Northwoods Socialist Collective

On May 14, the U.S. Supreme Court “kicked the can down the road” on medical abortion, saving some votes for Trump cronies in the mid-term elections but signaling to the rest of us that tele-health prescribing of mifepristone remains in danger. The Court decided that a lower-court decision from Louisiana that required patients, including those living in states with complete abortion bans, to visit a doctor’s office to get a mifepristone prescription would remain “paused.”  In the meantime, the issue would continue to be litigated in the lower courts and the part of the Republican base that remains pro-abortion would not be stirred up before voting. This maneuver has allowed the high court to expediently delay, but be ready use its powers to further erode the availability of reproductive health care when it is more politically convenient.  Simultaneously, on another front, the MAGA-run Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, is slow-walking an unnecessary and highly suspect...

Nearly 5000 protesters assembled in Montgomery, Ala., on Saturday, May 16, as part of the emergency mobilization dubbed All Roads Lead to the South.   The Montgomery rally followed the recreation of a segment of the first Selma to Montgomery march of 1965, when 600 protesters were attacked by state troopers on the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, an event that has come to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”   Faith leaders, politicians, and activists joined figures like the “oldest living foot soldier” from that original crossing, 84-year-old Annie Mae Avery, and Sheyann Webb-Christburg, who was an eight-year-old participant and victim of the police assault. These mobilizations were a response to the Supreme Court’s April 29 ruling on the case of Louisiana v. Callais , which granted Louisiana the right to gerrymander voting districts to make Black representation to Congress nearly impossible. Within days of the verdict, other white Southern state governors and legislators rushed to u...

A ProPublica  investigation  revealed a new change proposed by the Trump administration that would cut Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for up to 400,000 Americans with disabilities. The SSI system provides a very modest basic income to adults who are unable to work due to severe disabilities such as Down syndrome, autism, or blindness. The maximum monthly benefit in 2026 is $994 per person, far below the  federal poverty line . Because current SSI benefits are not enough to live independently, many SSI recipients live with their families into adulthood, in order to avoid the alternatives of institutional living or homelessness. People with disabilities benefit from the social, cultural, and structural support of living in a multi-generational home. Family caregivers develop routines that integrate their loved ones, providing individualized support that is hard to replicate in an institutional setting. Families often invest substantially in building acco...

The Global Sumud Flotilla is issuing an urgent international alert of a state-sponsored kidnapping and torture mission currently unfolding in international waters. This alert follows first-hand testimony from released participants confirming that Saif Abukeshek, one of two civilians forcibly taken by Israeli forces, was subjected to torture while in detention aboard an Israeli military vessel while still in Greek waters.  This constitutes a grave escalation and an additional war crime. Following the illegal interception of 22 vessels belonging to the Global Sumud Flotilla by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in international waters less than 80 nautical miles west of the Greek island of Crete, 175 civilian participants were abducted from 21 boats and transferred to the Israeli vessel Nahshon , where they were subjected to physical and verbal violence. Participant eyewitnesses provided harrowing testimony of Abukeshek’s screams echoing throughout the ship as he was subjected to ...

On April 7, 2026, David Menton of Solon Springs, WI, was visiting a friend in Superior when Superior Police pulled up. As David moved to go inside a Superior Officer pursued and tackled him to the ground before fatally shooting him. The following is an interview with Autumn, who was with David that night. David did not need to die. Alongside the community, we demand that Superior PD release the body camera footage now.  Contact these officials and demand the timely release of the body cam footage.  Superior PD Chief Winterscheidt: winterscheidtp@superiorwi.gov  Wisconsin Department of Justice: DOJCommunications@doj.state.wi.us   Special Agent In-charge Ben Pollberg: pollerbg@doj.state.wi.us   Superior Mayor Jim Paine: painej@ci.superior.wi.us   Superior City Council Members:  Nicholas Ledin: ledinn@superiorwi.gov   Jack Sweeney: sweeneyj@superiorwi.gov   Sarah Anderson: andersons@superiorwi.gov   Garner Moffat: moffatg@superiorwi.go...

The explosion of artificial intelligence over the past couple of years has been breathtaking. Seemingly from nothing, it has now become the carrier not only of Big Tech’s most unhinged fantasies but also that of capital more generally. The claims of its most fervent believers—that it will replace most human labor and that it will initiate a new age of unlimited capitalist growth—will inevitably fall short of expectations. But even if we won’t see multi-billion dollar corporations run entirely by AI agents anytime in the near future, the future AI capital foresees for the rest of humanity reveals itself in its new “satanic mills,” the AI data centers popping up like weeds all over the United States. Marx once wrote that mechanization under class society provides new weapons by which the ruling class can dominate the working class. AI’s increased role in U.S. and global capitalism Companies like Apple, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Amazon, “all of which have staked their fu...