The serious events of yesterday, January 8, confirm once again that the fight against the poisonous Bolsonarist snake, and the struggle against the far right in general, continues to be a central task of the workersâ movement, the Brazilian people, and the left. This confrontation must be made in the streets, through the mass mobilization of the working…
âThe methodical invasion of government buildings by far-right supporters of former Brazilian President Bolsonaro and their calls for a coup are directed against the interests of the Brazilian people who are solely responsible for determining the social and political developments in their country.The repetition of the events that took place in the…
Above Photo: Thomas Paine by Gutzon Borglum, parc Montsouris, Paris. (couscouschocolat from Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France / Wikimedia Commons) The Western establishment doesnât appear to understand how Western journalists could exercise their own agency and judgment to critique U.S. foreign policy without them being agents of a foreign power. The United…
By Mickey Z. / January 24th, 2023 âIt makes me sick that they were heralded as âheroesâ while they allowed people to suffer and die alone.â (I didnât realize it was âpart 1â but I posted this last week. Itâs short so please give it a look before continuing.) Part 2 was inspired by comments that appeared after the first post. A nurse…
The Biden Administration has spent the past twenty two months painting itself as the stable, humane alternative to the chaos of the Trump years. All of its campaign promises were made to this effect; one such promise was that a Biden White House would respect, and protect, the rights of immigrants, and ease the burden of the state on their lives.But…
Above Photo: The U.S. Department of Energyâs Savannah River Site Biomass Cogeneration Facility. (Savannah River Site) DeSmog editors and contributors preview some of the climate stories theyâll be following this year. Last year, we chased ambitious stories all along the climate spectrum. We investigated allegations of workers exposed to radioactive…
Coverage by the Democratic Party-aligned Liberal US Press. Coup attempts have gone viral this winter season in Latin America. The contagion spread first to Argentina, then Peru, and finally Brazil on January 8. In addition, Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua continue to suffer from long-term US regime-change efforts. Coverage of this political pandemic…
Today, 4 January 2023, marks the centenary of Leninâs dictation of his postscript to his âLetter to the Congressâ, also known as his âTestamentâ. In it, Lenin took up the struggle against the bureaucratisation of the Soviet state, which was threatening to derail all the gains of the revolution. Leninâs Testament, in conjunction with his…
Above Photo: (Saharawi Voice) Fighting between the Sahrawi Peopleâs Liberation Army and Moroccan occupying forces has intensified in recent days. Morocco, Western Sahara â Moroccan forces illegally occupying the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) have come under repeated bombardment by the Sahrawi Peopleâs Liberation Army (SPLA). Moroccan…
"Dear comrades,On the occasion of the 64th anniversary of the victory of the Cuban Revolution, on 1 January 1959, the KKE extends a warm comradely greeting to the Communist Party and the people of Cuba.The Cuban Revolution has been a timeless source of inspiration for the struggle of the oppressed and exploited throughout the world, and has shown that…
(BrasĂlia - DF, 24/04/2019) Pronunciamento do Presidente da RepĂșblica, Jair Bolsonaro..Foto: Isac NĂłbrega/PR Just a few days after Luiz InĂĄcio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazilâs new president, following his narrow victory over the far-right incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil has been plunged into a continued political and social crisis. Thousands…
On Friday 30 December, the South Florida U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom, ordered four Florida-based cruise companies (Carnival, MSC SA, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian) to pay more than US$100 million each in âdamagesâ to Havana Docks. The latter, a US company, had owned a 1934 concession to several piers in Havana harbour, which was expropriated…
[unable to retrieve full-text content]By Roger D. Harris December 29, 2022 Â Â 2023 marks the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine. This imperial fiat arrogates to the US the unilateral authority to intervene in the affairs of sovereign states in the Western Hemisphere and to exclude any other power from meddling in what is viewed as Washingtonâs…
Above Photo: Dan Kovalik (left) and the author at the Bethlehem Library, January 6, 2023. On the night of January 6, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine organized by Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace (BN4P), a local antiwar group Iâve had connections with since the leadup to the 2003 US-led invasion…
Editorâs Note: On 18 January, the National Intelligence Service and police raided the headquarters of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), invoking the rarely used National Security Act. Within 48 hours, a number of other union offices were raided, and union officers arrested. What happened? And, why did the government raid and attack…
The UCU General Secretary has taken on her own members to argue for ten days of staggered action rather than an indefinite strike. rs21 members in UCU say that will get nowhere, and put the case for an indefinite strike as the most effective way to take on the employers. Photo: Steve Eason In October, the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) announced…
Canada, Nunavut Territory, Repulse Bay, Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) stands on melting sea ice at sunset near Harbour IslandsNASA claims that 2022 was one of the hottest years ever recorded with record-breaking heat waves around the world, as major commercial waterways, like the Danube, Po, Rhine, Yangtze, and Mississippi rivers temporarily dried up…
On Sunday 1 January, the Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) published on Twitter a photo of the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, General Valeriy Zaluzhny smiling next to a portrait of arch-criminal and Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera. Celebrating the 114th birth anniversary of Bandera, the post was accompanied by quotes attributed to the…
