Gregory E. Williams

‘We have the streets’: New Orleans holds Canal Street for Palestine

October 19, 2026 Gregory E. Williams

New Orleans, Oct. 17, 2026 – On Saturday evening, several hundred people marched for Palestine downtown, commemorating three years of resistance to the United States-Israeli genocide that intensified after Oct. 7, 2023. The march had […]

Trump wants to take LGBTQ+ Cubans’ hard-won rights

June 21, 2026 Gregory E. Williams

Los Angeles LGBTQ Center, June 20 – the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice hosted a forum, “Why Queer People Should Stand with Cuba Against Trump’s Attacks.” Three queer and trans members of the Struggle […]

‘No war on Cuba!’ Rings out in New Orleans streets

May 31, 2026 Gregory E. Williams

New Orleans socialists go to working class with message of resistance New Orleans, May 29 — During the evening rush hour on Friday, around a dozen activists gathered near the bus stops at Canal and […]

Socialist and anti-colonial movements laid groundwork for multipolarity

May 28, 2026 Gregory E. Williams

China and Russia deepen cooperation, issue joint statement on multipolarity The May 20 meeting in Beijing between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin came only days after Donald Trump’s trip to China with a planeload of […]

After Supreme Court’s voting rights decision, Louisiana voters move to recall Gov. Jeff Landry

May 12, 2026 Gregory E. Williams

New Orleans, May 11 – Today, after work, I headed straight to the Gwangi and Hollywood Community Center in Algiers, a working-class, majority-Black neighborhood on the west bank of the Mississippi River. At 5:30 p.m., […]

ICE out of Milwaukee: Free Palestine, free Salah Sarsour!

April 11, 2026 Gregory E. Williams

On April 6, almost a dozen ICE agents surrounded Muslim community leader Salah Sarsour in his car shortly after he left his Milwaukee home. They kidnapped him, first taking him to Chicago and then to […]

Learning from Bob McCubbin: Class divisions and patriarchy are not eternal

April 11, 2026 Gregory E. Williams

The following are remarks at the memorial service for Comrade Bob McCubbin, held on March 21, 2026, at the People’s Forum in New York City. Bob McCubbin was a pioneering theorist of LGBTQIA+ liberation, author […]

The Supreme Court and the fight against conversion therapy

April 4, 2026 Gregory E. Williams

Anti-people Supreme Court strikes again The U.S. Supreme Court just endangered millions of LGBTQIA+ children and youth. With the Chiles v. Salazar ruling on March 31, they opened the door for a resurgence of the […]

Cuba’s Families Code and the fight against racial oppression

March 25, 2026 Gregory E. Williams

Following is Struggle – La Lucha’s submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on behalf of Cuba (CERD). Cuba is a signatory to both the International Convention on the Elimination […]

At Mardi Gras, New Orleanians say ‘F*** ICE!’

February 18, 2026 Gregory E. Williams

New Orleans, Feb.18 – “F*** ICE” might as well have been an unofficial motto of Mardi Gras 2026 — graffitied around the city (along with “ABOLISH ICE”), printed on signs, and even stitched into the […]