Year: 2020

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Around the world

Turkey: Hunger striking lawyers defy Erdoğan’s repression

August 11, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Aug. 10 — The lives of political prisoners and people’s lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal hang in the balance as the regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, a member of the U.S.-dominated […]
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Events

Webinar: Fidel, his legacy and Cuba’s contributions, Aug. 16

August 10, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Sunday, August 16, 2020 at 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT Join Baltimore Socialist Unity Party (SUP) and Struggle La Lucha for our monthly Baltimore discussion and forums. (You don’t have to live in the […]
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Around the world

U.S. crimes against humanity at home and abroad

August 10, 2020 Alicia Jrapko and Bill Hackwell
This month marks the second year since former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, announced to the world a campaign promoted by a group of Latin American writers and academics to declare August 9 as International […]
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Around the world

EE.UU: Crímenes contra la Humanidad en casa y en el extranjero

August 10, 2020 Alicia Jrapko y Bill Hackwell
8 de Agosto, 2020 Desde el año 2017 se lleva a cabo una campaña mundial promovida por un grupo de escritores y académicos latinoamericanos para declarar el 9 de agosto como Día Internacional de los […]
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Around the world

Beirut explosion: Lebanese Communist Party requests a prompt investigation

August 8, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
August 5 — A massive explosion rocked Lebanon’s capital city, Beirut, on Tuesday, killing dozens of people, injuring thousands and blowing out windows in buildings across the city. According to reports, the was felt in […]
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Fight racism

Reparations now!

August 8, 2020 Socialist Unity Party – Black Caucus
Introduction This system thrives on hiding the value that workers create, especially when it comes to the amount of wealth created by African slave labor, essential to capitalism’s growth.  If this is allowed to continue, […]
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Capitalist crisis

Brooklyn says STOP evictions!

August 8, 2020 Stephen Millies
Aug. 4 — The threat of heavy rain on account of tropical storm Isaias didn’t stop over a hundred people from rallying in front of Brooklyn’s civil court this morning at 141 Livingston Street.  People […]
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In the U.S.

Evo Morales denounces latest coup plot, warns of an imminent massacre

August 8, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Lauca Eñe-RKC-7-08-20.- Former Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma, speaking to Radio Kawsachun Coca on the occasion of the 195th anniversary of the Armed Forces, denounced that according to his information, the government and the military […]
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Around the world

Bolivia: Roadblocks against the dictatorship setting up around the country

August 8, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
The indefinite general strike with roadblocks called by the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) and the Unity Pact, which brings together the country’s social movements, is massing on the roads from La Paz to Cochabamba to […]
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Fight racism

The Heroes of San Rafael: Black August 1970

August 7, 2020 Fred Goldstein
In the momentous political event that marked “Black August,” freedom fighter Jonathan Jackson, at the age of 17, burst into a San Rafael, Calif., courtroom, armed, to free his brother, George Jackson, along with Fleeta […]