2019 – Page 31 – Struggle

ICE raids are union busting

August 17, 2019 Sharon Black

Workers’ rights under attack The writer is a former UFCW food processing plant worker. Aug. 8 — While the El Paso, Texas, community was still in mourning, deeply shaken and suffering from the racist mass […]

Palestinian professor hits back at Israel lobby attacks

August 17, 2019 David Spero

Aiming to expose and loosen the influence of the Israel lobby on U.S. campuses, Palestinian-born professor Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi has sued San Francisco State University (SFSU) in federal court for illegal retaliation for her political […]

San Diego commemorates Black August 2019

August 16, 2019 Gloria Verdieu

The Black August Organizing Committee has sponsored a Black August program for the last three years at San Diego’s Malcolm X Library and Performing Arts Center. This year is of particular significance because this is […]

Women’s International meets in Namibia, prepares for upcoming congress

August 16, 2019 Lizz Toledo

Windhoek, Namibia August 2019 Leaving Namibia felt humbling and exciting, Namibia being a shining example of what revolutionaries can accomplish. The friendship and love shown between comrades Sam Nujoma and Fidel Castro continues in the […]

United People’s State of the Philippines Address in Washington D.C. defies Duterte and Secret Service

August 16, 2019 Bayani

There is a rumor that Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte “doesn’t do mornings.” This must be why he schedules all his press releases for the afternoon and keeps his staff in meetings until the wee hours […]

Trump, racism and capitalism

August 14, 2019 Fred Goldstein

Aug. 4 — Let there be no mistake about it. Donald Trump has the blood of all the killed and wounded in the mass shootings of the past week on his hands, from Gilroy, Calif., […]

Blockade Trump not Venezuela

August 14, 2019 Stephen Millies

Big Oil and the big banks want to starve the people of Venezuela into submission. They want to return the independent Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the days when Nelson Rockefeller—the butcher of Attica’s prisoners—had […]

Black Mississippians respond to the ICE raids conducted in Mississippi on August 7, 2019

August 11, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha

We, as descendants of enslaved African people, stand here today in solidarity, in determination, and in righteous outrage at the unwarranted and heavy-handed actions of the federal government. On August 7th, 2019, hundreds of ICE […]