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While the U.S. continues it's war on Iran, it's simultaneously targeting protesters at home, especially those standing in Palestine.

To cover the onslaught of attacks on the Palestine Solidarity Movement in the U.S., we talk to multiple guests:

Alan Chavoya from the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repressions tells us about Salah Sarsour, president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and organizer with American Muslims for Palestine, who was detained by ICE in Milwaukee and the fight to free him.

https://freesalah.org/

https://www.instagram.com/freesalahsarsour

Shayne Tremblay interviews Conor Cauley, a Florida organizer and member of the Jacksonville Palestine Solidarity Network. Conor was arrested at a city council meeting along with fellow organizers who were guilty of nothing but standing with Palestine.

https://jaxpsn.org/drop-the-charges/

https://www.instagram.com/jaxpsn

Chrisley Carpio speaks on behalf of Rick Toledo, a student organizer in the Students for Democratic Society, who is facing four bogus felonies for his participation in a sit-in protest at Cal Poly Tech Humboldt.

https://fightbacknews.org/articles/solidarity-with-rick-toledo-no-charges-for-standing-up-for-palestine

https://www.instagram.com/sds_humboldt/

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A happy International Workers' Day from Fight Back! Radio to all whole celebrate, which should be all working people.

To commemorate this significant holiday, we have on the political secretary of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and editor of Fight Back! News, Mick Kelly. Mick is a veteran of the movement, and brings us a communist analysis of May Day, the state of the US, and the international struggle against monopoly capitalism and imperialism.

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In the 1970s, in response to the lack of rank-and-file power in the Teamsters union, the Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) reform caucus was formed with the goal of, as Ken Paff puts it, "building power from below".

Ken Paff was the national organizer of TDU for most of its existence, and in this interview he discloses the history of TDU's forming, the power struggles they had with labor bureaucrats, and all that they have won for Teamsters and workers everywhere.

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There's currently no shortage of struggle across the peoples' movements, many of which are dominating the mainstream news outlets. We want to highlight a critical struggle that is not making the headlines, and that is the fight for Black Liberation. This movement is alive and well in the US, and leaders like Kobi Guillory are on the front lines of resisting the racist Trump agenda, killers cops, and any opposition to the self-determination of Black people.

Kobi is the labor chair of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, an executive committee member of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, a member of the Central Committee of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a union delegate and executive board member of the Chicago Teachers Union, and maybe the most demanding of all, a middle school teacher on the South Side of Chicago.

Anyone that will be in the Chicago area on April 18th should attend the Working Class Awards Dinner: Resisting Trump's Mass Deportations.

We invite all organizations to sign onto the following call, in defense of grad student Rick Toledo, pro-palestine student and member of Students for a Democratic Society, at California State Polytechnic University Humboldt.

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On behalf of the Fight Back! Radio team, we want to thank all of our listeners for tuning in to 100 episodes of the news and views of the Peoples' Struggles. For this special episode, we decided to flip the mic around to Richard Berg. You have heard Richard speak to countless fighters from the various Peoples' Movements, but Richard has been a lifelong fighter himself. In today's episode, Richard gives us his origin story as an activist, discusses the various movements he's been involved in, and provides valuable insights into how to struggle and how to win.

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The Fight Back! Radio team categorically condemns the shameful attacks on Iran, its people, and its sovereignty by the US and Israel. We recommend that our listeners hit the streets and join the other people of conscious calling for hands off Iran, the U.S. out of the Middle East, and an end to the Zionist project.

We would also like to wish everyone a happy International Women's Day (IWD). Our guest today, Mary Anne Trasciatti helps us celebrate IWD by commemorating the life and legacy Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a legend of the labor movement. Marry is a professor of rhetoric and a director of labor studies Hofstra University, and has written a book: "Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution".

You can buy Mary's book at Rutgers University Press (and use code RUP30 for 30% off).

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Struggle is intensifying across the US against ICE and for immigrant rights. Our guest today, Lyla Salinas, an organizer with the Community Service Organization (CSO) San José, is on the front lines of this struggle. From protesting ICE at Super Bowl LX, to on the ground community outreach, Lyrla gives us their first-hand account and a strategy for winning rights and legalization for all.

