Cuba
A drag show In Havana
May 13, Havana — Almost the moment we arrived at the corner next to the state-owned club, Cabaret Las Vegas, a car with one of our friends from the National Center for Sex Education […]
Author: Gregory E. Williams
Cuba
U.S. LGBTQ+ delegation travels to Cuba to learn about new Families Code
On May 8, the U.S. Friends Against Homophobia and Transphobia delegation, led by Women in Struggle – Mujeres en Lucha, met with Cuban activists at the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) headquarters in […]
Oppressed genders
Transgender Day of Visibility: NOLA high school students walk out, leading hundreds in the streets
March 31 — On International Transgender Day of Visibility, hundreds of students at New Orleans’ Benjamin Franklin High School walked out of class. Benjamin Franklin students did the same last year in March as […]
Oppressed genders
New Orleanians come out against anti-LGBTQ+ bigot Jeff Landry
Feb. 12 — Two actions were held in New Orleans against the latest attacks on LGBTQ+ people and other oppressed workers. These attacks locally are being spearheaded by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry — who […]
In the U.S.
Follow the money: Exposing the capitalists behind attacks on abortion rights
On Nov. 13, the Louisiana Abortion Rights Action Committee (LARAC) made a significant contribution to the movement with their webinar, “Follow the Money: End the Capitalist War on Women.” Since the ultra-right-wing Supreme Court’s overturning […]
Oppressed genders
New Orleans abortion rights protest blocks busy Bourbon St.
New Orleans, Sept. 10 — Today the Louisiana Abortion Rights Action Committee held a demonstration and march downtown. Signs and hand-outs read, “Raise the wages, lower the rent, abortion access now,” highlighting the intersection of […]
Capitalist crisis
High prices, low pay: a Marxist analysis of inflation
Based on remarks at the Socialist Unity Party national plenum on Aug. 13. The global working class is being hit hard by inflation. But what is inflation, and how can we understand both its causes […]
U.S. / NATO war
Gay communist on Russia, fascism and USSR’s legacy
Some using the “Russia is an imperialist power” line are also weaponizing the fact of homophobia in Russia, as they do when referring to the Stalin period in the Soviet Union. This is one way […]
Around the world
Berlin voters say: Expropriate the landlords!
Renters around the world should watch developments in Germany’s capital city, Berlin. Housing activists there achieved a tremendous breakthrough by getting a referendum passed to expropriate the property of big corporate landlords owning 3,000 or […]
Labor and strikes
Union victory for NOLA city workers as council ratifies $15 minimum wage
On Oct. 7, the New Orleans City Council ratified a $15-an-hour minimum wage for city workers, effective in January. This will be $3.81 more than the paltry $11.19 minimum currently in place. Because of sky-rocketing […]