Month: June 2022

Around the world

Why does the United States have a military base in Ghana?

June 16, 2022 Vijay Prashad
In April 2018, the president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, said that Ghana has “not offered a military base, and will not offer a military base to the United States of America.” His comments came after […]
In the U.S.

Watergate’s real hero was Frank Wills

June 16, 2022 Stephen Millies
Ex-CIA agent James McCord didn’t think he would be stopped from installing wiretaps at Democratic National Committee headquarters by an $80-per-week security guard. Neither did fellow Watergate burglar Bernard Barker, a former member of CIA-backed […]
Capitalist crisis

Capitalist profit drive fuels war, inflation, wage loss

June 15, 2022 Gary Wilson
 President Joe Biden used the phrase “Putin’s price hike” again in a reaction to the June 10 Consumer Price Index report revealing continued high inflation. Biden isn’t a comedian, like that guy Zelensky in […]
John Parker

John Parker’s U.S. Senate campaign declares success

June 14, 2022 Sharon Black
Los Angeles — With 94% of the vote tallied, John Parker for U.S. Senate won over 97,600 votes in the California primaries on June 7. Campaign workers and the candidate declared this a major victory.  […]
Around the world

The invasion of Lebanon and the nuclear freeze movement

June 14, 2022 Stephen Millies
Lebanon was invaded 40 years ago by the Zionist regime that occupies Palestine. At least 48,000 Arab people were killed or injured in the attack that started June 6, 1982. Apartment buildings in Beirut were […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

Colonialismo e identidad nacional

June 14, 2022 Berta Joubert-Ceci
Hoy quiero comentar sobre un aspecto fundamental del colonialismo que intenta transformar la población en seres sin identidad ni orgullo patrio para así facilitar su dominio y explotación. Este aspecto es el de borrar o […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

A un año de la mafiosa Luma Energy

June 14, 2022 Berta Joubert-Ceci
Esta semana se cumplió un año desde que la privatizadora estadounidense-canadiense Luma Energy tomara el control de la Transmisión y Distribución de la energía en Puerto Rico. Esta compañía fue impuesta por el Congreso de […]
Events

Brooklyn, N.Y.: Juneteenth – We Are Not Yet Free! June 19

June 13, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
Sunday, June 19 – 12:00 p.m. Frederick Douglass Square (Nostrand & Jefferson), Brooklyn Hosted by December 12th Movement Healthcare and reparations (executive order) are human rights! An afternoon of political education, cultural presentation and Black […]
Events

New York City: Independence for Puerto Rico now, June 20

June 13, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
Monday, June 20 – 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 47th St. & 1st Ave., Manhattan Join us for this historic rally on the 50th anniversary of the case of Puerto Rico before the […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

El ascenso de la OTAN en África

June 11, 2022 Vijay Prashad
La ansiedad por la expansión de la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte (OTAN) hacia la frontera rusa es una de las causas de guerra en Ucrania. Sin embargo, este no es el primer ni […]