After bombing multiple boats that Trump claimed to be smuggling drugs, the US, under the leadership of Trump, has deployed its military, including the world’s largest warship, aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford, towards the Venezuelan coast.Tom Burke joins us today to talk about the possible US invasion of Venezuela looms ahead, and the response we can expect from the steadfast Venezuelan people. Tom is a co-chair of the Anti-War Action Network (AWAN), the organizational secretary of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and president of his union, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) local 26.Checkout the Anti-War Action Network online.Join the fight for a better world by joining the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.Read up on developments in Venezuela on the Orinoco Tribune.
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In an egregious attempt to build power through fear, Donald Trump has sicced his thugs from ICE (as well as DHS) upon the city of Chicago. These federal agents are indiscriminately grabbing people off the street, including documented civilians, resorting to violence, and even deadly force.
Omar Flores, chair of the Immigrant Rights Work Team of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR) joins us today to give us an in-the-streets account of what’s happening in Chicago, the harm that this regime is bringing to their community, and the ways in which the people of Chicago have been running these thugs out of town.
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Assata Shakur was a fighter for freedom and an icon of the Black liberation movement. She came of age during the struggles of the 1960s and 70s, and everything that was good and powerful about that time, Assata embodied. The deep understanding that a better world is possible, and most importantly, the conviction to never give up. Never surrender.In today's episode, we look back on the legacy of Assata's life with the help of Merawi Gerima, a a Chicago based activist, a filmmaker, and is the co-chair of the Campaign to Free Incarcerated Survivors of Torture (CFIST).Read Fight Back! News for more on Assata Shakur:
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On Sept. 24, 2010, more than 70 FBI agents took part in a series of coordinated raids that were aimed at activists of the anti-war and international solidarity movements, and also members of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). In a bogus investigation of “material support of terrorism” charges, seven houses and an office in Minneapolis and Chicago were raided.
One of those houses was the home of Jess Sundin, a lifelong activist, a fighter in the anti-war movement, and a member of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression and the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice (TCC4J). Jess joins us today to recall the day she and her comrades were raided by the FBI, the immediate response from the committee, and to make it clear that the only correct response to FBI repression is standing up and fighting back.
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As Trump's occupation of DC continues on, so does the fight against his repression. The people of DC are rising up, taking the streets, and making it clear who their city belongs to.
KB is one of the leaders of this resistance, and we're honored to sit down with them and discuss how the repression they are facing in DC, and how the DC Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression standing up and fighting back.
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Colombian revolutionary Simón Trinidad has lived 75 years on this earth and his last 21 have been spent as a prisoner of the U.S. Empire. Once a valuable thinker and peace negotiator for the FARC-EP, four sham trials based on bogus charges saw a U.S. federal court eventually sentence Trinidad to 60 years in the Federal Supermax prison in Florence, CO. The terms of his imprisonment included the psychologically challenging isolation of Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) and the restrictive access to legal support.
Mark Burton, Simón's lawyer, joins us today to discuss Simón's contributions to the struggle for a socialist Columbia, the injustice he's facing as a political prisoner of the US, and the continued fight to free Simón and for a liberated Columbia.
"Demand Freedom for Simón Trinidad on his 75th birthday!"
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Sydney Loving is a long time activist that got her start in student activism, took part in the Black Lives Matter movement, was a founding member of the North Texas Action Committee and the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR).
Sydney now serves on the central committee of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), and in serving this role, she visited China to get a first-hand experience of what life is like in a contemporary socialist country. On the show today, we discuss the economic differences between socialist and capitalist countries, what life is like for minorities and what democracy looks like in China, and we also dispel some of the myths surrounding socialism and China.
Sydney will be discussing this trip live on a speaking tour! Stops include:
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Whether we're fighting in the streets, or fighting at the ballot box, Fight Back! Radio believes in winning all that can be won. Few people could speak truth to that more than Byron Sigcho Lopez, who is currently serving as the alderman of Chicago's 25th ward, and who truly represents the people and the people's movements.
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We're 645 days in to a genocide, and Israel, with the US's support, isn't letting up. Furthermore, in an attempt to maintain US imperialist hegemony in the region, both Israel and the US have attacked Iran, all while Donald Trump is at the helm.
Sara Mahmoud has been organizing for Palestinian liberation for nearly a decade. As a member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and as chair of the Jacksonville Palestine Solidarity Network (JPSN), she has a thorough understanding of the role of US imperialism in these conflicts. She joins us today to talk about the underlying motivations for these attacks, the strength of the Iranian people, and how we need to organize to defeat Trump, Israel, and US imperialism.
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The streets of L.A. are on fire right now as the community goes toe to toe against ICE, the FBI, and even the US military as they fight to protect their immigrant friends and family.
Sol Marquez of Centro CSO joins us today to give us a first-hand account on the struggles she and her fellow activists are waging in Boyle Heights. This includes the campaign to drop the charges of Alejandro Orellana, who is facing federal charges for protesting recent ICE raids in Los Angeles.
We urge all organizations and individuals committed to justice, immigrant rights and civil liberties to join us in defending Alejandro. Call U.S. Attorney Bilal Essayli at 213-894-2400 and tell him to drop the charges!
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ALEJANDRO ORELLANA IS FREE!
On Friday, June 13, Alejandro Orellana, an immigrant rights activist who was arrested by the FBI, was freed from federal custody. Read more on Fight Back! News.
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Our guest today is Emerson Wolfe, who leads Palestine Solidarity Grand Rapids. We go into depth on their plan for this march and the current state of the fight for a free Palestine.
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Release Alejandro Orellana,
drop the charges now!
