Author: Greg Butterfield

Capitalist crisis

Dispatches from the housing war

January 2, 2021 Greg Butterfield
Jan. 1 — Millions of renters and homeowners received a last-minute reprieve when President Donald Trump finally signed the (pitiful, inadequate) congressional stimulus bill on Dec. 27 after several days’ delay. The measure extended the […]
Around the world

Indian workers and farmers unite for historic strike, besiege far-right gov’t

December 2, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Nov. 30 — A political and class struggle of historic proportions is taking place in India, the world’s second most populous country. U.S. corporate media have treated it as invisible. For the second time in […]
Elections

Whoever’s in the White House, get ready to fight

November 27, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Nov. 25 — The year 2020 has been exhausting. At the beginning of this year, a U.S. war of aggression against Iran seemed imminent. President Donald Trump ordered the illegal, provocative and downright racist assassination […]
Elections

Vets, activists call on soldiers to reject orders to overturn election

November 26, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Last June 1, as reported by Struggle-La Lucha, President Donald Trump attempted to carry out a coup d’état when his administration ordered U.S. soldiers and National Guard troops to “dominate” Washington, D.C., during mass protests […]
Elections

Protests demand: Trump must go! Fight for a people’s mandate!

November 12, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Even before the polls closed on Election Day, Nov. 3, anti-racist activists, and workers’ and community organizations across the U.S. were preparing to take the streets to push forward a people’s mandate, including an end […]
Indigenous peoples

Indigenous student leader: ‘The racism we’ve faced has been intense’

November 12, 2020 Greg Butterfield
November is Native American Heritage Month. Struggle-La Lucha spoke with Kisha James, president of the Wellesley College Native American Student Association and an activist with the Massachusetts Indigenous Peoples Day campaign. Struggle-La Lucha: Kisha, can […]
Elections

The Electoral College serves to protect the interests of Big Capital

November 9, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Reprinted from “The Capital News,” in London, Nov. 8, 2020. On November 3 presidential elections were held in the USA. The results have not been confirmed yet. But the vote has already become possibly the […]
Elections

After the election: ‘It’s time to occupy the streets’

November 5, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Talk given at “Demand a People’s Mandate” rally in New York on Nov. 4, organized by the N.Y. Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. As expected, Donald Trump declared himself the winner of the presidential […]
Donbass

Alexey Markov: anti-fascist commander, communist hero

October 29, 2020 Greg Butterfield
On Oct. 24, Alexey Markov, commander of the anti-fascist Ghost Battalion in the Lugansk People’s Republic, died in a car accident. His spouse Marina Markov was also killed.  Alexey Markov, a communist from Russia, came […]
Capitalism and Marxism

100 years after his death, John Reed’s example still shines

October 19, 2020 Greg Butterfield
One hundred years ago, the communist journalist John Reed died in Moscow. (The date of his death is given variously between Oct. 17 and Oct. 20, 1920; the Russian comrades say Oct. 19, so I’ll […]