Month: September 2019

Uawstrikeatgm
Labor and strikes

Auto strikers say no more tiers

September 28, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
The national strike by 49,000 United Auto Workers (UAW) workers against General Motors that started on September 15, 2019, is the biggest strike in the country since a two-day walkout against GM by the UAW […]
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Im/migrants and refugees

Denver: Hundreds march against ICE prison boss

September 28, 2019 Kevin Niemann
On Sept. 19, as part of a series of protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), several hundred Coloradans took to the streets of Southwest Aurora, a Denver suburb, to protest Johnny Choate at […]
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Environment

Climate strikers demand system change

September 27, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
  Millions took part in the historic, youth-led, global climate strike on Sept. 20. At least 5,000 actions were held in 163 countries, kicking off a week of civil disobedience, news conferences, organizing events and […]
Yemendronestrikes
Imperialism and global politics

U.S. uses wars and sanctions to jack up oil profits

September 27, 2019 Bill Dores
U.S. fracking interests want war with Iran and Venezuela. They are a powerful voice in the Trump regime. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt speak for them […]
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Fight racism

Oakland: Community organizes to stop racist stadium plan

September 27, 2019 Dave Welsh
Oakland, Calif., Sept. 15 — Led by the dockworkers union, members of Oakland’s Black community are organizing to stop a baseball stadium project from further gentrifying the city and pushing longtime Black residents out. “The […]
Bidenlecture
Around the world

Biden’s crimes in Ukraine — and Trump’s

September 26, 2019 Greg Butterfield
As U.S. President Donald Trump gave a bellicose speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 24, attacking Iran, Venezuela, China, and workers and oppressed people all over the world, Democratic Party House Speaker […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

U.S. strategy against socialism: Czechoslovakia 1968, Hong Kong 2019

September 25, 2019 Lev Koufax
Since the start of the Hong Kong demonstrations, the corporate media have been united in their narrative that the demonstrators are fighting for democracy and are for independence from an oppressive Chinese regime. Upon closer […]
ColombiaTeachersStrike
La Lucha por el Socialismo

U.S. fuera de Colombia y Venezuela

September 25, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
El 3 de septiembre, el presidente de Venezuela Nicolás Maduro emitió una “alerta naranja” a la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana. La alerta quiere decir que el ejército Bolivariano debe mantenerse en espera de una posible […]
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Venezuela

My trip to Caracas: an example of U.S. warfare on Venezuela

September 24, 2019 Cheryl LaBash
Sept. 20 — The I Congreso Internacional de Mujeres — the first International Women’s Congress for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples, organized by the Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela — begins today. And what better […]
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Cuba

‘Cuba cannot be intimidated’: behind U.S. expulsion of diplomats

September 22, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Statement of Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations Last September 12, the United States Mission to the United Nations in New York sent a communication to our Permanent Mission to the above global […]