Month: December 2018

BandaBassottiSigaro
Imperialism and global politics

Ciao Sigaro: Remembering a worker, musician and internationalist

December 24, 2018 Greg Butterfield
Angelo Conti, known as Sigaro, died Dec. 11 in Rome, following a brief illness. A worker, musician and communist, Conti was a founding member of the world-renowned punk band Banda Bassotti. Hundreds of friends, comrades […]
UTLA Dec Rally
La Lucha por el Socialismo

35,000 maestrx de Los Ángeles iniciaron la huelga de enero

December 24, 2018 Scott Scheffer
20 Diciembre – Después de veinte meses de negociaciones con Unified School District (LAUSD) de Los Ángeles y sin haber tenido un contrato por todo un año, 35,000 miembros del United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) […]
Kurdish inhabited area
Capitalism and Marxism

Kurdistan: The struggle in historical perspective

December 23, 2018 Sam Marcy
On Dec. 19, 2018, President Donald Trump announced plans to withdraw U.S. ground troops from Syria by mid-January 2019. This long overdue acknowledgement of the defeat of imperialism’s strategy to dismember the Syrian Arab Republic […]
Utlamarch
Labor and strikes

35,000 Los Angeles teachers set January strike

December 23, 2018 Scott Scheffer
December 20 — After negotiating with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for 20 months, and without a contract for a year, 35,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) have set a strike date […]
Redstar
Imperialism and global politics

Don’t blame Russia for Trump

December 22, 2018 Struggle - La Lucha
There are dozens of reasons to stop the super racist, sexual predator, union buster, war criminal, evil Donald Trump. But Russia didn’t put this rich pig in the White House. It was the U.S. Supreme […]
Patricia okoumou
Im/migrants and refugees

Hands off Patricia Okoumou!

December 21, 2018 Stephen Millies
Patricia Okoumou, the courageous woman who dramatically climbed the Statue of Liberty on July 4th to protest the jailing of 15,000 immigrant children by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was found “guilty” in Federal Court […]
LeonardPeltier
Political Prisoners

Political prisoner profile: Leonard Peltier

December 21, 2018 Mary Lou Finley
On Feb. 6, 2019, Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier will mark the beginning of his 44th year in prison. Now 74, Peltier is Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) and Lakota from the Turtle Mountain Reservation and was framed […]
France1968
Capitalism and Marxism

Revolutionary situation in France 1968: Which road for the mass struggle?

December 21, 2018 Sam Marcy
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the May 1968 uprising of workers and students in France. In light of the Yellow Vests protest movement shaking France today, and the continued relevance of the lessons […]
Jakelin Caal Maquin
Im/migrants and refugees

U.S. crimes at the border: 7-year-old Guatemalan child dies in custody

December 20, 2018 Sharon Black
Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquín was barely 7 years old when she died on Dec. 8 following her detention by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. She had traveled with her father, Nery Gilberto Caal Cuz, […]
Nationalgridworkers
Labor and strikes

Solidarity with National Grid workers

December 19, 2018 Struggle - La Lucha
Hundreds of union members and their supporters rallied in Boston in solidarity with 1,250 National Grid gas workers who have been locked out of their jobs for nearly six months. The lockout began after the […]