Month: November 2020

Elections

Protests demand: Trump must go! Fight for a people’s mandate!

November 12, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Even before the polls closed on Election Day, Nov. 3, anti-racist activists, and workers’ and community organizations across the U.S. were preparing to take the streets to push forward a people’s mandate, including an end […]
Indigenous peoples

Indigenous student leader: ‘The racism we’ve faced has been intense’

November 12, 2020 Greg Butterfield
November is Native American Heritage Month. Struggle-La Lucha spoke with Kisha James, president of the Wellesley College Native American Student Association and an activist with the Massachusetts Indigenous Peoples Day campaign. Struggle-La Lucha: Kisha, can […]
Palestine

PFLP: Biden’s victory carries no fundamental change for rights of the Palestinian people

November 12, 2020 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine considers Joe Biden’s victory in the U.S. presidential elections to carry no fundamental change regarding the rights of the Palestinian people and various Arab issues. It expects […]
Around the world

Nigerian youth fight back against police terror

November 10, 2020 Bayani
Several reports say it started on Oct. 3 with this tweet: an eyewitness report of a young man in Nigeria shot and left for dead by an officer of SARS, who then drove away with […]
In the U.S.

Why we should commemorate Nov. 11

November 10, 2020 Stephen Millies
Even though Veterans Day is a federal holiday, only 19 percent of workers employed by private business get the day off. Originally called Armistice Day, it marks the end of World War I “at the […]
In the U.S.

La Paz: A celebration of social movements, Indigenous, miners and MAS militants

November 9, 2020 Marco Teruggi
“We hope to be remembered as the government in which the Bolivian people rose up to recover democracy, dignity, peace, growth, and social justice,” said Luis Arce in his presidential speech, from the premises of […]
Elections

The Electoral College serves to protect the interests of Big Capital

November 9, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Reprinted from “The Capital News,” in London, Nov. 8, 2020. On November 3 presidential elections were held in the USA. The results have not been confirmed yet. But the vote has already become possibly the […]
Elections

On the defeat of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential elections

November 9, 2020 Communist Party of the Philippines
The American people deserve praises for voting against US President Donald Trump in the recently concluded presidential elections and preventing another four years of Trumpian fascism, militarism, racism, misogyny and bigotry. While the electoral contest […]
Elections

Trump the loser

November 8, 2020 Gary Wilson
Donald Trump made racism the core of his campaign from the very beginning. He whipped up his campaign rallies with calls against Black Lives Matter protests, for expanding the racist police. He added a racist […]
Elections

Why was the election so close?

November 8, 2020 Stephen Millies
While Trump is still trying to steal the election, he lost the popular vote by over four million ballots. Black, Indigenous and Latinx voters were key to Trump’s defeat. But why was it so damn […]