Year: 2024

NOLA encampment
Imperialism and global politics

New Orleans students defend encampment from violent cops

May 2, 2024 Gregory E. Williams
April 30, New Orleans – Students at adjacent Tulane and Loyola universities formed a joint encampment for Palestine in front of the universities on busy St. Charles Ave. This evening, as the encampment prepares for […]
Odessa massacre
Around the world

10 years of injustice: Anti-fascist leader recounts Odessa massacre

May 2, 2024 Melinda Butterfield
May 2 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the biggest crimes of 21st century fascism – the massacre of nearly 50 activists at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine. Despite extensive video […]
LA encampment
Imperialism and global politics

Gaza Solidarity Encampments sweep California campuses

May 2, 2024 Scott Scheffer
April 30, Los Angeles – Student encampments in solidarity with Palestine have spread rapidly over the last two days in California. The news media is particularly alarmed as a student struggle at Cal Poly Humboldt […]
421957335 10227763537508413 5544235346468746801 n
Capitalism and Marxism

May Day 2024: Resist the witch-hunts!

May 1, 2024 Melinda Butterfield
On International Workers’ Day 2024, workers in the U.S. could swear that Senator Joe McCarthy and Minister Cotton Mather had returned from the dead. More than 35,000 Palestinians, including 14,000 children, have died in just […]
PFLP May Day
Around the world

PFLP: Long live May 1 as a day of struggle against the enemies of humanity

May 1, 2024 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
O our great Palestinian people, O people of the Palestinian working class and strugglers everywhere, O all the free and honorable in our nation and the world, Every year on the first of May, the […]
URC FYqg
History

UAW workers at Daimler Truck win big wage gains: Organize the South!

May 1, 2024 Stephen Millies
Blinking at the last minute on April 26, Daimler Truck agreed to union demands for big pay raises. The 7,300 United Auto Workers members won an immediate 10% wage increase. Pay will go up by […]
Jeff Yass
Elections

Behind Southern governors’ anti-union agenda

May 1, 2024 Gregory E. Williams
Southern politicians who sold their souls to the corporations and banks are a bit rattled right now, and who can blame them? Volkswagen workers won big in Chattanooga, Tennessee, when 73% of plant workers voted […]
Cropped memorial5
Events

Webinar: Remember the Odessa Massacre, May 2

April 30, 2024 Melinda Butterfield
“MAY 2, 2024: REMEMBER THE ODESSA MASSACRE!” A webinar sponsored by the Odessa Solidarity Campaign Thursday, May 2, noon – 1:15 pm (EST) Click this URL to join: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84423011498 If calling in, dial +16469313860 or […]
CCNY Gaza encampment
Fight racism

Mumia to student protesters: ‘Shake the earth’ for people of Gaza

April 30, 2024 Mumia Abu-Jamal
The following solidarity message was given over the phone by former Black Panther and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal to the participants in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at the City College of New York on April […]
IMG 20240424 145605052 BURST000 COVER TOP
Fight racism

Hundreds march in Philadelphia to free Mumia Abu-Jamal

April 27, 2024 Stephen Millies
Hundreds of people marched through the streets of Philadelphia on April 24 to demand freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal. That day the world-renowned political prisoner turned 70 years old.  Mumia Abu-Jamal has spent over 42 years […]