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A meeting in Harlem: Malcolm X, Fidel Castro, and the struggle for Palestine

September 19, 2025 Manolo De Los Santos
Lee en español aquí In September 1960, in the heart of Black America, Harlem’s Hotel Theresa became the stage for one of the world’s most monumental encounters. When Malcolm X and Fidel Castro met there 65 […]
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From Sally-Tom to Charlotte Fosgate: populism and the fight for trans lives, then and now

June 2, 2025 Melinda Butterfield
In May, the Struggle for Socialism Party Los Angeles branch discussed the new book, “Against Fascism: Reclaiming Populism’s Legacy for Today’s Class Struggle,” compiled by Louisiana socialist Gregory Williams.  Following is the closing presentation for […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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Cuba’s victory at Playa Giron and the U.S.’s moral punishment

April 22, 2024 Alejandra Garcia
April 19, 1961, is marked in the Cuban popular imagination as a day of national pride. Barely 72 hours after the landing of 1500 U.S.-backed mercenaries at Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs) in Matanzas, Cuba […]
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Never forget the Ludlow, Colorado, and Veracruz, Mexico, massacres

April 19, 2024 Stephen Millies
Over 20 people were killed by the Colorado National Guard in Ludlow on April 20, 1914, during a coal miners’ strike. Eleven of those murdered were children. They choked to death when the tent above […]
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Why we should commemorate Nov. 11

November 10, 2021 Stephen Millies
Even though Veterans Day is a federal holiday, only 19 percent of workers employed by private business get the day off. Originally called Armistice Day, it marks the end of World War I “at the 11th hour […]
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Long live the Paris Commune!

March 20, 2021 Stephen Millies
One hundred fifty years ago, poor and working people in Paris took power into their own hands. The Paris Commune was born on March 18, 1871. Karl Marx ― the founder of scientific socialism, also […]
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Malcolm X: A human rights activist moving towards socialism

May 19, 2020 Gloria Verdieu
If not for the COVID-19 pandemic, as we mark Malcolm X’s 95th birthday on May 19, 2020, hundreds and thousands of people would be marching and rallying in the streets, shouting “Justice for Ahmaud Arbery […]