Month: April 2020

Covid-19

The pandemic isn’t equal: Coronavirus hits the poor at most dangerous rate

April 5, 2020 Stephen Millies
The Covid-19 pandemic is devastating New York City. Forty-five refrigerator trucks are serving as mobile morgues to store the bodies. As of April 3, 51,810 people have been infected. Inmates in the Rikers Island prison […]
Events

Webinar April 9: Cuba shows that international solidarity is the answer!

April 5, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Register for Thursday, April 9th Virtual Conference COVID-19 Pandemic: Cuba Shows That International Solidarity is the Answer! Please join us for a special solidarity webinar to learn about the example Cuba is setting of putting […]
Events

April 6: The current situation in Venezuela

April 4, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
The People’s Forum is convening a recurring online space to hear and discuss current analysis and reports from leaders of people’s movements and organizations in the US and across the world. Despite recent escalation of […]
Events

New Orleans April 6: Motorcade Protest Around the Jails

April 4, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Monday, April 6, 2020 at 1:30 PM CDT 1100 Milton St, New Orleans We will be following social distancing rules. Urgent: Don’t let coronavirus kill prisoners! Local, state, and immigrant prisons may become a center […]
Events

Fighting racism during coronavirus crisis: April 4 National webinar / press conference

April 4, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
N A T I O N A L   W E B I N A R  &  P R E S S   C O N F E R E N C E On the anniversary of […]
Covid-19

Gov’t, bosses use pandemic emergency to escalate repression

April 3, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus are being used as a cover by officials of the U.S. capitalist government, from the federal to the state and local levels, to heighten their control and […]
Cuba

A new humanity, a new world

April 3, 2020 Owei Lakemfa
Owei Lakemfa is the former secretary general of the Organization of African Trade Union Unity, (OATUU), a coalition of trade unions in all the 54 African countries, with a total membership of about 25 million. […]
Venezuela

Letter from President Maduro as U.S. threatens Venezuela with war

April 2, 2020 Nicolás Maduro
To the Peoples of the World, In greeting you, with affection, I take the liberty of addressing you on the occasion of denouncing the severe events taking place against the peace and stability of Venezuela, […]
China

Marxism and the social character of China

April 2, 2020 Fred Goldstein
From a June 9, 2013, talk by Fred Goldstein at the Left Forum, a yearly event in New York City. The talk was focused on socialism and China in the wake of the Great Recession […]
Venezuela

World’s biggest drug pusher indicts Venezuela

April 2, 2020 Stephen Millies
On March 26, Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, said that Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro Moros, was “flooding” the United States with cocaine. Three days later, President Trump claimed that health care workers risking their lives […]