Year: 2022

Indigenous peoples

Peruvian lawmakers attempt to pass bill to unprotect Indigenous people

December 27, 2022 Al Mayadeen English
Lawmakers in Peru have taken advantage of ousting President Pedro Castillo as a chance to secretly pass a bill into law that would take away the 2006 law protecting “uncontacted” Indigenous people, which would also […]
Around the world

U.S. judge rules Alex Saab not entitled to diplomatic immunity

December 27, 2022 Resumen
Robert Scola, a federal judge in Miami, ruled that the Colombian-Venezuelan businessman Álex Saab, described in most corporate media as a frontman for the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, is not entitled to diplomatic immunity, so […]
Events

Queens, NYC: Defend Drag Story Hour in NYC, Dec. 29

December 26, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
DEFEND DRAG STORY HOUR IN NYC! Help protect queer spaces and expression under threat from the far right. When? Thursday, 12/29, 3pm Where? Jackson Heights Library, 35-51 81st Street, Queens (7 train to 82 St) […]
Events

New Orleans: Eyewitness Report – US/NATO Out of Ukraine! Jan. 21

December 26, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2023, AT 2:30 PM Eyewitness Ukraine – US/NATO Out of Ukraine! New Orleans Public Library – Nora Navra Branch Event by Workers Voice Socialist Movement We were lied to about Iraq, about […]
China

Reckless U.S. war games in South China Sea go against the current

December 23, 2022 John Parker
U.S. military exercises have come within 400 miles of China’s mainland in the South China Sea (called the South Sea in China and the East Sea in Vietnam). The provocations have increased year after year […]
Political Prisoners

SoCal fights to bring Mumia Abu-Jamal home

December 23, 2022 Gloria Verdieu
On Oct. 16, Judge Lucretia Clemons of the Common Pleas Court of Pennsylvania dismissed all the claims that political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and his lawyers presented – critical evidence, withheld for over 40 years, that […]
Korea

U.S. launches nuclear-capable bombers in military drills over Korea

December 23, 2022 Gary Wilson
The United States flew nuclear-capable bombers and advanced stealth jets in a show of force aimed at socialist North Korea, the Associated Press reported. The B-52H strategic bomber and F-22 stealth fighter jets were used […]
Around the world

Socialist Unity Party salutes revolutionary legacy of Jose Maria Sison

December 22, 2022 Socialist Unity Party
The Socialist Unity Party and Struggle-La Lucha newspaper join revolutionaries and partisans of labor in the Philippines and around the world in mourning the passing of Comrade Prof. Jose Maria Sison.  We send our deepest […]
In the U.S.

Los Angeles activists tell Biden: Roll back prices now!

December 22, 2022 Scott Scheffer
Los Angeles: Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice founder John Parker addressed shoppers and passers-by Dec. 18 in the first of a planned series of street meetings about the national wave of price-gouging by oil […]
Around the world

Hands off President Pedro Castillo of Peru!

December 22, 2022 Socialist Unity Party
The Socialist Unity Party condemns the coup d’etat orchestrated on Dec. 7, 2022, by the ruling elites of Peru with the backing of the U.S.-dominated Organization of American States (OAS) and the U.S. State Department. […]