The Committee to Stop FBI Repression (CFSR) condemns the unjust arrest and targeting of immigrant rights activist and Centro Community Service Organization (CSO) member Alejandro Orellana.
On the morning of June 12, FBI agents, National Guard troops and LA County Sheriff's deputies descended on Orellana's East Los Angeles home in a coordinated, militarized raid. Agents forcibly entered his residence and ransacked his belongings before taking him away in handcuffs.
Alejandro faces absurd charges of "conspiracy to commit civil disorders." This is a transparent political accusation meant to criminalize and deter the wave of protests and legitimate activism against ICE terror in Los Angeles.
Alejandro has done nothing wrong, and his arrest is unjustifiable. As an organizer who has spent years courageously defending immigrant families, he represents exactly the kind of grassroots leadership that the Trump administration seeks to eliminate with intimidation and repression.
This arrest is part of a broader pattern of political persecution, from the FBI's historical targeting of Chicano activists, Black liberation organizers, and anti-war protesters to the current escalation of attacks against those resisting Trump's deportation agenda. The state is seeking to crush dissent. The charges against Alejandro follow this same playbook of manufacturing crimes where none exist and equating organizing with conspiracy.
We reject this attack in the strongest possible terms. We stand with Alejandro and call for his immediate release and that all charges against him are dropped.
We urge all organizations and individuals committed to justice, immigrant rights and civil liberties to join us in defending Alejandro.
Call U.S. Attorney Bilal Essayli at
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On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, MN at the age of 46 by Derek Chauvin. It's been 5 years since this moment that ignited the US on fire, and the people have not forgotten.
Our guest today is Jae Yates, who is an executive board member of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR), and a member of the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice (TCC4J), as well as the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), and a co-chair of Taking Back Pride. They joins us to discuss the movement for community control of police and Black Liberation, the fights being waged in Minneapolis, and the intersections of LGBTQ+ and Black Liberation.
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On Thursday, April 24, Tallahassee Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organized a rally demanding the FSU administration stop allowing manifestations of white supremacy on campus. The protest was called in response to a mass shooting by a white supremacist on April 17 that resulted in the deaths of Robert Morales and Tiru Chabba, as well as the injury of six others.
Towards the end of the protest, Lain Dorsey, head of communications with the SDS chapter, turned on a microphone with a hidden speaker and pointed it toward the admin building. One FSU police officer gave Dorsey a trespass warning for using amplified sound, but they ignored it. A swarm of police descended upon Dorsey, arresting them as they chanted, “Robert Morales and Tiru Chabba! Say their names!”.
Lain joins us on the show today to breakdown their arrest, the intensification of repression on college campuses, and how student activists are fighting back!
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Bill Chambers is the author of My Chicago Activist Life: From Ireland to Palestine 1968 - 2025. In this memoir, Bill covers the major social justice movement that he was an active participant in, including the 1968 Democratic Convention Protests. stopping the Vietnam War, the Northwestern Student Strike, the Irish Republican Fight for United Ireland, Palestine Solidarity, Black Lives Matter, Community Control of the Police. stopping the abuses of the War on Terrorism, fighting Islamophobia, the 2024 Democratic National Convention Protest, and ending the Genocidal War on Gaza.
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From Masao Suzuki's latest article on Fight Back! News:
On Wednesday, April 9, one week after President Trump declared a universal 10% tariff and for all the countries that the United States ran trade deficits with, he announced even higher tariffs of up to 50%. Even while members of his administrators were saying the tariffs were going to stick, Trump blinked and declared a 90-day pause for all countries except China.
Trump's tariff war is developing rapidly. Fortunately we got to talk to Masao Suzuki, a retired professor of economics and lifelong activist, who breaks down the economic and political implications of these tariffs, and what we should be expecting to come down the pike.
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We're 3 weeks deep into this Trump presidency, and we're seeing attacks on federal workers that are simply unprecedented. Beyond the damage being done to the lives of these workers, the attacks from Trump, Musk, and DOGE inflict direct harm to the physical planet we live on.Today on the show we have Loreen Targos, executive vice president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 704, and scientist that works to defend the environment. In this episode, we dive deep into the important work that federal workers do to protect the environment and the humanity as a whole, and the ways in which this valuable work is being jeopardized by the current administration.
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Since April of last year, starting with the fire lit by the student activists at Columbia university, students in the US have been fighting non-stop to show their solidarity to Palestine within the belly of the beast.
Erin Boyle, vice president of the New Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), joins us today to discuss the fights students are waging across their campuses, the repression they face in response, and the ways their fighting back.
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Trump and his cronies have taken aim at the federal workforce. Elon Musk has been leading a purge of federal workers, issuing sweeping terminations and policies that aim to harass any workers that are fighting to hold onto their jobs.
Pat Kearns joins us today to give us an insider's perspective on these attacks. Pat is a 30+ year nurse, as well as the president of his local union, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 2547.
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Trans rights have been under attack, and these attacks have only intensified under the second Trump presidency. Delilah Pierre, president of the Tallahassee Community Action Committee, joins us today to discuss the nature of these attacks, the ways in which trans liberation ties into the liberation of all people, and how we're gonna fight back.
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Fight Back! Radio shares its condolences with the family, friends and comrades of Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez, chairman of the Young Lords Organization. He died on January 10, 2025, at the age of 75 in Chicago. This episode is dedicated to him.
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We're a month deep into a second Trump presidency, and it's critical that we stay grounded and think strategically about the fights we have ahead of us.
Joining us today to give us a socialist analysis on what the next four years will bring is Mick Kelly, editor of Fight Back! News, and the political secretary for the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
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