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‘Police brutality is the rule’
‘Poor left to fend for themselves’
‘Power for the people!’
New Yorkers already know they're paying too much for electricity and
gas.
‘Precarious work affects us all’
Workers around the world face a double crisis. Not only are they trying to
survive the worst crisis of capitalist overproduction since the 1930s, but this
crisis came during a massive global restructuring that has eliminated untold
numbers of formerly secure jobs.
‘Precarious’ autoworkers end heroic sit-down
In south Korea, according to the International Metalworkers Federation,
“Union repression is among the worst in the world.”
‘Profound changes in capitalism are reshaping working class’
Fred Goldstein of the Secretariat of Workers World Party represented
the party at an International Communist Symposium in Brussels, Belgium, on May
4-6. This is the text of his talk to that gathering.
‘Queer’ activists, Black and white, led the way
‘Race Against Death’ in Mumia Abu-Jamal’s case
In the latest attempt by the state to deny his legal rights and derail
political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal's appeal of his 1982 death penalty
conviction, prosecutors have called on the entire Third U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals to recuse itself from hearing Abu-Jamal's case in Philadelphia on
May 17.
‘Race to the Top’ threatens teachers, public education
Capitalism has always been very fond of races — including the race to
conquer, the race to exploit and the race to accumulate as much wealth as
possible, all at the expense of the workers, the poor and the oppressed. The
U.S. government’s recent unveiling of a new race in education, the
“Race to the Top,” is part of the same corporate contest. Only this
time, the survival of public education is on the line.
‘Recovery’ brings more suffering for workers
‘Redistribution of wealth’ attacks NY workers
The day after he went to Wall Street to say that bankers’ salaries are
“rather low,” Gov. David Paterson signed a bill Dec. 10 taking $30
to $50 billion away from the pensions of new state and municipal hires. This is
the biggest change to New York’s pension system in 25 years.
‘Rethink Afghanistan,’ a tool for anti-war activists
“Rethink Afghanistan,” a documentary directed by Robert
Greenwald, is available as a DVD or online in six parts at
rethinkafghanistan.com. It opened Oct. 1 in a limited number
of U.S. theaters.
‘Revolutionary defeatism’ and the anti-war movement
From the Nov. 13 talk to the Workers World Party National
Conference by John Catalinotto, a managing editor of Workers World
newspaper.
‘Richie’ Richardson — an editor & anti-war hero
F.O. Richardson, who everyone called “Richie,” was still in
his teens when he jumped into France on the night of June 5, 1944, the eve of
the allied landing at Normandy.
‘Right of return ’ still key demand after 61 years in Lebanon
When cameras are running, Washington officials sometimes express
“concern” for the plight of the Palestinian people. But even this
phony caring doesn’t extend to the 4.5 million Palestinians who for 61
years have remained stateless, without official nationality, stranded in Arab
countries.The right to return has never been raised in the so-called Palestinian-Israeli
peace talks that Washington brokers. The U.S. government sidesteps the right of
Palestinians to return to their original towns and villages because it opposes
this right
‘San Patricio’ honors Irish-Mexican solidarity
In an outstanding contribution to the music of the world’s peoples, the
renowned Irish artists, The Chieftains, have produced a stunning new compact
disc entitled “San Patricio.” It is a tribute and a history lesson,
set to music.
‘Save the hospital, stop the war’
‘Say NO to racism, don’t buy Moncure Plywood!’
Organizers of the recent U.S. tour of Latin American union leaders
(see workers.org) learned from striking members of International Association of
Machinists Local W369 at Moncure Plywood in North Carolina that La-Z-Boy
Furniture, headquartered in Michigan, was buying wood products made by
strikebreakers.
‘Settlement’ exposes politician-financier corruption
Carlyle Group, the world’s second largest private equity corporation,
agreed on May 14 to pay $20 million as part of an out-of-court settlement for
its role in the “pay-to-play” corruption scandal involving public
pension funds. The out-of-court settlement shields all Carlyle executives from
any criminal liability.
