On April 7th, the world held its breath as Donald Trump threatened genocidal escalation in the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran, stating: "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." Though eventually, the US stepped back from the brink and announced a "ceasefire" with Iran and the beginning of negotiations. A month on, it is clear that this is not a true ceasefire, but rather a lull in the fighting as the US and Israel flounder to secure any meaningful victory and are incapable of admitting defeat.

Genocide, War, Racism, Police Repression, Colonialism, Globalization, Neoliberalism, National Chauvinism, Inflation. These phenomena are rampant across the world today. All of these phenomena are the quantitative changes that form the sum transformation of the capitalist mode of production into its advanced state, imperialism.

To tackle the subject of climate refugees, we must start first by acknowledging the means by which capitalism systemically causes climate change. Capitalism floods the market with commodities, overproduces instead of meeting people's needs, and promotes speculation and development in industries that do more harm than good, all in the pursuit of profits for an increasingly small group of people. The destruction of forests, the pollution of natural water sources, and the despoiling of land in search of its minerals are all unavoidable consequences of the current ruling class of corporate owners conducting their business unimpeded.

Cincinnati Socialists reaffirms its solidarity with Rodney Hinton Jr, the Hinton family, and all victims of police brutality.

When you understand the need for drastic change, a subsequent question emerges: what is required for an effective revolution? The responses to this question are hotly debated, and often break on the point of whether or not violence is the answer to our struggle.

After illegally kidnapping Nicolas Maduro—the duly-elected leader of Venezuela—in early January, the US empire has shifted its priority to targeting two other nations that have long resisted its imperial hegemony: Cuba and Iran. The strategies being implemented to break these two nations differ in execution, but both approaches—if not halted—will be incredibly violent and cause the death and immiseration of millions.

The actions of the US have disregarded the grave concerns of the international community, trampled upon Venezuela's sovereignty, security, and legitimate rights and interests.

“Bourgeois politicians, one and all, in all parliamentary countries, have always paid lip-service to democracy while betraying it." -VI Lenin

"With the entry of a socialist into the government, and class domination continuing to exist, the bourgeois government doesn't transform itself into a socialist government, but a socialist transforms himself into a bourgeois minister."
—Rosa Luxembourg

US imposed sanctions and multiple coup attempts have succeeded in producing extreme hardship among the populace of Venezuela since the success of the Bolivarian Revolution in 1999, which in turn has caused a mass refugee crisis, with many fleeing to the US.

Data centers are a new epidemic in the US, causing peoples’ electricity bills to skyrocket in the towns where they're being constructed. These taxpayer-funded centers pollute air and water ways, irreversibly damaging the health of the people and ecosystems around them.

AI-powered surveillance drones and their corresponding software used by Israeli occupation forces to carry out genocide in Gaza are now being deployed across Cincinnati to monitor protesters and civilians. This blatant connection between CPD and the corporate entities facilitating genocide in Palestine cannot be ignored. The phrase "We are all Palestinian" rings true in the most literal sense.