Year: 2023

Cabanas
Cuba

The upcoming summit of the G77 group plus China in Havana: A draft declaration goes around the world

September 10, 2023 José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez
As part of the preparations for the Summit of the G77 Group plus China, to be held in Havana from August 15 to 16 this September, a draft declaration has been under discussion for months, […]
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Oct 7

All out to defend trans lives, fight racism

September 9, 2023 Struggle-La Lucha Orlando, Fla., bureau
Defeat bosses’ campaign of division With just a month to go, the National March to Protect Trans Youth & Speakout for Trans Lives is catching fire. A growing number of endorsers in Florida and nationally […]
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Labor and strikes

Class struggle is back! 150,000 Auto Workers poised to strike

September 9, 2023 Sharon Black
A strike by 150,000 workers at automakers Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler) looks imminent.   In a recent Facebook Live event, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain declared the Stellantis proposal trash, tossing it […]
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China

Washington’s expanding military footprint on China’s doorsteps

September 9, 2023 Brian Berletic
  A series of announcements by the U.S. reflects its large and still growing military presence across Asia-Pacific, particularly in East and Southeast Asia. Together, they reflect a continued and increasingly desperate desire by Washington […]
Hands off syria
Around the world

What’s behind recent protests in Syria? Capitalist media hides the truth!

September 8, 2023 Sharon Black
The bourgeois media, from the New York Times to Reuters, have gleefully though somewhat prematurely hyped stories of a “potential second Arab Spring” in Syria.  In August, demonstrations broke out in response to the lifting […]
SecondSeminoleWar
In the U.S.

Florida’s 200-year war against oppressed people: DeSantis vs Black and Indigenous history

September 8, 2023 Stephen Millies
For Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the road to the Republican presidential nomination is being seen as an even bigger bigot than Donald Trump. When DeSantis says Florida is “where woke goes to die,” he means […]
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Cuba

Cuban soldiers in the Russian Army?

September 8, 2023 Raúl Antonio Capote
Havana, Sept. 7 — The “news” that Cuban troops are participating in combat actions on the Russian side in Ukraine, which comes well seasoned with melodramatic stagings, is grabbing headlines in the main counterrevolutionary media […]
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Fight racism

After Ta’Kiya Young shooting: What will it take to stop racist police terror?

September 7, 2023 Gloria Verdieu
Police in Ohio released bodycam footage of 21-year-old Ta’Kiya Young on Sept. 1, seven days after she was fatally shot by police on Aug. 24. Young, a pregnant mother of two, was killed while inside […]
Mauifireaftermath
In the U.S.

Maui fires: Biden’s request to Congress shows priorities

September 7, 2023 Gregory E. Williams
On Aug. 10 – two days after the Maui fires – President Biden asked Congress for another $21 billion in aid to the Ukrainian government as Washington’s proxy-war with Russia drags on; if approved, this […]
Intellectual Property
Around the world

Is intellectual property turning into a knowledge monopoly?

September 7, 2023 Prabir Purkayastha
The twentieth century saw the emergence of public funded universities and technical institutions, while technology development was concentrated in the R&D laboratories of large corporations. The age of the lone inventor—Edison, Siemens, Westinghouse, Graham Bell—had […]