Month: August 2020

Fight racism

Uprising underway in Kenosha, Wis., after the police shooting of Jacob Blake

August 24, 2020 FightBack! News
Kenosha, Wis. — Hundreds of people rallied at the scene of a shooting that took place around 5:30 p.m. on August 23. After breaking up a fight between two women, Jacob Blake, 29, attempted to […]
Capitalism and Marxism

Fascism: how it develops and how to fight back

August 24, 2020 Sam Marcy
With the 2020 elections fast approaching, the workers’ and progressive movements in the U.S. are debating the best tactics to fight the Donald Trump regime and the growth of violent white-supremacist, neofascist groups. As a […]
Fight racism

Hundreds march on the DNC in Milwaukee, ‘We can’t breathe!’

August 24, 2020 FightBack! News
Milwaukee — In the early evening of Aug. 20, around 500 people gathered in Dontre Hamilton (officially Red Arrow) Park in downtown Milwaukee to mark the final day of the Democratic National Convention. The turnout […]
Indigenous peoples

Proof Trump is desecrating our ancestors

August 23, 2020 Zola Fish
Kumeyaay ancestral burial and sacred sites desecrated to make way for a wall along the Southern border On Aug. 19, a group of Kumeyaay Natives and local activists went out into the 105-degree heat to […]
Covid-19

Brooklyn march: Stop unsafe school reopening plan!

August 23, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Brooklyn, N.Y. — A protest led by Black and Brown teachers and students drew hundreds of people to Grand Army Plaza on Aug. 20. Their call was to “oppose unsafe opening of New York public […]
Capitalist crisis

“Billionaire landlords have to go!”

August 23, 2020 Stephen Millies
Aug. 20 ― Over five hundred people came to New York City’s public research library on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue this afternoon. They were determined to stop the wave of evictions that is coming. New York […]
Around the world

Bolivia mass mobilizations against U.S.-backed coup continue

August 22, 2020 Julia \”Pachamama\” Fernández
A 12-day national Bolivian blockade led by massive social movements, students, elders, unions and farmworkers ended on Aug. 13. It had paralyzed the entire country, resulting in food/fuel shortages and in the complete instability of […]
Cuba

What media moguls don’t want you to know: Youtube and Google attack Cuba and Venezuela

August 22, 2020 Cheryl LaBash
AUG. 21 UPDATE: YouTube restored Mesa Redonda’s account today affirming the account did not infringe on the Conditions of Service. No explanation was given. But as President Miguel Diaz-Canel tweeted, “Those who don’t want the […]
Around the world

After tragic Beirut explosion: Imperialist vultures pounce on Lebanon

August 22, 2020 Greg Butterfield
A powerful explosion ripped through the port of Beirut, Lebanon’s capital, on Aug. 4. At least 171 people have died and thousands were injured, including many Syrian and other non-Lebanese workers. Hundreds of thousands were […]
Capitalist crisis

Wrecking the post office and the election

August 20, 2020 Stephen Millies
From Harlem to Seattle, mail boxes are being removed by orders of Trump’s handpicked postmaster general, Louis DeJoy. Trump is sabotaging the post office in an attempt to steal the 2020 presidential election.  The mail […]