Lallan Schoenstein

Million Worker March tribute: Chris Silvera’s legacy and where it can take us

October 12, 2026 Lallan Schoenstein

The Million Worker March Movement will pay tribute to the legacy of Chris Silvera on Saturday, Oct. 17. That is the 22nd anniversary of the Million Worker March, which took place on the steps of […]

Port workers: No arms through our docks

September 28, 2026 Lallan Schoenstein

With demands against war and militarization, unions representing workers in more than 40 Mediterranean and European ports have launched a common international day of action, calling for all dockworkers and port workers to mobilize together […]

Cassandra Wilson took the blues back to the Delta

September 8, 2026 Lallan Schoenstein

Jazz musician Cassandra Wilson died at her home in Jackson, Mississippi, on Sept. 1. She was 70. She was born in Jackson on Dec. 4, 1955, 10 weeks after an all-white jury 115 miles north […]

100 years of Fidel and the reason Cuba holds

August 23, 2026 Lallan Schoenstein

A Bronx delegate in blockaded Havana The feat accomplished by the Cubans in hosting the international colloquium “Fidel: Legacy and Future” from Aug. 10 to 13 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s birth […]

The Fanjuls: forced labor abroad, union-busting at home, a favor from Trump

August 19, 2026 Lallan Schoenstein

Shortly after Donald Trump’s second inauguration, his administration quietly removed the ban on sugar imports from the Fanjul family-controlled Central Romana company. The ban began in 2022 when it was disclosed that the Fanjuls’ sugar […]

Longshore solidarity forces C&H Sugar back to bargaining

July 31, 2026 Lallan Schoenstein

MEMORANDUM FROM: ILWU International SUBJECT: Update re: ILWU Local 6 Strike and Bargaining with C&H DATE: July 27, 2026 Please find attached a Press Release regarding ILWU Local 6’s strike at C&H Sugar, Inc. and […]

India’s ‘Cockroach’ revolt shakes Modi — and the working class could break him

July 25, 2026 Lallan Schoenstein

Baton-swinging police waded into crowds of students and young workers in New Delhi on July 20, firing tear gas and beating marchers who are posing the most serious challenge to the rule of Narendra Modi’s […]

ILWU Local 6 holds the line against C&H Sugar’s union busting

July 16, 2026 Lallan Schoenstein

On July 15, Struggle-La Lucha interviewed Javis Payne, a member of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 6, and Clarence Thomas, an ILWU Local 10 retiree who is on the executive board of […]

Rank and file emerge with a political agenda at the UAW convention

June 26, 2026 Lallan Schoenstein

Delegates to the United Auto Workers’ 39th Constitutional Convention in Detroit took up union business that ran well past contract bargaining, asserting the union’s weight on behalf of all the workers who keep the world […]

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Belfast answers Musk-fueled racist pogroms with mass anti-racist march

June 14, 2026 Lallan Schoenstein

Tens of thousands marched in Belfast, Derry and Glasgow on June 13, answering the racist mobs that had terrorized immigrant families days earlier. The rally outside Belfast City Hall sent a clear message: the racists […]