression toward traditional imperialism, and to what extent it is more a matter of the old dying at the time when the new cannot yet be born. Many pathological symptoms are evident in such an in-between state.

Source: The Bullet No. 3248

Jan 11, 2026 - Another World Is Not Only Possible — It Is Necessary and Urgent

By Zabalaza for Socialism

We enter a new year in a time of deep crisis and danger. In South Africa, the state under the Government Of National Unity dominated by the African National Congress (ANC) continues to fail and collapse. Basic services are crumbling, corruption and patronage flourish, unemployment and hunger get worse, and the everyday violence of poverty is normalised. The governing elite has shown, again and again, that it is neither willing nor able to meet the needs of the people and especially the poor and working class majority.

Source: The Bullet No. 3247

Jan 9, 2026 - Free Speech and Its Enemies

By Patrick Lawrence

"We are just so shocked," a German friend residing in Switzerland wrote the other day. "These cases affect us very much, as they will have consequences for us all." What cases would these be, you may wonder. What cases and what consequences? You may especially wonder about cases and consequences if you are an American reliant on corporate media: Europe is convulsing as the "centrist" authoritarians who purport to lead it impose what looks to me like an historically unprecedented regime of censorship and the suppression of speech, but none of the mainstream dailies or broadcasters in America have had a word to say about it - a point to which I will shortly return.

Source: The Bullet No. 3246

Jan 7, 2026 - Higher Education in the Time of Fascist Plague

By Henry A. Giroux

The horrors of fascism have returned, not as ghosts, but as a plague, fueled by racial hatred and historical amnesia, infiltrating schools, universities, and the public sphere through state violence, fear, censorship, and manufactured ignorance. Across the globe, fascist forces - emboldened by resurgent colonial logics, neoliberal cruelty, and virulent white nationalism - have transformed universities into battlegrounds for democracy's future.

Source: The Bullet No. 3245