Month: April 2023

LATDOV5
Oppressed genders

Trans rights protest shuts down Hollywood traffic

April 6, 2023 John Parker
 March 31 – Members of the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice and the Socialist Unity Party joined activities on March 31 in Los Angeles demanding an end to the genocidal attacks against the […]
Perunyc1a
Around the world

Stop the massacres in Peru!

April 5, 2023 Struggle-La Lucha New York bureau
A protest in solidarity with Peru’s Indigenous and poor peoples and against the military and police massacres was held across from the United Nations headquarters in New York City on March 31. Since Peru’s elected […]
3 04 Rally for Housing Portugal
Around the world

Massive rallies across Portugal demand affordable and dignified housing

April 5, 2023 Peoples Dispatch
Housing rights groups and left-wing parties in Portugal have been calling on the government to institute rent caps and fund social housing. They have also opposed the housing program introduced by the government On April […]
Maduro
China

President Maduro: China is a non-imperialist great power

April 5, 2023 Orinoco Tribune
“China gives strong signals that it can be a great power without being an imperialist power,” said the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, this Monday. The comments were made in the context of the new […]
NOLAtransday2
Oppressed genders

Transgender Day of Visibility: NOLA high school students walk out, leading hundreds in the streets

April 3, 2023 Gregory E. Williams
 March 31 — On International Transgender Day of Visibility, hundreds of students at New Orleans’ Benjamin Franklin High School walked out of class. Benjamin Franklin students did the same last year in March as […]
Feedthepeople3
In the U.S.

Mergers, monopolies and inflation: Unemployment and wage cuts won’t lower prices

April 3, 2023 Stephen Millies
 How many people have to lose their jobs before Federal Reserve Bank system chair Jerome Powell is satisfied? High-tech firms including Alphabet (Google), Amazon and Meta (Facebook) have shed 118,000 jobs so far this […]
Libertad maj por indiosindios lopez
Political Prisoners

Court denies a fair trial: The fight for Mumia’s freedom continues

April 3, 2023 Gloria Verdieu
 On March 31, news of Judge Lucretia Clemons’ decision to deny Mumia Abu-Jamal his right to a fair trial spread instantly around the world, even though in the U.S., the major media remained silent. […]
SEIULocal99strike
Labor and strikes

Los Angeles-area strikes show: Labor’s sleeping giant is awakening

April 3, 2023 Scott Scheffer
 A series of strikes in the Los Angeles area provide an example of what has been happening across the U.S.  Having been in a defensive mode for decades, union workers are chipping away at […]
Taketrumptoprison
In the U.S.

Lock him up!

April 3, 2023 Stephen Millies
 Should Donald Trump be prosecuted on charges filed by the Manhattan DA? When two million poor people are in prison, how can Trump not be put on trial? Trump should have been jailed decades […]
07SLL03April2023720
PDF

Struggle ★ La Lucha PDF – April 3, 2023

April 2, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Get PDF here France burns as millions protest to defend pensions National March to Protect Trans Youth Activist speaks on worst California snowstorm in four decades Int’l Transport Workers Union calls for Mumia’s release Mobilizing […]