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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Atlanta demonstration against Cop City.

    NLG statement in solidarity with Atlanta Forest Defenders

    Originally published: National Lawyers Guild (NLG) on January 25, 2023 (more by National Lawyers Guild (NLG))  |

    On Wednesday, January 18, Georgia State Patrol murdered Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran, who was camping in a public park to defend the Weelaunee Forest and stop the construction of Cop City.

  • The Case for Abolition, for Skeptics

    The case for abolition, for skeptics

    Originally published: National Lawyers Guild (NLG) on March 1, 2021 (more by National Lawyers Guild (NLG))  |

    In the final piece of the series, NLG Anti-Racism Committee Co-Chair and one of the proponents of the 2020 policing resolution Kira Kelley makes the case for the abolition of policing and offers examples of individuals and projects taking power and resources away from police and prisons to create non-carceral, non-punitive alternatives.

  • Trump rally in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021 (Public Domain Mark 1.0).

    NLG condemns attempt by fascist mob incited by Trump to overturn election, complicity by law enforcement

    Originally published: National Lawyers Guild (NLG) on January 6, 2021 (more by National Lawyers Guild (NLG))  |

    At the root of today’s right-wing violence are centuries-long efforts to disenfranchise voters of color, made central in this presidential election.

  • NLG Legal Observer arrested by Atlanta Police, June 1 (John Bazemore/AP).

    Police targeting NLG legal observers at Black Lives Matter protests

    Originally published: National Lawyers Guild (NLG) on June 7, 2020 (more by National Lawyers Guild (NLG))  |

    Since protests have spread to all 50 states in response to the police murders of George Floyd and countless other Black people, law enforcement has responded with a violent show of force against protestors as well as journalists, street medics, and legal support.

  • NLG Calls Upon US to Immediately Comply with International Humanitarian Law in its Illegal Occupation of the Hawaiian Islands

    NLG calls upon U.S. to immediately comply with International Humanitarian Law in its illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Islands

    Originally published: National Lawyers Guild (NLG) on January 13, 2020 (more by National Lawyers Guild (NLG))  |

    As the longest running belligerent occupation of a foreign country in the history of international relations, the United States has been in violation of international law for over a century.

  • Anti-Boycott Bills Are Part of Wider Crackdown on Protest

    Originally published: The Nation Lawyers Guild (more by The Nation Lawyers Guild)

    A number of commentators have noted two different trends. First, across the nation Republican lawmakers are pushing for bills criminalizing protests. Second, a number of state legislatures have passed or considered, often at the impetus of Democratic lawmakers, bills aimed at silencing the movement for Palestinian human rights by targeting boycotts of Israel.

  • National Lawyers Guild Observers Question Validity of Honduran Elections

    National Lawyers Guild (NLG)

    November 26, 2013 Police Repress Students Protesting Against Electoral Fraud, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 26.11.13 The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) delegation of 17 credentialed international observers seriously question the validity of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal‘s (TSE) preliminary results of Sunday’s national elections in Honduras. The NLG takes issue with the United States government’s characterization of the electoral […]

  • National Lawyers Guild Monitors Conclude Venezuelan Elections Were Well-Organized, Fair and Transparent

    National Lawyers Guild (NLG)

    April 16, 2013 New York A delegation of National Lawyers Guild (NLG) election monitors visited polling sites in five Venezuelan states on April 14 and found that the Venezuelan presidential election process was fair, transparent, participatory, and well-organized. With over 78 percent voter turnout, Nicolas Maduro Moros was declared Venezuela’s new president with a 50.66 […]

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Migrant Genocide: Toward a Third World Analysis of European Class Struggle
    Iker Suarez A banner at a memorial rally for victims of the 2014 massacre of migrants at Tarajal, 2021.

    Over 10,000 people died in transit to Spain in 2024 alone.[1] On June 2022, the border fence of Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, was witness to a massacre that killed or disappeared over a hundred African migrants.[2]  A recent BBC investigation revealed that Greek border guards systematically repeal immigrants already on Greek […]

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  • Strike at the Helm: The First Ministerial Meeting of the New Cycle of the Bolivarian Revolution
    Hugo Chávez Mural of Chávez in Caracas. (Univision)

    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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