Month: June 2024

In the U.S.

Trump attacks ‘horrible’ Milwaukee

June 24, 2024 Stephen Millies
How deliberate deindustrialization made U.S. cities poor  It shouldn’t surprise anybody that Donald Trump called Milwaukee “horrible.” He hates cities with large Black and Latinx communities. Trump described the Black-majority city of Baltimore — […]
China

Biden’s tariffs on China: A union worker responds – part 2

June 23, 2024 Chris Fry
International solidarity, not corporate protectionism, key to union drives, jobs, and higher wages and benefits Part 1 discussed how Biden has undermined his own publicized campaign to fight global warming by imposing huge tariff increases on […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

El sangriento coste del bloqueo estadounidense a Cuba

June 23, 2024 Cheryl LaBash
Un reciente anuncio de Discovery Therapeutics Caribe, LLC en Cleveland alivia un temor importante que viene con un diagnóstico de diabetes, el miedo a la amputación. El grupo de defensa Diabetes.org revela que el temor […]
Cuba

Bloody cost of the U.S. blockade of Cuba

June 22, 2024 Cheryl LaBash
A recent announcement by Discovery Therapeutics Caribe in Cleveland eases a major fear coming with a diabetes diagnosis: the fear of amputation. The advocacy group Diabetes.org reveals the fear is justified. “Every 3 minutes and […]
U.S. / NATO war

Graham ‘accidentally’ exposes the true nature of U.S. diplomacy

June 22, 2024 Global Times
Global Times editorial Recently, senior U.S. politician and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham unabashedly stated in a media interview that Ukraine holds business value for the U.S. He claimed that there are “10 to 12 trillion dollars of […]
Labor and strikes

‘Peace is union business’

June 21, 2024 Lallan Schoenstein
Support for Palestine and Cuba wins unanimous approval at the ILWU 39th convention  “Solidarity at the ILWU Convention was not an empty slogan,” reports retired dockworker Clarence Thomas. Thomas participated in the 39th Convention of […]
LGBTQ+

How imperialism erased Indigenous LGBTQ+ communities

June 21, 2024 Bayani
Since the resurgence of the Palestine solidarity movement following the heroic Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, queer, trans, and gender non-conforming people of all ages have taken up the struggle for a free Palestine. […]
China

Biden’s tariffs on China: A union worker responds – part 1

June 20, 2024 Chris Fry
When Biden was running for office in 2020, he said that Trump’s tariffs on Chinese products increased inflation on the public and promised to reduce or eliminate them. He did not. Instead, on May 4, […]
Labor and strikes

UC fails twice to break UAW strike; court issues restraining order

June 20, 2024 Steven Almeida
 After weeks of solidarity with student demonstrators, academic workers across the University of California system were ordered to halt their unfair labor practice strike until June 27. UAW 4811, which represents 48,000 academic workers […]
Cuba

‘We are going to build a better world!’ Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel tells North American youth

June 20, 2024 Peoples Dispatch
On the last day of the “Let Cuba Live” Youth Brigade, organized by the International Peoples’ Assembly in the first week of June, the members of the brigade met with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel to […]