Year: 2019

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Labor and strikes

Bringing back child labor

May 18, 2019 Stephen Millies
The capitalist drive to turn back the clock includes bringing back child labor. The wealthy and powerful want to return to the “good old days” when millions of girls and boys were exploited in farms, […]
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Venezuela

U.S. gov’t, cops rip up international law, invade Venezuela embassy

May 17, 2019 Cheryl LaBash
On the morning of May 16, multiple Washington, D.C., and federal police agencies broke into Venezuela’s Embassy.  Equipped with battering rams, sledgehammers, wrecking bars and an army of police, some in flak jackets, others in […]
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Venezuela

Venezuela sovereignty defended in the streets of Washington, D.C. All out May 18!

May 15, 2019 Cheryl LaBash
Victory in the struggle for Venezuelan national sovereignty and self-determination will ultimately be won on the ground in Venezuela. But on 30th Street in Washington, D.C., that struggle against U.S.-sponsored regime change and coup d’etat […]
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Fight racism

4 years after mysterious death, Sandra Bland’s cell phone provides answers

May 14, 2019 Lallan Schoenstein
Sandra Bland was arrested in Prairie View, Texas, in July 2015. She was driving on a rural road traveling to a new job at her alma mater, Prairie View A&M, a historical Black university after […]
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Venezuela

Urgent Message from the Embassy Protection Collective to U.S. State Department

May 14, 2019 Embassy Protection Collective
US State Department Venezuelan Foreign Ministry From: Embassy Protection Collective Re: Exiting the Venezuelan Embassy Date: May 13, 2019 This is the 34th day of our living in the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC. We […]
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Imperialism and global politics

Bolton the bigot

May 13, 2019 Stephen Millies
Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, is not only a dangerous warmongering liar who wants to invade Venezuela, bomb Iran and overthrow the Cuban Revolution. He’s also a first-class bigot who was chair of the […]
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Labor and strikes

May Day 2019

May 13, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
May Day celebrations this year marked the many struggles that working people are waging against endless U.S. wars, both internationally and here, against workers facing militarized police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But the […]
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In the U.S.

NYC tenants issue eviction notices to worst landlords

May 13, 2019 Anne Pruden
New York, May 8 — “Hey hey, ho ho! All evictions have to go!” and “Evictions are violent! We will not be silent!” were two popular chants by protesters outside Stellar Management at 156 William […]
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Imperialism and global politics

Donbass organizers: ‘Your resistance and solidarity give us strength’

May 13, 2019 Greg Butterfield
Part 1: “Voice of Donbass residents must be heard” Struggle-La Lucha spoke to Donetsk-based communist organizers Svetlana Licht and Denis Levin in conjunction with the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine and the […]
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Imperialism and global politics

Five years after Odessa massacre, anti-fascists demand justice

May 10, 2019 Greg Butterfield
Washington, D.C. — On May 2, five years after the massacre of 48 anti-fascists at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine, Struggle-La Lucha activists joined the Odessa Solidarity Campaign (OSC) for a vigil outside […]