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Congress of the Peoples of the East resonates 100 years later

September 12, 2020 Bayani
For a moment, let’s travel back in time exactly 100 years to Baku, a city in what was known then as the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Somewhere in the city, nearly 1,900 people gathered in […]
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NYC Council backtracking on chokehold ban law sparks protest

September 11, 2020 Amadi Ajamu
As nationwide protests against police killing Black people and calls for defunding and reform have gained national and international support, law enforcement backlash from President Trump to the NYPD and PBA have also accelerated. In […]
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Organize to defeat the racist backlash!

September 9, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Recent events in Kenosha, Wis., and Portland, Ore., are the biggest signs that a racist backlash is underway in the United States against the righteous rebellion that followed the police murder of George Floyd in […]
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Socialists reach out at D.C. anti-racist march

September 5, 2020 Sharon Black
Washington, D.C. — On Aug. 28, Struggle-La Lucha newspaper and the Socialist Unity Party/Partido de Socialismo Unido participated in the national “Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks” on the 57th anniversary of the […]
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Never forget Katrina – Black lives matter!

September 4, 2020 Sharon Black
Struggle-La Lucha salutes the people of New Orleans and the Katrina diaspora!  It has been 15 years since Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana, beginning on Aug. 29, 2005. Over 1,800 mostly Black and poor people lost […]
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Atlanta activists rally for Rayshard Brooks Peace Center

September 4, 2020 Lizz Toledo
Atlanta — The Sleep-In Activists, Community Movement Builders and many other organizations, including the Socialist Unity Party, are calling for the Wendy’s restaurant parking lot where Rayshard Brooks was murdered by Police Officer Garrett Rolfe […]
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NBA and WNBA players strike to demand justice for Jacob Blake

September 4, 2020 Steven Ceci
Strike spreads throughout sports world, demonstrates real solidarity On Aug. 26, National Basketball Association and Women’s National Basketball Association players went on strike in an act of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, after […]
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Kenosha cops and fascists work hand-in-hand

August 29, 2020 Stephen Millies
The 12-year old Black youth Tamir Rice  had a toy gun when he was shot to death by a white Cleveland cop on Nov. 22, 2014.  Armed fascist terrorists are driving up and down the […]
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Uprising underway in Kenosha, Wis., after the police shooting of Jacob Blake

August 24, 2020 FightBack! News
Kenosha, Wis. — Hundreds of people rallied at the scene of a shooting that took place around 5:30 p.m. on August 23. After breaking up a fight between two women, Jacob Blake, 29, attempted to […]
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Hundreds march on the DNC in Milwaukee, ‘We can’t breathe!’

August 24, 2020 FightBack! News
Milwaukee — In the early evening of Aug. 20, around 500 people gathered in Dontre Hamilton (officially Red Arrow) Park in downtown Milwaukee to mark the final day of the Democratic National Convention. The turnout […]