Author: John Parker

Lanurses
Covid-19

Nurses who refused to care for coronavirus patients without N95 masks are suspended, union fights back and wins

May 8, 2020 John Parker
Los Angeles — In mid-April, 10 nurses employed at Providence Saint John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., were suspended for demanding the necessary personal protective equipment (PPE) to keep them from infection and possible death […]
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Political Prisoners

Coronavirus pandemic: Remove prisoners from these death cells!

April 17, 2020 John Parker
It appears that the U.S. government — headed by Donald Trump and enabled by Democrats who refuse to seriously check the most egregious actions of this fascist-minded, racist and sexist president — is using the […]
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Labor and strikes

California graduate students expand strike for cost-of-living adjustment

March 7, 2020 John Parker
If you go on the website of University of California graduate student workers who are now fighting for a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to manage extremely high rents, you will see daily updates like this:  “UC […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

How do we get socialism?

February 28, 2020 John Parker
Why is capitalism so f@*d up? Well, the short and loosely accurate answer is that it’s like one of those driverless cars that still don’t quite work the way they are supposed to — because […]
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Fight racism

MLK Day in Los Angeles: ‘Money for food stamps, not war on Iran’

January 29, 2020 John Parker
At the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade held in Los Angeles on Jan. 20, tens of thousands of spectators and parade participants along MLK Boulevard were welcomed with over a thousand fact sheets against […]
Haiti
Around the world

Haiti gripped by protests

October 12, 2019 John Parker
  After 15 years of a military occupation of Haiti, the United Nations “peacekeeping” force will close operations on Oct.15.  Growing protests now gripping Haiti began last year in reaction to the announcement by President […]
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China

Happy 70th Anniversary People’s Republic of China!

October 1, 2019 John Parker
On Oct. 1, some 1.4 billion people in China are celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic. China’s culture spans 5,000 years and, in spite of the 19th and 20th century […]
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Imperialism and global politics

Imperialism and Sudan, Part 3: The true architects of terror and poverty

July 25, 2019 John Parker
In 1999, the European Sudanese Public Affairs Council published an article by David Hoile entitled “Farce Majeure: The Clinton Administration’s Sudan Policy 1993-2000.” This is a thorough documentation of the contradictory policies of President Bill […]
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Iran

Defending Iran’s right to self-determination

July 25, 2019 John Parker
Presentation given at U.S. Hands Off Iran webinar sponsored by Struggle-La Lucha on July 14, 2019. I was part of a U.S. anti-war delegation that arrived in Tehran on Oct. 9, 2010, to increase solidarity […]
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Im/migrants and refugees

Los Angeles: Community organizes self-defense against ICE raids

July 22, 2019 John Parker
Los Angeles On Saturday morning, July 13, activists heeded the call of Unión del Barrio (UdB) and gathered at a community center in Los Angeles to anxiously hear plans on community self-defense strategies against raids […]