Members of Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace, and other organizations sit in front of an aircraft at Amsterdamâs Schiphol Airport on Nov. 5, 2022. Photo: Remko de Waal/AFP via Getty ImagesSeven hundred self-described âclimate rebelsâ breached the chain-link fence surrounding Amsterdamâs Schiphol Airport, the worldâs third-busiest hub for international…
Above Photo: Among the biggest pitfalls in first-contract negotiations are employer demands for language covering management rights. (Nick Thorkelson). Over the past year, impressive numbers of workers, especially in the retail and service sectors, have begun the process of organizing a union. Workers at Starbucks, Chipotle, Trader Joeâs, Amazon…
Or is it reality? by Allen Forrest / January 4th, 2023 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…
Leaked Files Reveal The Anomaly 6 Spy Firm Is Providing Intelligence To The British Military Through A Cut-Out Involved In The Kerch Bridge Bombing And Other Acts Of Dangerous Sabotage In The Ukraine Conflict. On December 6th, The Grayzone revealed how British military and intelligence agencies were deploying technology created by shadowy private…
Above Photo: Former and designated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Israeli parliament during a new government swearing in discussion on December 29, 2022, in Jerusalem, Israel. (Amir Levy / Getty Images) The new government will annex the West Bank, expand illegal Jewish settlements and discriminate against LGBTQ people. Benjamin…
From The Communist Manifesto (1848): The history of all hitherto existing society(2) is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master(3) and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight…
Lulaâs victory raises many hopes, despite the alliances made too early with a motley array of forces, including those who helped to topple Dilma Roussef in 2016, and those who welcomed Lulaâs April 2018 jail sentence. In the final moments, Lula and his team finally came out of their offices and engaged in a popular campaign. This changed the atmosphere…
Brazil protests: Lula vows to punish âneo-fascistsâ after Bolsonaro supporters storm congressPresident tours scene of riot and orders federal government to take control of policing in capital BrasĂlia as extremists refuse to accept his presidency01:29Brazilian president Luiz InĂĄcio Lula da Silva has toured the wreckage of his presidential palace…
The previous article in this series introduced the âcommunisersâ and drew out their relationship with the current emerging at the end of the 1960s which the ICC calls modernism. The article showed the bourgeois origin of the modernist ideology by looking at the beginnings and the development of this current. This second part will focus on one of…
Seeds are an often-overlooked political battleground in industrialized countries like those of North America and Europe, but for peasant farmers in the Global South, the battle over seed rights is critical to their livelihoods. Locally shared seeds are crucial for many rural communitiesââgenetic keys to biodiversity and climate change resilience,â…
Credit: Rahmat Ali Thirty-three million people have been affected by the floods in Pakistan. The disaster has left more than 1,700 dead, displaced millions and put one-third of the country under water. As we go to press, the water has still not receded in many areas. Here Sanaa Alimia speaks to three activists from left-wing parties, representing women…
In these uncertain and dangerous times, The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education (LPSSE) is a space to listen, discuss and challenge the contemporary relevance of socialism. The inaugural presentation is by Bryan D. Palmer, Professor Emeritus at Trent University. Introduction by Sam Gindin. 13:00 1500 to 1790: Capital Cravings and the Coming of…
The strikes that started in Britain last year have continued through into 2023 and show every sign of continuing. Strikes on the railways, with postal workers, in the civil service, nurses and ambulance workers in the NHS, teachers, bus drivers, they have all been part of the movement. An estimated million working days were lost to strike action in…
Above Photo: A letter carrier delivered mail in Detroit this winter. In Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, carriers are refusing to work after 12 hours a day or 60 hours a week. (Jim West). Across the country and here in Portland, Oregon, carriers are working 12-, 14-, and 16-hour days, into the dark as late as 9 p.m., 10 p.m., even midnight…
On January 18th, Tortuguita, a brave and beloved Weelaunee Forest Defender, was killed by Atlanta Police. As people of conscience, as breathers of air, as anti-imperialists, as feminists, pacifists, activists â we condemn this state-sanctioned murder. Manuel Esteban Paez TerĂĄn, AKA Tortuguita, is the victim of an expanding and increasingly militarized…
The great Spanish Communist leader Dolores Ibarruri and the monument-ensemble sculptor, laureate of the Lenin Prize E. V. Vuchetich on Mamayev Kurgan -- Daily LIFT #871Mamayev Kurgan was finally recaptured by the Red Army January 26 1943. This critical height, a strategic point over the whole city, had been the scene of staggeringly brutal combat over…
Given that the immanent drive and constant tendency of capital is to atomize the working class, what are the effects of this tendency? For the atomized worker, all other workers are competitors; all other workers are enemies in so far as they are competing for the same jobs. All other workers potentially stand between them and the satisfaction of their…
Introduction Every working person is keenly aware that prices are up. Nasty surprises and disbelief keep turning up at the register. People are being forced to forgo even the most minor and seemingly harmless comfort purchases, adding to the accumulation of the indignities necessary for survival under capitalism. Even worse, the alleged culprits can…
Above Photo: Workers hold picket signs outside Howard Brown Health in Chicago on Jan. 3, 2023. (Facebook / Nick Ward For 48th Ward) Union Members At The LGBTQ-Focused Health Provider Say Management Is Planning To Lay Off 60 Workers, So Theyâve Walked Off The Job. Chicago, Illinois â Recently unionized employees at Howard Brown Health, a nonprofit…