‘Several prisoners died under torture’
‘Socialism & LGBT movement are linked’
‘Somos trabajadores no terroristas’—We are workers not terrorists!
‘Sorry, no blood money today’
It was early Friday afternoon. I went down to the west side of Cleveland to
sell my blood plasma like I often do. Because winter is gradually setting in
and the holidays are approaching, there was a bigger crowd than usual.
‘Soul music’
From the time the first Africans set their feet on this New World, they
brought their rhythms and beats along.
‘Stage a people’s coup!’
Commentary by a member of the Raleigh chapter of
the youth group FIST—Fight Imperialism, Stand Together: On March 21, Raleigh FIST traveled to the march in D.C. Eight of us went,
driving in a 1980s family van.
‘Stop blocking aid to Haiti’
In spite of pouring rain, activists held a protest at the downtown Federal
Building in Los Angeles Jan. 23 demanding the U.S. government stop blocking
international aid to Haiti.
‘Stop foreclosures & evictions!’
The Network to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions rallied outside Baltimore City Hall to call on Mayor Sheila Dixon and the City Council to make the city
a “foreclosure-and-eviction-free zone.”
‘Stop starving the people of Gaza’
Demonstrators around the world marched in solidarity with the people of Gaza on
the one-year anniversary of Israel’s massacre there and to demand an end
to the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
‘Stop the killing of Philippine activists’
‘Stop the war from Harlem to Iraq!’
‘Stop the War’ campaign shakes up Michigan
‘Stop the War’ slate picks up steam
‘Stop U.S. war on women, at home and abroad’
‘Strange Fruit’ describes horrors of lynchings
June is Black Music Month, proclaimed so by former President Jimmy Carter. In
honor of Black Music Month, there was a film series showing in New York at the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture based in Harlem.
One of the films, “Strange Fruit,” is the first documentary
exploring the history and legacy of the famous Black singer, Billie Holiday,
who popularized the song “Strange Fruit.”
‘Take this job & shove it’ … and gets avalanche of support
One thing the superrich hope to gain from high unemployment is a grateful and
submissive working class. They hope those still working will feel so privileged
and thankful to have a job that they’ll do anything to keep it —
doing extra work to make up for those laid off, accepting cutbacks in wages and
benefits, and being generally happy and compliant doing whatever is demanded of
them on the job.
‘Terrorism’ charges levied against RNC protesters
While corporate interests and corrupt local politicians welcomed the
Republicans with open arms, the citizens of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and
St. Paul organized mass protests and pockets of resistance all over the
city.
‘The Al-Jazeera of South America’
‘The American Way’: No truth, no justice
There’s a comic strip character called Superman. His battle cry is
“Truth, Justice and the American Way!” Unfortunately, however,
“the American way” too often does not encompass the values of truth
and justice.
‘The coup dies or constitutions die’
Reflections by Comrade Fidel Castro
‘The death penalty? Shut it down!’
Electricity was in the air Oct. 24 as hundreds of people filled the south steps
of the Texas Capitol in Austin to shout loud and clear: “Todd Willingham
was innocent!”
Gathering for the 10th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty, abolitionists
from all over Texas, around the country, and a few from overseas turned out in
record numbers to demand that Texas Gov. Rick Perry immediately stop all
executions in Texas.
‘The enemy is not a fellow worker’
Martha Grevatt conducted this interview with Rosendo Delgado, a
permanently laid-off Chrysler designer and Detroit immigrant-rights
activist.
‘The Gaza in all of us revives our hearts’
Tarek Abedrabb, a young Syrian man in the Viva Palestina delegation, and a young Egyptian health care worker on the convoy write about Gaza.
‘The Great Debaters’: Challenging racism then & now
How did it come to be that a movie like "The Great Debaters,"
starring Oscar winners Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker, was made by the
Weinstein Company and distributed by a major motion picture company like MGM,
or the fact, even, that the movie was made at all?
