Month: June 2024

Around the world

Uprising in Kenya – thousands protest austerity and struggle for liberation

June 27, 2024 Zachary Patterson
Broadcasted for the world to see through TikTok live stream before quickly going viral across several other social media platforms, a video shared early Tuesday, 25 June, by a young Kenyan TikTok user showed a […]
Palestine

Dockworkers in Greece refused to load arms shipment destined for Israel

June 27, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
June 26 — The militant mobilization of dockworkers at Greece’s major port, Piraeus, on Saturday, 15 June, led to the cancellation of the arrival of “MSC ALTAIR”, a container ship transporting weaponry and ammunition to […]
Events

New York: Queer Liberation March, June 30

June 27, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
Queer Liberation March for Black, Brown, Queer, Trans, Gender-Nonconforming, and Nonbinary Youth Against War and Genocide Sunday, June 30 Meet up at Sheridan Square: 11 a.m. March to Battery Park: 11:30 a.m. ReclaimPrideNYC.org All socials: […]
Events

New York: Protest Biden – No war criminals at Pride, June 28

June 27, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
New York City: Protest Genocide Joe Biden – No War Criminals At Pride! Friday, June 28 – 2:00 p.m. – Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, 51 Christopher Street 7:00 p.m. – Manhattan Center, 311 West […]
Palestine

SoCal coalition demands ‘No U.S. weapons for Gaza genocide!’

June 27, 2024 Steven Almeida
Targets weapons profiteers Boeing and RTX On one of the hottest days of the year thus far, hundreds of demonstrators representing over 20 organizations gathered in the blistering heat at a complex in El Segundo, […]
Around the world

The Bolivian people defeated another coup

June 26, 2024 Peoples Dispatch
People responded en masse after military forces had mobilized to the center of La Paz and surrounded the Palace of the Government “No one can take away our democracy!” Bolivian President Luis Arce addressed the […]
Palestine

Palestine resistance demands full withdrawal from Gaza and complete cessation of aggression

June 26, 2024 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Resistance News Network report from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The position of the resistance factions is clear and firm: complete cessation of aggression and full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip The […]
Labor and strikes

From apartheid to Palestine: Bill Proctor’s ILWU journey

June 26, 2024 Clarence Thomas
Trade union retiree in Seattle talks with Clarence Thomas William “Bill” Proctor was on the front lines of ILWU Local 10 rank-and-filers during the anti-apartheid struggle before transferring to Local 19 in the 1980s. As […]
Palestine

Unmasking Maersk to defend Gaza

June 25, 2024 Struggle-La Lucha New York bureau
June 20 — Hundreds of people came to New York City’s reference library on Fifth Avenue today to protest shipping giant Maersk making profits from the genocide in Gaza. The notoriously anti-labor Danish corporation operates […]
Cuba

Cuba stands with Palestine and joins the ICJ lawsuit

June 25, 2024 Alejandra Garcia
On Friday, the Cuban government announced that it will join Nicaragua, Colombia, Libya, Maldives, Egypt, Ireland, Belgium, Turkey, Mexico, Chile and Spain as countries formally joining the lawsuit filed by South Africa before the International […]