Fight Back News Service is circulating the following resolution, adopted by the Milwaukee Area Labor Council, AFL-CIO Executive Board on October 2, 2023.Resolution in Solidarity with Organized Labor in the Philippines WHEREAS, legislative and violent attacks on organized labor in the Philippines have…
Aurora, CO â On September 27 community members and activists gathered to support the family of JorâDell Richardson, who was murdered by police. The crowd demanded accountability for his killing at a meeting with officials of the city of Aurora and Arapahoe County. As the trial for two of the Aurora…
The New South Wales Teachers Federation (NSWTF) state council last month accepted a four-year agreement with the state Labor government. The deal is essentially a blank cheque for the government over the next four years, selling out the stateâs public school teachers.Teachers themselves have been given…
United American Indians of New England (UAINE), the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB) and their allies took over the entrance of Bostonâs Basilica Church Sept. 30 to commemorate the âNational Day For Truth and Reconciliationâ in so-called Canada. Participants in Orange Shirt Day…
Mazaska Talks, Indigenous Tribal members and their allies marched from the Seattle federal building on Sept. 30 to observe Orange Shirt Day, an event created to expose, oppose and rectify the damage done by Canadian government-sponsored residential schools, and U.S. government-backed American Indian…
By Nicki KattouraPhiladelphia This slightly edited article first appeared in Mondoweiss, Sept. 28. The Palestine Writes Literature Festival, Sept. 22-24, was a liberated space for Palestinians to speak and dream freely. It was an unequivocal display of love for a land and her people, their history and…
Robert Divine, age 52, died Feb. 14, 2023; Steven Smith, age 38, died April 15, 2021; Courtney Salmon, age 31, died May 25, 2021; Quincy Di-Harris, age 25, died Aug. 27, 2021; Kenneth Harris, age 69, died June 7, 2023; Bass Wykeem, age 33, died Aug. 26, 2022 â they are just six of 46 people known to…
M.S. Swaminathan, widely regarded as the father of the Green Revolution in India, recently passed away (28 September) at the age of 98. An agronomist, agricultural scientist and plant geneticist, Swaminathan played a key role in introducing hybrid high yielding varieties of wheat and rice to India and…
ââYouâll own nothing and be happyâ? David Webb has gone through the 50-year history of all the legal constructs that have been put in place to technically enable that to happen.â [Oct 2 interview titled âThe Great Taking: Who Really Owns Your Assets?â] The derivatives bubble has been estimated…
Democratic Mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnsonâs plan to have private security firm GardaWorld build and operate what he calls âwinterized base camps,â rather detention centers, to house thousands of asylum seekers is provoking popular revulsion and anger. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders stumps for…
Home secretary Suella Braverman endorses the thinking and policies of the far right Conservative home secretary Suella Braverman flew to Washington DC last week to announce that âuncontrolled and illegal migration is an existential challenge for the political and cultural institutions of the West.â She…
The author of this article, MR author Prabir Purkayastha, was detained for questioning on Tuesday, October 3rd, by Indian police in the raid on the left news website NewsClick, a product of the New York Times article attacking left activists. FIFTY years back, Pinochetâs coup destroyed Allendeâs…
Strike action by ASLEF train drivers and the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union during the Conservative Party conference in Britain this week has been quickly dismantled, with RMT leader Mick Lynch playing the central role. Rather than the spearhead of the fight demanded by rail workers, both unions…
Spainâs elections on July 23 yielded a surprise result thatâs left the country without a government for more than 10 weeks now. While the conservative Partido Popular (PP) won the most votes, no clear majority was established. The far-right party Vox also made significant gains, and has established…
AT SOME POINT in 1999, I interviewed the author and journalist Naomi Klein about No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, her exposĂ© of the extractive and exploitative realities behind the shiny packaging for Nike and Starbucks. That book, and Klein herself, became central to the anti-capitalist movement…
Photo: Emergency event held by journalists to protest the raids against NewsClick. Credit â @poornimajoshi72 The Party for Socialism and Liberation is joining with other progressive activists and organizations for a rally outside the New York Times today (Oct. 3) at 6:00 p.m. to hold them accountable…
This story originally appeared in NACLA on Sept. 26, 2023. It is reprinted here with permission. In December 2019, President Donald Trump signed into law H.R.2116, also known as the Global Fragility Act (GFA). Although this act was developed by the conservative United States Institute of Peace, it was…
Black Lives Matter protesters, Hyde Park, 3.6.20, credit: Socialist Party (uploaded 24/06/2020) Below is the Socialist Partyâs Black Workers Charter, a programme for fighting racism, originally produced by the Black and Asian group of the Socialist Party in 2021 and now updated for 2023. Racism exists…
By Terry Moon All governments, including the U.S., fear revolution in their own countries and others. What the hardliners in Iran revealed before and after their morality police murdered Jina Mahsa Amini a year ago this September for supposedly wearing hijab âimproperly,â is that none fear revolution…
Allen Forrest is a writer, painter, graphic artist and activist. He has created covers and illustrations for literary publications and books, is the winner of the Leslie Jacoby Honor for Art at San Jose State University's Reed Magazine for 2015, and his Bel Red landscape paintings are part of the Bellevue…
Nagorno-Karabakh has been wiped off the map as what remained of the breakaway region surrendered to Azerbaijanâs troops on 20 September, after brief fighting that led to at least 200 ethnic Armenians being killed. According to the most recent reports, over 100,000 Armenians â almost the entire population…
The French do it figuratively. During the recent general strikes against President Macronâs pensions policy, towns all over France were plastered with posters proclaiming âNous Sommes dans la Merdeâ [We are in the shit]. The English do it literally. Underground stations in London are currently…
By Artemis On Sept. 6, Mexicoâs Supreme Court ruled state laws against abortion are unconstitutional and violate womenâs rights. This does not automatically make decriminalization the law of the land, and Mexicoâs two congressional chambers will need to pass a law eliminating abortion from the…
A specter is haunting the United States of Americaâthe specter of communism! All powers of the Land of the Free have united to exorcize this specter: Biden and Trump, Bezos and Gates, reformist politicians and âfreedom caucusâ rabble, liberal professors and reactionary pundits. Yet where is the…
When teens and librarians planned a Drag Make-Up Hour at the Peabody Institute Library in Danvers, MA (a small town about 25 miles north of Boston) they drew fury from a handful of right-wingersâand heartfelt support from the community, including dozens of union members from the North Shore Labor Council…