Month: May 2023

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Around the world

Britain’s royal rip-off

May 6, 2023 Michael Roberts
Today in Britain, King Charles III will be crowned in a ‘coronation’.  All the other remaining monarchies in Europe (Scandinavia, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain) don’t bother with a coronation, but the British monarchy has had a […]
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Around the world

Ben Dupuy, the revolutionary whose vision and organizations radicalized and formed a generation in Haiti

May 6, 2023 Kim Ives
The second of two parts. (Part 1) Haiti’s Sep. 30, 1991 coup d’état was a challenge that tested and strengthened the organizations in Ben Dupuy’s revolutionary network. Ambassador-at-Large Dupuy was returning from an outreach trip […]
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Fight racism

Justice for Jordan Neely! Not another lynching!

May 5, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Jordan Neely was lynched because he was Black, poor, and homeless. He was strangled to death in a New York City subway car on the afternoon of May 1. Neely’s murder is no different than […]
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Im/migrants and refugees

Migrants are not welcome as Biden to send 1,500 troops to the border to stop them

May 5, 2023 Alejandra Garcia
On March 27, a fire at a migrant center in Juarez City, on the border with the United States, brought the world’s attention back to a problem that has worsened in recent years. Forty undocumented […]
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Cuba

Returning Cuba solidarity activists harassed by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol

May 5, 2023 Bill Hackwell
Havana, May 4 — This year marked the largest delegation of people from the U.S. in decades to be in Cuba for the events around the International Day of Workers.  Over 350 people from the […]
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La Lucha por el Socialismo

Activistas de Solidaridad con Cuba acosados por la Patrulla Fronteriza de EE.UU.

May 5, 2023 Bill Hackwell
Por Bill Hackwell on Mayo 4, 2023 from La Habana Este año marcó la mayor delegación de personas de los EE.UU. en décadas para estar en Cuba para los eventos en torno al Día Internacional […]
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Cuba

Cuban president meets with over 300 enthusiastic U.S. supporters pledging to end the blockade

May 4, 2023 Bill Hackwell
Havana, May 1 — This morning, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel received at the Palace of the Revolution 300 friends of Cuba coming from the United States to demand an end to the blockade. Brigades, groups, […]
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In the U.S.

U.S. judicial system’s bias against workers

May 3, 2023 Lallan Schoenstein
There are various concepts of the law. One often hears reference to “Constitutional Law.” The U.S. Constitution, with the passage of the Judiciary Act of 1789, did not extend equal rights to people kidnapped from […]
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Political Prisoners

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Free Leornard Peltier! Free Them ALL!

May 3, 2023 Gloria Verdieu
Talk given by Gloria Verdieu of the Socialist Unity Party at the May Day rally in San Diego. Freeing Political Prisoners is a Working-Class Struggle. Why? It is our class, our families. Our youth, brothers, […]
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Oppressed genders

U.S. imperialism and the fight for trans rights

May 3, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha