Month: October 2022

U.S. / NATO war

U.S., NATO to expand arms industry, ramp up production

October 7, 2022 Gary Wilson
War and industrial policy War means industry. Wars are not fought with global supply chains that crisscross a world where production happens across borders and oceans. War means preparing an industrial base for armaments — […]
Puerto Rico

‘Yankees want the cage but not the birds’

October 7, 2022 Yunus Soner
U.S. President Joseph Biden visited the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico on October 4 to examine the damage caused by hurricane Fiona. He promised all help to the island, which is a so-called “unincorporated organized […]
Around the world

After all the pomp and pageantry for Queen Elizabeth II: The apology that never came

October 7, 2022 Prabir Purkayastha
How should we remember Queen Elizabeth II and her 70 years on the British throne? It’s perhaps better to consider after the media parade about her funeral is in the rearview mirror. A number of people have reacted to […]
U.S. / NATO war

An act of war: Nord Stream pipelines bombed

October 6, 2022 Gary Wilson
You didn’t see it in the U.S. monopoly-controlled media, but throughout the month of September, there were mass demonstrations in Germany, the Czech Republic, France, Spain, Moldova and Belgium. A hundred thousand in Berlin; 70,000 […]
Cuba

Cuba: Hope emerges with collective strength after Hurricane Ian

October 6, 2022 Alejandra Garcia
October 4, 2022 from Havana On September 26, Cuba was hit by Hurricane Ian, which didn’t stop intensifying as it passed through the western part of the island where it hovered for hours. There it […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

Haití: cuatro años seguidos de protestas ininterrumpidas

October 5, 2022 Vijay Prashad
En julio de 2018 empezó un ciclo de protestas en Haití que se ha mantenido hasta ahora (a pesar de la pandemia). El principal motivo de la protesta en 2018 fue que en marzo de […]
Events

New York City: No Cops in Power Rally, Oct. 14

October 5, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
New York City: No Cops in Power Rally Friday, Oct. 14 – 5:30 p.m. City Hall Park, Broadway & Murray St. entrance, Manhattan Hosted by New York Community Action Project (NYCAP) Join us next Friday […]
Cuba

How Cuba is dealing with the devastation of Hurricane Ian

October 5, 2022 Vijay Prashad and Manolo De Los Santos
On September 27, 2022, a tropical cyclone — Hurricane Ian — struck Cuba’s western province of Pinar del Río. Sustained winds of around 125 miles per hour lingered over Cuba for more than eight hours, bringing down trees […]
Around the world

Filipino community & allies demand all charges dropped for #MakibekiNYC3

October 5, 2022 Marion Aguas, GABRIELA New York
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 3, 2022 Contact: Marion Aguas, GABRIELA New York bayanusa.ne@gmail.com 609-434-2793 Filipino community & allies demand all charges dropped for #MakibekiNYC3, denounce police violence at anti-Marcos protest NEW YORK CITY — Filipino […]
Events

Baltimore: No war on Russia, Donbass and China, Oct. 21

October 3, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2022 AT 5 PM No War on Russia, Donbass & China Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and Howard Street, Baltimore No War on Russia, Donbass, & China Money for Food, Housing, Education […]