‘The man called Robert C. Byrd’
From a July 4, 2010, audio column at www.prisonradio.org by Mumia Abu-Jamal on death row.
‘The press wanted to be used’
What has the military-industrial-media complex meant for reporting?
‘The Shock Doctrine’—pros & cons
Naomi Klein's new book, "The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster
Capitalism," is moving and full of interesting details, yet takes a fatally wrong turn.
‘The system is broken—stop executions!’
‘Troops Out Now’ holds unity meeting
‘Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan’
A total of more than 100,000 people demonstrated Oct. 27 in Boston, Chicago,
Los Angeles, New Orleans, Detroit, Philadelphia, New York, Salt Lake City,
Seattle, Orlando, Fla., Jonesborough, Tenn., and dozens of other locations
against the U.S. war on Iraq.
‘U.S. hands off Cuba, Venezuela!’
‘U.S. hands off Cuba, Venezuela’
‘U.S. out of the Middle East!’
‘U.S. out of the Philippines!’
While the newly elected president of the Philippines, Benigno
“Noynoy” Aquino III, was delivering his State of the Nation address
on July 26, a spirited group of demonstrators from BAYAN-USA were demonstrating
outside the Philippine Consulate nearly 8,000 miles away in San Francisco.
‘Un movimiento imparable’ para dar fin a la pena de muerte
‘Unite all workers against neoliberalism!’
‘Uniting Our Struggles’: WWP Boston Pride
‘Viva Palestina U.S.’ caravan
At a press conference on the steps of New York’s City Hall June 22,
City Councilor Charles Barron announced that he will join British Member of
Parliament George Galloway and anti-war Vietnam vet Ron Kovic on their
humanitarian aid convoy to Gaza in Palestine.
‘Walking to New Orleans’ to show solidarity
‘We agree on liberation of land and nation’
‘WE ARE ALL LYNNE STEWART!’
November 20 marked the one-year anniversary of the incarceration of “The
People’s Lawyer,” 71- year-old Lynne Stewart.
‘We are all the Jena 6’
A militant, dignified and powerful sea of mostly African
Americans filled almost every street in the small rural town of Jena, La.,
today to let the world know that Jim Crow injustice is not going to be
tolerated any longer.
‘We are our own liberators’
This is not a book you read from page one in sequence.
‘We don’t need your aid—just lift the blockade’
José Ramón Machado Ventura, first vice president of the Cuban Council
of State, spoke at a church in Harlem on Sept. 22 about the two issues hurting
Cuba most now: the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike and the
continued imprisonment of the Cuban Five.
‘We fought apartheid; we see no reason to celebrate it in Israel now!’
Excerpts are from a May 17 statement signed by dozens of
South Africans—governmental officials and activists—on the 60th
anniversary of the founding of apartheid Israel.
‘We have to hit the streets’
In an ongoing effort to win passage of a two-year moratorium in Michigan, the
Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions met May 17 to
continue building a fighting mass people's movement.
‘We must break our silence!’
As African-American activists engaged in the many struggles for social and
economic justice and human rights, we are outraged by the recent FBI raids on
anti-war activists in several U.S. cities, alleging they have connections to
terrorism.
‘We need a movement of millions’
‘We need a movement that fights for all our rights’
‘We remember Sean Bell’
On Feb. 25, community members and activists rallied on snowy sidewalks outside
the Queens, N.Y., courthouse to demand justice for Sean Bell.
‘We respect no colonial borders’
‘We'll mobilize Black community against the war’
Black Mobilization Committee organizers against the war in Iraq held a
teach-in on March 3 at the Center for Inner-City Studies in the Bronzeville
neighborhood of Chicago.
‘Welcome to Camp Casey, the beginning of the end of the war’
‘What does a union do? Fight back!’
While delegates were registering for the United Auto Workers 35th
Constitutional Convention outside Cobo Center in Detroit, about 50 militant
autoworkers demonstrated outside with the theme “1 million members lost
— It’s time to change course.” Among the chants were,
“Working people under attack — What does a union do? Fight
back!” and “A job is a right — We’re gonna fight,
fight, fight.”
