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In the U.S.

Louisiana Gov. Landry kidnaps unhoused people ahead of Super Bowl

January 17, 2025 Louisiana Workers Council
$16 million spent to intern unhoused people could give them all apartments Jan. 15, New Orleans – Before daylight on January 15, Gov. Jeff Landry took the next step in taking over New Orleans. On […]
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‘I’ve been to the mountaintop’: A call to action then and now

January 16, 2025 Penny Pinotti
On Jan. 11, members of the Baltimore community gathered at the Harriet Tubman Solidarity Center for a screening of “At the River I Stand,” a film documenting the Memphis sanitation workers strike in 1968. The […]
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Annexation redux: Trump’s expansionist threats unmask longstanding policy

January 13, 2025 Lev Koufax
In the past few weeks, we’ve seen a buzz in the corporate media about President-elect Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric on annexation. As Trump approaches his second term in office, he has ramped up his talk […]
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Outrage in New Orleans: ‘Biden can’t condemn terror while funding it abroad’

January 8, 2025 Gregory E. Williams
New Orleans, Jan. 6 — Joe Biden visited New Orleans today to commemorate the victims of the New Year’s morning mass killing by a U.S.-born military veteran from Texas that left 14 dead and 30 […]
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Gen Z has nowhere to go: The erosion of third spaces in the U.S.

January 6, 2025 Jace Carter
A telltale sign of an empire in serious decline is the degree to which the ruling class continuously gaslights my generation, Gen Z, saying that if we all want to stop feeling so lonely and […]
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Condemn tragic French Quarter assault: Say no to attacking Middle Easterners, Muslims and immigrants

January 2, 2025 Workers Voice Socialist Movement in New Orleans, Louisiana
Repression and anti-immigrant scapegoating New Orleans, Jan. 1 — Our condolences go out to the families and friends of those killed and injured in the horrific attack in the French Quarter of New Orleans. We […]
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Rudy Pisani – A life well lived

January 2, 2025 Struggle-La Lucha Los Angeles bureau
Friends and comrades came together at the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice in Los Angeles on Dec. 15 to celebrate the phenomenon that was Rudy Pisani. Rudy Pisani was a much-beloved activist in the […]
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How the wealthy engineered white supremacy: The Wilmington Massacre of 1898

January 1, 2025 Gregory E. Williams
Part 1: Populists fought the ruling class Part 2: Populism or fascism? Part 3: The history of Black Populism Part 4: Two paths after slavery’s end Part 5: A Cuban perspective on race and revolution […]
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Farewell to a revolutionary: Rochester’s Lydia Bayoneta

December 24, 2024 Scott Scheffer
Lydia Bayoneta, 79, of Rochester, New York, died on Dec. 18 after a long illness. Revolutionary struggle was her life’s work, and for years, she could be spotted at any progressive action on the street […]
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From the Jena 6 to immigrant rights: Fight for others as you’d fight for yourself

December 15, 2024 Gregory E. Williams
This December marks 18 years since the start of the case of the Jena 6 — Robert Bailey, Mychal Bell, Carwin Jones, Bryant Purvis, Jesse Ray Beard, and Theo Shaw.  These six Black teenagers from […]