Year: 2021

Around the world

12 years after coup, Honduran resistance fights for fair election

November 3, 2021 Lucy Pagoada-Quesada
Twelve years have passed since the fateful 2009 coup in Honduras by the oligarchy, private companies and the leaders of the Catholic and evangelical churches. How can you forget Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez supporting the […]
China

Biden targets China: Turning Taiwan into a military outpost

November 3, 2021 Gary Wilson
The Guardian reports that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken threatened a U.S. military buildup in Taiwan in a “side meeting” at the G20 summit in Rome on Oct. 31.  The Guardian added that Blinken’s […]
Events

Cuba Friendshipment Caravan Send-Off, Nov. 5

November 2, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha
Cuba Friendshipment Caravan Send-Off Friday, November 5 – 7:30 p.m. Eastern Online and at The People’s Forum, 320 W. 37 St., Manhattan Hosted by IFCO/Pastors for Peace Our caravanistas are headed to Cuba on Nov. 15 […]
Environment

Climate crisis: Who’s pulling strings of budget negotiations?

November 2, 2021 Scott Scheffer
The consequences of a century’s worth of industrial capitalist destruction of the atmosphere continued lashing out at the earth in late October. A “bomb cyclone” attacked the U.S. West Coast, while a nor’easter slammed the […]
Around the world

Nicaragua stands up to U.S. election interference

November 2, 2021 Greg Butterfield
On Sunday, Nov. 7, voters in Nicaragua will go to the polls in elections for president, vice president and National Assembly representatives. According to polls, they are likely to hand a convincing victory to incumbent […]
In the U.S.

Stop terrorist ‘no-knock’ police raids!

November 2, 2021 Stephen Millies
Louisville, Kentucky, police with a “no-knock” search warrant broke down Breonna Taylor’s door after midnight on March 13, 2020, and started shooting. Six bullets struck the 26-year-old Black woman, killing her.  There were no Fourth […]
Around the world

NYC rally demands: End sanctions on Zimbabwe

November 2, 2021 Bill Dores
Oct. 25 is Zimbabwe Anti-Sanctions Day. That day was marked in New York City by the December 12th Movement, which led a militant march and rally at midday outside the U.S. Mission to the United […]
Around the world

The memory of Ka Oris will live forever

November 2, 2021 Communist Party of the Philippines
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the National Operational Command of the New People’s Army (NPA) pay the highest tribute and give the firmest Red salute to Ka Oris […]
Cuba

The U.S. has an unhealthy obsession with Cuba

November 1, 2021 Rosa Miriam Elizalde
The piggy bank was rattled again. In September 2021, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) gave $6,669,000 in grants for projects aimed at “regime change” in Cuba, a euphemism to avoid saying “direct intervention by […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

Estados Unidos tiene una obsesión malsana con Cuba

November 1, 2021 Rosa Miriam Elizalde
La alcancía volvió a sonar. Hace menos de un mes, en septiembre de 2021, la Agencia de Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID) otorgó 6.669.000 dólares en subvenciones para proyectos destinados a un “cambio […]