In the U.S.

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Imperialism and global politics

Twenty thousand march in New York City for Palestine on May Day

May 2, 2024 Struggle-La Lucha New York bureau
Twenty thousand workers and students took to New York City’s streets on May Day to denounce the genocide in Gaza and police attacks on college encampments. People came to Foley Square in lower Manhattan to […]
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Imperialism and global politics

New Orleans students defend encampment from violent cops

May 2, 2024 Gregory E. Williams
April 30, New Orleans – Students at adjacent Tulane and Loyola universities formed a joint encampment for Palestine in front of the universities on busy St. Charles Ave. This evening, as the encampment prepares for […]
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Imperialism and global politics

Gaza Solidarity Encampments sweep California campuses

May 2, 2024 Scott Scheffer
April 30, Los Angeles – Student encampments in solidarity with Palestine have spread rapidly over the last two days in California. The news media is particularly alarmed as a student struggle at Cal Poly Humboldt […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

May Day 2024: Resist the witch-hunts!

May 1, 2024 Melinda Butterfield
On International Workers’ Day 2024, workers in the U.S. could swear that Senator Joe McCarthy and Minister Cotton Mather had returned from the dead. More than 35,000 Palestinians, including 14,000 children, have died in just […]
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History

UAW workers at Daimler Truck win big wage gains: Organize the South!

May 1, 2024 Stephen Millies
Blinking at the last minute on April 26, Daimler Truck agreed to union demands for big pay raises. The 7,300 United Auto Workers members won an immediate 10% wage increase. Pay will go up by […]
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Elections

Behind Southern governors’ anti-union agenda

May 1, 2024 Gregory E. Williams
Southern politicians who sold their souls to the corporations and banks are a bit rattled right now, and who can blame them? Volkswagen workers won big in Chattanooga, Tennessee, when 73% of plant workers voted […]
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Fight racism

Mumia to student protesters: ‘Shake the earth’ for people of Gaza

April 30, 2024 Mumia Abu-Jamal
The following solidarity message was given over the phone by former Black Panther and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal to the participants in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at the City College of New York on April […]
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Fight racism

Hundreds march in Philadelphia to free Mumia Abu-Jamal

April 27, 2024 Stephen Millies
Hundreds of people marched through the streets of Philadelphia on April 24 to demand freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal. That day the world-renowned political prisoner turned 70 years old.  Mumia Abu-Jamal has spent over 42 years […]
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Imperialism and global politics

PFLP: Solidarity with student protesters in U.S.

April 25, 2024 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) condemns the repressive practices of the administrations of universities in the United States, and affirms its support for the struggle of the student movement in support […]
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Imperialism and global politics

Columbia crackdown fuels national student protests for Gaza

April 20, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
April 19 — Columbia University students continue their “Gaza solidarity encampment” on the main lawn of the New York City campus, defying a heavy police crackdown, with 122 arrested. The action, coordinated by various student […]