Honduras USA Resistencia and the Honduras Solidarity Network have issued a call for Nationally Coordinated Days of Actions for Honduras on June 28. These actions will commemorate the 2009 coup in that country and express solidarity with the resistance movement in Honduras. The International Action Center and other organizations have endorsed. This call is critical. [...]
Now is the time for solidarity with Honduras
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Teresa Gutierrez June 12, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Guatemalans protest annulment of dictator’s genocide conviction
On May 20, the Guatemalan Constitutional Court annulled the conviction of Guatemalan dictator, Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt. Just ten days before, Ríos Montt had been found guilty for acts of genocide and crimes against humanity in Guatemala that amounted to some of the worst atrocities ever in Latin American history. His conviction had been the [...]
Tribute to Vince Copeland: Highlights of an outstanding thinker and fighter
New York — Doing justice to the life of an outstanding figure in the arduous struggle to liberate humanity from capitalist wage slavery is a daunting task. Yet that’s what a gathering of Vince Copeland’s comrades in Workers World Party set out to do on June 7, the 20th anniversary of his death. At a memorial [...]
Revolución Bolivariana asediada por intentar construcción del socialismo
El pasado 22 de mayo, y con gritos de “así, así, así es que se gobierna” y “no volverán” [refiriéndose al deseo a gobernar de la derecha oligarca], la primera promoción de la Universidad Bolivariana de Trabajadores Jesús Rivero recibió la propuesta del presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro, de crear las Milicias Obreras en los centros [...]
People’s Assembly platform brings mayoral victory for Chokwe Lumumba
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Monica Moorehead June 11, 2013 » Add the first comment.
In a historic election, long-time Black political activist and civil rights attorney Chokwe Lumumba was elected mayor of Jackson, Miss., on June 5, winning a whopping 87 percent of the vote. For decades, Lumumba fought for the right to self-determination for Black people. He was vice president of the Republic of New Afrika, which demanded [...]
Hoodie Day for Trayvon Martin in Buffalo, N.Y.
The Buffalo, N.Y., National Hoodie Day march, led by African-American youth, proceeded down a major street in a predominantly African-American community on June 10. As lines of cars crawled by and came to a stop many times, drivers in rush-hour traffic signaled support with horns, raised fists and shouts, and took pictures from car windows. [...]
Michigan protesters support Walmart workers
Close to 100 supporters of Walmart workers demonstrated June 7 outside the Walmart Super Center in Dearborn, Mich. Among them were members of Good Jobs Now and the Service Employees, Food and Commercial Workers, United Auto Workers and Steelworkers unions. Demonstraters called on Walmart to give its workers a raise and for the government to [...]
Bolivarian revolution under siege for attempting to construct socialism
On May 22, with cries of “That, that, that’s the way to govern” and “They shall not return” (referring to the right-wing oligarchy’s lust for power), the first graduating class of the Jesus Rivero Bolivarian Workers University heard Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s proposal to create a Workers’ Militia in workplaces around the country. Before concluding [...]
Kenyan Land and Freedom Army veterans reject British offer
Although the British government offered a formal apology and modest compensation for the crimes committed against the people of Kenya during the war of independence between 1952 and 1960, many of the veterans of the struggle say that the existing list of victims is not complete. Former members of the Kenyan Land and Freedom Army, [...]
U.S.-NATO installed Libyan regime requests assistance from imperialist military alliance
After more than two years of a full-fledged Pentagon- and NATO-led war against the North African state of Libya, the installed General National Congress (GNC) regime is now requesting assistance from their neocolonial masters. In a press release issued June 4 by Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen, he indicated that the Western-backed government [...]
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