Author: Greg Butterfield

Around the world

Turkey: Political prisoners continue fight as Grup Yorum member perishes

May 7, 2020 Greg Butterfield
May 7 — Today, musician and political prisoner Ibrahim Gökçek died in Istanbul, Turkey, after a nearly yearlong hunger strike against the repressive NATO government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Two days earlier, Gökçek had […]
Donbass

On sixth anniversary, Ukraine’s war on Donbass takes ominous turn

April 13, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Late in the afternoon of April 9, 25-year-old hotel worker Miroslava Vorontsova was killed by a Ukrainian military drone strike on the front-line town of Gorlovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic. A 59-year-old neighbor was […]
In the U.S.

Rosemary Neidenberg: a century of revolutionary struggle

April 8, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Rosemary Neidenberg died in Brooklyn, N.Y., on March 29 at the age of 99. For almost a century, her commitment to the revolutionary liberation of humanity never faltered. She was also one of the kindest, […]
Covid-19

Gov’t, bosses use pandemic emergency to escalate repression

April 3, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus are being used as a cover by officials of the U.S. capitalist government, from the federal to the state and local levels, to heighten their control and […]
Covid-19

A people’s response to Covid-19

March 13, 2020 Greg Butterfield
We place no confidence in the anti-science, climate-change deniers of the Trump administration, the pathetically inadequate for-profit U.S. health care system, or Big Pharma and Wall Street to address the Covid-19 (novel coronavirus) crisis. The […]
Around the world

Nepal: Mass march challenges U.S. military scheme

March 5, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Have you heard of the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)? Yes, it sounds like a company that produces cheesy reality TV shows. But the truth is more dangerous. And it has workers and peasants in […]
Covid-19

A people’s response to COVID-19

March 3, 2020 Greg Butterfield
We place no confidence in the anti-science, climate-change deniers of the Trump administration, the pathetically inadequate for-profit U.S. health care system, or Big Pharma and Wall Street to address the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) crisis. The […]
In the U.S.

The real State of the Union

February 12, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Let’s talk about the State of the Union. No, not Trump’s speech. Don’t worry, I’ll get to that shortly. I’m talking about the real deal: the political reality facing poor and working people living in […]
Around the world

India, France, Puerto Rico: Corporate media hide general strikes from U.S. workers

January 22, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Around the world, people are walking off the job in huge numbers, withholding their labor power to protest government attacks on workers’ rights and other crimes of the profit system. Why isn’t this in the […]
Around the world

Russia’s Anti-Imperialist Marathon: ‘We have much to learn from each other’

January 17, 2020 Greg Butterfield
On Dec. 8, 2019, activists in Moscow organized an event called the Anti-Imperialist Marathon, which broadcast live for over four hours on YouTube and other social media and was viewed by thousands of people in […]