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  • | COVID19 Death Certificate | MR Online

    One million people killed by capitalism

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on May 23, 2022 by Stephen Millies (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted May 24, 2022)

    One million people in the United States have died of COVID-19. Coronavirus was written on their death certificates as the cause.

  • | Mass Graves | MR Online

    Here’s what I found at the reported ‘mass grave’ near Mariupol

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on April 29, 2022 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    According to recent Western media, Russian forces have buried up to 9,000 Mariupol civilians in “mass graves” in a town just west of the Ukrainian city.

  • | On March 27 the Socialist Unity Party and StruggleLa Lucha newspaper hosted a webinar called Stop the War Lies Voices from Donbass | MR Online

    Voices from Donbass speak to U.S. anti-war movement

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on April 7, 2022 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    On March 27, the Socialist Unity Party and Struggle-La Lucha newspaper hosted a webinar called “Stop the War Lies: Voices from Donbass.” This was a unique opportunity for the U.S. anti-war movement to hear directly from people in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), whose voices are silenced by the Western mass media’s pro-Ukraine war propaganda.

  • | Families and supporters of trans youth protest at the governors mansion in Austin Texas March 13 | MR Online

    Hands off trans youth!

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on March 25, 2022 by Greg Butterfield (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Mar 31, 2022)

    Trans people, and especially youth, are under attack in state capitols across the U.S. And the most egregious attack so far has come in a state that is a stronghold of the neofascist takeover of the Republican Party – Texas.

  • | Donetsk Peoples Militia troops check men leaving Mariupol for tattoos of swastikas runes and wolfsangels marking them as neoNazi combatants | MR Online

    Mariupol and Donetsk: a tale of two cities

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on March 25, 2022 by Greg Butterfield (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Mar 28, 2022)

    In December 2014, a young Russian communist named Andrey Sokolov was visiting the newly formed Donetsk People’s Republic. He went to meet a friend who’d been driven into exile from Ukraine after the U.S.-backed far-right coup d’etat in Kiev earlier that year. 

  • | Solidarity rally in Galicia Spain in 2014 | MR Online

    Understanding Ukrainian Nazism

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on February 26, 2022 by Lucas Leiroz (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Mar 05, 2022)

    In the West, media outlets are claiming that Russia’s agenda to “denazify” Ukraine is unfounded. At the same time, public opinion in Western countries is totally alienated from the Ukrainian reality, tending to believe only what is reported by the hegemonic media.

  • | US military convoy at the PolishGerman border in Olszyna Poland | MR Online

    In response to capitalist economic turmoil, war funding soars

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on February 2, 2022 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Feb 02, 2022)

    On Jan. 24, stocks were falling, with the S&P 500 Index down 3.8%, the Dow Industrial Average down 2.7% and the Nasdaq Composite down 4.5%. The widespread sell-off for the Dow and the S&P 500 started on the second trading day in January; and for the Nasdaq in November. The Nasdaq is down nearly 20% from its high in November.

  • | Youthled protest at climate change meeting in Milan Italy Oct 1 | MR Online

    How capitalism shackles the fight against climate change

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on October 9, 2021 by Scott Scheffer (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Oct 15, 2021)

    Journalists from the U.S. and Europe have warned that the summer of 2021 should be a wakeup call on climate catastrophe. Rightfully so.

  • | Attica | MR Online

    50 years since Attica Rebellion: We salute ‘prisoners’ Paris Commune’

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on September 9, 2021 by Sharon Black (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Sep 18, 2021)

    On Sept. 9, 1971, approximately 1,500 prisoners in Cell Block D seized the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York, after submitting a 27-point manifesto to the prison administration in an attempt to address the torturous conditions inside the prison.

  • | Meituan delivery drivers in Beijing | MR Online

    A working class perspective on China’s tech regulations

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 13, 2021 by Gregory E. Williams (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Aug 19, 2021)

    Bourgeois pundits are alarmed by the Chinese government’s latest regulatory changes. A Wall Street Journal headline is typical: “China’s corporate crackdown is just getting started. Signs point to more tumult ahead.”

  • | Jasmine CamachoQuinn | MR Online

    Sports sovereignty in Puerto Rico

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 8, 2021 by Berta Joubert-Ceci (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Aug 12, 2021)

    A few days ago, athlete Jasmine Camacho-Quinn won a gold medal for PR in the 100-meter hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics.

  • | Aftermath of Ukrainian rocketlauncher attack in Donetsk March 4 Photo Donetsk International | MR Online

    Ukraine, U.S. drum up war threats against Donbass and Russia

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on April 2, 2021 by Greg Butterfield (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Apr 08, 2021)

    The USA has the unique condition of being a flagrant violator of human rights within its own borders and in practically every region of the world. No other nation has such a systematic record. Its massive control of media and communications hides this truth from its own people.

  • | Bolivia mass mobilizations against USbacked coup continue | MR Online

    Bolivia mass mobilizations against U.S.-backed coup continue

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 22, 2020 by Julia “Pachamama” Fernández (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Aug 24, 2020)

    A 12-day national Bolivian blockade led by massive social movements, students, elders, unions and farmworkers ended on Aug. 13. It had paralyzed the entire country, resulting in food/fuel shortages and in the complete instability of the Andean nation itself.

  • | What media moguls dont want you to know Youtube and Google attack Cuba and Venezuela | MR Online

    What media moguls don’t want you to know: Youtube and Google attack Cuba and Venezuela

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 22, 2020 by Cheryl LaBash (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Aug 24, 2020)

    On Aug. 20, just ahead of programming about the start of clinical trials for Cuba’s COVID-19 vaccine, Soberana-01, YouTube management disabled Mesa Redonda’s channel. Mesa Redonda (Roundtable) airs Monday through Friday evenings on Cuban national television.

  • | John Parker right in white shirt speaks at press conference announcing community caravan against police brutality June 4 Photo Unión del Barrio | MR Online

    Black socialist leader: ‘Demands must clarify our reality’

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on June 12, 2020 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jun 17, 2020)

    You see, not all Black folk look or think alike. And not every organization will have the same political analysis of the events before our eyes.

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Struggle between the Future and the Past: Where Is Cuba Going?
    Editor | Cuban Flag Museum of the Revolution Havana Cuba 2012 | MR Online

    I have 2 favourite sayings. One draws upon the dialogue in Shakespeare’s Henry the VI part 2 when Jack Cade envisions that the effect of his plot will be that “all the realm shall be in common.” To this, comrade Dick responds, “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

Lost & Found

  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin | State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv Ukraine | MR Online

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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