‘Without the women, that strike would have been lost’
"Old Joan of Arc has come back in half a hundred different
bodies." This was the opinion of a British MP, Ellen Wilkinson, speaking in Flint,
Mich., in 1937 at a rally in solidarity with the famous sit-down strike.
‘Women’s role decisive in Bolivarian process’
‘Ziggy’ Klein
His father was a rabbi and his mother was a communist. She named him Ziegfreed,
not Siegfried. Ziggy said his name meant “much freedom.”
’68 then & now
Thank you, Recreate ’68, for inviting me to join your
efforts in Denver to practice democracy in the shadows of the empire.
’It’s just the infrastructure,’ says billionaire mayor
When a large steam pipe exploded in crowded midtown Manhattan on July 18,
billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg told the press there was no reason to
believe it was "anything other than a failure of our
infrastructure."
’Nuff respect due to the diligent and very necessary work of Prison Radio!
“Another world is possible: but not through spontaneity!”
¡Luchemos contra la prohibición de los abortos!
¡Somos trabajadores, no terroristas!
‘Historical materialism in ¾ time’
‘Nueva Orleáns es una cuestión antiguerra’
'A job is a right! Housing is a right!'
From a talk given by Martha Grevatt, a 20-year Chrysler
worker, executive board member of UAW Local 1234 in Twinsburg, Ohio, and writer
on the UAW and auto industry for Workers World, at a Dec. 1 forum.
'A visible feature of Cuban society'
The thunderous, monopolized voice of the U.S. media machine dwelled on
homosexuals who left Cuba from the port of Mariel in 1980, omitting the role of
the CIA in instigating migration.
'All out for May Day'
On March 28, the May 1st Coalition for Immigrant and Worker Rights
held a news conference to announce plans for May Day 2008.
'Being Puerto Rican is not a crime'
On June 10 during the largest Puerto Rican Day Parade held in the U.S., the
New York Police Department arrested 208 people, overwhelmingly Puerto Rican
youth.
'Card-check' legislation
The defeat of a pro-union bill is a setback for U.S. workers that will
require a new round of struggle to reverse.
'Chavez, Venezuela & the New Latin America'
Aleida Guevara, daughter
of legendary revolutionary leader Che Guevara, traveled to Venezuela in February
2004 to experience the "Bolivarian Revolution" first hand. Guevara, herself a
Cuban pediatrician, compiled invaluable interviews with President Hugo
Chávez, his supporters, Cuban doctors serving in Venezuela and others.
From all this, she has created a riveting and informational documentary
entitled, "Chávez, Venezuela and the New Latin America."
'Don't let them kill an innocent man'
Hot off the presses and flying off the shelves! With the bold banner headline
"Don't let them kill an innocent man."
'END ALL OCCUPATION!'
The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and United for Peace and Justice have called for a protest and teach-in on June 10 and a lobbyday on June 11 in Washington, D.C.
'Fair legalization and worker protection'
Christine Neumann-Ortiz, director of the Milwaukee-based Voces de la
Frontera, spoke with Workers World reporter Bryan G. Pfeifer at the "A
Day Without Latinos" Statewide Civil Rights March and Boycott, May 1, in
Milwaukee, Wis.
'Fidel's resignation'
As news flashed of the formal resignation of Cuba's Fidel Castro
from the office of the President, morbid celebrations broke out in
'Little Havana' (Miami), Florida, the U.S. capital of the Cuban
exiled, anti-Castro movement.
'Free Frances Newton' week builds support
'Gay Cuba'
Two Cuban-backed documentaries about changing attitudes on the island towards
same-sex love and gender variance - which in turn deepened that
change - opened in theaters on the island in the mid-1990s.
'Hands off Sonny Abubadika Carson Avenue'
Activists rallied in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, N.Y., on
Feb. 2 for another street-naming ceremony for the late Black activist, Sonny
Abubadika Carson.
