The North Carolina Student Power Union will convene a statewide organizing conference in Raleigh, N.C., Feb. 16 under the banner of “Retaking our schools, remaking our society!” The conference will bring together students from most of the state’s 16 public universities, along with fighters from other youth and student struggles in the state. Included are high [...]
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Student gathering to declare: ‘Retaking our schools, remaking our society!’
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U.S. perpetuates rape culture
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The following remarks were written by Elena, a youth-oriented organizer and a member of the Durham, N.C., branch of Workers World Party. Elena was scheduled to represent the International Action Center at the 3rd All India Mahila Sanskritik Sanghatane (AIMSS) conference in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, being held Jan. 29-31, along with Workers World managing editor, [...]
One Billion Rising: A global call for women
The following appeal comes from GABRIELA, a grassroots-based alliance of more than 200 women’s organizations, institutions, desks and programs in the Philippines. They seek to wage a struggle for the liberation of women and the rest of the Filipino people. Dear friends, Today, one in every three women on the planet will be raped or [...]
Gay rights & the NFL
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As the National Football League’s Super Bowl has grown in epic proportions to become U.S. television’s most watched single event, so has its media day, which occurs on the Tuesday before the Sunday game. On media day, the athletes and coaches, representing the American Football Conference and National Football Conference champions, are grilled by thousands [...]
Huelga de hambre en Colombia inspira a trabajadores automotrices
¡Última Hora! Jorge Parra, presidente de Asotrecol, terminó huelga de hambre el 31 de enero luego de 72 días. La declaración de Asotrecol dice que Parra “tomó esta medida en previsión de una estrecha cooperación entre Asotrecol y el movimiento sindical de EE.UU. para trabajar en pro de una solución justa con [GM] a nivel [...]
Pack the courtroom for the ACAC 19 in San Francisco Feb. 8
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The following call was issued by supporters of the Anti-Capitalist Anti-Colonial 19 for a court hearing on Feb. 8 in San Francisco. The ACAC 19 were beaten and arrested on Oct. 6 and then subjected to a media smear campaign by the San Francisco Police Department. Come pack the courtroom on Feb. 8 at 12:30 [...]
Goldstein to discuss ‘Capitalism at a Dead End’
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Fred Goldstein, author of “Capitalism at a Dead End: Job Destruction, Overproduction and Economic Crisis in the High-Tech Era,” will be speaking and signing copies of the book on Feb. 16, beginning at 2 p.m. at Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 65 Partition St., Saugerties, N.Y. The book explains that the economic crisis that began in August [...]
Facts about People’s Korea
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There are facts, and then there is fiction. Let’s deal with the fiction first. In the fictional world reflected in Hollywood movies like the remake of “Red Dawn,” the socialist north of Korea launches a war against the United States, invading and killing many people. It would hardly be necessary to answer such a ridiculous [...]
The Tet Offensive
In using military force to bend countries to their will, the imperialists have always had a wide technological advantage over peoples whose economic and scientific development was stifled by years of colonial domination. Yet there have been remarkable victories that inspired the Black Panthers in this country to say, “The power of the people is [...]
Venezuela President Chávez’s message to CELAC Summit
The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) met in Santiago de Chile toward the end of January. From his hospital bed in Havana, Cuba, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela sent the following message on Jan. 27. Sisters and brothers: On behalf of the people of Venezuela, receive a fervent Bolivarian greeting and living [...]
