Year: 2022

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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Cuba

U.S. and international actions demand #UnblockCuba

February 8, 2022 Cheryl LaBash
On Sunday, Jan. 30, Miami Cuban-Americans and their supporters gathered at City Hall to caravan with bikes and cars to a rally at the statue of Cuba’s national hero, José Martí. Nearly two years since […]
Fight racism

Baltimore: Racist campaign targets Marilyn Mosby

February 8, 2022 Lev Koufax
On Jan. 12, the U.S. Department of Justice brought criminal charges of perjury and false mortgage applications against Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, a Black woman who has served in the position since 2015.  […]
In the U.S.

NYC student advocates mark National Transit Equity Day

February 8, 2022 Parents to Improve School Transportation
Feb. 4 – Parents to Improve School Transportation (PIST NYC) convened education, disability, and labor advocates to expose multiple facets of New York City’s chronic student transportation failures and to propose solutions via a School […]
Around the world

‘Freedom Convoy’: a dangerous movement for the working class, but useful for the ruling class

February 6, 2022 Communist Party of Canada
The Communist Party of Canada views the “Freedom Convoy” as a public expression of the increasingly organized and assertive far right. The clear links between the organizers of the convoy and far-right networks indicate that […]
China

China’s Olympic battle for legitimacy: The prehistory of the 2022 Beijing Games

February 6, 2022 Charles Xu
Much has been made of the “diplomatic boycott” by the United States and its allies of the 2022 Beijing Olympics. But what much of the major Western media coverage misses is the historical and geopolitical significance […]