In the U.S. – Page 50 – Struggle

President Zelensky and Mayor Goode

March 3, 2022 Stephen Millies

While landlords are raising rents by 40%, the capitalist media wants you to hate Russia. They are trying to turn Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into a folk hero. Zelensky is a professional clown. He played […]

Plan to build ballpark at the Port of Oakland threatens thousands of union jobs

February 23, 2022 Lallan Schoenstein

On Feb. 17, Struggle-La Lucha interviewed Clarence Thomas, a third-generation longshore worker, retired past secretary-treasurer of International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 and author of “Mobilizing in Our Own Name: Million Worker March.” […]

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A victory! Professor Rabab Abdulhadi wins second grievance at SFSU

February 21, 2022 International Campaign to Defend Professor Rabab Abdulhadi

A faculty panel has unanimously sided with Professor Rabab Abdulhadi at San Francisco State University (SFSU) in a grievance she filed through her union, the SFSU chapter of the California Faculty Association. Dr. Abdulhadi’s grievance reiterated […]

Biden’s promise to appoint first Black woman to Supreme Court

February 11, 2022 Gloria Verdieu

During a Democratic presidential debate on March 16, 2020, candidate Joe Biden said: “If I am elected president and have an opportunity to appoint someone to the courts, I would appoint the first Black woman […]

NYC student advocates mark National Transit Equity Day

February 8, 2022 Parents to Improve School Transportation

Feb. 4 – Parents to Improve School Transportation (PIST NYC) convened education, disability, and labor advocates to expose multiple facets of New York City’s chronic student transportation failures and to propose solutions via a School […]

Climate Activists Continue Protests Outside White House

After a year of Biden, why do we still have Trump’s foreign policy?

January 20, 2022 Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

Joe Biden and the Democrats were highly critical of Donald Trump’s foreign policy, so it was reasonable to expect that Biden would quickly remedy its worst impacts. As a senior member of the Obama administration, Biden […]

Blaming the victims: The Bronx fire tragedy wasn’t an accident

January 14, 2022 Stephen Millies

Seventeen people died in the Jan. 9 apartment building fire that broke out in the Bronx, New York. Eight of those killed were children. Ousmane Konteh was just 2 years old when he perished. Haouwa […]

Brooklyn, N.Y., teachers demand ‘safety not swagger’

January 13, 2022 Greg Butterfield

Around 100 teachers, students and parents rallied at the Barclays Center sports arena in downtown Brooklyn, New York, Jan. 5 to demand real health and safety protections for public school communities throughout New York City. […]

Stop winter evictions!

January 10, 2022 Stephen Millies

Jan. 8 – A hundred people marched today in New York City in sub-freezing temperatures to stop evictions. Landlords across New York State want to kick 250,000 families out of their homes. People gathered […]

Workers organize and strike to fight pandemic and capitalist inflation

January 6, 2022 Gary Wilson

The COVID-19 pandemic continues as the new year begins, spreading faster with the Omicron variant. Average daily infections in the U.S. are over 500,000. Total deaths are approaching 1 million. The coronavirus is now the […]