Month: February 2023

Cuba

Cuba and Biden’s ‘State of the Union’

February 13, 2023 José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez
As happens every year, the act known as the presidential State of the Union address has just taken place in the U.S. Capitol, an exercise that has been carried out publicly and uninterruptedly since 1913 […]
Around the world

Airforce spent millions to shoot down a U.S. weather balloon

February 13, 2023 Moon of Alabama
February 11 — Yesterday, the U.S. airforce shot down another weather balloon: The Pentagon said it shot down an unidentified object over frozen waters around Alaska on Friday at the order of President Biden, less than […]
U.S. / NATO war

Why Hersh’s Nord Stream bombshell may become legal nightmare for Team Biden & its Nordic allies

February 13, 2023 Ekaterina Blinova
The White House has denounced Seymour Hersh’s Nord Stream bombshell as “fiction”. Oslo claimed that the Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist’s allegations are “nonsensical.” Still, the denials are unlikely to satisfy the public given that EU probes in […]
Around the world

French workers’ movement debates general strike to beat Macron

February 13, 2023 John Mullen
Demonstrations in a record number of towns – over 260 – took place last Saturday, 11 February. This was the fourth day of action to defend pensions in France, as the Pensions Bill begins its month […]
Around the world

Ninety years since Hitler took power

February 11, 2023 Stephen Millies
German working class supported socialism. How did the Nazis crush them? Ninety years ago, on Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. A dozen years of hell followed, with tens of millions […]
Around the world

South Africa’s National Union of Metalworkers will join call for Mumia’s freedom

February 11, 2023 Lallan Schoenstein
ILWU attends South African Conference commemorating the 1973 Durban strikes Representatives from the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) gathered with union leaders from Namibia and South Africa at a Jan. 26 – 28, 2023, […]
In the U.S.

Inflation, layoffs, and the $1 trillion war budget

February 11, 2023 Scott Scheffer
In January, tech companies laid off 97,020 workers, more than double the layoffs in the first month of last year. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google were responsible for most of the January cuts – 18,000, 10,000, […]
Around the world

Turkey-Syria earthquake catastrophe needs global cooperation, not U.S. sanctions

February 10, 2023 Sharon Black
February 9 — The death toll from the unprecedented scale of the 7.8-magnitude quake that hit Turkey and Syria is now over 23,000. As of this writing, almost 70,000 people have been injured, and some […]
Oppressed genders

Stop trans genocide: Now is the time to fight back!

February 10, 2023 Melinda Butterfield
[su_row][su_column size=”1/2″ center=”no” class=”] [/su_column][su_column size=”1/2″ center=”no” class=”] [/su_column][/su_row] On Feb. 6, hundreds of trans people and supporters flooded the Capitol in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, ahead of right-wing Gov. Kevin Stitt’s state of the state […]
Events

Brooklyn, NYC: Justice for Tyre & Manny! Feb. 11

February 9, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Brooklyn, NYC: Justice for Tyre & Manny! Speakout Against All Police Murders Saturday, February 11 – 2:00 p.m. Herbert Von King Park (near the great lawn), 670 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11216 Hosted by New […]