Month: June 2023

Around the world

Honduras: Expose right-wing attacks against the people

June 21, 2023 Lucy Pagoada-Quesada
The recalcitrant Honduran right wing is enraged at the country’s new diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China and the agreements for collaboration reached by President Xiomara Castro de Zelaya to benefit the vast […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

Honduras: Derecha perpetua ataques terroristas contra el pueblo

June 21, 2023 Lucy Pagoada-Quesada
La derecha recalcitrante hondureña está rabiosa con las nuevas relaciones diplomáticas de nuestro país con La República Popular de China y los acuerdos de colaboración logrados para beneficiar a las grandes mayorías. Solo es cuestión […]
Fight racism

‘What do we want? Reparations!’: Celebrating Juneteenth in Newark, N.J.

June 21, 2023 Stephen Millies
Over a hundred people rallied on Juneteenth in Newark, New Jersey, to demand reparations. The June 19 march and rally was organized by the People’s Organization for Progress. People gathered at Market and Springfield avenues. […]
Events

Join Peoples Power Assembly contingent at Baltimore Pride, June 24

June 20, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 2023 AT 12:00 PM EDT Join Baltimore Pride March Contingent 34th Street & N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 The Peoples Power Assembly will be participating in the Baltimore Pride March under […]
Cuba

‘A zone of peace, saving lives: that’s what Cuba stands for’

June 19, 2023 Cheryl LaBash
Testimony by National Network on Cuba co-Chair Cheryl LaBash at the International People’s Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism, Cuba country hearing, on June 10. Thank you to the organizers of this timely International People’s Tribunal on […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

Gobierno de PR intenta sustituir la población

June 19, 2023 Berta Joubert-Ceci
Puerto Rico se acerca vertiginosamente a cumplir el abominable deseo de algunos políticos del patio, anexionistas nauseabundos que se avergüenzan de la puertorriqueñidad, y sueñan con un PR sin puertorriqueños. Y no es imaginación. Así […]
Fight racism

Juneteenth, reparations and the legacy of Tulsa

June 19, 2023 John Parker
On June 19, 1865, the Union Army arrived in Galveston, Texas, to end slavery there. It has become the symbolic date for the ending of slavery in the United States. After the Emancipation Proclamation officially […]
In the U.S.

The Rosenbergs were heroes

June 19, 2023 Stephen Millies
70th anniversary of their execution In his funeral eulogy for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, W.E.B. Du Bois declared, “They died because they would not lie.” The Rosenbergs were executed by the U.S. government on Juneteenth, […]
Fight racism

The Propaganda of History

June 19, 2023 W.E.B. DuBois
In 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois published Black Reconstruction in America. This is an excerpt from the final chapter,  “The Propaganda of History,” on the way Reconstruction was being studied and taught at the time. How […]
Around the world

In Haiti, ‘gang warfare’ is a cover for imperialist intervention

June 18, 2023 Gary Grass, Babette Grunow and Robert Roth
Interview by Gary Grass and Babette Grunow of Grass is Greener WXRW River West Radio.com 104.1 FM Milwaukee with Robert Roth, Haiti Action Committee Listen to the entire interview here: https://soundcloud.com/user-240416425/202305-16-2000-grass-is-greener-roth-in-haiti-walker-on-cuba?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing. In the transcription that follows, […]