Month: October 2019

In the U.S.

Minneapolis overpowers Trump rally with mass protest

October 11, 2019 Wyatt Miller at FightBack! News
Minneapolis, Oct. 11 — Thousands of people poured into the streets on Oct. 10 to resist the reactionary rally held by President Donald Trump in the heart of Minneapolis. Long targeted by the president’s racist […]
Chicago 1919

Bombings greet the Great Migration

October 11, 2019 Stephen Millies
A fundamental change in the composition of the U.S. workforce was the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to Northern cities. With the outbreak of World War I, factory owners lost Eastern and […]
Around the world

Communist Party of Turkey: ‘Hands off Syria!’

October 10, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Statement issued by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP). HANDS OFF SYRIA! [Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s party] AKP is committing a great crime for the last eight years. AKP disregards the sovereignty of another […]
Around the world

Ecuadorians mobilize against the ‘big package’ of Moreno and the IMF

October 9, 2019 Eduardo Tamayo G. and Helga Serrano Narváez
Those who believe that class struggle is a matter of the past are wrong.  The economic elites of Ecuador, through the government of Lenín Moreno, have declared economic war on the Ecuadorian people, with the […]
Around the world

Los crímenes de Biden — y de Trump — en Ucrania

October 9, 2019 Greg Butterfield
Mientras el presidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump pronunciaba un belicoso discurso ante la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas el 24 de septiembre atacando a Irán, Venezuela, China y a los trabajadores y oprimidos […]
Chicago 1919

The long shadow of the 1919 Chicago race riot

October 8, 2019 Stephen Millies
First in a series A century ago, Chicago was convulsed by anti-Black riots. For days, African Americans were beaten and killed in a city whose first non-Indigenous resident was the Black man Jean Baptiste Point […]
Events

Oct. 19-20: National Network on Cuba Annual Meeting and evening public event

October 7, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
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Oct. 7 Candlelight Vigil in D.C.: Cameroonian Dead in ICE Custody

October 7, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Monday, October 7, 2019 at 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT 500 12th St SW, Washington, DC 20024 Hosted by Cameroon American Council From #CameroonCrisis to #BorderCrisis: Cameroonian Immigrant Dead in ICE Custody **Please donate […]
Fight racism

Justice for Dennis Carolino, end police terror in San Diego

October 7, 2019 Dennis Childs
It appeared to be a Saturday like any other in my East San Diego community of El Cerrito. I had just finished a run and was headed down the hill on Adelaide Avenue to my […]
Fight racism

Resisting police abuse forum in Los Angeles

October 7, 2019 Jefferson Azevedo
On Sept. 21, the British documentary titled “The Hard Stop” was presented at the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice in Los Angeles, as part of a series of screenings through different cities in the […]