Month: January 2019

Venezuela

Maduro: Let us not allow another Vietnam War in my homeland (video)

January 30, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Events

Los Angeles: U.S. Hands Off Venezuela – Sat., Feb. 2

January 29, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
U.S. Hands Off Venezuela/Latin America – Money for Jobs, Not War Saturday, February 2, 2019 at 2 PM – 4 PM PST McArthur Park – North Side Los Angeles, California 90057 Hosted by Harriet Tubman […]
Events

New York: Hands Off Venezuela!

January 29, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Activists and progressive organizations in New York City have mobilized to defend Venezuela against U.S. imperialism. On Jan. 24, more than a hundred people came to the Venezuelan Consulate in an action called by the […]
Around the world

Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 28, 2019 Youth Against War and Racism
[su_row][su_column size=”1/3″ center=”no” class=””] [/su_column] [su_column size=”1/3″ center=”no” class=””] [/su_column] [su_column size=”1/3″ center=”no” class=””] [/su_column][/su_row] Jan. 27 was Holocaust Remembrance Day. We remember the mass genocide of over 6 million Jews, and more than a […]
Imperialism and global politics

Unexpected Brexit result: Irish reunification

January 27, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, the outcome of a plan to withdraw from the European Union, suffered a historic defeat in Parliament on Jan. 15. A major obstacle to the Brexit plan is […]
Labor and strikes

What was won in Los Angeles teachers’ strike

January 26, 2019 John Parker
For almost two years the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and Superintendent Austin Beutner, whose background is business and not education, had rejected proposals to invest in public schools. They rejected the teachers’ demands […]
Indigenous peoples

Historic Indigenous Peoples March defends sovereignty

January 26, 2019 Lev Koufax
Washington, D.C. — On Jan. 18, the first ever Indigenous Peoples March gathered in Washington, D.C. The march started at the U.S. Department of the Interior and ended on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where a […]
Fight racism

#ReclaimMLK in Oakland empowers communities

January 26, 2019 Carl Muhammad
Oakland, Calif. — On Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 21, Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) held its 5th Annual People’s March and Day of Action to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy.   Starting at 8 a.m. and ending […]
Fight racism

In Los Angeles, Black and Brown celebrate MLK Parade, in spite of cops

January 26, 2019 Reece Evans
Jan. 21 marks Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the U.S. — a holiday won after many years of struggle as a symbol of unity and celebration of the deceased African-American leader’s legacy. His […]
Labor and strikes

Los Angeles teachers’ strike vs. school privatization

January 26, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), representing more than 30,000 teachers, counselors, librarians, nurses and other school staff, waged a militant six-day strike in mid-January. They won enormous grassroots support from students, parents, the labor movement […]