'Happy birthday Gerardo!' Support broadcast for Cuban Five
People across the U.S. and around the world found a way to send a birthday
greeting of solidarity to Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Cuban Five.
'Incident at Oglala' commemorated
In Native American history, June 26th is a day of anguish.
'It's fun to shoot some people'
'Joma' Sison speaks to NYC meeting
Philippine immigrant
organizations in the New York area - Bayan USA and Anakbayan
NY/NJ - along with the International Action Center (IAC) and the
International League for Peoples Struggle (ILPS) held an intercontinental
discussion July 29 with a leader of the Philippine revolutionary struggle, Jose
Maria Sison.
'Life better for gay & lesbian Iraqis under Hussein'
The New York Times - an imperialist mouthpiece - admitted in a
mid-December article that social life was better for those who it "gay and lesbian Iraqis" under the secular government of Saddam
Hussein.
'Link the war at home with the war abroad'
Clarence Thomas, a former ILWU Local 10 official, Central Labor
Council of Alameda County member and initiator of the Million Worker March
Movement, gave closing remarks during the morning plenary on Oct. 20 at the
"Labor Conference to Stop the War" in San Francisco.
'Mission Against Terror' wins supporters for Cuban 5
'Money for human needs, not war'
On Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Detroit said, "End the
war in Iraq, now! Fund human needs! We won't go back - say no to
racism!"
'No human being is illegal'
As Election Day neared, International Action Center activists in Buffalo, N.Y., held a
picket line in front of the Department of Motor Vehicles on Nov. 1 to denounce
the scapegoating of immigrants by candidates for county clerk.
'NO WAR ON IRAN'
Many anti-war organizations across the United States and in several other countries came together on Feb. 4 to protest the rising crescendo of threats against Iran. In more than 30 U.S. states and 80 cities, large and small, groups joined forces to raise four key demands: "No war, no sanctions, no intervention, no assassinations!"
'No' to Con Ed's 17-percent rate hike
People who live and work in Queens, New York City's most international
borough and its largest in area, gave a resounding "No" to Con
Edison's request for a 17-percent rate hike.
'Our war for equality is right here!'
African-American women have to be like Fannie Lou Hamer who fought to
end segregation. We have to be like Harriet Tubman who led our people out of
slavery. We must raise our youth so they will not fight in imperialist
wars.
'Performance enhancing drugs' fact of life in schools
Much attention has been paid to the use of "performance-enhancing
drugs" by athletes. But such substances flow all throughout our society.
Take a day in the life of an average working-class youth.
'Poison DUst' director explains video
Community members and political activists attended the Milwaukee premier film
screening of the Peoples Video Network (PVN) documentary "Poison
DUst"
'Poison DUst' features vets exposed to DU
'Saving' Social Security
It is time to begin a mobilization to defend and extend Social Security
retirement income.
'Sicko' are lack of health care & the war
The Campaign for Healthcare, Not Warfare, a project of the Troops Out Now
Coalition, launched an effort inspired in part by the recent movie
"Sicko" to demand the war be shut down and health care be made free
for everyone.
'Solidarity in the struggle for social transformation'
On Oct. 21, Leslie Feinberg, a managing editor of Workers World newspaper,
was keynote speaker at the Annual Convocation of The Church for the Fellowship
of All Peoples in San Francisco, where she was given the Howard Thurman Award.
'SOLIDARITY OF LABOR ABOVE ALL ELSE'
As pressure builds for the Dec. 12 West Coast port shutdown, the capitalist owners and their media began a battle of ideas to blunt this powerful threat to their profits and control — even for a day.
'Stop execution of Kenneth Foster'
Belief in Texas death row activist Kenneth Foster's innocence is
spreading from his family to abolitionists, to the community, to major
newspapers, to the streets of Austin and San Antonio. Despite his innocence,
Foster is scheduled to be executed on Aug. 30.
