Month: May 2020

Donbass

The meaning of Victory Day in the Donbass Republics

May 9, 2020 Greg Butterfield
In 2016, I participated in the Victory Day parade with the Lugansk Communists and Komsomol members in Lugansk, capital city of the Lugansk People’s Republic. May 9, celebrated as Victory Day throughout the former Soviet […]
Labor and strikes

Sanitation workers in New Orleans on strike to demand better conditions and pay

May 8, 2020 Peoples Dispatch
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, across the world workers on the frontlines of the battle against the spread of the disease have been organizing to demand that governments and employers provide them greater […]
Venezuela

Operation Gideon: The hidden plot of the new failed U.S. attempt against Venezuela

May 8, 2020 Marco Teruggi
In Venezuela, Operation Gideon is underway; an incursion of Venezuelan and U.S. mercenaries who aim to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. Several of them have already been arrested and killed in the last 48 […]
Covid-19

Nurses who refused to care for coronavirus patients without N95 masks are suspended, union fights back and wins

May 8, 2020 John Parker
Los Angeles — In mid-April, 10 nurses employed at Providence Saint John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., were suspended for demanding the necessary personal protective equipment (PPE) to keep them from infection and possible death […]
Around the world

Turkey: Political prisoners continue fight as Grup Yorum member perishes

May 7, 2020 Greg Butterfield
May 7 — Today, musician and political prisoner Ibrahim Gökçek died in Istanbul, Turkey, after a nearly yearlong hunger strike against the repressive NATO government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Two days earlier, Gökçek had […]
Capitalism and Marxism

Webinar celebrates Lenin’s contributions to socialist struggle

May 7, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
As part of a series of Marxism classes sponsored by the Socialist Unity Party/Partido de Socialismo Unido and Struggle-La Lucha newspaper, a special webinar was held April 26 to mark the 150th birthday of V.I. […]
Covid-19

Workers’ lives before meatpacker profits

May 6, 2020 Stephen Millies
Donald Trump celebrated Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28 by ordering dangerously unsafe meatpacking and poultry plants to remain open. Twenty workers in the industry have already died and nearly 5,000 have tested positive for […]
In the U.S.

Coronavirus lab story originated in the White House

May 5, 2020 Scott Scheffer
The campaign of slander against China to deflect criticism of President Trump over the COVID-19 pandemic has ratcheted up in recent days.  It isn’t only a defensive move by the Trump administration itself. A leaked […]
Labor and strikes

Hands off the post office!

May 3, 2020 Stephen Millies
The post office is needed now more than ever. Postal workers are delivering prescription medicines and plenty of other mail and packages to people’s homes during this health crisis. They’re doing so at the risk […]
Korea

Dr. Roh Kil Nam, advocate for peace and the reunification of Korea

May 2, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Statement from the Socialist Unity Party / Partido de Socialismo Unido On April 25, the world lost a great person dedicated to the Korean people, international solidarity, with an unflinching determination to expose the truth […]