Month: May 2020

Fight racism

Minneapolis is burning! The capitalist system must burn

May 29, 2020 Gloria Verdieu
While reading Mumia Abu-Jamal’s latest commentary, “After 100,000,” where he speaks about the increasing numbers of COVID-19 deaths, Mumia explains, “For Black folk this is a time of ineffable loss.” What he did not know […]
Capitalist crisis

U.S. unemployment hits depression levels. Don’t blame China

May 29, 2020 Gary Wilson
  The New York Times headline declared: “U.S. unemployment worst since the Great Depression.” (New York Times, May 9, 2020, print edition) Actually, the Times report understated the unemployment numbers. In a press release, the […]
Fight racism

Unarmed. And dead. 

May 28, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
TRAYVON MARTIN (Walking home with iced tea and Skittles. Shot by George Zinneman, who was found not guilty.) KEITH SCOTT (Sitting in car, reading. Shot by police officer, who was not charged.) ATATIANA JEFFERSON (Looking […]
Capitalism and Marxism

Marxism and insurrection: When the people rebel against racism

May 28, 2020 Sam Marcy
On Memorial Day 2020, four Minneapolis police brutally murdered George Floyd. Video of the killing quickly spread around the world. On May 26, some 20,000 people marched in Minneapolis, where they were confronted with a […]
Covid-19

Mumia Abu-Jamal: After 100,000

May 28, 2020 Mumia Abu-Jamal
What happens when the counter strikes 100,000? Nothing.  One hundred thousand American dead; that means, for all intents and purposes, nothing much. For does the counter stop counting? Or does it continue rolling on like […]
Elections

The rule of the rich is not democracy

May 26, 2020 Gary Wilson
The U.S. was established as a republic in 1787 and remains so to this day. It is a republic, but not a democracy. The American Revolution was not a bourgeois democratic one, like the great […]
Venezuela

Iranian oil tankers arrive in gas-poor Venezuela

May 25, 2020 Marco Teruggi
May 24 — The first of five Iranian oil tankers, named Fortune, entered Venezuelan waters on Saturday night where it was received by the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB). Its arrival was an event followed […]
PDF

Struggle ★ La Lucha PDF – May 25, 2020

May 25, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Around the world

African Liberation Day 2020: Solidarity key to people’s victory

May 24, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Message of solidarity for African Liberation Day 2020: A Virtual Event from May 23 to May 25, called by the Maryland Council of Elders, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party and others. This year’s African Liberation […]
Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: The right to use a bathroom

May 24, 2020 Stephen Millies
Capitalism is humiliation. Having to ask to go to the bathroom can be deeply humiliating. As a young girl, Julia Wright was escorted by a family friend, Constance Webb, to Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman department store. […]