'Stop raids and deportations'
A March 24 rally at Milwaukee's Mitchell Park demanded: "Stop the
raids and deportations" and "Legalization for all." It was
sponsored by Voces de la Frontera, a progressive community-based organization.
'Stop the executions now!'
On Oct. 27, activists from Texas were joined by allies who came from as far
away as Uganda, Alaska and France for the 8th Annual Texas March to Stop
Executions held in Houston.
'Stop the raids!'
People came from many parts of Ohio to fill Iglesia Nueva Luz on
Cleveland's West Side on Sept. 10. They were farm workers, poultry
processing workers, union organizers, community organizers, church leaders from
a wide variety of denominations, and family, friends, and supporters of the
immigrants who have been swept up in recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement
raids.
'Surge' of protest at Times Square
Activists from the immigrant rights, Katrina, and anti-war movement
protested on Jan. 15 in Times Square in New York to denounce Bush's
announcement of a "surge" of troops to Iraq, and to demand an end
to funding for the war and an immediate return of all troops.
'The politics of war'
We live in an era when war is all but a machine for profit and a mechanism
for hyping up nationalism to attract votes.
'We want to come home'
On Aug. 31, two dozen activists from across the country, along with New
Orleans public housing residents, entered the Housing Authority of New Orleans.
'Who's illegal?' ask restaurant workers
"It's illegal, it's a crime. Pay your workers
overtime." Some 100 New York restaurant workers and their
supporters chanted as they rallied April 3, led by a rank and
file workers' organization of immigrants and supporters.
1 million-plus take to streets
Unions in Portugal, France, Germany and Italy held uncoordinated strikes and
mass demonstrations from Oct. 18 to 20. All were aimed at countering a
relentless attack from the imperialist ruling class that has cut wages and
benefits and eliminated job security for tens of millions of workers.
1,000 march in support of Black man convicted for self defense
On Jan. 5, about a thousand Black, Latin@ and white people marched together in
Riverhead, L.I. in protest of another racist attack by the U.S. criminal
"justice" system with the Dec. 22 conviction of John White, a Black
Long Island man, of second-degree manslaughter.
1,000 protest U.S. policies at OAS
1,000 rally against cross-burnings
1,200 tenants meet to fight for their homes
Twelve hundred tenants from Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village (ST-PCV)
met March 13 to prepare a housing battle that can impact on tenants of all
incomes throughout New York City.
1.4 million workers march to defend benefits
1.5 million protest vote fraud in Mexico capital
1.8 million veterans get no health care
It seems that, even if young people donate their bodies to the rulers of this
country, they still can't get what is guaranteed to everyone in socialist
countries and even in some capitalist ones: healthcare provided to the people
free of charge.
10,000 in Berlin say: German troops out of Afghanistan
Some 10,000 people marched on Sept. 15 through downtown Berlin to the
Brandenburg Gate, where they demanded that German Parliament members vote
against extending the deployment of the country's troops and military
aircraft to Afghanistan.
10,000 in Germany protest Afghanistan war
More than 10,000 protesters took to the streets of Germany’s capital
Berlin and the southern metropolis Stuttgart on Sept. 17 to demand the
withdrawal of German troops from Afghanistan.
10,000 organizers bring worldwide struggles to Social Forum
Some 10,000 grassroots organizers, anti-racist fighters, farm workers,
domestic workers, anti-war veterans, former prisoners and their families,
spokespeople for lesbian/gay/bi/trans rights, women's rights and
environmental organizations, and activists in virtually every progressive
struggle underway in the U.S. today came together in Atlanta from June 27 to
July 1 for the U.S. Social Forum.
10,000 protest U.S. training in Okinawa
10,000 say ‘Organize the South’
Thousands of workers, youth, religious leaders and civil rights activists
marched through the streets of downtown Raleigh, N.C., on Feb. 14 in the third
annual “Historic Thousands on Jones Street” (HKonJ) march.
100,000 demand rights for immigrants & unions
In one of the biggest marches and rallies in Wisconsin history, more than
100,000 people participated in this year’s May Day in Milwaukee.