You can find CSO San José online on their website as well as their Instagram.

CSO San José is an affiliate of the Legalization 4 All Network.

Help Ulises' Family After ICE's Violent and Unlawful Arrest.

Read more about the Ice Out of the Super Bowl! protest on Fight Back! News: San José demands ICE out of Super Bowl, no killer ICE in San José

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Since the ceasefire agreement in October of 2025, we've seen Israel commit daily bombings, blocking of aid, the withholding of hostages and bodies of martyrs, and no sign of giving up their genocidal agenda.

We're honored to be joined by Husam Marajda, co-chair of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), to unpack the current situation. Husam provides us with his analysis of the so-called "ceasefire", describes the current conditions in Gaza and the Arab world more broadly, and spells out what the continued fight for a free Palestine looks like, both domestically and abroad.

To our Palestinian and Arab listeners that live in the U.S. and who want to join the fight for a Free Palestine, we urge you to join the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN). USPCN is a Palestinian and Arab community-based organization, founded in 2006 to revitalize grass-roots organizing in Palestinian and Arab communities in the U.S., as part of the broader Palestinian nation in exile and the homeland.

Read about the fight for divestment from Israel in Illinois on Fight Back! News: Illinois residents demand the state divest from genocide of Palestinians

Richard's Black History Month Book Recommendations:

• Marxist-Leninist Perspectives on Black Liberation and Socialism - Frank Chapman
• Negro Liberation - Harry Haywood

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The Fight Back! Radio production team sends our condolences to the family, friends, and loved ones of Renee Nicole Good, and we extend them to all those who have been taken from us by ICE.

We wholeheartedly condemn Jonathan Ross for his brutal murder of Renee, and we extend that condemnation to all federal agents wreaking terror across the US, and the Trump administration for orchestrating this terror.

On January 7th, 2026 Renee Nicole Good was gunned down by in broad daylight by Jonathan Ross for the crime of serving as a community observer. That moment lit a fire in Minneapolis, and the people immediately began flooding the streets to direct that fire and to defend their city from these murderous thugs.

Our guest today, Mira Altobell-Resendez has been on the front lines of this fight. As an organizer in the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC), Mira describes the struggles being waged out in the streets of Minneapolis and the work MIRAC and the community has done to prepare for these struggles. As a member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), Mira also breaks down how these local fights are related to US imperialism at a global scale.

If you live in Minnesota and want to join the fight against ICE terror, check out the Minnesota Immigrants Rights Action Committee.

If you don't live in Minnesota, you can get connected with an org in your area that's affiliated with the Legalization For All network, or look into starting your own.

Since the fight for immigrant rights is a fight for everyone's' rights, consider joining the Freedom Road Socialist Organization to fight for a free world.

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On December 9, 2025, organizers from the US touched down in Venezuela to participate in the International Peoples' Assembly for Sovereignty and Peace conference. This was in an effort to show solidarity and support the people of Venezuela and their fight for the sovereignty of their country. Jae Franklin was one of these organizers.

As a Black Queer organizer in Chicago, Jae serves as a co-chair of the Anti-War Committee Chicago, the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda, and is a member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. We had the honor of sitting down with Jae to discuss their first-hand experience of being in Venezuela, and to analyze the US shameful intervention in the country, and how the people of Venezuela and across the world are fighting back.

In the early morning hours of January 3, 2026, after this interview was recorded, explosions lit up the skies over Caracas at least seven times. US forces launched a coordinated attack on civilian and military sites across Venezuela including in Miranda, Aragua and La Guairá. President Nicolás Maduro and the First Lady Cilia Flores were kidnapped by U.S. military forces. Fight Back! Radio whole heartedly condemns this act of war, and we call upon all people of conscience to hit the streets and demand HANDS OFF VENEZUELA and FREE PRESIDENT MADURO!

You'll fight back better and stronger by joining an organization. If you're in Chicago, consider joining Anti-War Committee Chicago.

or finding an affiliate of the Anti-War Action Network in your area.

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Consider joining the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and read their statement on the shameful kidnapping on Fight Back! News.

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