Delusional thinking. Trapped inside a world of knee jerking. Multi-Generational Trauma on steroids. Fear thy self and thy enemy, so self-loathing in a bipolar self-aggrandizing flipping. Yo-yo thinking. If you attempt to get a bead on the âsituation,â you know, THE Situation, it is almost impossible to be and to live and to survive in this society…
Solidarity statements for the 64th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution from the Communist parties of Ireland, Greece, Turkey and the Netherlands. January 1 was the 64th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. Cuba remains a beacon of hope for a different future despite the relentless attacks on the Cuban people by the US government and its…
Even before the new Israeli government was officially sworn in on December 29, angry reactions began emerging, not only among Palestinians and other Middle Eastern governments, but also among Israelâs historic allies in the West. As early as November 2, top US officials conveyed to Axios that the Joe Biden Administration is âunlikely to engage with…
Philip Guston (Canada), Gladiators, 1940.In May 2021, the executive director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, and the UN high representative for disarmament affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, wrote an article urging governments to cut excessive military spending in favour of increasing spending on social and economic development. Their wise words were not…
âThe Communist Party of Britain sends New Year greetings to workers and peoples across the world who are fighting exploitation and oppressionâ, CP general secretary Robert Griffiths declared on Wednesday evening (January 4). Â Addressing the partyâs political committee, he expressed solidarity with ânurses from Britain to New York, people resisting…
Drag Story Hour, a long-standing and popular public program where performers in drag read aloud childrenâs stories, has recently faced numerous attacks, including two recent hateful protests here in New York City. On Dec. 29, at an event hosted by a library in Queens, the anti-drag protestors were far outnumbered by a high-energy and multiracial group…
ï»ż Anthony Johnson of Nurses United UK explains the reasons for the historic strike by nurses in December. He notes that the strike is not just about the cost of living crisis and pay hikes but also about saving the NHS from privatization. He explains how over the decades, successive governments have shrunk the health service, leading to poor working…
This story originally appeared in Peoples Dispatch on January 10, 2023. It is shared here with permission. On Monday, January 9, Peruvian security forces brutally repressed an anti-government protest in Juliaca, a city in southern Peruâs Puno region, killing at least 17 protesters and leaving at least 68 others severely injured. The dead included…
As we explained in the preceding articles in this series, the degeneration of the Communist International didnât develop without provoking a response. In the face of this degeneration, left communist fractions stood up and energetically defended the principles being abandoned by the CI and, at the same time, tried to respond to the new questions posed…
The New Communist Party of the Netherlands (NCPN) and the Communist Youth Movement (CJB) condemn the dangerous decisions of the Dutch government to make the port of Vlissingen and Dutch territory available as a transit port for a huge transport of heavy military equipment of the US army.At Vlissingen port, 1,275 US tanks, armoured vehicles and other…
Listening to Chief Myron Demkiwâs pitch for the 2023 budget request to the Toronto Police Services Board (TPS), it sounded like the rationale for the budgets put together by school boards: the increased needs of population served, declining portion of the overall budget, inflation, plans to do more and so on. Except that school boards have been consistently…
Rodriguezâs mother Rosa Moreno during an event demanding justice for George Floyd. (Fight Back! News/Luis Sifuentes) Los Angeles, CA - After one day of deliberations, on January 18, Long Beach killer cop Martin Ron was unanimously found guilty of negligence for the murder of Cesar Rodriguez. On August 29, 2017, Ron and another Long Beach police officer…
By Mickey Z. / January 13th, 2023 The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in a democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded…
Striking demonstrators, Nancy, France Thursday was been a huge day of mobilization in France. Close to two million people demonstrated across the whole country. In Paris, several metro lines were âstriked shutâ, and the unions had organized dozens and dozens of coaches to carry striking workers to the, at least, 300,000-strong demo. The streets…
A German-based multinational is bulldozing a village to expand a lignite coal mine. Lignite generates much more CO2 than gas, as well as a cocktail of pollutants. rs21 members report from a protest outside RWEâs London office. Photo: Steve Eason On the evening of 19 January, shouts of âLĂŒtzi livesâ echoed around corporate offices near the Bank…
From the January-February 2023 issue of News & Letters by Bob McGuire In October Xi Jinping flaunted his intention to rule for life by clearing the inner circle of the ruling Communist Party of all but lackeys. In November his lifetime rule became much more precarious as a fire took the lives of dozens of residents of an apartment building sealed off…
Death row families are activists for their loved ones. Vicky Reyes; Yancy Balderas, mother and spouse of prisoner Juan Balderas; and Vickie Curry, spouse of George Curry. WW PHOTO: Gloria RubacHouston Activists with the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement participated in the Martin Luther King Jr. Parade Jan. 16, announcing to thousands lining downtown…
The compounding crises of capitalism weigh particularly heavily on the youngest generations, who must contend with falling living standards, the existential threat of climate change, a mental health crisis, student debt crisis, and myriad other disasters and catastrophes. No wonder millions of young people in the US are beginning to draw revolutionary…
Punchbowl News reports that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is planning a trip to Taiwan, which will be yet another incendiary provocation against Beijing if it occurs. The previous House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, sparked a significant escalation in hostilities with her visit last year, the consequences of which are still reverberating today. Antiwarâs…
