2020 – Page 48 – Struggle

‘Whose streets? Our streets!’ Atlanta responds to the murders of Black men and women

May 30, 2020 Elizabeth Toledo

May 29 — Thousands descended on Atlanta this afternoon. They came by bus, train and cars, from all the many cities: Norcross, Ellenwood, College Park, East Point, Decatur and of course Atlanta, among others. These protesters […]

NYC Jail Killer Cops Caravan May 30 | NAARPR National Day of Action

May 29, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha

This Saturday, we’ll be joining the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression’s National Day of Action to stop the racist murders and the violence committed on Black and brown communities by this racist administration. […]

Minneapolis is burning! The capitalist system must burn

May 29, 2020 Gloria Verdieu

While reading Mumia Abu-Jamal’s latest commentary, “After 100,000,” where he speaks about the increasing numbers of COVID-19 deaths, Mumia explains, “For Black folk this is a time of ineffable loss.” What he did not know […]

U.S. unemployment hits depression levels. Don’t blame China

May 29, 2020 Gary Wilson

The New York Times headline declared: “U.S. unemployment worst since the Great Depression.” (New York Times, May 9, 2020, print edition) Actually, the Times report understated the unemployment numbers. In a press release, the […]

Unarmed. And dead.

May 28, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha

TRAYVON MARTIN (Walking home with iced tea and Skittles. Shot by George Zinneman, who was found not guilty.) KEITH SCOTT (Sitting in car, reading. Shot by police officer, who was not charged.) ATATIANA JEFFERSON (Looking […]

Marxism and insurrection: When the people rebel against racism

May 28, 2020 Sam Marcy

On Memorial Day 2020, four Minneapolis police brutally murdered George Floyd. Video of the killing quickly spread around the world. On May 26, some 20,000 people marched in Minneapolis, where they were confronted with a […]

Mumia Abu-Jamal: After 100,000

May 28, 2020 Mumia Abu-Jamal

What happens when the counter strikes 100,000? Nothing. One hundred thousand American dead; that means, for all intents and purposes, nothing much. For does the counter stop counting? Or does it continue rolling on like […]

The rule of the rich is not democracy

May 26, 2020 Gary Wilson

The U.S. was established as a republic in 1787 and remains so to this day. It is a republic, but not a democracy. The American Revolution was not a bourgeois democratic one, like the great […]

Iranian oil tankers arrive in gas-poor Venezuela

May 25, 2020 Marco Teruggi

May 24 — The first of five Iranian oil tankers, named Fortune, entered Venezuelan waters on Saturday night where it was received by the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB). Its arrival was an event followed […]

Struggle ★ La Lucha PDF – May 25, 2020

May 25, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha