Month: July 2019

Im/migrants and refugees

Indigenous leader: ‘Authentic resistance’ needed to close concentration camps

July 17, 2019 Mahtowin Munro
Talk given by the co-leader of United American Indians of New England at the Massachusetts State House in Boston on July 12 at a vigil to close migrant detention camps. I am here as an […]
Imperialism and global politics

Imperialism and Sudan Part 2: Roots of Sudan’s economic woes

July 16, 2019 John Parker
Most timelines of today’s crisis in Sudan start with rapid price increases for wheat and fuel under President Omar al-Bashir beginning in 2018. It is, however, important to take a look at what other forces […]
Capitalism and Marxism

Lessons of the 1977 New York rebellion

July 16, 2019 Sam Marcy
On the evening of July 13, 2019, parts of Manhattan’s Midtown and Upper West Side were plunged into darkness for several hours by an electricity outage. The outage, whose cause is still being investigated, disrupted […]
Imperialism and global politics

ILPS International Assembly calls for unity against imperialism

July 15, 2019 Bill Dores
Hong Kong It was a global gathering of fighters for labor and the oppressed: workers on sugar cane plantations and in textile mills, domestic workers and dockworkers, Indigenous people, peasants and urban poor, fighters for […]
Around the world

Repression against Palestinians, leftists surges in Germany

July 15, 2019 Greg Butterfield
Little known to the left in the U.S., an escalating war of repression is being waged in Europe against Palestinians, those who take action in support of migrants and refugees, and other leftists fighting for […]
Events

From Armistice to Peace: Ending the 70 Year Korean War, July 25

July 14, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT The People’s Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, New York 10018 Hosted by Peace Action New York State What now after Donald Trump […]
Events

Tell Amazon Stop Enabling Ice Raids Support Amazon Workers

July 14, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Hosted by Peoples Power Assembly Monday, July 15, 2019 at 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT City Hall 100 Holliday Street Baltimore On Prime Day Tell Amazon: Stop Enabling ICE Raids – Support Amazon workers […]
Cuba

Women in Struggle condemns U.S. blockade of Cuba

July 14, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
From the United States itself, we demand the immediate end of the inhuman and criminal blockade that this government has imposed on the Republic of Cuba for almost 60 years. The blockade of Cuba represents […]
Cuba

Mujeres en Lucha condena el bloqueo de Estados Unidos a Cuba

July 14, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Desde los mismos Estados Unidos, exigimos el fin inmediato del bloqueo inhumano y criminal que este gobierno ha impuesto a la República de Cuba por casi 60 años. El bloqueo de Cuba representa el nivel […]
In the U.S.

A Marxist view of the U.S. Supreme Court

July 14, 2019 Sam Marcy
In late June, the U.S. Supreme Court released a wave of decisions, as it does every year at the end of its session. Among them was a ruling giving the responsibility for decisions on partisan […]