Month: August 2019

Imperialism and global politics

Southern African Development Community calls for solidarity on ending illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe

August 25, 2019 Amadi Ajamu
On Aug. 18, the 39th Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit of the Heads of State and Government held in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, declared Oct. 25, 2019 to be a Day of Solidarity to […]
Cuba

Venceremos Brigade — 50 years of solidarity

August 24, 2019 Cheryl LaBash
The 50th Venceremos Brigade to Cuba departed from Bayamo, capital of Granma Province, Aug. 8, on a sunny, warm, humid morning. Thus began the final week of the three-week celebration of the first International Solidarity […]
Oppressed genders

Situación de las mujeres en EUA

August 24, 2019 Lizz Toledo
  Informe de Liz Toledo al comité directivo mundial de la FDIM/WIDF (Federación Democrática Internacional de Mujeres / Women’s International Democratic Federation) Saludos camaradas y amigas, traigo solidaridad y amor de las Mujeres en Lucha y del […]
Palestine

Tlaib and Omar: A watershed moment in the struggle against imperialism and racism

August 23, 2019 Lev Koufax
On Aug. 17, 2019, Rep. Rashida Tlaib stood in front of a crowd in her hometown of Detroit. The event was technically a public Shabbat called by the progressive Jewish community. However, a diverse and […]
In the U.S.

New York City: Save the Fulton Houses! Hands off public housing!

August 23, 2019 Stephen Millies
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to demolish two of the buildings in the Fulton Houses in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, a public housing project, and replace them with a luxury building […]
In the U.S.

The rich need us. We don’t need them.

August 23, 2019 Stephen Millies
Mark Hanna was a high school classmate of the world’s first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller, and became a pretty big capitalist himself. The Cleveland Central Labor Union’s secretary wrote in 1896 that Hanna wrecked the […]
Political Prisoners

George Jackson killed Aug. 21, 1971

August 21, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
George Jackson was killed by prison guards on August 21, 1971. At age 18, Jackson was convicted on dubious evidence of a gas station robbery of $70. Based on prior arrests, Jackson was sentenced to […]
Im/migrants and refugees

Maryland Says ICE and camps have got to go

August 21, 2019 Andre Powell
On two consecutive weekends, Maryland residents came out to say “No!” to another U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center.  Members of Youth Against War and Racism, the Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly, Migrante and […]
Labor and strikes

Call a new “Solidarity Day” against racism and bigotry!

August 21, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
To AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Call a new “Solidarity Day” against racism and bigotry! Defend migrants and refugees! Over 130 years ago, the Wall Street wheeler-dealer Jay Gould declared he could “hire one-half of the […]
Oppressed genders

History of the Women’s International

August 20, 2019 Berta Joubert-Ceci
It is not accidental that very little is known in the U.S. about the Women’s International Democratic Federation, which was born to fight against the same imperialism that the U.S. leads. On Dec. 1, 1945, […]