Year: 2024

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Cuba

Cuba: Power outages prolonged due to delays in energy recovery

October 19, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
Today, Cuba once again experienced a total power outage after the recovery process of the National Electric System (SEN), initiated the day before following a blackout caused by a failure at a thermoelectric plant, failed. […]
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La Lucha por el Socialismo

Robo del presupuesto de la Universidad

October 19, 2024 Berta Joubert-Ceci
La semana pasada, una firma británica que evalúa universidades a nivel global, la QS World University Rankings, posicionó por primera vez a la Universidad de Puerto Rico, nuestra universidad pública, como la primera en el […]
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Cuba

Cuba faces nationwide blackout, activists renew calls for an end to the blockade

October 19, 2024 Peoples Dispatch
The inclusion of Cuba on the state sponsors of terrorism list has severely limited the island nation from accessing funds and the international market. The Ministry of Energy and Mines in Cuba announced on Friday, […]
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Palestine

Arms shipment to Israel blocked by dockworkers in Greece

October 19, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
Oct. 18 — Late last night the COSCO Dockers Union in Piraeus Port, ENEDEP, alerted its members and the unions of the area that a container transferring bullets to Israel was to arrive in Piraeus […]
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Palestine

Hamas statement on the martyrdom of Yahya Sinwar

October 18, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
Halt the aggression in Gaza, withdraw and release our heroic prisoners from the occupiers’ jails With all the pride, dignity, and honor, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, mourns to our Palestinian people, to our entire […]
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Environment

Capitalism’s climate catastrophe: How fossil fuel giants fueled the storm crisis

October 18, 2024 Scott Scheffer
On Sept. 26, Hurricane Helene hit near Tampa, Florida, and tore north and then northwest through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, even reaching the eastern part of Tennessee. Helene stretched about 400 miles across […]
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In the U.S.

Meat monopolies ripped off McDonald’s and everybody else

October 18, 2024 Stephen Millies
Skyrocketing food prices are a corporate conspiracy McDonald’s filed an antitrust suit on Oct. 4 against the four biggest meatpackers, claiming the outfits conspired to jack up beef prices since at least 2015. The four […]
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Events

Los Angeles emergency protest: Stop U.S./Israel burning patients, children and families alive – Oct. 18

October 17, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
Friday, October 18 – 4:00-6:00 p.m. CNN Building, 6430 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles End the genocide in Gaza No THAAD missile system, no U.S. troops in occupied Palestine Stop bomb Beirut, stop assassinations of Resistance […]
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Palestine

Biden-Harris administration escalates war drive against Iran

October 17, 2024 Lev Koufax
Recent weeks have seen the U.S. war machine substantially escalate its proxy war against Iran via “Israel” and other regional partners. On Sept. 27, the U.S.-backed Zionist regime assassinated Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, a […]
Nigeria
Around the world

Free after 59 days: Detained #EndBadGovernance protesters released in Nigeria

October 17, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
Abuja, Nigeria, Oct. 3 — Detained End Bad Governance protesters released on bail after spending 59 days in detention are shown in this video. This movement began on July 29 of this year using the […]