August 2022 – Page 4 – Struggle

Why does Washington prefer war drive over negotiating Brittney Griner’s release?

August 6, 2022 Gloria Verdieu and Melinda Butterfield

On Aug. 4, a Russian court convicted Brittney Griner of drug smuggling and possession and sentenced her to nine years in jail. She was arrested in February for carrying cannabis vaping cartridges through the Moscow […]

Support squeegee workers: Self-defense against racism is not murder

August 5, 2022 Lev Koufax

On August 2, a Baltimore City grand jury issued an eight-charge indictment, including first-degree murder, against a 15-year-old squeegee worker accused of killing a white motorist in downtown Baltimore. The shooting occurred after a 48-year-old […]

Diaz-Canel calls for unity among communist parties around the world

August 5, 2022 Juan M. Garcia

Havana, Jul 28 (Prensa Latina) The first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Miguel Díaz-Canel, described unity among the world’s communist groups as necessary and urgent, Granma newspaper reported on its website on […]

No U.S. war on China!

August 4, 2022 Sharon Black

China is no threat to the people in the United States or to the world; Wall Street and the Pentagon are. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the third highest ranking U.S. government official, landed in Taiwan on […]

Nancy Pelosi, Taiwan and Baltimore

August 4, 2022 Stephen Millies

Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S House of Representatives, landed in Taiwan Province on August 2. Her trip is a dangerous provocation against the People’s Republic of China. Pelosi arrived on the 58th anniversary […]

In the U.S.

We remain in solidarity: Hands off APSP & all those targeted by these bogus FBI indictments!

August 4, 2022 Socialist Unity Party

On July 29, the FBI violently raided the African Peoples Socialist Party’s Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida, and their Uhuru Solidarity Center in St. Louis, Missouri, as well as the private residence of APSP […]

Fight for abortion rights continues

August 3, 2022 Louisiana Abortion Rights Action Committee

August 1 — Yesterday, 200 people took to the streets to fight for abortion rights, childcare, healthcare, and more. The streets rang with rage against racist, sexist, anti-worker Attorney General Jeff Landry who, in service […]

El litio de Chile beneficia a los multimillonarios pero agota a la tierra y los pueblos

August 3, 2022 Vijay Prashad y Taroa Zúñiga Silva

El salar de Atacama, ubicado al norte de Chile y con una extensión de 1.200 kilómetros cuadrados, es la mayor fuente de litio del mundo. Estamos de pie frente a un acantilado, observando la gran […]

Ukraine and Russia without the lens of Facebook & corporate media

August 2, 2022 John Parker

What do the New York Times, Kiev Independent, Euromaidan Press, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, TikTok here in the U.S. have in common? They are all funded by or staffed by Western and U.S. intelligence members pushing […]

The impact of RIMPAC on Okinawa and Japan

August 2, 2022 Kozue Akibayashi and Suzuyo Takazato

In its Article 9, the Japanese constitution promulgated in 1946 under the U.S. post-war occupation renounces war as a means of resolving international disputes and proscribes maintaining land, sea and air forces. This article is […]

Month: August 2022