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Dinner honors revolutionary activist Tomás Soto

March 13, 2020 Bill Dores

One hundred and fifteen people packed a restaurant in the Dominican Republic city of Santiago on Feb. 29 to honor the life and work of Puerto Rican revolutionary activist Tomás Soto. Reservations had been made […]

CIA secretly owned global encryption provider, stole secrets of 100+ foreign governments

March 13, 2020 Scott Scheffer

Disillusioned former CIA operative Philip Agee wrote a book exposing the CIA’s record of spying, sabotage and murder in 1975 called “Inside the Company.” But until recently, few realized there was an actual profit-making company, […]

Covid-19 in Baltimore: ‘This is a people’s issue’

March 13, 2020 Daniel G. Cardwell

Over a dozen community organizers and health care workers met to raise concerns over the city’s response to Covid-19. Members of the Peoples Power Assembly (PPA) and National Nurses United (NNU) called upon city officials, […]

A people’s response to Covid-19

March 13, 2020 Greg Butterfield

We place no confidence in the anti-science, climate-change deniers of the Trump administration, the pathetically inadequate for-profit U.S. health care system, or Big Pharma and Wall Street to address the Covid-19 (novel coronavirus) crisis. The […]

Cuba: Better than ‘not all bad’

March 12, 2020 Cheryl LaBash

March 10 was election day in Michigan. One of the major issues brought forward in the Sanders campaign among many important ones like eliminating cash bail and racist mass incarceration, is Medicare for All. Sanders […]

Health not profits! Italian union calls 32-hour strike amidst pandemic

March 12, 2020 Unione Sindacale Di Base

Readers in the U.S. may be under the impression that everyone in Italy is shut up in their homes since the government declared a state of emergency over the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. But […]

Coronavirus alert: NYers rally vs. U.S. sanctions which escalate global health crisis

March 12, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha

On Wed., March 11, human rights groups gathered in front of the Trump building on Wall Street and charged Pres. Trump and Big Pharma with a criminal policy that threatens the world. This as a […]

Rafael Cancel Miranda, in our hearts

March 12, 2020 Berta Joubert-Ceci

San Juan, Puerto Rico On the night of Monday, March 2, Rafael Cancel Miranda, the undisputed leader of Puerto Rican nationalism, passed into immortality. And it could be said that it is with his head […]

Rafael Cancel Miranda, ¡PRESENTE!

March 12, 2020 Berta Joubert-Ceci

San Juan de Puerto Rico En la noche del lunes 2 de marzo Rafael Cancel Miranda, líder indiscutible del nacionalismo puertorriqueño, pasó a la inmortalidad. Y se podría decir que con la frente en alto, […]

Statement from Chelsea Manning’s legal team: Ms. Manning is recovering in hospital, scheduled to appear in court Friday

March 12, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha

Alexandria, Va. — On Wednesday, March 11, 2020, Chelsea Manning attempted to take her own life. She was taken to a hospital and is currently recovering. Ms. Manning is still scheduled to appear on Friday […]