Year: 2023

Political Prisoners

Marshall ‘Eddie’ Conway, ¡presente!

February 15, 2023 Struggle-La Lucha Baltimore bureau
Former Black Panther Party leader and political prisoner Marshall “Eddie” Conway died Feb. 13 in Long Beach, California. He was a leading member of the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party and was falsely […]
In the U.S.

Speaker of the House chaos highlights neo-fascist extremists

February 15, 2023 Lev Koufax
As 2023 began, a political whirlwind ended as the Republican party elected Kevin McCarthy Speaker of the House of Representatives, often considered the second most powerful position in the federal government. However, the fanfare was […]
In the U.S.

State of the Union: Biden’s honest moment “I am a capitalist”

February 13, 2023 Sharon Black
In President Joe Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address on Feb. 7, there was one honest moment. Biden said, “I am a capitalist.” Well, he fudged a bit; he should have said, I am […]
Around the world

U.S. troops out of the Philippines!

February 13, 2023 Stephen Millies
Filipinos and their supporters protested the Pentagon’s war buildup in the Philippines on Feb. 11 in New York City. People rallied at the Times Square military recruiting station on a busy Saturday night in the […]
Cuba

Cuba and Biden’s ‘State of the Union’

February 13, 2023 José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez
As happens every year, the act known as the presidential State of the Union address has just taken place in the U.S. Capitol, an exercise that has been carried out publicly and uninterruptedly since 1913 […]
Around the world

Airforce spent millions to shoot down a U.S. weather balloon

February 13, 2023 Moon of Alabama
February 11 — Yesterday, the U.S. airforce shot down another weather balloon: The Pentagon said it shot down an unidentified object over frozen waters around Alaska on Friday at the order of President Biden, less than […]
U.S. / NATO war

Why Hersh’s Nord Stream bombshell may become legal nightmare for Team Biden & its Nordic allies

February 13, 2023 Ekaterina Blinova
The White House has denounced Seymour Hersh’s Nord Stream bombshell as “fiction”. Oslo claimed that the Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist’s allegations are “nonsensical.” Still, the denials are unlikely to satisfy the public given that EU probes in […]
Around the world

French workers’ movement debates general strike to beat Macron

February 13, 2023 John Mullen
Demonstrations in a record number of towns – over 260 – took place last Saturday, 11 February. This was the fourth day of action to defend pensions in France, as the Pensions Bill begins its month […]
Around the world

Ninety years since Hitler took power

February 11, 2023 Stephen Millies
German working class supported socialism. How did the Nazis crush them? Ninety years ago, on Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. A dozen years of hell followed, with tens of millions […]
Around the world

South Africa’s National Union of Metalworkers will join call for Mumia’s freedom

February 11, 2023 Lallan Schoenstein
ILWU attends South African Conference commemorating the 1973 Durban strikes Representatives from the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) gathered with union leaders from Namibia and South Africa at a Jan. 26 – 28, 2023, […]