Year: 2023

Nonukes
Around the world

Don’t let ‘anti-nuke’ be just another holiday

August 14, 2023 Tsukuru Fors
We need to be shouting ‘No Nukes’ from the rooftops of every building every single day throughout the year. The A-bomb memorial week is behind us. An inclination is to put our “No Nukes” placards […]
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Labor and strikes

Coast-to-coast book tour introducing Cleophas Williams, first Black president of San Francisco dockworkers

August 13, 2023 Gary Wilson
Clarence Thomas, a Black labor union leader and third-generation retired member of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10, published — and wrote an introduction to — a new book called “Cleophas Williams: […]
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Capitalist crisis

Food, trade and slumpflation

August 11, 2023 Michael Roberts
The latest measure of U.S. consumer price inflation for July actually showed an uptick in the year-on-year rate to 3.2% from 3% in June.  That is mainly a result of comparison (‘base effects’, they are […]
Niger Coup
Around the world

All Africans should condemn the call for an ECOWAS-led military invasion of Niger

August 10, 2023 Black Alliance for Peace
Black Alliance for Peace statement: The Africa Team of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and the U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) condemn the threats of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) […]
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Around the world

Mass rally in Niamey backs Niger’s military leaders as ECOWAS-led intervention looms

August 9, 2023 Tanupriya Singh
Approximately 30,000 people gathered in Niger’s capital of Niamey on August 6, as the country faced a looming threat of military intervention led by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc. However, […]
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In the U.S.

McCarthyism is back: Together we can stop it

August 9, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Progressive organizations and prominent individuals have just released an important sign-on letter to reject the new McCarthyism that is accompanying the U.S. government’s Cold War agenda against China. Struggle-La Lucha and the Socialist Unity Party […]
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Events

REMINDER: Aug. 9th National Day of Protest to Defend the Tampa 5! Protesting DeSantis is Not a Crime!

August 9, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Wednesday, August 9th National Day of Protest to Drop the Charges on the Tampa 5! August 9th, is a National Day of Protest, as declared by the Emergency Committee to Defend the Tampa 5! On the […]
Nuclear explosion
Around the world

Atomic bombs: Oppenheimer, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the USSR

August 8, 2023 Stephen Millies
“Oppenheimer” has become a Hollywood blockbuster. The movie’s main character is the liberal, cultured, physicist and war criminal, J. Robert Oppenheimer. For obvious reasons, it hasn’t been shown yet in Japan, where there are thousands […]
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In the U.S.

Jail Trump for racism and war crimes

August 7, 2023 Stephen Millies
The whole world witnessed the insurrection in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election. So why did it take two and a half years to finally indict […]
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Around the world

Niger: Old Europe on trial

August 7, 2023 Geraldina Colotti
Gold, silicon, oil (reserves estimated at 2 billion barrels), and above all, uranium are essential for both French nuclear power plants and atomic bombs. Strategic raw materials for imperialism, which needs to consolidate its domination at […]