The trial of Ft. Worth police officer Aaron Dean for the killing of Atatiana Jefferson ended in a conviction for manslaughter and 12-year sentence. But in this episode, PAR investigates how the judge retaliated against supporters of Jeffersonâs family who attended the trial, throwing one cop watcher in jail for refusing to be sworn in as a witness…
A protestor marches with a sign that reads âsacrifice our old age, increase their wealth. Photo credit: Phototheque Rouge, Martin Noda, Hans Lucas. On Thursday 19 January, millions of workers marched against French president Emmanuel Macronâs proposed pension reforms. The action, essentially a one-day general strike, was organised by the trade unions…
On Wednesday, January 25th, at 5:52 UTC, Reuters headlined âU.S. arms exports up 49% in fiscal 2022.â After more than 24 hours, at 22:00 UTC on the 26th, a Google search for that Reuters headline produced âYour search â âU.S. arms exports up 49% in fiscal 2022â â did not match any documents.â Five hours later, at 2:37 UTC on the 27th…
We publish below an extract from a letter sent by one of our readers, Robert, after an online meeting he attended, followed by our reply.⊠Concerning the struggles of proletarians: should revolutionaries denounce the struggles of proletarians who make mistakes, use methods that are not their own, or just criticise them? Because in my opinion, there…
In November 2022, the Air Force updated its safety rules for airlift of nuclear weapons to allow the C-17A Globemaster III aircraft to transport the new B61-12 nuclear bomb. The update, accompanied by training and certification of the aircraft and crews, cleared the C-17A to transport the newest U.S. nuclear weapon to bases in the United States and…
LĂŒtzerath, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany â Thousands protested the planned expansion of an immense open-pit coal mine, one of the largest in Europe. The forceful eviction of climate activists who were occupying LĂŒtzerath for more than two years and the demolition of the village itself became a call to action, sparking the largest protest yet…
After more than eight months on strike, United Auto Workers members voted to approve a four-year contract with Case New Holland. They pulled down picket lines at plants in Iowa and Wisconsin and returned to work Jan. 30. Corey Gray, a member of United Auto Workers Local 180 in Wisconsin, told the Militant by phone, âWe are happy the strike is over,â…
Thousands of protesters attended a militant rally organized by the local organization of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) on Saturday in Piraeus, sending a resounding message against the presence of USS âGeorge W. Bushâ aircraft carrier in the country's largest port. With slogans like âneither land nor water to the murderers of the peopleâ…
Anti-strike legislation in the UK is part of a wider shift towards a strategy of class discipline that imposes measures which make it harder for workers to collectively negotiate the terms of their employment, and easier for employers to impose these terms unilaterally on them.The UK governmentâs new wave of legislation is ostensibly a response to…
A solidarity message from the Communist Party of Chile.Cubans rally in defense of the revolution, July 17, 2021January 1 marked the 64th anniversary of the victory of the Cuban Revolution. The Communist Party of Chile -- which recently released a remarkable statement in honour of the 100th anniversary of the formation of the USSR -- has released another…
The U.S. relationship with Ukrainian fascists began after the Second World War. During the war, units of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) took part in the Holocaust, killing at least 100,000 Jews and Poles. Mykola Lebed, a top aide to Stepan Bandera, the leader of the fascist OUN-B, was recruited by the C.I.A. after the war, according…
Above Photo: An aerial view of damaged property in Fort Myers Beach, Florida after Hurricane Ian, the costliest extreme weather event of 2022. (Jeffrey Greenberg / Universal Images Group via Getty Images). In 2022, there were 10 climate-fueled extreme weather events that caused more than $3 billion worth of damage each. Thatâs the disturbing conclusion…
Above Photo: John Thackara. John Thackara is one of the brilliant irregulars exploring how humankind can make the transition to a climate-friendly, relocalized, post-capitalist world. You canât pigeonhole him in any occupational category or disciplinary tradition because he is so effortlessly transversal. He blends his broadly international and nonsectarian…
The following message from Mumia first aired on Prison Radio Dec. 30, 2022.Wadiya Jamal and Mumia Abu-Jamal She was a spring baby, born in the first week of April 1953 â a West Philly girl, whose beauty made her shine in a crowd. She loved fiercely like a lion. This love blessed the lives of five beautiful children, and it blessed me. As mother and…
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Tua Tagovailoa (left) and Damar Hamlin. Liberation News collage. Fans and football players alike were horrified on Jan. 2 when Damar Hamlin, a 24-year-old safety for the Buffalo Bills, went into cardiac arrest after making a routine tackle in a nationally televised game against the Cincinnati  Bengals. Live TV showing Hamlin in need of resuscitation…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead / January 5th, 2023 For those wondering what to expect from the government in 2023, it looks like weâre going to be in for more of the same in terms of the governmentâs brand of madness, mayhem, corruption and brutality. Digital prisons. Unceasingly, the government and its corporate partners are pushing for…
ï»ż 219 Years of Haitian Independence. Celebrating 31 years of solidarity with the anti-colonial grassroots struggle for dignity, democracy and self-determination of the Haitian people! On January 1, 1804, Haiti became an independent republic, following the revolution which had begun 13 years earlier as a rebellion of enslaved people against slavery…
Bunker B 207 at the X-Point bunker complex in South Dakota is one of 575 bunkers that once protected bombs they now shelter dozens of families bracing for future turmoil (Credit: Bradley Garrett) In February 2009, Australia experienced one of its worst environmental disasters: âBlack Saturdayâ. After an extended heat wave and a long, hot summer…
