Month: March 2023

Political Prisoners

International Transport Workers Union calls for Mumia’s release

March 31, 2023 Lallan Schoenstein
International Transport Workers Union General Secretary Stephen Cotton wrote a letter of support for “the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal” to Judge Lucretia Clemons of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County on March 27 […]
Around the world

D19: LIBRE salutes Honduran President Xiomara Castro

March 31, 2023 D19: LIBRE
Congratulations and thank you, compañera President Xiomara Castro de Zelaya! The Official Coordination of D19: LIBRE, USA-Canada, and Costa Rica, extends its most sincere congratulations and appreciation to our Government of Democratic Socialism, worthily represented […]
Oppressed genders

Women in Struggle proposes National March to Protect Trans Youth

March 30, 2023 Women In Struggle – Mujeres En Lucha
Proposal to the movement from Women in Struggle – Mujeres en Lucha: NATIONAL MARCH TO PROTECT TRANS YOUTH Florida, Autumn 2023 & SPEAKOUT FOR TRANS RIGHTS Build a People’s Tribunal to put anti-trans bigots on […]
In the U.S.

Activist speaks on worst California snowstorm in four decades

March 30, 2023 Scott Scheffer
Pawel Chmielewski is a retired engineer and a long-time progressive activist who lives in the San Bernardino mountains of California. He spoke with Struggle-La Lucha about the massive snowstorms that slammed the mountain range. The […]
Around the world

Strike action by public service employees and transport workers paralyzes Germany

March 30, 2023 Peoples Dispatch
For over a year, trade unions in Germany have been demanding a fair increase in wages to combat inflation and compensate for the continuous fall in real wages In Germany, municipal and federal level public […]
U.S. / NATO war

Thousands march against U.S. war drive: People say NO to war with Russia and China

March 29, 2023 Struggle-La Lucha Washington bureau
Thousands of people demonstrated across the United States on March 18 on the 20th anniversary of the second U.S. war against Iraq. Protesters denounced the U.S./NATO war against Donbass and the Russian Federation. Biden can […]
U.S. / NATO war

Los Angeles protests U.S. proxy war, media censorship

March 29, 2023 Struggle-La Lucha Los Angeles bureau
Soaring utility rates, rising food costs, and other inflationary prices are impoverishing many in Los Angeles. And it’s been brewing more and more anger against war spending and escalation in Ukraine.  Some of that anger […]
Around the world

France burns as millions protest to defend pensions

March 26, 2023 Gary Wilson
March 23 was a national day of action, a general strike organized by the labor unions in France.  According to union estimates, around 3.5 million people hit the streets in more than 250 locations across France […]
China

Bipartisan slander of China: Lab leak theory dead, U.S. war drive alive and well

March 26, 2023 Scott Scheffer
Last week, before the capitalist crisis of bank failures crowded it out of the headlines, news of a congressional hearing to further investigate the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic was splashed […]
U.S. / NATO war

80th anniversary of Khatyn massacre: Nazi gangs in Ukraine celebrate Dirlewanger as historical idol

March 26, 2023 Susann Witt-Stahl
On the afternoon of March 22, 1943, the 1st company of the SS special unit Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger, together with forces from the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118, invaded Khatyn. The Nazis brutally plundered the Belarusian village, located […]