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Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese Struggle for Liberation

By January 29, 2013 » Add more comments.

On the 45th Anniversary of the Tet Offensive The following texts are based on an introduction on the Tet Offensive, given by LeiLani Dowell, and a talk on the Vietnamese liberation struggle given by Naomi Cohen at a Workers World Forum on January 30. The Tet Offensive of 1968 This year is the 45th anniversary [...]

 

No charges for Baltimore killer cops

By January 25, 2013 » Add the first comment.

State’s Attorney for Baltimore City Gregg L. Bernstein announced Jan. 24 that the three police officers responsible for the brutal death of Anthony Anderson Sr. would face no charges or even a penalty. The stunning news came when Bernstein met with Anderson family members, Baltimore People’s Power Assembly leaders Sharon Black and Rev. C. D. [...]

 

Women’s group condemns murder of Kurdish activists

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Tens of thousands participated in the funeral for the three Turkish activists in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on Jan. 17.

Statement released Jan. 11 by IWA, a global anti-imperialist women’s alliance. The International Women’s Alliance highly condemns the brutal premeditated murder of three Kurdish women activists yesterday in Paris. Sakine Cansiz, co-founder of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK); Fidan Dogan, Kurdistan National Congress representative; and young Kurdish activist Leyla Soylemez were all shot in the [...]

 

Baltimore civil rights activists acquitted

By January 24, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Sharon Black, J. Wyndal Gordon and Rev. Cortly “CD” Witherspoon.

Following is a statement released Jan. 22 by Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly representatives Rev. Cortly “CD” Witherspoon, president of the Baltimore Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and PPA activist Sharon Black. Charges of criminal trespass were dismissed today on Rev. CD Witherspoon and Sharon Black, who were arrested [while] delivering a letter from the Baltimore Peoples [...]

 

Tinley Park Five accept non-cooperating plea bargain

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Excerpts from a Jan. 4 article posted by the Tinley Park Five and support crew at tinyurl.com/bj8rp8h.  The Tinley Park Five are white anti-racist and anti-fascist activists who were arrested last May 19 for allegedly breaking up a fascist gathering of the Illinois European Heritage Association at a restaurant in Tinley Park, Ill.  Go to [...]

 

New WW youth blog takes inspiration from Black Panther Party

By January 22, 2013 » Add the first comment.
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The youth of Workers World Party have gone live with a new collaborative blog entitled “Can’t Jail the Revolution.” The blog’s name takes inspiration from Black Panther Party leader Huey P. Newton’s quote, “You can jail the revolutionary, but you can’t jail the revolution.” The site will feature a wide variety of original content produced [...]

 

On 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade

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The 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision is Jan. 22. How have women fared since then in getting U.S. courts to recognize their right to choose for themselves whether to complete or terminate a pregnancy? It has been a tough struggle, one that can seem even harder today than in earlier [...]

 

Imperialist hands off Mali!

By January 21, 2013 » Add the first comment.

A full analysis of France’s imperialist invasion of Mali requires a look at the relations among the different peoples of this West African country and the history of their struggles. It also involves the contradictions among the imperialist powers for hegemony in Africa and the world. But sometimes you can see clearest by looking from [...]

 

San Francisco Labor Council calls for prosecution of police who killed Alan Blueford

By January 18, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Facebook photo of Alan Blueford, https://www.facebook.com/groups/355178837879562/

The San Francisco Labor Council, a powerful assembly of labor union delegates, passed a resolution Jan. 14 in support of justice for Alan Blueford. Blueford was killed by Oakland (Calif.) Police Department Officer Miguel Masso on May 6, after he ran from the cops when they rolled up in typical stop-and-frisk fashion. The resolution, below, [...]

 

Un faro de lucha para los/as imperialistas del mundo

By January 16, 2013 » Add the first comment.

Buró de Nueva York del Partido Workers World/Mundo Obrero Desde que el Centro de Acción Internacional se fundó en el 1992 en dos pequeñas habitaciones en el despacho del ex fiscal general Ramsey Clark, esta organización ha desempeñado un papel único y vital en la lucha contra la ofensiva imperialista estadounidense destinada a reconquistar las [...]

 
‘Nakba’ means disaster, but not surrender

May 15 marks the 65th anniversary of the beginning of what Palestinians and their supporters call the Nakba, “the disaster,” which followed the illegal founding in 1948 of the state of Israel, with the full cooperation of international imperialism. The founding of the Israeli state was accompanied by massacres and the forced removal through terror and intimidation of three-quarters of the population of Palestine at that time. Some 750 towns and villages were literally wiped from the face of the earth, their remains bulldozed away. […]

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