The Militaryâs Deep Penetration Into All Aspects Of American Life Has Hampered The Development Of A Strong Anti-War MovementâAt A Time When It Is Desperately Needed. Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across the U.S. in the last few years to decry police brutality, to oppose the Supreme Courtâs decision to restrict abortion…
By W. T. Whitney Jr. December 23, 2022Â Counterpunch âPedro Castillo emerged from that deep, excluded, and marginalized Peru that has been the primordial object of nefarious consequences of treason by the elites,â according to an observer. Castillo was the first progressive candidate ever to win a presidential election in Peru. After harassing…
President Lula has decreed federal intervention in the Federal District until January 31. The president, who was sworn in just one week ago, is in Araraquara, SĂŁo Paulo and will now return to the capital to assess the situation and warns that those responsible for invading government buildings will be located and punished as well as those who financed…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes an impassioned address to the Knesset in Jerusalem, Israel on June 13, 2021.,(Photo: Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) Carrying signs reading, "Together against fascism and apartheid" and "Democracy in danger," thousands of Israelis on Saturday marched in protest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right…
IWW banner at Protest against the Sensenbrenner Bill in Portland, Oregon in 2006. (CC BY 2.0, source) Founded in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, Or âWobbliesâ) was once considered the protagonist of the American class struggle. The union emerged out of a conflict with one of the largest workerâs institutions at the time, the American…
Saturday, January 28 - 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.Opposite 10 Downing Street, LondonHosted by London Communists Free all Ukrainian Political Prisoners! Restore full political and media freedoms! Journalists, bloggers, politicians, elected representatives, activists, priests, sportspeople, even Ukrainian negotiators and military officers⊠Arrested, beaten…
Michela Martinazzi, of the International League of Peoples Struggle. (Fight Back! News/staff) New York, NY â Around 60 people gathered in the historic Saint Mary's Episcopal Church in Harlem to honor the legacy of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. on what would have been his birthday weekend. Organized by Struggle-La Lucha, a panel of 11 speakers took…
German climate activists vowed to continue anti-coal mine protests in the western village of Lutzerath after dozens of protesters were injured in a heavy-handed police crackdown on Saturday.âWeâll continue our resistance in the coming days,â Mara Sauer, a spokesperson of the activists, told Anadolu on Sunday, adding that coalmine expansion plans…
Jan. 16, 2023 â The antiwar actions scheduled Jan. 13-23, in at least 50 U.S. cities, come as another escalation is threatened in the U.S.-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. Seventh Avenue, New York City, Jan. 14, 2023. (John Catalanotto) Reflecting NATOâs escalation, the Danish newspaper, The Worker, reported last week that the U.S. was…
By J.B. Gerald / January 18th, 2023 The Peruvian Prosecutorâs Office has placed she who claims the countryâs presidency, Dina Bolurate under investigation for crimes including genocide, resulting from her governmentâs treatment of protesters who prefer the elected President Pedro Castillo. Now much of her government is under investigation for…
Above photo: The December 2022 North American winter storm (Winter Storm Elliott) intensifying over Canada on December 23, 2022. By NOAA's GOES 16 Satellite â AWS S3 Explorer, Public Domain, []. With two world summits on the global environment at the end of last year â COP27 and COP15 â there should have been the prospect of an immediate…
This story originally appeared on The Shorrock Files on Jan. 18, 2023. It is shared here with permission. You can support Tim Shorrockâs independent journalism by subscribing to his Patreon. In scenes reminiscent of South Koreaâs authoritarian past, South Koreaâs National Intelligence Service â the successor to the once-dreaded KCIA â raided…
Members of the 51st Venceremos Brigade were invited to an open-air meeting to learn about the passage of Cubaâs new Family Code â the most inclusive, progressive and revolutionary law in Latin America and, indeed, the world, because of who it protects.Speakers from Cubaâs trans community and CENESEX addressing the 51st Venceremos Brigade on Cubaâs…
Justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal in the Wake of New/Hidden Evidence! We, Second-Wave Feminists Still in the Fight, demand that Mumia Abu-Jamal be freed! Mumia is a Black journalist and political activist who was framed up in 1982 for the murder of a police officer, Daniel Faulkner, in Philadelphia. Some of us (Second-Wave Feminists) are older than Mumia…
Above Photo: A candlelight vigil is held for the fallen forest defender in Atlanta, Georgia. (Mosaic Atlanta / Twitter) The protester was shot and killed on Wednesday during a chaotic raid of the âStop Cop Cityâ forest defense camp. Atlanta, Georgia â An activist was shot and killed by police on Wednesday during a violent raid of the protest camp…
ï»ż NATO has begun plans to make the âhuman mindâ their new âdomain of war.â And yes, thatâs as horrifying as it sounds. No mainstream media outlet has covered NATOâs new âdomain of warâ declaration, leading press freedom group Project Censored to include it in its 25 most-censored stories of the year. As Project Censored wrote…
To anyone who has been following the conflict in Ukraine from the 2014 coup through to the callous and wanton butchery of Donbass citizens of all ages, to Russiaâs special military operation aimed at saving the remaining lives of the Donbass peoples, it has been clear that every move of Volodymyr Zelensky and the other fascist leaders that preceded…
Atlanta protest against police killing of Manny Paez. (Fight Back! News/staff) Atlanta, GA - Over 300 people gathered January 21 at Underground Atlanta shopping center to honor the life of Manuel "Manny" "Tortuguita" "Teran" Paez, demand an end to the building of Cop City and to defend an Atlanta forest. The Atlanta Police Department is seeking to build…
With news from France, Peru, Swaziland, Vietnam, the USA, Greece, Italy, Spain, Canada and elswhere.Image from the General Strike in France, January 19January 14:Antiwar marchers honor MLK, say âNOâ to NATO proxy war in UkraineOn Jan. 14, a large crowd gathered in Times Square in New York City to honor the true legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King…
