Sharon Black – Page 7

Crisis in Sri Lanka: Is U.S. imperialism involved?

July 31, 2022 Sharon Black

The scenes of massive people’s protests that have forced Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee to Singapore have filled the news media. On July 20, Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former prime minister, was appointed interim […]

Wages, prices and the minimum wage

July 16, 2022 Sharon Black

Today the federal minimum wage is $7.25! Let that sad fact sink in. Right now you can barely buy a gallon of gas in some parts of the country with that little cash. July 24 […]

Friendshipment Caravan tours 21 cities, set to travel to Cuba

July 15, 2022 Sharon Black

July 14 — The 32nd Friendshipment Caravan of IFCO/Pastors for Peace will leave in several days for Cuba, bringing solidarity, love and medical support to underscore the urgent need to end the criminal U.S. blockade […]

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 […]