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Capitalism and Marxism

May Day 2024: Resist the witch-hunts!

May 1, 2024 Melinda Butterfield
On International Workers’ Day 2024, workers in the U.S. could swear that Senator Joe McCarthy and Minister Cotton Mather had returned from the dead. More than 35,000 Palestinians, including 14,000 children, have died in just […]
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Opinion: England’s anti-trans Cass Review is politics disguised as science

April 20, 2024 Erin Reed
The recent report borrows from DeSantis bans on transgender care in Florida and appears designed to provide political justification for further attacks on transgender care. The anti-trans frenzy is peaking in England this week following […]
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Joan Gibbs, renowned lesbian activist and attorney, dies at 71

March 31, 2024 Matt Tracy
Joan Gibbs, an activist and attorney who used her power — often on a pro bono basis — to fight HIV/AIDS and advance racial justice, women’s rights, and LGBTQ rights, died on March 14 at […]
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Nex Benedict’s death must be a turning point in the fight for trans lives!

February 28, 2024 Coalition to Protect Trans Lives
 Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old transgender Choctaw student, was brutally beaten in an Owasso, Oklahoma, high school bathroom on Feb. 7 and died the next day. The school did not call an ambulance for Nex […]
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Call to action: Trans Day of Remembrance 2023

November 9, 2023 Coalition to Protect Trans Lives
Trans Day of Remembrance 2023:  MOURN THE DEAD, FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING! The Coalition to Protect Trans Lives calls on trans and queer people and our allies to come out in force for […]
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Capitalists behind anti-trans social media barrage

November 9, 2023 Sally Jane Black
 On Nov. 2, a hate group called PragerU spent what is reported to be a million dollars to promote anti-trans lies on the social media site “X” (formerly Twitter), owned by right-wing billionaire Elon […]
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Queers say NO to GENOCIDE

October 28, 2023 Tsukuru Fors
On Oct. 24, the LA queer community (3 dozens of us anyways) showed up at Rep. Gomez’s office to let it be known that queers stand firmly against the genocide of more than 2 million […]
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Louisiana protest: ‘AG Landry, you’re a crook! Kids deserve to read gay books!’

September 19, 2023 Gregory E. Williams
 Sept. 15, Lafayette, Louisiana – This writer joined over 30 protesters against corrupt far-right gubernatorial candidate Jeff Landry. We gathered outside KLFY studios where the second gubernatorial debate was happening; Landry skipped the first […]
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Notes on creeping fear

August 1, 2023 Badly Licked Bear
“In a Facebook post, the owner of Studio 8 Hair Lab said that anyone who identifies as anything other than a man, or a woman needs to get serviced at a local pet groomer.” The […]
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The revolutionary spirit of Minnie Bruce Pratt

July 21, 2023 Bob McCubbin
Minnie Bruce Pratt died July 2, 2023, in Syracuse, N.Y. See minniebrucepratt.net It was a cool sunny morning at a La Jolla Shores outdoor café where I first met Minnie Bruce Pratt. Maybe I should […]