Year: 2024

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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 — […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]