There have now been over 100,000 lives lost in the U.S. from COVID-19, and nearly half the country is still experiencing uncontrolled outbreaks. Incarcerated populations, nursing home residents, asylum seekers trapped at the border and […]
Seventy-year-old Enock Benjamin never got to retire. The United Food and Commercial Workers union steward died of COVID-19 on April 3. Born in Haiti, Benjamin was one of many workers from other lands employed in […]
From the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice – L.A. Hi all, the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice here. We want to make an appeal for history as it unfolds. How? By its […]
May 29 — Thousands descended on Atlanta this afternoon. They came by bus, train and cars, from all the many cities: Norcross, Ellenwood, College Park, East Point, Decatur and of course Atlanta, among others. These protesters […]
While reading Mumia Abu-Jamal’s latest commentary, “After 100,000,” where he speaks about the increasing numbers of COVID-19 deaths, Mumia explains, “For Black folk this is a time of ineffable loss.” What he did not know […]
The New York Times headline declared: “U.S. unemployment worst since the Great Depression.” (New York Times, May 9, 2020, print edition) Actually, the Times report understated the unemployment numbers. In a press release, the […]
TRAYVON MARTIN (Walking home with iced tea and Skittles. Shot by George Zinneman, who was found not guilty.) KEITH SCOTT (Sitting in car, reading. Shot by police officer, who was not charged.) ATATIANA JEFFERSON (Looking […]
On Memorial Day 2020, four Minneapolis police brutally murdered George Floyd. Video of the killing quickly spread around the world. On May 26, some 20,000 people marched in Minneapolis, where they were confronted with a […]
What happens when the counter strikes 100,000? Nothing. One hundred thousand American dead; that means, for all intents and purposes, nothing much. For does the counter stop counting? Or does it continue rolling on like […]
The U.S. was established as a republic in 1787 and remains so to this day. It is a republic, but not a democracy. The American Revolution was not a democratic one, like the great Haitian […]
May 24 — The first of five Iranian oil tankers, named Fortune, entered Venezuelan waters on Saturday night where it was received by the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB). Its arrival was an event followed […]
Message of solidarity for African Liberation Day 2020: A Virtual Event from May 23 to May 25, called by the Maryland Council of Elders, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party and others. This year’s African Liberation […]
Capitalism is humiliation. Having to ask to go to the bathroom can be deeply humiliating. As a young girl, Julia Wright was escorted by a family friend, Constance Webb, to Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman department store. […]
Fin a la supremacía blanca y al asesinato racista Declaración del Partido de Socialismo Unido Las semejanzas entre los casos de Trayvon Martin, asesinado el 26 de febrero de 2012 y Ahmaud Arbery, asesinado el […]
“It all started with the sudden terminations of all J-1s,” said Mary Lee Philline Camello, calling in from Hot Springs, Va. “Instead of receiving termination letters, we were informed via phone call, video chat or […]
The U.S. campaign of slander against China regarding its response to the coronavirus can’t be seen only as electoral damage control for Donald Trump, nor should it be interpreted only as friction between two economic […]
Statement by H.E. Xi Jinping President of the People’s Republic of China At Virtual Event of Opening of the 73rd World Health Assembly Beijing, May 18, 2020 Fighting COVID-19 Through Solidarity and Cooperation Building a […]
It is widely reported that New York City police are exploiting social distancing rules, meant to protect people from the coronavirus, to practice brutal “racial profiling.” The Brooklyn Paper reported on May 12 that “New […]
Dear comrades! The whole world is now watching as protests unfold in the United States. And we agree with the idea that rebellion against racist police terror is a class struggle. The anger of the […]
Communists, anti-fascists and revolutionary musicians in Russia and the Donetsk People’s Republic shared this video in solidarity with the Minneapolis Uprising and the Justice For George Floyd protests: “Sending our solidarity from Russia to the […]
Progressive forces around the world are watching the mass demonstrations that began in the United States after the police murder of the detained African American George Floyd. History has once again proved that bourgeois political […]
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) expressed its support for people in the U.S. confronting the injustice and racism practiced by the U.S. government in various cities and towns in the […]
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) supports the demand of the American people for justice for George Floyd, a 46-year-old resident of Minneapolis, Minn., who was killed last May 25 by four police officers […]
We are in solidarity with the insurgents in the United States, who are rising out of anger at the exemplary murder of an African American by white racists in police uniform. The military has already […]
Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI (Communist) has issued the following statement today, June 1, 2020: “We express our solidarity with the struggling people of the USA who are in the midst of a historic […]
On May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minn., an African American man named George Floyd was killed by strangulation by four police officers on the street, in broad daylight, in front of the eyes of […]
Statement in Solidarity with African-American, Afro-Mexicano, Afro-Indigenous and Black relatives everywhere but especially in the USA by American Indian and Indigenous Peoples organizations in Los Angeles, California Lazo en Español: https://bit.ly/SolidaridadconAfroAmericanos May 30, 2020 Policing, politics, […]
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