Year: 2025

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In the U.S.

Baltimore dirtbike rides defy racist redlining, gentrification, and policing

August 28, 2025 Colby Byrd
This Black August, I want to honor a force of resistance in Baltimore City that continues to fight every week against police repression, builds community between generations, race, sexuality, gender, and age, creates spaces of […]
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Around the world

U.S.-backed Syrian government is rebranded Al-Qaeda, kicks out Palestinian groups

August 27, 2025 Lev Koufax
Earlier this year, the new government of Syria – now under the rule of a rebranded Al-Qaeda sect known as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham – announced that it would expel all individuals affiliated with Palestinian resistance […]
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In the U.S.

A boot on the neck of the working class: The $16 billion footprint of Trump’s police state

August 26, 2025 Lev Koufax
As fascist war monger in chief, Donald Trump threatens cities like Chicago and Baltimore with military occupation, and billions of dollars are headed for an unprecedented expansion in domestic federal law enforcement hiring.  The “One […]
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Struggle ★ La Lucha PDF – August 25, 2025

August 25, 2025 Struggle - La Lucha
Get PDF here Stop Trump’s assault on D.C. & Black mayors nationwide Walkout shuts down Baltimore restaurant over Palestine pin firing DHS is kidnapping and killing us… Ni un@ mas! Flight attendants vow to fight […]
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In the U.S.

Baltimore attempts to shut down Black August celebration, community marches on

August 25, 2025 Colby Byrd
On Aug. 23, members of the People’s Power Assembly and Struggle for Socialism Party participated in a celebration of Black August at the Black owned bookstore, UrbanReads. Joined by the Pan-African Liberation Movement (PLM), Tendea […]
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In the U.S.

Another capitalist-made disaster: Poor and Black communities bear brunt of Louisiana’s toxic legacy

August 25, 2025 Gregory E. Williams
On Aug. 22, an ecological disaster began to unfold in my hometown in South Louisiana with the explosion of the Smitty’s Supply plant in Roseland. Two days later, the oil and chemical tanks are still […]
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Cuba

Cuba’s 2022 Families Code is shaping new progressive laws

August 25, 2025 Maiteé Navarro Giro
Following are comments by Maiteé Navarro Giro on July 29 at the ICAP (Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos / Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples) House of Friendship, in Havana, Cuba, with […]
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La Lucha por el Socialismo

El Código de Familias de Cuba 2022 está dando forma a nuevas leyes progresistas

August 25, 2025 Struggle - La Lucha
La siguiente charla de Maiteé Navarro Giro se presentó el 29 de julio en la Casa de la Amistad del ICAP (Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos), en La Habana, Cuba, con la participación […]
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In the U.S.

The Mamdani NYC mayoral campaign, ‘Which side are you on?’

August 23, 2025 Sharon Black
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary makes the self-proclaimed democratic socialist poised to become the first Muslim person of South Asian descent to hold this position. Mamdani’s crushing defeat of […]
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Cuba

Fidel, Hurricane Katrina and solidarity

August 23, 2025 ICAP
Following is a statement from the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), published on Aug. 22 in the institute’s newsletter, “Cuban Happenings: News of the Island and of Solidarity.” It was prepared by […]