Year: 2020

Bolivia
Around the world

New election date announced in Bolivia amidst persecution and threats

January 23, 2020 Fernando Molina
Bolivians will return to the polls on May 3, almost six months after former President Evo Morales was ousted in a coup. Having been declared the winner of the October 20 election, the leader of […]
Bolivia
Around the world

Bolivia: Naked fascism

January 23, 2020 Raúl Antonio Capote
Bolivia’s de facto government does not even try to hide its anti-people, racist and repressive character. The coup power headed by President Jeanine Áñez seems to be emulating Augusto Pinochet with the purposes of spreading […]
Indiageneralstrike
Around the world

India, France, Puerto Rico: Corporate media hide general strikes from U.S. workers

January 22, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Around the world, people are walking off the job in huge numbers, withholding their labor power to protest government attacks on workers’ rights and other crimes of the profit system. Why isn’t this in the […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

Lenin: ‘Strikes teach the workers to unite’

January 22, 2020 V.I. Lenin
Russian revolutionary leader V.I. Lenin studied the importance of strikes and shared this knowledge with the working class. Following are excerpts from his early article, “On Strikes”: Strikes, which arise out of the very nature […]
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Political Prisoners

Delbert Africa, free!

January 22, 2020 Mumia Abu-Jamal
MOVE member Delbert Africa, held in prison since the confrontation of Aug. 8, 1978, has walked out of a Pennsylvania prison after 42 years. Delbert, in his 73rd year of life, came out to meet […]
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Venezuela

Trump prosecutors move to ensure Embassy Protectors are convicted

January 20, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
[su_column][/su_column] By Ajamu Baraka and Bahman Azad Co-Chairs of the Embassy Protectors Defense Committee As the trial approaches, the lawyers for the Trump administration’s prosecution of the four Venezuelan Embassy Protectors who were arrested last […]
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Environment

Capitalist climate disaster strikes Indonesia

January 20, 2020 Scott Scheffer
As deadly bushfires were raging up and down the eastern part of Australia in late December and early January, Indonesia’s island of Java and the nation’s capital city of Jakarta suffered historic floods.  Rivers swelled […]
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Donbass

Donetsk anti-fascists: ‘We are in solidarity with all fighters against the ultraright’

January 20, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
In the former Soviet Union, January 19 is the Anti-fascist Day of Remembrance and Solidarity, commemorating the date in 2009 when journalist Anastasia Baburova and attorney Stanislav Markelov were murdered by neo-Nazis in Moscow.  The […]
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Events

Philadelphia Jan. 21: Welcome home Delbert Africa press conference

January 20, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Ona Move! LONG LIVE JOHN AFRICA! After 41 years, our brother Delbert Africa finally came home from prison Saturday morning January 18, 2020! His triumphant return after spending four decades unjustly behind bars for charges […]
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Fight racism

John Parker on legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

January 19, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Hear Struggle-La Lucha’s John Parker speak about the struggle legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the Jan. 19 episode of WBAI Radio’s “Voices of Resistance.” Parker’s interview with Lucy Pagoada-Quesada begins 17 minutes […]