Year: 2021

Environment

Blaming China for the climate crisis is shameful nonsense

November 6, 2021 Carlos Martinez
In the run-up to the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference, currently taking place in Glasgow, politicians and media in the West conducted a coordinated and insistent campaign to shift responsibility for the climate crisis on […]
Environment

Chronicle of a tragedy foretold

November 6, 2021 Angel Guerra Cabrera
Fidel Castro was the first head of state to warn about the very serious threat posed by environmental pollution and greenhouse gases to the human species. It will soon be 30 years since that warning was […]
Around the world

Philippines: Long live the memory of Ka Oris!

November 6, 2021 Socialist Unity Party
Nov. 6 — Yet another hero of the oppressed, of the proletariat and peasantry, has been taken away from us by the class enemy. Ka Oris, Comrade Jorge Madlos, joins the ranks of Che Guevara, […]
Venezuela

Protest in Miami in support of Alex Saab

November 5, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha
Members of the Bolivarian Circle in Miami and Trokia Kollective chant “free Alex Saab” outside Miami’s Clyde Atkins Courthouse on Monday, Nov 1st – the day originally scheduled for Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab’s arraignment. Despite the disappointing delay of […]
In the U.S.

Their elections and our struggle

November 5, 2021 Stephen Millies
What do the Nov. 2 election results mean for poor and working people?  In the Virginia governor’s race, Republican Glenn Youngkin beat Democrat Terry McAuliffe by 80,000 votes. In New Jersey, the Democratic incumbent Gov. […]
Labor and strikes

Unemployed Workers Union: We’ll continue to fight!

November 5, 2021 Unemployed Workers Union
Nov. 3 — The Unemployed Workers Union strongly disagrees with Circuit Court Judge John Nugent’s order to dismiss our lawsuit, Harp v. Hogan, which addressed the State of Maryland’s failure to distribute much-needed federal and […]
Around the world

The Haitian people need a true rupture

November 5, 2021 Berthony Dupont
Most of Haiti’s traditional politicians have taken completely erroneous positions on how to deal with the dramatic insecurity problem that now grips the nation. Their solutions all generally revolve around one sinister proposal: to strengthen […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

El gobierno neoliberal de Ecuador anuncia estado de emergencia para imponer la austeridad

November 4, 2021 Vijay Prashad y Taroa Zúñiga Silva
El 18 de octubre de 2021, el presidente de Ecuador Guillermo Lasso declaró estado de excepción por 60 días. Esta declaración se tradujo en la suspensión de los derechos constitucionales de ecuatorianos y ecuatorianas y en tropas […]
Events

CUBA IN AFRICA – International Film Premiere & Webinar, Nov. 7

November 4, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2021 AT 4 PM EST CUBA IN AFRICA – International Film Premiere & Webinar Online Event The dramatic untold story of 420,000 Cubans– soldiers and teachers, doctors and nurses – who GAVE […]
Around the world

Ecuador’s neoliberal government announces state emergency to impose austerity

November 4, 2021 Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva
On October 18, 2021, Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency for 60 days. This declaration led to the constitutional rights of Ecuadorian nationals being suspended and heavily armed troops flooding the streets in Ecuador. […]