Month: January 2019

Labor and strikes

Unions call for end of anti-worker shutdown

January 14, 2019 Lev Koufax
On January 10, in spite of cold and windy conditions, hundreds of union workers and their supporters gathered outside AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., to protest the current federal government shutdown. A coalition of more […]
Political Prisoners

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s fight for freedom

January 14, 2019 Gloria Verdieu
Rooted in Black liberation struggle “Philadelphia is the city that imprisons the majority of Black and Brown youth. It is the city that has also imprisoned and attempted to silence the most important political prisoner […]
Political Prisoners

Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks to New York meeting

January 14, 2019 Stephen Millies
New York — More than a hundred people came to the People’s Forum in Midtown Manhattan on Jan. 12 to hear the latest developments in the struggle to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. On the meeting’s stage were boxes […]
Fight racism

The right of self-determination and the class struggle

January 14, 2019 Sam Marcy
Nov. 25, 1983  Of all the great domestic political problems facing the working class and the oppressed people, none surpasses in importance the relationship of national oppression to the class struggle. Indeed, one may say […]
Imperialism and global politics

Bolsonaro’s threat to oppressed in Brazil demands response

January 12, 2019 Jefferson Azevedo
On Jan. 1, Jair Bolsonaro was inaugurated as the new president of Brazil. Bolsonaro is a former army officer who was expelled, while still a lieutenant, due to his involvement in a group opposing cuts […]
Capitalism and Marxism

Lesson of France 1968: Workers must declare themselves in power

January 12, 2019 Sam Marcy
The year 2018 marked 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 […]
Imperialism and global politics

Socialists, anti-fascists face repression in Lithuania

January 12, 2019 Giedrius Grabauskas
Struggle ★ La Lucha presents this urgent report from the Socialist Popular Front of Lithuania. A former Soviet republic, Lithuania has been ruled by a succession of ultra-right-wing governments since the fall of the USSR, […]
Indigenous peoples

The impact on Indigenous Peoples of Trump’s government shutdown and border wall obsession

January 11, 2019 M. Tiahui
The U.S. federal government’s partial shutdown that began in December has resulted in 800,000 federal employees furloughed or working without pay. About a quarter of the federal government is without spending authorization from Congress. Millions […]
Im/migrants and refugees

Trump is the real shithole. Hands Off TPS!

January 11, 2019 Stephen Millies
Brooklyn, N.Y. — Fifty people gathered in the icy cold outside Brooklyn’s federal court for a news conference on Jan. 7. They were fighting to save temporary protected status (TPS) for 59,000 Haitians and hundreds of thousands […]
Labor and strikes

Labor, community mobilize to support LA teachers strike

January 10, 2019 Scott Scheffer and John Parker
Los Angeles — All eyes are on the impending strike by United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA).  As in the rest of the U.S., teachers and other school workers are underpaid and public schools are in shambles. The […]