Sharon Black – Page 7 – Struggle

Summer of Rage: Women’s group sits in at White House

July 12, 2022 Sharon Black

Washington, D.C. – Thousands of mostly young women marched in pouring rain from 14th and I Streets to the White House July 9 as part of the “Summer of Rage” called by the Women’s March. […]

John Parker’s U.S. Senate campaign declares success

June 14, 2022 Sharon Black

Los Angeles — With 94% of the vote tallied, John Parker for U.S. Senate won over 97,600 votes in the California primaries on June 7. Campaign workers and the candidate declared this a major victory. […]

Poor People’s Campaign and China’s anti-poverty program

May 27, 2022 Sharon Black

On May 12, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign officially began with a Mother’s Day march led by Coretta Scott King and welfare mothers. I was barely 18 years old. Pregnant with […]

Union victory for Amazon workers: A turning point for labor?

April 9, 2022 Sharon Black

The first crack in the Amazon empire is officially opened! It came on April 1, when the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) won its election to represent the 8,000 warehouse workers at the JFK8 facility in […]

Food, gas, rents soaring – never mind, Congress hikes U.S./NATO war dollars

March 17, 2022 Sharon Black

The chant “money for war, can’t feed the poor” best describes the $1.5 trillion spending package passed by Congress and signed by President Biden on March 10. An astounding $782 billion went to the Pentagon […]

U.S. imperialism unleashes global war on workers

March 11, 2022 Sharon Black

Time to declare war on capitalism March 10 – One only has to look at who immediately benefits from the war. As we write, oil and gas billionaires in Texas are clinking their champagne glasses. […]

Cuba battles COVID, defying 60-year U.S. blockade

February 11, 2022 Sharon Black

Presentation by Sharon Black, writer for Struggle-La Lucha and national spokesperson of the Socialist Unity Party, at the Europe for Cuba online forum Feb. 9, 2022. End the U.S. blockade of Cuba It has been […]

Time to organize for workers’ power: Amazon workers have a right to a union

January 15, 2022 Sharon Black

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=257582599797762 Workers at Amazon are fed up! And they’re speaking out! Source: What Up Baltimore The recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) nationwide settlement that forces Amazon to notify workers of their rights to organize […]

Women coast to coast demand: Bans off our bodies!

October 8, 2021 Sharon Black

Washington, D.C., Oct. 2 — Hundreds of thousands of people came out across the U.S. to protest not only the reactionary Texas “heartbeat law,” but growing attacks on reproductive rights in many other states. Women […]

50 years since Attica Rebellion: We salute ‘prisoners’ Paris Commune’

September 9, 2021 Sharon Black

Including a special interview with Tom Soto, Prisoners Solidarity Committee observer. On Sept. 9, 1971, approximately 1,500 prisoners in Cell Block D seized the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York, after submitting a 27-point […]