Month: July 2023

Around the world

Solidarity statement for Philippines People’s State of the Nation Address

July 23, 2023 Socialist Unity Party
The people of this country are familiar with a presidential address. And like the people of the Philippines, we know it to be an opportunity for presidents to lie through their teeth.  And like the […]
Around the world

Peru escalates the struggle against the Boluarte regime

July 22, 2023 Alejandra Garcia
The people of Peru took to the streets this Wednesday and Thursday to demand the resignation of the main leaders of President Dina Boluarte’s regime, the advancement of general elections, and the restitution of democracy […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

Pueblo Boricua vs Gobierno fallido

July 22, 2023 Berta Joubert-Ceci
En Puerto Rico estamos viviendo el peor momento resultado de un estado fallido. Desde luego que somos una colonia y no un estado soberano, por lo tanto, la responsabilidad última es del imperio estadounidense a […]
Fight racism

The family statement honoring Mutulu’s life and legacy

July 22, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Dr. Mutulu Shakur, a highly esteemed acupuncturist, healer, revolutionary, and leader in the Black liberation movement, peacefully passed away on Friday, July 7, 2023 at 72 years old. He courageously battled multiple myeloma, a blood […]
Cuba

How Cuba is fighting back against the U.S. blockade

July 21, 2023 Stephen Millies
Ever since the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959, the United States bankster government has been trying to strangle it. Wall Street’s biggest weapon is a cruel economic blockade that has cost socialist Cuba over $150 […]
LGBTQ+

The revolutionary spirit of Minnie Bruce Pratt

July 21, 2023 Bob McCubbin
Minnie Bruce Pratt died July 2, 2023, in Syracuse, N.Y. See minniebrucepratt.net It was a cool sunny morning at a La Jolla Shores outdoor café where I first met Minnie Bruce Pratt. Maybe I should […]
Indigenous peoples

Oppenheimer — and the other side of the story

July 21, 2023 Tewa Women United
July 18, 2023 This week, “Oppenheimer” will open, a film that centers on the creation and use of the atomic bomb through the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Go see the movie if it calls […]
Events

Harlem, NYC: Stand with Cuba – 70th Annual Celebration of Cuban Revolution, July 29

July 20, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Celebrate the July 26, 1953 Attack on the Moncada Barracks of the US-Backed Batista Dictatorship! The Beginning of the Victorious 1959 Cuban Revolution Saturday, July 29th at Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and […]
Around the world

Peru: New march toward Lima advances in tense calm

July 20, 2023 teleSUR
Among other things, the “Third Takeover of Lima” demands the release of hundreds of citizens detained during the protests that began in 2022. July 19 — On Wednesday, thousands of Peruvians managed to arrive in […]
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In wake of uprisings against racism: French authorities escalate repression

July 20, 2023 Lev Koufax
On June 27, French police executed a French-Algerian teenager named Nahel Merzouk in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre. Two Paris motorcycle cops fired multiple rounds at close range into the driver’s side seat of the […]