(2025-12-29). Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025. truthout.org Grassroots organizations around the United States, with little to no support from local authorities, have spent much of the past year defending themselves against President Donald Trump's deployments of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and the National Guard. While community defense efforts in large urban metropolises such as Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago… |
(2025-12-29). Stop Trump's mass immigrant roundups! wsws.org Under conditions of bipartisan complicity, the Trump administration is building a domestic gulag system of mass detention, rendition and deportation. This assault on immigrants is the spearhead of a broader drive toward dictatorship that must be opposed through independent working class action.
(2025-12-29). FO ∞ Podcasts: The Forbidden C-word, Class in America. fairobserver.com 
Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and Kent Jenkins Jr., a former political reporter from The Washington Post turned communications consultant, discuss America's "forbidden C-word: " class. They argue that class shapes opportunity, identity and political behavior, even as Americans prefer a national story of rugged individualism. Jenkins frames himself as a class migrant — someone who grows up…
(2025-12-29). Democracy Now! 2025-12-29 Monday. democracynow.org Headlines for December 29, 2025; What's Behind Trump's Christmas Strikes on Nigeria? Anti-Christian Genocide or Appeasing MAGA Base?; "Witch Hunt": Jailed U.K. Palestine Action Activists Continue Hunger Strike Despite Health Risks; Cover-Up? New HBO Film Examines 2010 Immigrant Death Under Trump's Current Border Commissioner | Headlines for December 29, 2025; What's Behind Trump's Christmas Strikes on Nigeria? Anti-Christian Genocide or Appeasing MAGA Base?; "Witch Hunt": Jailed U.K. Palestine Action Activists Continue Hunger Strike Despite Health Risks; Cover-U…
(2025-12-29). Alaa Abd el-Fattah: Apologies and Controversy in Britain. devdiscourse.com Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the activist recently released from Egyptian prison, has issued an apology for his past social media posts that have led to calls for his deportation from the UK.
(2025-12-29). Baltimore, December 29, 2025: ICE Out of Maryland! ICE Out of Everywhere! wibailoutpeople.org 
Protest ICE ShootingICE out of Maryland!ICE out of EVERYWHERE! Monday, December 29, 20254: 30 — 6: 00 pmCorner of Hopkins Pl. & W. Baltimore St, Baltimore MD 21201 ————————— The Baltimore People's Power Assembly strongly condemns ICE's brutal shooting of a landscape worker and his family member in Glen Burnie, Maryland. ICE officers fired multiple rounds into …
(2025-12-29). London protest: government to take action against individuals, not PTI. tribune.com.pk 
The federal government would not move against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf UK as an organisation but would pursue legal action against specific individuals involved in incitement and threats, if necessary, under UK law, according to the minister of state for interior. | "We will not go after PTI [Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf] UK, but we will target the individuals involved," Talal Chaudhry told The Express Tribune here, clarifying the government's position while responding to questions about possible legal steps in the United Kingdom. | The controversy arose after the now-deleted clip, uploaded from PTI UK's verified…
(2025-12-29). Jailed Pro-Palestine Hunger Strikers in UK Are "At Increasing Risk of Death" truthout.org Alarm is growing over the treatment and deteriorating health of eight pro-Palestinian activists jailed in the United Kingdom who are on hunger strike to protest their detention. The activists remain imprisoned as they await trial over charges linked to their work with Palestine Action, which the British government has banned under its Terrorism Act over direct action protests against Israel's… |
(2025-12-29). Monday 12/29: No Monarchs Monday: Protest at Tesla in San Francisco. indybay.org At the Tesla Dealership, 999 Van Ness (corner of Van Ness and O'Farrell), San Francisco…
(2025-12-29). Trump administration lashes out after musician cancels Christmas Eve Jazz Jam to protest Kennedy Center's new name. wsws.org The threatened lawsuit over a canceled Christmas Eve concert at the renamed "Trump Kennedy Center" exposes the authoritarian bid to intimidate artists and silence dissent.
(2025-12-29). Nepal's former rapper to run for PM in key vote after Gen Z protests. geo.tv 
Balendra Shah, 35, a former rapper and composer who currently serves as the mayor of Kathmandu, popularly known as "Balen", attends the Indra Jatra festival at Kathmandu Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal, September 6, 2025. — ReutersTwo popular leaders have formed an alliance ahead…
(2025-12-29). Protests on the Syrian coast leave dead and wounded. plenglish.com Damascus, Dec 29 (Prensa Latina) Protests led primarily by members of the Alawite community in western Syria escalated into armed clashes today, leaving at least three dead and some 60 wounded.
(2025-12-29). Polls: Guinea junta chief headed for victory. tribune.com.pk 
Guineans voted in a presidential election Sunday with Mamady Doumbouya, a general who led the junta that seized power four years ago, the clear favourite, and the main opposition leaders barred from standing. | By running, the strongman reneged on a pledge not to stand for office and to hand the west African country back to civilian rule by the end of 2024. | Since seizing power in 2021, Doumbouya has cracked down on civil liberties, and protests have been banned while opponents have been arrested, put on trial or driven into exile. | Some 6.8 million people were eligible to choose between the nine approved ca…
(2025-12-29). Syrian Alawites Begin Mass Protests Against Government Violence. popularresistance.org Syrian citizens of the Alawite minority sect took to the streets on 28 December to protest against government violence and sectarian persecution, in line with a call made by the community's religious leader a day earlier. | Members of the minority sect protested in the Alawite neighborhoods of the central governorate of Homs, and in several towns and cities on the country's coast, including Tartous, Jableh, and Latakia. | Protests also erupted in Hama governorate, including in the city of Masyaf. | Alawite Syrians held up banners reading "Federalism is the solution" and "the blood of Alawites is not cheap," among…