2023 – Page 23 – Struggle

Louisiana protest: ‘AG Landry, you’re a crook! Kids deserve to read gay books!’

September 19, 2023 Gregory E. Williams

Sept. 15, Lafayette, Louisiana – This writer joined over 30 protesters against corrupt far-right gubernatorial candidate Jeff Landry. We gathered outside KLFY studios where the second gubernatorial debate was happening; Landry skipped the first […]

Starbucks Worker Solidarity Day of Action

September 19, 2023 Andre Powell

Although over 350 Starbucks Coffee stores around the country have voted to unionize, the company’s CEO and management have failed to come to the negotiating table to discuss workers’ concerns. Starbucks Workers United called for […]

Libya, devastated by U.S./NATO bombing, unprepared for extreme storm floods

September 17, 2023 Scott Scheffer

Blame for the horrible flooding that has killed nearly 20,000 people in the city of Derna, with many thousands still unaccounted for in northeastern Libya, belongs squarely on the doorstep of Western capitalism and […]

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When the auto workers went on strike in 1970: Revolutionary implications of the GM strike

September 17, 2023 Vince Copeland

The last major auto strike in the U.S. started on September 15, 1970, when 400,000 workers at 145 factories walked off the job at GM — then the largest corporation in the world — […]

Battle with the Big 3 auto companies is on as UAW strikes all three in historic first

September 16, 2023 Sharon Black

September 15 — At midnight, United Auto Workers struck the Big Three companies — Ford, GM, and Stellanis — in what is being called a “Stand Up Strike.” Striking at all three companies simultaneously […]

‘For All of Mankind’ and other lies

September 16, 2023 John Parker

The Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 landed on the moon on August 23. It is now the fourth country to reach the moon’s surface. The data it will communicate to the scientific community is part of […]

Lola Rodriguez de Tio Cuba y Puerto Rico

Lola Rodríguez de Tió

September 16, 2023 Berta Joubert-Ceci

Septiembre en Puerto Rico tiene una relevancia muy especial para el pueblo independentista. Es el mes del Grito de Lares, el gesto de independencia en el 1868, cuando revolucionarios boricuas intentaron librarse del yugo español. […]

Baltimore Banner Making Party to Support National March to Protect Trans Youth

September 15, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha

Baltimore Banner-Making Party in Support of Oct 7th National March to Protect Trans Youth Wed. September 20, 6 pm to 9 pm At Nomu Nomu Arts Collective 709 N. Howard St., Baltimore, MD 21201 Join […]

Free Leonard Peltier!

September 15, 2023 Stephen Millies

On Sept. 12, Leonard Peltier turned 79 years old in a maximum security federal prison in Coleman, Florida. He has spent over 47 years being locked up for being a leader of AIM — the […]

Abortion rights advance in Mexico, while Texas wants to trap ‘runaways’

September 14, 2023 Sharon Black and Melinda Butterfield

On Sept. 6, Mexico’s Supreme Court struck down all federal criminal penalties for abortion. The court ruled that national laws prohibiting the medical procedure are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights. This was a major victory […]