On January 6, 2023, Chinaâs National Health Commission (NHC) and National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine issued Chinaâs 10th edition of its diagnosis and treatment protocol for novel coronavirus infection. This is the NHCâs first national guiding protocol after China announced to downgrade management of COVID from Class A to Class…
Above Photo: (dvidshub.net) The National Guard is proposing to more than double its Camp Grayling training site in Michigan. The super polluter seeks to deepen its ties with private contractors and develop tools of surveillance and punishment. Michigan â Nestled near the headwaters of the Au Sable River in Northern Lower Michigan, in lands forcibly…
By Allen Forrest / January 24th, 2023 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 College…
What makes a good society? Is it a guaranteed right to pursue happiness, as our Declaration of Independence proclaimed? Perhaps, as Gandhi said, itâs providing the poorest and most vulnerable among us with the means to control their own lives. But what happens when itâs the pursuit of happiness that makes someone most vulnerable? Let me introduce…
Striking Frame Group workers meet for a report back on negotiations with management in Bolton Hall in 1973. Credit: David Hemson Collection, University of Cape Town LibrariesDemocracy has a dream-like character. It sweeps into the world, carried forward by an immense desire by humans to overcome the barriers of indignity and social suffering. When confronted…
Photo: Lima Andruska/CC 2022 was officially the UKâs hottest year on record. The Met Office has confirmed that climate change has driven the UK into its first year with an average temperature above 10°C. Thereâs no sign of this letting up as we enter 2023, with a January heatwave thatâs affected 15 European countries. 1 January 2023 was the hottest…
While many observers claimed two years ago that China was the big winner in the Covid crisis, recent events underline that it is instead confronted with the persistence of the pandemic, a significant slowdown in economic growth, the property bubble, major obstacles to the development of the "New Silk Road", strong imperialist pressure from the US: in…
Blank sheets of paper symbolise the demand for "free speech" and other democratic illusionsThe deteriorating health crisis and the sharp economic downturn in China have led to an explosion of popular discontent, but also to the emergence of major working class movements. After the protests of thousands of buyers duped by the bursting of the property…
Earlier this month, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees named eight commissioners who will review President Joe Bidenâs National Defense Strategy and provide recommendations for its implementation.But the Commission on the National Defense Strategy, which is tasked with âexamin[ing] the assumptions, objectives, defense investments, force…
News of January 26, 2023, from InfoDefenseEspañol channel: Bundestag deputy Petr Bistron to Olaf Scholz about the transfer of tanks to Ukraine: You have just said goodbye to the fundamental provisions of Germanyâs post-war foreign policy, Germanyâs special responsibility towards the world. The slogan âNever againâ meant the refusal to supply…
In this episode of his âThinking Out Loudâ series, Double D analyzes an interview with John Bellamy Foster, where he discusses his new book, âCapitalism in the Anthropoceneâ, and his arguments for how capitalism is the driving force behind climate change. Double D analyzes some of the contradictions of capitalism, and how those contradictions…
Above Photo: A view of Al-Aqsa Mosque â The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine on December 29, 2022. Beata Zawrzel. (NurPhoto via AP). The Jordanian Ambassador to the State of Israel was recently denied entry to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem â the third-holiest site in Islam. This is an incident that is so severe and so dangerous…
[....] If you tuned into â60 Minutesâ on Jan. 1 you heard Paul Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist, tell the audience, âI and the vast majority of my colleagues think weâve had it; that the next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization weâre used to.âItâs the same prediction Ehrlich made in his 1968 bestseller The…
Yanar Mohammed at the UN headquarters in New York in 2015. She criticizes the lack of efforts to enforce womenâs rights. Photo: imago/Xinhua By: Isabelle B, Red Phoenix correspondent, Oregon. The following is a speech written and presented by Isabelle B., Womenâs Commissioner of the American Party of Labor, at an anti-war demonstration held in Portland…
With the NEU about to embark on the largest round of school strikes in recent history, rs21 member George Emerson explains how his school won an important victory against restructuring, and draws out some of the lessons for workplace organising. In March 2022, the outer London school where I work proposed a restructure of administrative and site staff…
"Enough is enough" was the cry heard during the first day of mobilisation on 19 January against the pension "reform". This "enough is enough" can only echo the "Enough is enough" that has been spreading since June in Britain, strike after strike.For several months now, inflation has been reaching levels not seen in decades around the world. Everywhere…
Above Photo: A tenant holds a sign reading âSave Our Hood,â at a community rally in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood urging Boston University officials not to sell their buildings to investors in Los Angeles, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. (Photo by Damian Dovarganes / AP Photo) A Wealthy Philanthropist Donated Four Apartment Buildings In L.A.âS Baldwin…
William J. Astore Interview by John Rachel / January 29th, 2023 Events continue to unfold at a quickening pace. Facing an alarming escalation in tensions around the world, we asked Lt. Col. William Astore for his current thoughts. We focus on the realities of the international power struggle unfolding in real time, specifically addressing the role of…
