Month: June 2023

Labor and strikes

Workers at Target attacked by far-right

June 10, 2023 Gregory E. Williams
Newsflash: The anti-LGBTQ+ bigots are anti-worker The far right’s agitation around corporate brands is not limited to boycotts and outlandish social media posts. They are harassing and threatening retail workers in person. When Target pulled […]
Cuba

Cuban official condemns Wall Street Journal’s claim about Chinese base as ‘unfounded’

June 10, 2023 Peoples Dispatch
Cuba’s Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío held a press conference on the afternoon of June 8, wherein he rejected accusations leveled by US corporate media giant The Wall Street Journal that the island had reached a “secret” […]
Cuba

Is Washington seeking to fabricate a casus belli against Cuba?

June 10, 2023 Raúl Antonio Capote
The fake media machinery, obeying the dictates of the U.S. government, has started a new dangerous and infamous campaign against Cuba. According to the U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal, which had the “honor” of […]
Around the world

Xiomara Castro arrives in China for historic 6-day visit

June 10, 2023 Kawsachun News
Honduran President Xiomara Castro has arrived in China on Friday, starting what is called by both sides a “historic visit.” This is Castro’s first visit to China. She is also the first Honduran President to […]
Oppressed genders

The crisis of fascist attacks on transgender lives

June 10, 2023 Cassandra Devereaux
In 1933, a town councilor in Paris was very concerned by what he called “a moral crisis.” This crisis was the fact that those known as ‘inverts’ at the time existed and, moreover, that they […]
Labor and strikes

‘Pride on the picket line’ for Writers Guild strike

June 9, 2023 Melinda Butterfield
“New York is a union town, the queers are here to shut you down!”  The chant rang out loud and strong through Manhattan’s Union Square neighborhood on June 1, the first day of LGBTQ+ Pride […]
U.S. / NATO war

U.S. proxy war: Kakhovka dam and the weaponization of water

June 9, 2023 Nahia Sanzo
June 7 — Tuesday morning, just a few hours after the first serious Ukrainian attacks against Russian positions began in various areas of the Donbass and Zaporozhye fronts, a prelude to the major offensive that […]
Cuba

U.S. activists are campaigning to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list

June 9, 2023 Ju-Hyun Park
To most countries, particularly fellow nations in the Global South, Cuba is a sovereign nation recognized for its leadership in healthcare, diplomacy, and human development. The US government, however, has a different, and quite unique, […]
Labor and strikes

UPS Teamsters start strike authorization vote

June 9, 2023 Sean Orr and Elliot Lewis
With the largest private sector labor contract in the United States set to expire on July 31 at midnight, the eyes of the American labor movement are on United Parcel Service (UPS) and the nearly […]
LGBTQ+

Defiance and joy at Baltimore Trans Pride March

June 8, 2023 Melinda Butterfield
Hundreds of transgender people, other members of the LGBTQ+ community, loved ones, and supporters took to the streets on June 3 for the annual Baltimore Trans Pride March. Despite the grave threats to trans people’s […]