Month: February 2020

Oppressed genders

#UnDiaSinNosotras: Women challenge femicide and rape in Mexico

February 26, 2020 La Carbajal
Think about the last 10 women you’ve seen. Can you remember their faces? Their eyes? What they were wearing? Could you? In Mexico, we do. We always remember their faces and the way they were […]
Indigenous peoples

Palestinian Youth Movement stands with Wet’suwet’en

February 26, 2020 Palestinian Youth Movement
On Feb. 6, 2020, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) invaded Wet’suwet’en land, armed with snipers, and forcibly removed land defenders while they were mid-ceremony, in order to allow the Coastal GasLink pipeline to be […]
Events

Emergency counter-protest at Cuban U.N. Mission Feb. 29

February 26, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Indigenous peoples

Three hereditary chiefs arrested as Wet’suwet’en solidarity actions flare across Canada

February 26, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Brett Forester and Lee Wilson APTN News Gitxsan Chief Spookwx put on his hereditary chief’s regalia as he prepared to be arrested on Monday night. Around the campfire that burned on CN Rail tracks, he […]
In the U.S.

Feed the people, not the Pentagon: Hunger march to D.C. planned on King anniversary

February 26, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
On Feb. 20, the Peoples Power Assembly announced a campaign to roll back food-stamp cuts and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) rule changes taking effect in April.   On April 4, on the anniversary of the […]
Elections

Lenin on communist election tactics

February 25, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Reprinted below is a report by William Paul — “Lenin on Communist Tactics in Britain” — that appeared in “The Communist,” published in London in 1920. Struggle-La Lucha believes this report holds useful insights for […]
Around the world

Trump in India: 13 killed as right-wing mobs go on rampage in Delhi

February 25, 2020 Peoples Dispatch
As many as 13 people have died in India’s capital, Delhi, after right-wing mobs went on a rampage, especially targeting sites where people have been protesting the discriminatory and divisive Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). In […]
Around the world

Massacre in Hanau, Germany: Effects of chauvinist and xenophobic policies

February 25, 2020 Anti-Imperialist Front
Fascism is a crime, not an opinion. Fascism is inhuman. Fascism is an evil that must be eradicated. Any block or front which does not aim at overthrowing fascism is destined to remain within the […]
Around the world

Harlem event: ‘Lift illegal sanctions off Zimbabwe!’

February 25, 2020 Stephen Millies
Fifty-five years after Malcolm X was assassinated, people came to the National Black Theatre in Harlem on Feb. 21 to demand the lifting of illegal sanctions off Zimbabwe. The December 12th Movement organized this important […]
Events

New York City Feb. 29: Chile resists!

February 25, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
    Saturday, February 29 – 12 noon Union Square Park, 14th St. & Broadway, Manhattan In solidarity with students in Chile and the movement for dignity. For more information: chileresisteny [at] gmail.com