100,000 march in Belgium general strike
100,000 march in Puerto Rico
The masses in Puerto Rico sent a strong message to the pro-statehood
administration of Gov. Luis Fortuño and his capitalist allies when more
than 100,000 people came out on Oct. 15 in San Juan and Hato Rey to protest the
current government’s neoliberal policies, including more than 20,000
layoffs in the public sector.
100,000 resistance fighters; occupiers' moral low
Abduljabbar al Kubaysi, resistance supporter and secretary-general of
the Iraqi Patriotic Alliance (IPA), whom the U.S. occupation forces imprisoned
at the airport near Baghdad from September 2004 to December 2005, gave an
interview this July in Paris to Willi Langthaler of the Anti-Imperialist Camp.
100,000 workers march in Lisbon for pensions
100.000 marchan en Puerto Rico
Las masas populares en Puerto Rico enviaron un fuerte mensaje a la
administración pro-estadidad del Gobernador Luis Fortuño y su aliados
capitalistas, cuando más de 100.000 personas salieron a las calles el 15
de octubre en San Juan y Hato Rey para protestar la actual política
neoliberal del gobierno, incluyendo el despido de más de 20.000 personas
en el sector público.
100th anniversary of Bread & Roses strike
On this International Working Women’s Day, March 8, it’s instructive to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bread & Roses strike, which provides valuable lessons for our struggles today.
100th prisoner executed in Houston
To protest the horrific milestone of the 100th person from Harris County
(Houston) being executed on July 24, abolitionists took their outrage to the
home of Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal.
116,000 Okinawans protest revision of Japanese textbooks
More than 110,000 Okinawans joined in a rally on Sept. 30 in the city of
Ginowan, near Futenma Marine Corps Air Station, and there were two smaller
demonstrations elsewhere on the island to protest new pro-military proposals
from Tokyo.
130-plus veterans arrested near White House
Veterans for Peace and their supporters and friends demonstrated Dec. 16 in
front of the White House to protest the ongoing U.S.-led wars and occupations
of Iraq and Afghanistan.
14 arrested exposing CIA torture flights
140 arrested to demand hotel workers’ contract
At least 1,000 San Francisco hotel workers and supporters rallied, marched and
picketed during downtown evening rush hour on Jan. 5, kicking off a boycott of
the upscale Hilton San Francisco hotel. Working without a contract since Aug.
19, the 9,000 union workers at more than 30 of the fanciest San Francisco
hotels continued their fight for a new contract during the last months of 2009
right into 2010.
19 million empty homes
As of the last count by the Census Bureau, there are almost 19 million EMPTY housing units in the United States.
19,000 protest at U.S. torture school
1906 Atlanta ‘Race Riot’ was a massacre
1930s: The women were fearless
The 1930s were years of fierce class struggle and great advances for the
working class. Probably no decade before or since has witnessed such an
expansion of labor's influence and strength in the U.S.
1945: GIs act to stop the war machine
In the months following the end of World War II, some in Washington wanted to
use the 12 million men and women in uniform against the Soviet Union and the
growing anti-colonial movements throughout the world.
1950: Gay leftists organize against Korean War
1950s Havana: Imperialist sexploitation
For 400 years of Cuba's history, the social organization and state
regulation of the sexes, gender expression and sexualities was - as among
all occupied and colonized peoples - in thrall to the brutal systems of
exploitation by semi-feudal landlords, capitalist bosses and imperialist
finance capitalists.
1950s witch hunt:: Even McCarthy was gay baited
1952 court victory against anti-gay charges
1952: Mattachine battles police harassment
1955: First lesbian organization rises on waves of militant struggles
1955: Lesbian organizing and ‘red feminism’
1960s: Youth demand lesbian, gay rights
1965 UMAP brigades: What they were, what they were not
One of the worst slanders against the Cuban Revolution is that the
workers' state was a "penal colony" interning gay men in
"concentration camps" in 1965. That charge, which refers to the
1965 mobilization of Units to Aid Military Production (UMAP), still circulates
today as good coin.
