Month: June 2023

In the U.S.

Debt ceiling deal means austerity for workers and the poor

June 17, 2023 Chris Fry
With tremendous media fanfare, President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy agreed to allow the so-called “debt ceiling” to be raised until 2025. Despite assuring the public that cutting money to federal […]
Im/migrants and refugees

New U.S. anti-immigrant measures: Militarization and racism watches over the border

June 17, 2023 Raúl Antonio Capote
It is hard to imagine it could get any worse, but another calamitous situation has been created at the U.S.-Mexico border due to the new policies implemented by Joe Biden’s administration, which have forced hundreds […]
Cuba

Cuba’s Queer Rights Revolution – Eyewitness Cuba Pride Month

June 17, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Pride Month Webinar – Cuba’s Queer Rights Revolution – Eyewitness Cuba Just 90 miles from Ron DeSantis’s Florida, socialist Cuba is making huge advances in LGBTQ+ rights with its new Families Code. How did Cuba […]
Around the world

Trump boasts he wanted to take Venezuela’s oil after overthrowing its government

June 16, 2023 Ben Norton
Former U.S. President Donald Trump boasted at a Republican Party rally that he wanted to “take over” Venezuela and “we would have gotten all that oil.” This confirms the sinister motives behind Washington’s 2019 coup […]
Cuba

A trans person reflects on Cuba and Florida: 90 miles and a world apart

June 15, 2023 Melinda Butterfield
 Returning from 12 days in Cuba in mid-May, I spent an uncomfortably long six-hour layover at the Miami airport, waiting for my connecting flight to New York. It wasn’t uncomfortable just because of the […]
Events

Justice 4 Palestinian Martyr Nizar Banat! – Brooklyn, June 18

June 15, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
All Out to Support the struggle for Justice 4 Palestinian Martyr Nizar Banat! Join us on Sunday, June 18th at 4 pm Bay Ridge Community Development Center, 9818 Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11209 Organized […]
U.S. / NATO war

Anti-war activists in Germany protest NATO’s ‘Air Defender 23’ military exercise

June 13, 2023 Peoples Dispatch
Around 10,000 military personnel and 250 aircraft from 25 countries are participating in NATO’s ‘Air Defender 23’ exercise scheduled from June 12-23. Anti-war groups have called it a provocation On June 10, hundreds of activists […]
PDF

Struggle ★ La Lucha PDF – June 12, 2023

June 12, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Get PDF here Workers at Target attacked by far-right ILWU to celebrate Juneteenth with a shutdown Cleophas Williams: My Life Story in the ILWU Local 10 Solidarity and defiance at Trans Pride March ‘ Pride […]
Indigenous peoples

The First Nations at the frontline of Canada’s fires

June 12, 2023 Brandi Morin
As smoke and smog choke the Northeast, Alberta’s Indigenous Nations face down apocalyptic wildfires And the provincial government’s “let-it-burn” climate policy. June 9, 2023 This story was produced by Ricochet Media and IndigiNews, and is […]
U.S. / NATO war

Taking the capitalist road was the wrong choice for Ukraine, says Ukraine expert

June 11, 2023 Natylie Baldwin
Renfrey Clarke is an Australian journalist. Throughout the 1990s, he reported from Moscow for Green Left Weekly of Sydney. This past year, he published The Catastrophe of Ukrainian Capitalism: How Privatisation Dispossessed & Impoverished the Ukrainian People with […]