The general strike in Minneapolis and Minnesota is not the first. In July 1934, Minneapolis Teamsters led a successful strike that overcame violent police repression and political opposition; despite the deployment of the Minnesota National Guard and martial law, the union ultimately won recognition and transformed labor relations in the city. August Nimtz is a University of Minnesota professor of Political Science and American and African Studies. He is author of The Ballot, The Streets Or Both and The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution: Comparing Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass in Real-Time. He spoke with Pacifica’s Steve Zeltzer.
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Trump has been on a national witch hunt against Somali Americans, particularly in Minneapolis, and is using Gestapo tactics to drive them out of the city. In Seattle, at a meeting in support of the general strike in Minneapolis, Seattle Ride Share Association Executive Director Ahmed Mumin, who is a Somali American, reported on what is happening to the Somali American community in Minneapolis.
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Next, we share a report from Minneapolis journalist Mnar Adley, editor of Mintpress News, on the immigration crackdown in her city. It originally aired on the January 23, 2026 edition of UK Column News.
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The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal reports on the hybrid warfare inside Iran. He spoke to Iranian journalist Nahid Pourreza, who is on the ground in Tehran. Their full conversation is on The Grayzone’s YouTube channel.
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Music:
David Rovics, “Class War Zone” from the Best of AI Tsuno
