Author: Greg Butterfield

Korea

Workers’ Party of Korea celebrates 75 years of struggle

October 16, 2020 Greg Butterfield
People in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea celebrated the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea on Oct. 10, 1945. The WPK is the communist party that leads the building […]
Elections

Trump pushes voter suppression: how should revolutionaries respond?

October 15, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Oct. 13 — As people in Fairfax, Va., waited in line to cast their ballots on the second day of early voting, a squad of Trump supporters descended on the polling station, disrupting the process […]
Covid-19

Brooklyn, N.Y.: Protest hits unsafe reopening of public schools

September 26, 2020 Greg Butterfield
On Sept. 21, the first group of students — special education students and pre-kindergarten children — attended in-person classes in New York City public schools for the first time since school buildings closed in late […]
Fight racism

‘Say her name! Breonna Taylor! No justice, no peace!’

September 25, 2020 Greg Butterfield
“Say her name! Breonna Taylor! No justice, no peace!” The cry rang out through the streets of Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sept. 23 as more than a thousand people gathered at Barclays Center to protest the […]
Fight racism

Organize to defeat the racist backlash!

September 9, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Recent events in Kenosha, Wis., and Portland, Ore., are the biggest signs that a racist backlash is underway in the United States against the righteous rebellion that followed the police murder of George Floyd in […]
Around the world

U.S.-NATO hands off Belarus!

August 29, 2020 Greg Butterfield
  Six years after the U.S. government helped to engineer a right-wing takeover of Ukraine using mass protests, another former Soviet republic — Belarus — is now in the gunsights of Washington and the European […]
Covid-19

Brooklyn march: Stop unsafe school reopening plan!

August 23, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Brooklyn, N.Y. — A protest led by Black and Brown teachers and students drew hundreds of people to Grand Army Plaza on Aug. 20. Their call was to “oppose unsafe opening of New York public […]
Around the world

After tragic Beirut explosion: Imperialist vultures pounce on Lebanon

August 22, 2020 Greg Butterfield
A powerful explosion ripped through the port of Beirut, Lebanon’s capital, on Aug. 4. At least 171 people have died and thousands were injured, including many Syrian and other non-Lebanese workers. Hundreds of thousands were […]
Around the world

Turkey: Hunger striking lawyers defy Erdoğan’s repression

August 11, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Aug. 10 — The lives of political prisoners and people’s lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal hang in the balance as the regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, a member of the U.S.-dominated […]
Cuba

New York rally salutes Cuba’s international solidarity

July 27, 2020 Greg Butterfield
New York — Supporters of the Cuban Revolution rallied in Union Square on July 26, on the anniversary of the 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks led by Fidel Castro. The event was organized by […]