Year: 2020

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Events

Celebrate the life & legacy of Fidel Castro – webinar Aug. 13

August 5, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT Register today: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_trWRd3qyReuzWrKMZtVzjQ Join us to celebrate brother Fidel Castro’s 94th birthday and pay tribute to his remarkable life! >>> Co-hosted by: Ike Nahem […]
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Fight racism

Black labor and the fight for reparations

August 5, 2020 Bill Dores
This article was first published in August 2002 and has been lightly updated.   “Probably every slave imported represented, on the average, five corpses in Africa or on the high seas. The American slave trade meant, […]
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Fight racism

Black labor from chattel slavery to wage slavery

August 5, 2020 Sam Marcy
Black August commemorates the Aug. 7, 1970, raid on the Marin County Courthouse led by young revolutionary Jonathan Jackson, and the Aug. 21, 1971, assassination of Black Panther prison organizer George Jackson at San Quentin Prison. […]
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Struggle ★ La Lucha PDF – Aug. 3, 2020

August 3, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
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China

The U.S. tech war on China and the 5G battlefield

August 2, 2020 Prabir Purkayastha
The U.S. tech war on China continues, banning Chinese equipment from its network, and asking its 5-Eyes partners and North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] allies to follow suit. It is a market and a technology denial regime that seeks to […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

‘State and Revolution’ by V.I. Lenin, a guide for today’s movement against police terror

August 2, 2020 Sharon Black
“The State and Revolution” was written by V.I. Lenin in 1917 during the Russian Revolution on ”the most urgent problem of the day … the problem of explaining to the masses what they will have […]
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Fight racism

Anti-racist protests expand in response to Trump’s army of thugs

August 1, 2020 Scott Scheffer
Eighty-eight years ago, on July 28, 1932, the U.S. military attacked Black and white military veterans in a Bonus Army demonstration demanding relief from the hunger wrought by the Great Depression. The attack has parallels […]
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Cuba

#ConcertforCuba heard around the world

August 1, 2020 Cheryl LaBash
#ConcertforCuba, two weekends of international musical performances, explored new potentials for international cultural and political collaboration. No live music in your town? Enjoy music from the world with a global audience dancing to the same […]
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Covid-19

Rushed school reopenings endanger students, workers

July 31, 2020 Ripley Butterfield
Despite the soaring rate of new coronavirus infections in the United States, a high percentage of students in grades K-12 will be returning to school in the fall. Nearly every state ordered public schools to […]
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Around the world

‘We will coup whoever we want’: Elon Musk and the overthrow of democracy in Bolivia

July 29, 2020 Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarano
What role did billionaire Elon Musk and his thirst for lithium play in the coup in Bolivia? On July 24, 2020, Tesla’s Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that a second US “government stimulus package is not in […]