There are times when an individual framed, beaten and jailed by the police is just a victim. There are other times when that person becomes a symbol of struggle for an entire movement. This is exactly what is happening in Spain today, which is wracked by 25 percent unemployment, 50 percent among youth.. The person [...]
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Walmart blamed in Bangladesh fire
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John Catalinotto December 16, 2012 » Add the first comment.
People protesting the horrific factory fire that last month killed at least 112 garment workers in Bangladesh held a rally Dec. 6 in the center of a South Asian community in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, N.Y. Speakers focused on the responsibility of giant retailers like U.S. megacorporation Walmart and European firms like Carrefour [...]
International solidarity with workers in the USA
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John Catalinotto December 7, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Following are statements of solidarity that various organizations and individuals sent to the Nov. 17-18 Workers World Party National Conference in New York. Federation of Cuban Women Esteemed comrades, On the occasion of the National Conference of Workers World Party, on behalf of the Federation of Cuban Women, we send our warmest greetings. We take [...]
‘Yugoslav Tribunal’ in hands of organized crime
The following is from an editorial by Werner Pirker in the German daily newspaper, Junge Welt, Nov. 30, translated by John Catalinotto. Pirker writes about the NATO-created Tribunal on the former Yugoslavia, which persecuted President Slobodan Milosevic and other Serb leaders following its creation. The United Nations Security Council’s unlawfully appointed tribunal for war crimes [...]
Iraq still reeling from U.S. wars
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John Catalinotto November 16, 2012 » Add the first comment.
The Pentagon launched the Desert Storm war against Iraq in January of 1991, destroying much of Baghdad’s water and sewage infrastructure with savage bombing raids. Strict sanctions against Iraq prevented full recovery in the 1990s, and the 2003 imperialist invasion added to the damage. After five years of occupation, this 2008 photo from Sadr City [...]
October 1962: Washington provoked missile crisis
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John Catalinotto October 28, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Earth-shaking crises can bring about life-changing decisions. The 1962 October Missile Crisis did for me. In the fall of 1962, I helped about 15 to 20 people in Youth Against War & Fascism, all about 17 to 25 years old, build a demonstration on Oct. 20 in Times Square in New York City. It was [...]
Syria defends itself from imperialist onslaught
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John Catalinotto October 26, 2012 » Add more comments.
NYC meeting hears ‘the other side’ New York — During the last 19 months of chaotic civil war in Syria, with opposition rebels armed by the U.S., NATO and the Gulf monarchies through Turkey, have you ever heard Syrian government representatives defend their government’s position regarding the fighting in their country? If you live in the [...]
Turkey uses false pretext to attack Syria
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John Catalinotto October 14, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Mortar fire on the Turkish-Syria border — likely a provocation by Syrian rebels or at most an accident — has already exacerbated the crisis caused by the reactionary armed rebellion inside Syria. This event has awakened strong anti-government reaction inside Turkey. It also threatens a NATO-backed Turkish invasion of Syria and a wider war in [...]
‘ Stop drones’ protest in Pakistan
Before Pakistan’s military stopped them from entering a Waziristan area on the border with Afghanistan, thousands of Pakistani people and a delegation of about 60 anti-war and anti-drone activists from the U.S. and Britain joined a convoy from the northern city of Dera Ismail Khan. The group had to change its goal and go to [...]
Oct. 5-7: Anti-war protests set for 30 cities
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John Catalinotto September 30, 2012 » Add the first comment.
As of Sept. 26, organizations in 27 cities in North America have called demonstrations, meetings, vigils or other actions, mostly for the weekend of Oct. 5-7, to mark the 11th anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and to protest further wars “at home and abroad.” Demonstrations are also scheduled in London, England; [...]
