Month: December 2021

Nicaragua

What are the reasons why Nicaragua switched from Taiwan to China?

December 13, 2021 Gustavo A. Maranges
This past Thursday, Nicaragua’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced its decision to rescind diplomatic ties with the Republic of China, also known as Taiwan. Immediately after, the People’s Republic of China announced the re-establishment of […]
Fight racism

Organizers against police crimes meet: ‘We have nothing to lose but our chains’

December 12, 2021 Kobi Guillory
Chicago — Two years after the refounding of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR) in November 2019, over 125 NAARPR members and affiliates from around the country convened for the second NAARPR […]
Political Prisoners

Labor leader calls for action to free Mumia Abu-Jamal

December 12, 2021 Lallan Schoenstein
On Dec. 9, the Free Mumia webinar began with a message from political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. for 40 years. Mumia, a journalist who was Minister of Information […]
Events

Baltimore: The Grinch that Stole Christmas for Unemployed Workers, Dec. 18

December 10, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2021 AT 2 PM – 3:30 PM Protest at Tiffany Robinson’s Seton High School, 2800 N. Charles Street Baltimore Protest at Tiffany Robinson’s House “The Grinch that Stole Christmas for Unemployed Workers” […]
Around the world

No support for Ukrainian Rittenhouses! Hands off Donbass, Belarus and Russia

December 10, 2021 Greg Butterfield
Why is President Joe Biden’s administration laser-focused on threatening war on the other side of the world, when the people of the United States are beset with life-threatening crises here at home? Racist killer Kyle […]
Imperialism and global politics

Ten contradictions that plague Biden’s Democracy Summit

December 10, 2021 Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
President Biden’s virtual Summit for Democracy on December 9-10 is part of a campaign to restore the United States’ standing in the world, which took such a beating under President Trump’s erratic foreign policies. Biden […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

La absurda campaña contra las inversiones de China en Uganda

December 10, 2021 Vijay Prashad
El 25 de noviembre de 2021, fue publicado en Daily Monitor (el periódico nacional de Uganda) un artículo titulado “Uganda entrega aeropuerto por dinero chino”. El artículo señalaba “cláusulas tóxicas” en el acuerdo de préstamo firmado el […]
China

There’s a nonsensical propaganda campaign to make China look bad in Uganda

December 8, 2021 Vijay Prashad
On November 25, 2021, an article appeared in Uganda’s national newspaper the Daily Monitor with the headline: “Uganda surrenders airport for China cash.” The article pointed to “toxic clauses” in the loan agreement signed by the Ugandan […]
Events

Antimperialist Forum in Defense of the Peoples – Dec. 9-10

December 8, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha
Members of the Cuban Chapter of Social and Popular Movement (CTC, ANAP, FMC, ICAP, CDR, UJC, Martin Luther King Center and the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in the Defense of Humanity) calling for the […]
In the U.S.

What right does the Supreme Court have to rule?

December 7, 2021 Lallan Schoenstein
On Dec. 1, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the arguments from U.S. state attorneys supporting Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban. A state law was passed in Mississippi in 2018 that would make most abortions illegal after […]