Year: 2022

LGBTQ+

Anti-trans bills threaten youth in many states

January 21, 2022 Greg Butterfield
Struggle-La Lucha spoke with activist Erin Reed (she/her) about anti-trans measures currently flooding state legislatures, and how people are fighting back. Struggle-La Lucha: Can you tell our readers a bit about who you are and […]
Around the world

Morocco drives a war in Western Sahara for its phosphates

January 21, 2022 Vijay Prashad
In November 2020, the Moroccan government sent its military to the Guerguerat area, a buffer zone between the territory claimed by the Kingdom of Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). The Guerguerat border post is […]
Fight racism

For first time in 37 years: No cops, ICE or military in large MLK Caravan for Social Justice in Los Angeles

January 20, 2022 Struggle-La Lucha Los Angeles bureau
Los Angeles, Jan. 17 — More than a hundred cars and floats joined the MLK Day Caravan for Social Justice down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, decorated with anti-racist, anti-imperialist, pro-people slogans reflecting today’s struggles. […]
Palestine

The smearing of Emma Watson

January 20, 2022 Sut Jhally and Roger Waters
Anyone who has ever been critical of Israeli actions toward the Palestinian people knows what to expect next—an avalanche of pit-bull attacks and smears that their criticisms of Israel are motivated by racism and anti-Semitism. […]
In the U.S.

After a year of Biden, why do we still have Trump’s foreign policy?

January 20, 2022 Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
  Joe Biden and the Democrats were highly critical of Donald Trump’s foreign policy, so it was reasonable to expect that Biden would quickly remedy its worst impacts. As a senior member of the Obama administration, Biden […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

Matar de hambre al pueblo de Afganistán: ¿Una determinación de los países ricos de occidente?

January 19, 2022 Vijay Prashad
El 11 de enero de 2022, el Coordinador de Ayudas de Emergencia de la ONU, Martin Griffiths, hizo un llamado a la comunidad internacional para que ayude a recaudar 4.400 millones de dólares destinados a […]
Events

New York City: Emergency rally for Palestine, Jan. 20

January 19, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
Join @AlAwda on Thurs, Jan 20th, 4pm at Zionist National Fund, 42 E 69th St NYC Answer the call from Palestine to #DefendAlNaqab -Mobilize to support Al Naqab of Palestine -Demand State & Federal Aurhorities #ShutDownGenocide & […]
Around the world

Aafia Siddiqui, political prisoner

January 19, 2022 Linda Ford
The media coverage of the hostage-taking at a synagogue in Texas has been predictably hysterical, Islamophobic and inaccurate about Aafia Siddiqui, the apparent political cause of the hostage-taker Malik Faisad Akram. According to his family in […]
Events

Brooklyn, NYC: Speak out to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners, Jan. 22

January 17, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 2022 AT 2 PM Speak out to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners 7114 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY Join our collective call for the freedom of Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian […]
Events

Richmond: 5th Annual Virginia Prison Justice Rally, Jan. 22

January 17, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
SATURDAY AT 11 AM – 2:30 PM 5th Annual VIRGINIA PRISON JUSTICE RALLY! Monroe Park, Richmond, Va. VIRGINIA PRISON JUSTICE CAR CARAVAN & RALLY! Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022 * Bring Back Parole! * End Solitary […]