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Syria: U.S., Israel, and Turkey behind terrorist takeover

December 15, 2024 Lev Koufax

Both corporate Western media and so-called progressive media have been positively giddy with celebration in the wake of the U.S. and Turkish-backed terrorist takeover of what was formerly the Syrian Arab Republic. Articles and statements […]

Dutch fascism revisited: From Nazi collaboration to defending Zionist-led pogrom

November 21, 2024 Lev Koufax

As Struggle-La Lucha recently reported, the Western mainstream press has been flooded with alligator tears regarding alleged antisemitic attacks on “Israeli” soccer fans in Amsterdam. In fact, the recent events in Amsterdam constituted a racist […]

Ten things to know about Hana’s haka

November 20, 2024 Arama Rata

Māori MP Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke captured global attention with a powerful haka performed to protest the controversial Treaty Principles Bill On Nov. 14, 22-year-old Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke made global headlines when she performed a powerful haka, a […]

Supporters of the hikoi rally at the Bridge of Remembrance in Christchurch. Photo RNZ Nathan Mckinnon

Aotearoa: The week it all erupted

November 18, 2024 Jamie Tahana

[Editor’s note: Aotearoa is the Māori-language name for New Zealand.] There is a common thread that runs through all of this week’s events for whānau Māori — from the final words of the last surviving […]

Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power sweeps general election

November 18, 2024 Shiran Illanperuma

On October 15, data from the Election Commission of Sri Lanka showed that the National People’s Power (NPP) coalition scored a decisive victory in Sri Lanka’s first general election since defaulting on its external debt. […]

Niger resists in the crosshairs of sanctions and climate catastrophe

November 16, 2024 Pavan Kulkarni

Aboubakar Alassane of the West Africa Peoples Organization (WAPO) explains how Nigeriens are enduring the consequences of unprecedented floods that devastated their economy already crippled by sanctions. In the aftermath of devastation left behind in […]

The revolution never gets old!

November 8, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha

Joint statement of revolutionary organizations in Russia: Comrades! Today, we stand together against the capitalist system, for the conquest of power by the workers and for the deprivation of this power from the bourgeois exploiting […]

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Nigeria’s economic crisis deepens: Children facing death penalty for protesting cost of living

November 3, 2024 Maggie Vascassenno

In Nigeria, 29 children aged 14 to 17 could face the death penalty after being arraigned in Abuja on Nov. 1 with 76 others for participating in protests against the country’s severe cost-of-living crisis. The […]

Stop the sanctions against Zimbabwe!

November 1, 2024 Stephen Millies

Africa says no to economic terrorism Since 2001, Zimbabwe has lost more than $150 billion from the sanctions imposed by the United States and European Union, according to the country’s Vice President Constantino Chiwenga. That’s […]

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Statement by the Network in Defense of Humanity on Brazil’s veto of Venezuela at the BRICS 2024 Summit

October 30, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha

The Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity (REDH) rejects the decision of the Government of Brazil to veto the incorporation of Venezuela as a partner country to the BRICS bloc. We consider […]