Lallan Schoenstein – Page 4 – Struggle

‘Peace is union business’

June 21, 2024 Lallan Schoenstein

Support for Palestine and Cuba wins unanimous approval at the ILWU 39th convention “Solidarity at the ILWU Convention was not an empty slogan,” reports retired dockworker Clarence Thomas. Thomas participated in the 39th Convention of […]

Venezuela pide apoyo contra ataques de EEUU a elecciones

June 17, 2024 Lallan Schoenstein

El 13 de junio, Yván Gil Pinto, ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Venezuela, habló ante una multitudinaria recepción en el Foro del Pueblo de Nueva York. Manolo de los Santos, director ejecutivo del Foro del […]

Venezuela calls for support against U.S. attacks on elections

June 16, 2024 Lallan Schoenstein

On June 13, Yván Gil Pinto, Venezuela’s foreign minister, spoke to a packed reception at the People’s Forum in New York. Manolo de los Santos, the People’s Forum executive director, welcomed Pinto and helped frame […]

Claudia Sheinbaum wins historic election as Mexico’s first woman president

June 11, 2024 Lallan Schoenstein

Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman to be elected president of Mexico, won by a large margin of 60%. She will begin a six-year term on Oct. 1. Until then, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador […]

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Class struggles and economic inequality: Modi’s BJP faces major setback in Indian elections

June 8, 2024 Lallan Schoenstein

In capitalist countries, free elections are said to be an expression of democracy, meaning that the people select their own government. In fact, these elections are anything but democratic. The unexpectedly weak performance of […]

Puerto Rican activist Berta Joubert-Ceci tours U.S., exposing colonial crimes and crises

April 20, 2024 Lallan Schoenstein

Berta Joubert-Ceci began her U.S. tour speaking on the conditions and crises facing the people of Puerto Rico. The first stop, on April 10, was a presentation to Latin American students at Hostos Community […]

San Francisco ceremony on U.S. military vessel foiled by protest for Gaza

April 1, 2024 Lallan Schoenstein

An action to block U.S. military supplies for the Zionist campaign of genocide in Gaza shut down the Embarcadero, a major roadway on the eastern waterfront of the Port of San Francisco, on March 29. […]

Bombs over babies: What about the children?

March 7, 2024 Lallan Schoenstein

News reports show that funds for early childhood education and welfare are drying up at every level of the U.S. government. The cutback is raising issues about the continued maintenance of child care centers. Many […]

Read ‘Exploring the Police State’

March 1, 2024 Lallan Schoenstein

Delency Parham, a resident of Oakland, California, with a family history deeply rooted in the community going back to the Great Migration, has written a powerful document titled “Exploring the Police State: A Briefing on […]

‘A slap in the face’: Trump meeting sparks outrage in Teamsters union

February 5, 2024 Lallan Schoenstein

By acting in the role of the old racist and sexist business-unionism leadership, Teamsters union President Sean O’Brien made a sharp break with the new progressive union movement — personally visiting Donald Trump in […]