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‘Feds get out’: Portland movement fights to put power into the hands of the people

August 14, 2020 Scott Scheffer

Struggle-La Lucha spoke with Cody Urban of the International League of Peoples Struggle (ILPS) about the protests against racist police terror in Portland, Ore., and the violent federal agents dispatched by the Trump administration to […]

A. Philip Randolph wanted a $16.88 minimum wage

August 14, 2020 Stephen Millies

The anniversary of the Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is approaching. The historic event is best remembered for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. What the […]

Drop the charges against Minnesota uprising defendants

August 13, 2020 Steff Yorek

Two months ago Minneapolis rose up against police crimes in the aftermath of the police murder of George Floyd. Now the system seeking to reassert itself ad bring down political repression to silence the uprising […]

Mumia Abu-Jamal: Slavery, reparations and ‘apologies’

August 11, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha

Res. 194: An apology for the enslavement and racial segregation of African Americans In July 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives passed House Resolution 194, apologizing for slavery and racial segregation of African Americans. The […]

¡Reparaciones ahora!

August 11, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha

Por Partido de Socialismo Unido – Caucus Negro Introducción Este sistema prospera ocultando el valor creado por los trabajadores, especialmente cuando se trata de la cantidad de riqueza creada por el trabajo esclavo africano, esencial […]

Reparations now!

August 8, 2020 Socialist Unity Party – Black Caucus

Introduction This system thrives on hiding the value that workers create, especially when it comes to the amount of wealth created by African slave labor, essential to capitalism’s growth. If this is allowed to continue, […]

The Heroes of San Rafael: Black August 1970

August 7, 2020 Fred Goldstein

In the momentous political event that marked “Black August,” freedom fighter Jonathan Jackson, at the age of 17, burst into a San Rafael, Calif., courtroom, armed, to free his brother, George Jackson, along with Fleeta […]

Black labor and the fight for reparations

August 5, 2020 Bill Dores

This article was first published in August 2002 and has been lightly updated. “Probably every slave imported represented, on the average, five corpses in Africa or on the high seas. The American slave trade meant, […]

Black labor from chattel slavery to wage slavery

August 5, 2020 Sam Marcy

Black August commemorates the Aug. 7, 1970, raid on the Marin County Courthouse led by young revolutionary Jonathan Jackson, and the Aug. 21, 1971, assassination of Black Panther prison organizer George Jackson at San Quentin Prison. […]

Anti-racist protests expand in response to Trump’s army of thugs

August 1, 2020 Scott Scheffer

Eighty-eight years ago, on July 28, 1932, the U.S. military attacked Black and white military veterans in a Bonus Army demonstration demanding relief from the hunger wrought by the Great Depression. The attack has parallels […]

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