Author: Lev Koufax

Warsaw ghetto
Palestine

How can Jews stand and watch horrors of Holocaust in Palestine?

August 10, 2025 Lev Koufax
Eighty-two years ago this year, a group of starving Jewish communists and socialists took up arms against Nazi German troops and tanks inside the Warsaw Ghetto. Facing starvation and deportation to the infamous Treblinka extermination […]
Payus
In the U.S.

Capitalism’s vampires: How WNBA and MLB owners exploit player labor

August 1, 2025 Lev Koufax
As the summer has worn on, tensions between player unions and team ownership in the world of professional athletics have risen higher and higher – and for good reason.  Both the Women’s National Basketball Association […]
Federalworkers
Labor and strikes

SCOTUS to workers: drop dead — Trump’s layoffs can proceed

July 12, 2025 Lev Koufax
On July 8, the Supreme Court rubber-stamped another one of Donald Trump’s fascist policies. This time, the Court lifted all judicial holds on the implementation of Trump and DOGE’s massive layoffs of federal workers.  Seventeen […]
Frantzfanon
Around the world

The Wretched of the Earth: Fanon’s anti-colonial manifesto lives on in Yemen, Palestine, Sahel states

July 10, 2025 Lev Koufax
In the spring and summer of 1961, as Algeria bled through its seventh year of war against French colonial rule, a dying Frantz Fanon poured his revolutionary vision into words. Too weak to write, he […]
La2
In the U.S.

No Kings: 200,000+ Los Angelenos protested Trump and ICE

June 19, 2025 Lev Koufax
On June 14, over 6 million people across the United States marched as part of the “No Kings” day call to action against Donald Trump. One of the largest “No Kings” demonstrations took place in […]
Homayoun sameh
Iran

Jewish member of Iran’s parliament says country has right to self-defense

June 18, 2025 Lev Koufax
As the U.S. and Israel launched a violent campaign against Iran and its people, Homayoun Sameh, the Jewish member of Iran’s parliament, spoke out against the Zionist escalation. Sameh has consistently been a strong supporter […]
Grygorii osovyi ukraine
Around the world

NATO-backed Ukraine escalates war on labor: Union leaders arrested, halls seized

June 7, 2025 Lev Koufax
Just over 11 years ago, fascist mobs cheered in central Kiev as the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (FPU) roared with flame. The FPU’s headquarters, known as the Trade Union House, was a target […]
Van green
Political Prisoners

‘It has been a long 22 years’: wife of wrongfully imprisoned man speaks out

June 2, 2025 Lev Koufax
On May 30, Struggle-La Lucha sat down with Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly activist, Miss Van Green. She has been fighting to free her husband, Duryea, who is currently serving an unjust prison sentence for a […]
In the U.S.

Racist policing in Maryland: 41 deaths in police custody reclassified as homicides

May 30, 2025 Lev Koufax
Nearly two weeks ago, Maryland Governor Wes Moore and Attorney General Anthony Brown announced that a Towson University audit reclassified 41 deaths in police custody as homicides. The audit focused on the years 2003-2019, a […]
Trump ramaphosa
Around the world

Listen to South Africans? Trump’s ‘white genocide’ tirade borrows directly from fascist script

May 22, 2025 Lev Koufax
In a stark display of racist arrogance, President Donald Trump derailed a recent meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa when he launched into a rant alleging that the government of South Africa is engaged […]