On February 19, Washington, DC, will witness a protest against the war in Ukraine that marks a sharp departure from past demonstrations. The lead demand is simple and direct, âNot One More Penny for war in Ukraine.â It is a demand that emphasizes what we in the U.S. can do to end the war, not what others can do. After all, the only government we…
Hereâs one of many indicators about how broken the United States healthcare system is: Guns seem to be easier and cheaper to access than treatment for the wounds they cause. A survivor of the recent mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, California, reportedly said to Gov. Gavin Newsom that he needed to keep his hospital stay as short as possible in order…
More than a century after the commencement of the Great Crisis of 1914â1945, represented by the First World War, the Great Depression, and Second World War, we are seeing a sudden resurgence of war and fascism across the globe. The capitalist world economy as a whole is now characterized by deepening stagnation, financialization, and soaring inequality…
Protests in Lima, Peru, December 2002 (Photo: MayimbĂș) Against the murderous government of Dina Boluarte! New immediate elections and National Constituent Assembly! In mid-December, large and combative mobilizations took to the streets and squares of the main cities of Peru, in an uprising motivated by the coup perpetrated on 7 December by the right-wing…
Strikers' rally in Cardiff, Wales on 1 February. (Photo from Ross Saunders) Wednesday 1st February has been the biggest day of action yet in the growing strike wave over pay, terms, and conditions in Britain, with five unions taking national action: Education unions NEU and UCU, rail unions Aslef and RMT, and civil servantsâ union PCS. This demonstration…
Above photo: President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev head to their first meeting on June 3, 1961, at the start of the East-West talks in Vienna, the year before the Cuban missile crisis. Interfoto/AFP via Getty Images. Nuclear War Is No Exit for the Ukraine Crisis. Sixty years ago, a crowd of us young people anxiously massed around…
Court Win Overturns Biden Administration, Halts New Drilling, Gives New Hope For Protection For Navajo Communities, Culturally Significant Landscape. A federal appeals court yesterday rejected the Biden administrationâs defense of unchecked oil and gas fracking in the Greater Chaco region of northwest New Mexico, ruling the U.S. Interior Department…
Sanitized histories of the Civil Rights Movement have erased the long history of activism and struggle that defined the life of Rosa Parks long before she defied Jim Crow codes on a Montgomery bus. Yet Rosa Parksâs dedication to the Black freedom struggle preceded the Montgomery Bus Boycott by decades. She joined the campaign to free the Scottsboro…
The latest  Arab Opinion Index 2022 is yet more proof that Arab societies are diverse in every possible way, from their assessment of their economic situation and living conditions to their take on immigration, state institutions and democracy. With one single exception: Palestine. 76 percent of all respondents to the poll, which is carried out annually…
Opening day protest at Minnesota legislature demands drivers licences for all. (Fight Back! News/Kim DeFranco) Saint Paul, MN - On Tuesday January 3, more than 50 immigrant rights activists and supporters braved a snowstorm to gather on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol demanding âDrivers license for all.â The rally was called by the Minnesota…
Cristiano Mayta. Fight Back! interviewed Cristiano Mayta, a trade unionist in Peru on January 3 to learn more about the situation in PerĂș after the overthrow of democratically-elected President Pedro Castillo by an oligarchy-dominated Congress. There is a national strike called for January 4 amid violent repression. Fight Back!: What is your organization…
In response to a wave of anti-government protests in late November, the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) has pivoted abruptly from its deeply unpopular Zero COVID regime. But for the Chinese masses, this is a case of out of the frying pan, into the fire. With no reliable data available and signs of deliberate underreporting of deaths, it seems major cities…
Wadiya Jamal has spent most of her adult life fighting for her husbandâs release. The beloved wife of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal died unexpectedly from a heart attack Dec. 27, 11 days after a historic decision by a Philadelphia judge in his case.Family and friends attended services for her Dec. 30 in Philadelphia. Wadiya Jamal during visit…
When children realize how big businesses are controlling their childhood, their rebellious sense of being exploited connects with their instinct for safety and self-respect. The commercial pressures descending on our children through relentless direct marketing, radically bypassing parental authority, are at a fever pitch. It will take more than studies…
On 10 January, the French government will reveal the details of its draft law on pensions. We already know the main measure that has been proposed: the postponement of the retirement age by four months, each year, to reach 64 or 65 years of age (against the retirement age of 62 today) in 2027 or 2031. In addition, the increase in the length of contributions…
At a meeting of the National Board of PSOL (âParty of Socialism and Libertyâ), on Saturday 17 December, resolutions were discussed and passed drawing a balance sheet of the partyâs 2022 election campaign, and on the relationship between the party and its parliamentary faction with the new Lula government.Read original in Portuguese |On 22 November, Esquerda…
Howie Hawkins, right, on tour in Maine in support of Lisa Savage, independent U.S. Senate candidate from Maine in 2020. Original here. Ranked Choice Voting won 8 out of 10 ballot measures on November 8. Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is an alternative to the plurality winner voting system prevalent in the United States. It provides more representative outcomes…
Above Photo: Drainage basin from Deception and Lake Peaks to Nambe Lake. (Matthew.kowal). With the reality of climate change becoming more apparent in the form of extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, and floods, it is clear that the future of all life on the planet is in peril. To stress the immediacy and seriousness of human-caused…
