Year: 2019

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Around the world

Victory to the Chilean people’s uprising!

October 28, 2019 Stephen Millies
Hundreds of people gathered in New York City’s Union Square on Oct. 26 to demand that Chilean President Sebastián Piñera resign. The billionaire Piñera has had his army and police kill at least 19 people, […]
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Imperialism and global politics

NATO behind the Turkish attack in Syria

October 27, 2019 Manlio Dinucci
Several members of NATO are currently weeping crocodile tears about the terrible luck of the Kurds, thus masking the fact that they had in fact green-lit ” Operation Peace Spring » in advance. To crush […]
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Around the world

Catalonia uprising exposes Spain’s fraudulent democracy

October 26, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Militant protests erupted in Barcelona and other cities of Catalonia, a colonized region of the Spanish state, after a Spanish court handed down harsh sentences to nine Catalan independence leaders in mid-October. During an Oct. […]
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Around the world

Levantamiento catalán expone fraudulenta democracia española

October 26, 2019 Iña Martinez
Las protestas militantes estallaron en Barcelona y otras ciudades de Cataluña, una región colonizada del estado español, después de que un tribunal español dictara duras condenas a nueve líderes independentistas catalanes a mediados de octubre. […]
Chilestudents
Around the world

Class war rages across South America

October 25, 2019 Greg Butterfield
On Oct. 20, Sebastián Piñera, the right-wing president of Chile, declared: “We are at war with a powerful, relentless enemy that does not respect anything, or anyone, and that is willing to use violence and […]
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Around the world

‘Solidarity with the struggle for a more just Chile’

October 25, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Statement on the situation in Chile The Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity expresses its solidarity with the people of Chile, its high school students and workers, in the exercise […]
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Around the world

‘Solidaridad con la lucha por lograr un Chile más justo’

October 25, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Declaración por la situación que se vive en Chile La Red de Intelectuales, Artistas y Movimientos Sociales en Defensa de la Humanidad manifiesta su solidaridad con el pueblo de Chile, con sus estudiantes secundarios, y […]
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Chicago 1919

Communists fight racism and evictions

October 25, 2019 Stephen Millies
The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 4 Despite the race riot and segregated housing, Chicago’s Black population more than doubled in the 1920s and reached 233,903 by 1930. Even in 1940, during […]
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In the U.S.

Profits before people: Why PG&E turned off the lights in California

October 24, 2019 Scott Scheffer
Los Angeles — Poor maintenance by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) has caused wildfires in California in recent years that resulted in well over 100 deaths and billions of dollars in property damage. The privately owned […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

The coming economic crisis, Part 2: Socialism is the solution!

October 24, 2019 Greg Butterfield
Dear friends, Last time, we talked about the signs of an impending recession — what Marxists call a crisis of capitalist overproduction. What causes it, and what can we do to fight back? A lot […]