Month: October 2021

Labor and strikes

Mobilizing in our own name

October 18, 2021 Lallan Schoenstein
An interview with author and labor activist Clarence Thomas This season is being called #Striketober. Workers are showing their power by striking, and demanding better conditions. The release of the anthology, “Mobilizing in Our Own […]
Labor and strikes

Two, three, many Striketobers!

October 18, 2021 Stephen Millies
The U.S. working class is waking up angry and defiant. More than 100,000 workers are on strike from coast to coast. Here are some of the biggest battles that broke out during “Striketober”: 10,000 members […]
China

China is not labor’s enemy, Wall Street is

October 17, 2021 Press TV
Political analyst and activist Bill Dores says China is no threat to the people in the United States; Wall Street, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Pentagon are. Dores, a writer for Struggle/La Lucha […]
Labor and strikes

Union victory for NOLA city workers as council ratifies $15 minimum wage

October 17, 2021 Gregory E. Williams
On Oct. 7, the New Orleans City Council ratified a $15-an-hour minimum wage for city workers, effective in January. This will be $3.81 more than the paltry $11.19 minimum currently in place.   Because of sky-rocketing […]
Political Prisoners

Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of the murder of a Kennedy. He could spend less time in prison than this California man

October 17, 2021 Thandisizwe Chimurenga
Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of the murder of Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, brother of former president John F. Kennedy, just after midnight, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. On […]
Korea

Korean labor calls general strike to free union president

October 16, 2021 Scott Scheffer
Yang Kyung-soo, the president of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) —  South Korea’s largest and most militant trade union confederation — has been jailed and is on a hunger strike. A general strike […]
Environment

Capitalism stands in the way of reversing climate crisis

October 16, 2021 Scott Scheffer
A lot of today’s climatologists may at this point feel like Superman’s father and Krypton’s leading scientist, Jor-El, who, in the comic book world, tried to warn the Council of Elders that planetary doom was […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

Congreso quiere frenar la agroecología en PR

October 16, 2021 Berta Joubert-Ceci
Según el último censo, en 10 años se redujo la población en casi un 12%. Y mientras creció el numero de personas de la tercera edad, la de los jóvenes menores de 18 años bajó […]
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Events

Boeing’s war profiteering: a virtual teach-in, Oct. 23

October 15, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2021 AT 10 AM – 11:30 AM Boeing’s War Profiteering: A Virtual Teach-in Online Event Come learn about how Boeing profits off of the death and destruction of Palestinians, Filipinos, Yemenis and […]
China

Washington escalates: U.S. special forces secretly operating for past year in Taiwan

October 14, 2021 Gary Wilson
Unless the U.S. government promptly removes its military forces from China’s Taiwan province, China may send in its own military force to defend its territory, declared an Oct. 8 editorial in Global Times, the Communist […]