Year: 2019

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Around the world

Moreno declares curfew and militarization of Quito, Ecuador

October 13, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Repression against protesters continues and will likely intensify with the decree of the curfew and militarization in Quito On October 12 at 2:20pm, Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno declared that a curfew and complete militarization of […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

The coming economic crisis

October 12, 2019 Greg Butterfield
Dear friends, You don’t need me to tell you that times are tough. Not only is the cliché about living one paycheck away from disaster absolutely true; for many who have jobs, the crisis is […]
Haiti
Around the world

Haiti gripped by protests

October 12, 2019 John Parker
  After 15 years of a military occupation of Haiti, the United Nations “peacekeeping” force will close operations on Oct.15.  Growing protests now gripping Haiti began last year in reaction to the announcement by President […]
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Around the world

Defying repression, tens of thousands of Ecuadorians take part in national strike

October 11, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
On October 9, the people of Ecuador took part in a massive national strike called by a number of organizations against the neoliberal reforms of President Lenin Moreno. Tens of thousands of workers, students, Indigenous people, […]
Minneapolis
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 […]
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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 […]
Turkey
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 […]
Ecuador
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]