1968 New York and Memphis: Sanitation workers on strike
In February 1968, some 7,000 sanitation workers gathered in New York’s
City Hall Park and voted to go on strike to get a decent contract. Two days after New York’s 1968 strike ended, the sanitation workers of
Memphis, Tenn., also went on strike.
1970: Reviving the fighting spirit of Int'l Women's Day
1970s Cold War gay-bashers condemn Cuba
Bob McCubbin, a young gay male leader in Workers World Party during the rise of
the early gay liberation movement, recalls, "By having regular articles
in Workers World, attending gay protests, producing and distributing flyers
addressing lesbian and gay issues, giving extra visibility to gay comrades,
organizing branch meetings on related issues, and doing outreach to the lesbian
and gay communities, we were successful in attracting many lesbian and gay
youth to our ranks in the early and middle 1970s."
1970s: Decade of cultural progress
Those who today are working to seize state power and defend and build a
workers' state in their own countries may be sobered as well as heartened
by the enormous cultural labor that the Cuban Revolution had to accomplish in
the 1970s, particularly regarding liberation of women, sexuality and gendered
social roles.
1976 WWP pamphlet found answers in Marxism
The profound and meaningful contribution of Workers World Party's 1976
publication "The Gay Question: A Marxist Appraisal" was that it
examined the roots of modern lesbian and gay oppression from a historical
materialist standpoint.
1990s: Cuba education about same-sex love reached every home
The revolutionary Cuban government, since the 1990s, has waged a struggle
against deep-rooted old prejudice about same-sex love in virtually every
cultural venue.
2 million jam Beirut, want U.S. puppets out
2,500 rally for immigrant rights in Charlotte, N.C.
20,000 demand ‘Close torture school!’
The annual protest at the gates of Ft. Benning in Columbus, Ga., drew an
estimated 20,000 demonstrators this year.
20,000 march against racist sheriff
“¡Se ve, se siente! ¡El pueblo está presente! (You can see
it! You can feel it! The people are here!)” This was one of the many
popular chants that reverberated through the streets of Phoenix on Jan. 16 as
20,000 people expressed their outrage and disgust with Joe Arpaio, the racist,
immigrant-bashing and terrorist sheriff of Maricopa County.
20,000 unionists march for jobs
The New York City Central Labor Council coordinated a Dec. 1 march for “Jobs and Economic Fairness.”
200,000 in Rome in solidarity with immigrants
Denouncing a viciously racist antiimmigrant law passed by the government
of scandal-ridden billionaire media magnate Silvio Berlusconi, as many as
200,000 people marched from the Piazza della Repubblica to the Roman forum on
Oct. 17. The CGIL labor confederation played a major role in the march along
with immigrants from Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and South Asia.
200,000 march against Arizona racism
A massive march filled the streets of downtown Phoenix on May 29 as close to
200,000 people gathered to denounce the racist SB 1070 law and show their
determination to fight back against this anti-immigrant attack. The streets
were packed from curb to curb for over three miles as demonstrators made their
way along the six-mile route that began at Steele Indian School Park, snaked
its way through downtown and ended at the state Capitol building.
200,000 protest anti-immigrant bill
200.000 marchan contra el racismo en arizona
Una masiva marcha llenó las calles del centro de Phoenix el 29 de mayo
cuando cerca de 200.000 personas se reunieron para denunciar la racista ley SB
1070 y mostrar su determinación de lucha contra este ataque anti
inmigrante. Las calles estaban llenas de acera a acera por más de tres
millas al dirigirse los/as manifestantes a lo largo de la ruta de seis
kilómetros que comenzó en el parque Steele Indian School,
serpenteó por el centro de la ciudad y terminó frente al edificio del
Capitolio estatal.
2006 had two sides
Reality always has many sides. This is clear when assessing the year 2006
from the point of view of the worldwide class struggle.