Month: February 2022

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Fight racism

Racism + COVID = death

February 11, 2022 Stephen Millies
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. declared that “of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”  The COVID-19 pandemic is more proof Dr. King was right. Death rates […]
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Cuba

Cuba battles COVID, defying 60-year U.S. blockade

February 11, 2022 Sharon Black
Presentation by Sharon Black, writer for Struggle-La Lucha and national spokesperson of the Socialist Unity Party, at the Europe for Cuba online forum Feb. 9, 2022. End the U.S. blockade of Cuba It has been […]
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Puerto Rico

Teachers in Puerto Rico strike for wages, benefits

February 11, 2022 Claridad Puerto Rico
On Wednesday, February 9, teachers across Puerto Rico called for a national strike to protest the government and the Fiscal Control Board’s (FCB) cutting of wages and pensions. Other public sector workers, namely firefighters and […]
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U.S. / NATO war

Across the U.S., protests demand ‘No war on Russia and Donbass!’

February 10, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
On Feb. 5, anti-war and community organizations took to the streets across the United States in a united demand to the Biden administration: No war on Russia! It was a crucial moment of visible opposition […]
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Labor and strikes

Railroad workers under attack

February 10, 2022 Stephen Millies
A common sign in sweatshops back in 1900 was “If you don’t come on Sunday, don’t come on Monday.” At the Sparrows Point steel mill outside Baltimore, employees worked 84 hours a week. Their only […]
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Cuba

The Code of Families, a document built among all Cubans

February 10, 2022 Alejandra Garcia
This week, Cuba began a historic process as Cubans started to going to more than 78,000 meeting points to discuss the new draft of the Family Code, a broad, complex, but very important process for […]
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Events

12 February, NYC: #BoycottPuma Speak Out

February 9, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
Saturday, 12 February 3:00 pm PUMA Flagship Store 609 5th Ave, NYC Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/898450857498907/ Join us on Saturday, February 12th, outside the PUMA Flagship store in Manhattan, as we demand that PUMA ceases its sponsorship […]
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Political Prisoners

Freedom and med care for Leonard Peltier

February 9, 2022 Mumia Abu-Jamal
For 40 years, former American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier has been in the clutches of the U.S. prison system –The Iron House of the whites, as indigenous people call them – on trumped […]
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China

How China became an Olympic boogeyman for the West

February 9, 2022 Charles Xu
In the early 1990s, barely a decade after rejoining the Olympic movement, Beijing launched a bid to host the 2000 Games. Unfortunately by then, U.S. policy had begun to shift perceptibly from the honeymoon years of rapprochement. […]
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Events

Detroit says: No war on Russia and Donbass, U.S./NATO out of Ukraine, Feb. 11

February 8, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
FRIDAY AT 4 PM – 5 PM Detroit says: No War on Russia & Donbass! U.S./NATO Out of Ukraine! Hart Plaza, Jefferson and Woodward, Detroit Moratorium NOW! Coalition and the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War […]