In analyzing the heroic 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion, Sam Marcy, the late chairperson of Workers World Party, wrote in the pamphlet: âA Marxist Defense of the L.A. Rebellionâ that âMarxism differs from all forms of bourgeois sociology in this most fundamental way: All bourgeois social sciences are directed at covering up and concealing â sometimes…
This article was published Jan. 1, 2023, on the sites of La Pluma and Tlaxcala.The working class in the United States burst into action in 2022. Warehouse workers at Amazon, baristas at Starbucks, prisoners, coal miners, nurses, teachers, graduate students and more organized and resisted capital. Many went on strike. Will we in 2023 see ever sharper…
The accuracy of this commentaryâs title is borne out by statements made and actions taken by the Ukrainians themselves. In 2020 millions of people around the world protested against racism in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd. Ukrainians made it clear that they were not to be included amongst that mass of humanity and in fact expressed…
This lecture by Dr. Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies in the History Department at Columbia University, was presented on October 13, 2022, as part of an initiative to develop Palestinian studies at the University of Waterloo. Based on his 2020 book, The Hundred Yearsâ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism…
Albert Camus and Edward Curtin, Sr. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a manâs heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. â Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus Really? Or was he joking? Whenever January rolls around and a new year begins with its implied ending, I think of my father and Albert Camus, both born in 1913. Camus…
On the afternoon of that Sunday, January 8, supporters of Jair Bolsonaro invaded the National Congress and tried to occupy buildings of other public bodies, with the intention of promoting disturbances and giving rise to a coup d'Ă©tat.This movement has been articulated for months by sectors of the Brazilian ultra-right, which has strong financial support…
A visit to the Welling Court Mural Project by Mickey Z. / January 9th, 2023 all we are saying⊠Today, I took a photo walk around the Welling Court Mural Project in Astoria, Queens, NYC. âImagine a city where graffiti wasnât illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colors and little…
PhiladelphiaIncarcerated workers held captive in Pennsylvania prisons called a labor strike in the name of Subaltern Peoples Abolitionist Revolutionary Collective (SPARC). The demonstration âto protest against the Stateâs oppressive policiesâ was called last year and set to begin this Jan. 6. (tinyurl.com/52m3n4t5) As of this writing, the outcome…
A recent report released by the Texas Department of Agriculture has linked climate change to growing food insecurity in Texas. Record droughts and record flooding are taking a toll on the stateâs ability to grow food. Food deserts where no fresh produce is available are growing in rural areas. Low wages mean that even where food is available, working…
Cambridge, MassachusettsOn a sunny afternoon of Jan. 4, a Cambridge cop, accompanied by others also armed with lethal and nonlethal weapons, gunned down and killed 20-year-old Arif Sayed Faisal. By all accounts, after receiving a 911 call about a person in distress and hurting themself, police followed and directly observed Faisal for 15 minutes or…
House Bill co-authors Maria Isa and Aisha Gomez (Photo by Brad Sigal) Saint Paul, MN - More than 100 people supporting the âdrivers license for allâ bill, House File 4, packed the House Transportation Finance and Policy Committeeâs morning and evening hearings at the Minnesota State Capitol on January 10. Just a week after the start of the legislative…
The head of an Ontario government agency aimed at protecting species at risk has resigned in protest of the provinceâs dismantling of environmental protections to get âMore Homes Built Faster.â The resignation comes less than a year after Premier Doug Fordâs government appointed Doug Varty to chair Ontarioâs Species Conservation Action Agency…
Above Photo: (Fort Worth Newsguild) On The Heels Of An Unprecedented 24-Day Labor Strike Late Last Year, Around 20 Journalists At The 117-Year-Old Fort Worth Star-Telegram Have Ratified The Only Union Contract At A Texas Newspaper. On the heels of an unprecedented 24-day labor strike late last year, around 20 journalists at the 117-year-old Fort Worth…
After nearly six weeks on the picket line, 48,000 graduate students at the University of California voted to accept a new contract. This ended the largest academic strike in U.S. labor history.Picket line, University of California Berkeley, Nov. 20, 2022. WW Photo: Judy Greenspan Solidarity was strong throughout the strike, with student workers risking…
Statement by Freedom Road Socialist Organization | January 12, 2023 For nearly 20 years, the steadfast fighter for Palestinian liberation and general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmad Saâadat, has endured imprisonment. Freedom Road Socialist Organization is proud to add its voice to the worldwide movement demanding…
I belong to a privileged generation. I was born in the late 1960s in Kiev, the capital of a Soviet and socialist Ukraine, and I had the good fortune to spend my childhood, adolescence and even my youth in a country demonised like no other in the history of mankind: the USSR. A huge memory, which we will have to rescue from oblivion. Not for museums…
More specifically, a statement issued by the CPK stresses out: On January 11, 2023, at about 5 am, three uniformed police officers stormed the home of Felix's parents in Mumbuni, Kitui and took Felix's life with several gunshots. Felix was shot right in front of his parents and siblings. His murder was carried out only a few days after President Ruto…
Above Photo: In 2015, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and her entourage toured DC Central Jail after announcing policy changes. (J. Lawler Duggan / For The Washington Post Via Getty Images). From 2010 to 2012, Keri Blakinger was incarcerated in state and county correctional facilities for possessing a âtupperware of heroin.â Since then…
Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer | Communist Party Of The Philippines January 14, 2023 The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns the imperialist US for war-mongering and heightening war-preparations against China and for using the Philippines and other countries as launching pad for its planned military attacks against its rival…