Month: June 2021

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Around the world

Pedro Castillo: The man from Peru made invisible

June 9, 2021 Marco Teruggi
Peru is experiencing a historic moment. Pedro Castillo, a man from the invisible country, rural, poor, with a white hat and a rising leadership, may become the next president. This is indicated by the numbers […]
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Events

Atlanta: Justice for Rayshard Brooks, June 12

June 8, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha
Let’s take it to the streets! We are demanding justice for Rayshard Brooks! Come out June 12 and rally for justice! Saturday, June 12 2:00 p.m. – Woodruff Park (at the fountain) 3:00 p.m. – […]
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Events

Maryland’s unemployment benefits crisis: Emergency town hall meeting, June 10

June 7, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha
TOWN HALL Maryland’s Unemployment Benefit Crisis Hosted by Peoples Power Assembly and Unemployed Workers Union Online Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT We will highlight the testimony of unemployed workers, […]
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In the U.S.

An open letter to President Joe Biden, as his broken promises pile up

June 7, 2021 Greg Butterfield
Dear President Biden, Your broken promises are piling up. I took note of these headlines in just the last couple of weeks: “Joe Biden Surrenders On Federal Unemployment Benefits,” “Biden Drops Student Loan Forgiveness From […]
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Around the world

AFRICOM military’s exercise: The art of creating new pretexts for propagating U.S. interests

June 7, 2021 Pavan Kulkarni
Phoenix Express 2021 (PE21), a 12-day U.S.-Africa Command (AFRICOM)-sponsored military exercise involving 13 states in the Mediterranean Sea, concluded on Friday, May 28. It had kicked off from the naval base in Tunis, Tunisia, on […]
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Palestine

Bay Area action ‘blocks the boat’ in support of Palestine

June 6, 2021 Labor Video and AROC
June 4 — Hundreds of community and labor protesters blocked the Israeli chartered ship Volans at the Port of Oakland, Calif. The ZIM shipping company threatened the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) that they […]
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In the U.S.

Karl Marx: Capitalism produces unemployment

June 6, 2021 Gary Wilson
In Capital, Karl Marx wrote about the laws of capitalism and the ruthless capitalist competition for greater profits. In the drive to increase profits, capitalists try to reduce their costs by increasing productivity through the […]
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In the U.S.

Big investors gobble up trailer parks, profit from housing crisis

June 5, 2021 Scott Scheffer
In September 2020, a company called “CPI Superstition Sunrise RV Resort, LLC” purchased a mobile home park (MHP) in Mesa, Ariz., for $88 million — a record price for Arizona. The new owner concealed its […]
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Political Prisoners

Mumia Abu-Jamal remembers Black Panther Chip Fitzgerald

June 5, 2021 Mumia Abu-Jamal
May 28 — The name Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald is perhaps not widely known except for his supporters. In his wild youth decades ago, he was a teenage member of the LA chapter of the Black […]
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Labor and strikes

Unemployed Workers Union condemns halt of federal benefits

June 4, 2021 Unemployed Workers Union
June 2 — We condemn Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s abrupt decision to curtail federal pandemic unemployment benefits early, giving the unemployed just one month’s notice. Just weeks earlier, the State Labor Department said that Maryland […]