August 2019 – Page 5 – Struggle

The new Cold War against China, Part 2

August 7, 2019 Fred Goldstein

China’s planning and state enterprises overcame 2007-2009 world capitalist crisis Without state planning in the economy, China might have been dragged down by the 2007-2009 economic crisis. In June 2013, this author wrote an article […]

New York Aug. 9: Trump Unblock Venezuela

August 7, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha

The new Cold War against China, Part 1

August 6, 2019 Fred Goldstein

During the Cold War and the struggle that put the USSR and China on one side and imperialism headed by Washington on the other side, revolutionaries used to characterize the conflict as a class war […]

Why Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated

August 6, 2019 Stephen Millies

Barack Obama visited Hiroshima on May 27, 2016, the first sitting U.S. president to do so. Obama’s visit to the Japanese city revived the question of whether killing hundreds of thousands of people in Hiroshima […]

URGENT! Call in today for political prisoner Delbert Africa

August 5, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha

URGENT! Call in today for political prisoner Delbert Africa: Call SCI Dallas Superintendent Kevin Ransom: 570-675-1101 and Geisenger Hospital: 570-808-7300 Demand that Delbert Orr Africa Am4895 be allowed to call his MOVE Family and let […]

Washington’s long war in the “Middle East”: It’s not the oil, it’s the money

August 5, 2019 Bill Dores

“Only Iran-U.S. tensions supporting crude oil prices; outlook bearish” Economic Times, July 23, 2019 U.S. warships are not prowling the coast of Iran to protect navigation and the free flow of oil. That’s a lie. […]

Klansmen in the White House

August 5, 2019 Stephen Millies

California Gov. Ronald Reagan was angry that the most populous country in the world―the People’s Republic of China―had finally taken its rightful seat in the United Nations in 1971. But he was furious at the […]

National Days of Action Against White Supremacy

August 4, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha

On Aug. 10 and 11, the National Days of Action Against White Supremacy will mark the second anniversary of the courageous counterdemonstration in Charlottesville, Va., against racist, fascist organizations encouraged by Donald Trump. The racist […]

‘We are not robots!’ Amazon workers and their supporters stage strikes and protests worldwide

August 4, 2019 Sharon Black

Shakopee workers lead the way On Prime Day, Amazon’s so-called bargain shopping days, Shakopee, Minn., workers conducted a strike despite major intimidation tactics by the company. Bosses, police and “loss prevention” specialists lined the entrance […]

Pennsylvania prison headquarters padlock doors to keep Mumia supporters out

August 4, 2019 Andre Powell

On July 23, supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal from up and down the East Coast gathered at Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections headquarters in Mechanicsville, Pa., to deliver petitions to the department head requesting that they give […]

Month: August 2019