Month: November 2019

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Around the world

The hours of the coup offensive in Bolivia

November 9, 2019 Marco Teruggi
These are days and hours of the coup offensive in Bolivia. The attempt to overthrow President Evo Morales is gaining strength, territory and its capacity for action. Like an announced bullet that arrives from the […]
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Socialism

Another side of the Berlin Wall

November 9, 2019 Greg Butterfield
Thirty years ago, a labor organization was on strike under very difficult conditions. This workers’ organization and its leadership were castigated by the corporate media. The bosses threatened, cajoled and bribed people to cross the […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

I believe that socialism is the key to a better world

November 9, 2019 Gloria Verdieu
From a talk by Gloria Verdieu at Queen Bee’s Art and Cultural Center in San Diego. Verdieu shared the stage with poets from the San Diego / Tijuana reEvolutionary Poets Brigade at an evening of […]
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Chicago 1919

The people put Harold Washington in City Hall

November 9, 2019 Stephen Millies
The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 7 By 1970, people of color were already close to half of Chicago’s population. The Daley machine — which still had white ward bosses on the […]
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Brazil’s ex-president Lula freed after 580 days in prison

November 8, 2019 Peoples Dispatch
Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was released Friday, Nov. 8, after being held for 580 days at the Federal Police headquarters in Curitiba, southern Brazil. Lula was greeted by a massive crowd […]
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Cuba

Hundreds stand tall in solidarity with the people of Latin America at Havana Conference

November 8, 2019 Alicia Jrapko
From Nov. 1-3 more than 1,350 delegates from 86 countries representing 789 organizations, came to Havana to participate in the Anti-imperialist Conference of Solidarity, for Democracy and Against Neoliberalism. Delegates traveled from all continents, particularly […]
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Events

Brooklyn, NYC Fri. Nov. 22: 2nd FTP Emergency Action Against NYPD and MTA

November 8, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Friday, November 22, 2019 at 5:15 PM – 7:00 PM EST Downtown Brooklyn On Nov.1st, 2,000 of us took the streets of Brooklyn to warn De Blasio, Cuomo, and their lapdog army the NYPD that […]
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Bolivian opposition carries out racist, misogynist attacks against government supporters

November 7, 2019 Peoples Dispatch
By Tanya Wadhwa Frustrated by its defeat in the presidential elections held in the country on October 20 and emboldened by U.S. support, the Bolivian opposition has scaled up its attacks on supporters of the […]
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On the anniversary of the Lasaline Massacre the people of Haiti rage on against Moïse

November 7, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
As protests demanding the resignation of President Moïse in Haiti rage on this month, leaving at least 18 dead and close to 200 injured, it is worth remembering the devastating massacre that took place because of […]
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Anti-government protests in Chile enter a third week

November 7, 2019 Peoples Dispatch
“There is no normality” Chileans continue to mobilize against the government of Sebastian Piñera and demand a National Constituent Assembly. Photo: Frente Fotográfico Chileans are demanding the resignation of President Sebastián Piñera, the establishment of […]