Author: Greg Butterfield

U.S. / NATO war

Victory Day and the struggle for abortion rights today

May 18, 2022 Greg Butterfield
Presentation at the international webinar “Marxists Speak Out: Victory Day, Against Nazism and Imperialism, Yesterday and Today” on May 14. I’ve just come from a march of many thousands here in New York to defend […]
U.S. / NATO war

Three days in May to fight imperialist war and fascism

May 1, 2022 Greg Butterfield
The struggle against imperialist war and white supremacy is global. Pictured: Brooklyn protest after the police murder of George Floyd, June 1, 2020; Victory Day 2016 in Lugansk. SLL photos: Greg Butterfield This May, as […]
LGBTQ+

U.S.-NATO war and attacks on trans rights: Two fronts in the class war

April 21, 2022 Greg Butterfield
In Texas and Alabama, transgender youth are facing forcible detransition. A law passed by Alabama’s legislature and signed by Gov. Kay Ivey April 8, and an executive order by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in February, […]
U.S. / NATO war

‘Revolutionary Marxists look below surface’ to understand war crisis

April 2, 2022 Greg Butterfield
Presentation by Struggle-La Lucha co-editor Greg Butterfield on behalf of the Socialist Unity Party at the international online forum “Marxists Speak Out on the Conflict Between Russia and Imperialism” on March 26. The event featured […]
U.S. / NATO war

Mariupol and Donetsk: a tale of two cities

March 25, 2022 Greg Butterfield
In December 2014, a young Russian communist named Andrey Sokolov was visiting the newly formed Donetsk People’s Republic. He went to meet a friend who’d been driven into exile from Ukraine after the U.S.-backed far-right […]
LGBTQ+

Texas: Hands off trans youth!

March 25, 2022 Greg Butterfield
Trans people, and especially youth, are under attack in state capitols across the U.S. And the most egregious attack so far has come in a state that is a stronghold of the neofascist takeover of […]
U.S. / NATO war

‘Cut through wall of imperialist propaganda’ on Ukraine

March 4, 2022 Greg Butterfield
From a presentation by Struggle-La Lucha co-editor Greg Butterfield at a Feb. 27 film showing of Oliver Stone’s film “Ukraine on Fire,” hosted by Youth Against War and Racism. At the beginning of a war […]
U.S. / NATO war

Around the world: Condemnation for NATO, solidarity with Donbass and Russia

March 2, 2022 Greg Butterfield
To hear the U.S. corporate media tell it, the entire world has joined Washington in condemning Russia’s recognition of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in Donbass and their joint anti-fascist military operation in Ukraine. […]
La Lucha por el Socialismo

Por qué Rusia reconoció las repúblicas del Donbas

February 25, 2022 Greg Butterfield
24 de febrero de 2022  Para tener hoy una clara posición contra la guerra y el antiimperialismo, las/os trabajadores con conciencia de clase deben comprender el significado de la decisión del 21 de febrero de […]
U.S. / NATO war

Lenin: How to oppose an unjust war

February 25, 2022 Greg Butterfield
The Leninist view of how to fight against imperialist war remains one of the most controversial and defining characteristics of the communist movement, because it means standing up to the capitalist class at the moment […]