Month: April 2019

Venezuela

Venezuela fights back against sabotage, coup plotters

April 4, 2019 Scott Scheffer
The revolutionary Bolivarian government of Venezuela has fought off a multipronged attack by the U.S. administration and today remains popular among millions of Venezuelans who have been lifted from poverty by Chavista policies. The U.S.-anointed […]
Imperialism and global politics

San Diego meeting: Filipino workers resist terror

April 4, 2019 Gloria Verdieu and Mary Lou Finley
San Diego labor unions welcomed Filipino labor leader Ed Cubelo of Kilusang Mayo Uno (the May First  Movement) on March 28. Cubelo is on a national tour to report on conditions facing workers in the […]
Indigenous peoples

Guatemalan speaker calls for left solidarity with Indigenous communities

April 4, 2019 Jefferson Azevedo
On March 28, renowned Guatemalan anthropologist and activist Rigoberto Quemé Chay finished a series of lectures in the Los Angeles area at the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice. Quemé Chay was the first Indigenous […]
In the U.S.

Stop taxing the poor!

April 4, 2019 Stephen Millies
New York — “Only the little people pay taxes,” bragged the late hotel boss Leona Helmsley. Capitalist politicians always prove her right. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio […]
Fight racism

Free Renardo Lewis!

April 2, 2019 A People’s Power Assembly activist
Watch the April 2 press conference demanding “Free Renardo Lewis,” an African American man jailed after he was brutally attacked by police at IHOP restaurant in Marietta, Georgia.
Fight racism

Boycott IHOP! Abolish the racist police!

April 1, 2019 A People’s Power Assembly activist
  Marietta, Ga. — March 31 started as a wonderful evening out with family, celebrating my mother-in-law‘s birthday. We saw the Temptations and the Four Tops, and sang and danced into the night. Afterward, we were […]
Political Prisoners

Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox welcomed in Brooklyn

April 1, 2019 Anne Pruden
Brooklyn, N.Y. — Nearly 200 people packed the auditorium of the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza on March 27 to hear Albert Woodfox of the Angola Three speak about his new book, “Solitary: Unbroken […]
Conference

50 years after Stonewall, the struggle for LGBTQ2S liberation continues

April 1, 2019 Andre Powell
Talk given by Andre Powell at the “Unity for Socialism and Revolution” conference in Los Angeles on March 16. This year marks 50 years since the Stonewall Rebellion. The rebellion was sparked by what would […]
Events

April 18, Arlington, Virginia, protest toxic coal ash contamination in Puerto Rico

April 1, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Protest AES stockholder meeting At 950 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA (just outside Washington, D.C.) April 18, 2019, at 8:30 a.m. For more info: ResistenciaRCC@gmail.com