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Michael Lucas, immigrant organizer and friend of Soviet people

May 11, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Michael Lucas, editor of Northstar Compass and leader of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with the Soviet People, died in Toronto on May 4. He was 94. Lucas was a fixture of the […]
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The Soviet victory in the Battle of Berlin ended Nazi terror

May 10, 2020 Bill Dores
May 9, 2020, is the 75th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II in Europe. At least 80 million people died in the Second World War, 3 percent […]
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Turkey: Political prisoners continue fight as Grup Yorum member perishes

May 7, 2020 Greg Butterfield
May 7 — Today, musician and political prisoner Ibrahim Gökçek died in Istanbul, Turkey, after a nearly yearlong hunger strike against the repressive NATO government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Two days earlier, Gökçek had […]
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As Zimbabwe turns 40: End U.S. sanctions

April 25, 2020 Amadi Ajamu
On April 18, 1980, the people of Zimbabwe declared their independence from British colonizers after many years of armed struggle. Their struggle to maintain their independence continues today. Africans on the continent and in the […]
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Remember the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising!

April 21, 2020 Lev Koufax
April 19 marked the 77th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. On that day in 1943, approximately 500 Jewish fighters launched an attack against Nazi forces occupying the city fo Warsaw, Poland.  With its invasion […]
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Turkey: Leftist musician dies after 288-day hunger strike against repression

April 6, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
By New Solution editor in chief On Friday, April 3, Helin Bölek, a member of the famous leftist music band Grup Yorum, died on the 288th day of the hunger strike till death (Death Fast) […]
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Eight countries demand lifting of U.S. killer sanctions

March 27, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
The representatives of the governments of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, Russia, Syria and Venezuela to the United Nations have addressed a letter to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres, in […]
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Hamburg police attack African refugee center

March 27, 2020 No Pasarán Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany — At around 6 a.m. on March 26, the Lampedusa tent at the Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (central station) was destroyed and possessions confiscated by a large contingent of police officers. One activist was arrested.  […]
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CIA secretly owned global encryption provider, stole secrets of 100+ foreign governments

March 13, 2020 Scott Scheffer
Disillusioned former CIA operative Philip Agee wrote a book exposing the CIA’s record of spying, sabotage and murder in 1975 called “Inside the Company.” But until recently, few realized there was an actual profit-making company, […]
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Turkey: Police kidnap hunger strikers from leftist band Grup Yorum

March 11, 2020 Anti-Imperialist Front
Ibrahim Gökçek and Helin Bölek are members of the internationally known leftist music group Grup Yorum. They along with several of their comrades were imprisoned by the regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Turkey […]