Month: August 2021

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Around the world

Afghan resistance ends U.S. occupation

August 21, 2021 Scott Scheffer
The long and brutal U.S. imperialist war in Afghanistan is coming to a chaotic, inglorious end. For 20 years, the people of Afghanistan resisted the U.S. occupation and today the puppet government and its phony […]
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Palestine

Israel’s nukes are U.S. approved

August 21, 2021 Stephen Millies
While the U.S. corporate media has falsely accused Iran of developing nuclear weapons, it’s been largely silent about Israel’s nuke arsenal. This cover-up has continued despite widespread acknowledgement elsewhere of the Zionist state’s H-bomb stash.  […]
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La Lucha por el Socialismo

Estado de violencia en Puerto Rico

August 21, 2021 Berta Joubert-Ceci
Hace unos días despertamos con la cruel noticia de que un padre había torturado y matado a su niñito de ocho años en medio de una disputa legal con la madre. Pero desgraciadamente, este no […]
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Palestine

NYC/NJ activists picket Port of New York to block Israeli-operated cargo ship

August 21, 2021 Terri Kay
Elizabeth, New Jersey – Sunday, July 25 at 6am, about 100 pro-Palestine community activists in the New York metropolitan area picketed Israeli shipping giant ZIM in an attempt to block their cargo ship, Zim Qingdao, […]
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Events

Boston rally to stop Line 3, Aug. 25

August 20, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2021 AT 6 PM EDT – 7:30 PM EDT Boston Rally to Stop Line 3 507 Jamaicaway, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 Join us at Jamaica Pond at 6pm to rally in solidarity […]
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Labor and strikes

Unemployed Workers Union and workers’ power in the pandemic crisis

August 19, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha
Struggle-La Lucha questioned Sharon Black, an organizer with the Unemployed Workers Union in Baltimore. Following are her answers. How did the Unemployed Workers Union get started? You could say the initial effort began at the […]
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Around the world

Washington spent more than $2 trillion on a war that it knew could not be won

August 19, 2021 Vijay Prashad
On August 15, the Taliban arrived in Kabul. The Taliban’s leadership entered the presidential palace, which Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had vacated when he fled into exile abroad hours before. The country’s borders shut down and Kabul’s […]
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Around the world

Haiti needs aid not intervention!

August 18, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha
Stop the deportations! Over 1,400 people were killed by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti Aug. 14. Thousands more may have died. At least 30,000 families were made homeless. This misery was compounded by […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

The relative decline of U.S. imperialism

August 18, 2021 Michael Roberts
The swift collapse of Afghanistan puppet government when U.S. troops withdrew from the war with the Taliban and left the country after 20 years has been likened to the fall of Saigon at the end […]
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Events

Bronx / Brooklyn, NYC: Rally to Amend and Extend the Eviction Moratorium

August 17, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha
Wednesday, August 18 – 10:30 a.m. – Grand Concourse, Bronx Thursday, August 19 – 9:00 a.m. – Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn