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  • | Melinda Butterfield at the International Trans Colloquium in Havana Cuba May 2023 Photo Serena Sojic Borne | MR Online

    ‘Standing up for trans people is self-defense for every worker’

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on September 12, 2023 by Sharon Black (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Sep 14, 2023)

    Interview with Oct. 7 organizer.

  • | War and Lenin in the 21st century part 4 | MR Online

    Imperialism and the new Cold War

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on September 5, 2023 by Gary WIlson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Sep 07, 2023)

    War and Lenin in the 21st century, part 4

  • | Keʻeaumoku Kapu a Kanaka Maoli community leader and head of the Nā ʻAikāne o Maui Cultural Center handing out supplies in a Lahaina Walgreens parking lot The cultural center was destroyed in the fires | MR Online

    Maui: Deadliest U.S. fires in a century

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 27, 2023 by Gregory E. Williams (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Aug 31, 2023)

    The Aug. 8 wildfires that devastated parts of Maui are the deadliest in the U.S. since the 1918 Cloquet fire in northern Minnesota. Some two weeks after the fires, the official death toll stands at 115, and authorities in Hawaii have released the names of 388 people still unaccounted for. Tens of thousands have evacuated. Over 3,000 acres burned in Lahaina and neighboring communities.

  • | Indigenous Waoranis march for a Yes vote in the referendum to protect the Yasuní Photo Jose Jacome | MR Online

    Ecuador: National referendum ending oil exploitation in the Amazon is victorious

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 23, 2023 by Santiago Rosero (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Aug 26, 2023)

    While most of the focus was on the general elections in Ecuador, a national referendum was held on oil exploitation in the Amazon.

  • | July 30 protest outside the Enoggera Army Base in Australia as the US and Australia engaged in the massive Talisman Sabre anti China war games Photo Alex Bainbridge Nim Flores from Guayan Guam Shinako Oyakama speaking | MR Online

    Biden sends $345 million weapons to Taiwan: Activists protest U.S.-Australia anti-China war games

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 2, 2023 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Aug 11, 2023)

    This is the first part of a $1 billion weapons transfer directly from Pentagon stockpiles to Taiwan this year.

  • | Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen seemed openly insincere when she tried to say the controls were not aimed at Chinas broader economy Premier Li Qiang who met Yellen responded that she was overstretching | MR Online

    The U.S. ‘Act of War’ against China

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 26, 2023 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jul 28, 2023)

    The U.S. export controls (the act of war) on computer chips aim to cripple China’s ability to produce or purchase high-end chips, which are crucial for the development of advanced technologies such as supercomputers and artificial intelligence (AI). Some call this a Silicon Curtain in the New Cold War against China.

  • | Chicago June 27 Air Quality Index 228 the purple or very unhealthy zone | MR Online

    Deadly hazards of capitalist profit system

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 8, 2023 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jul 10, 2023)

    The beginning of July saw the hottest days on record globally.

  • | Photo Serena Sojic Borne | MR Online

    A trans person reflects on Cuba and Florida

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on June 15, 2023 by Melinda Butterfield (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jun 16, 2023)

    Melinda Butterfield: “As I sat in Miami, I was keenly aware that Gov. Ron DeSantis was preparing to sign several laws aimed at banning trans people from public life and getting the health care they need to live.” (DeSantis did sign these laws just a few days later, not by coincidence, on May 17 – the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia.)

  • | People look at a map of the fire in Fort Chipewyan Alberta on Friday June 2 2023 Over 800 people have been evacuated from Fort Chipewyan as wildfires threaten the community downriver from the oil sands Amber Bracken | MR Online

    The First Nations at the frontline of Canada’s fires

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on June 12, 2023 by Brandi Morin (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jun 14, 2023)

    As smoke and smog choke the Northeast, Alberta’s Indigenous Nations face down apocalyptic wildfires and the provincial government’s “let-it-burn” climate policy.

  • | Is Washington seeking to fabricate a casus belli against Cuba | MR Online

    Is Washington seeking to fabricate a casus belli against Cuba?

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on June 10, 2023 by Raúl Antonio Capote (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jun 12, 2023)

    According to the U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal, which had the “honor” of putting the lie into circulation, there is an agreement between Cuba and China, in military matters, for the installation of an alleged espionage base.

  • | US Army rocket system used for a live fire event during Balikatan 23 war exercises in the Philippines April 26 | MR Online

    Biden drops ‘One China’ policy, uses Philippines for war drive over Taiwan

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on May 20, 2023 by Scott Scheffer (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted May 22, 2023)

    Pentagon strategists have been beefing up their military presence in Asia and building alliances in preparation for an all-out war against China.

  • | The US is docking nuclear armed submarines in South Korea for the first time since the 1980s Photo US Navy | MR Online

    Biden nukes Korea, builds anti-China alliances

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on May 2, 2023 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted May 09, 2023)

    Although it was widely believed that the U.S. continued to secretly deploy nuclear weapons in Korea, this move by the Biden administration is a blatant violation of the denuclearization treaty.

  • | Rep Zooey Zephyr | MR Online

    #LetHerSpeak: Rep. Zooey Zephyr and supporters defy anti-trans bigots

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on April 28, 2023 by Melinda Butterfield (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted May 03, 2023)

    On April 26, the far-right-dominated Montana state legislature in Helena censured the state’s first elected trans representative, Zooey Zephyr, after silencing her for several days and threatening her with expulsion. 

  • | Cyclone Freddy | MR Online

    While Biden unleashes climate bomb in Alaska, Cyclone Freddy ravages eastern Africa

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on April 13, 2023 by Scott Scheffer (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Apr 21, 2023)

    The U.S. corporate-controlled media are concealing the climate crisis’s severity and breadth.

  • | Tasiyah Woodland an 18 year old Black trans woman killed in Baltimore on March 24 was remembered at the Queer and Trans Youth Autonomy March in Washington DC on March 31 Black trans women are murdered in disproportionately high numbers SLL photo Melinda Butterfield | MR Online

    Fascists threaten, Biden concedes: organize and fight for trans rights!

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on April 8, 2023 by Melinda Butterfield (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Apr 10, 2023)

    The Trans Day of Vengeance was a long-planned protest in Washington, D.C., scheduled for April 1. People were coming to D.C. from across the country to participate. It was called in response to the growing legal and extralegal violence against the transgender community, egged on by far-right politicians and corporate media.

  • | Workers across France continue militant protests against attacks on pensions | MR Online

    France burns as millions protest to defend pensions

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on March 26, 2023 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Mar 29, 2023)

    March 23 was a national day of action, a general strike, organized by the labor unions in France. 

  • | Drone swarms The Pentagons massive budget includes a new project the Autonomous Multi domain Adaptive Swarms of Swarms AMASS to launch automated coordinated attacks by swarms of thousands of many types of drones that operate in the air on the ground and in the water | MR Online

    War buildup: Biden’s $1 trillion military budget

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on March 14, 2023 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Mar 20, 2023)

    The White House released its budget request for 2024. For the Pentagon, there is $824 billion. Adding armaments for military operations in Ukraine takes that figure to more than $950 billion.

  • | Silicon Valley Bank | MR Online

    Silicon Valley Bank collapses, the bailout has begun

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on March 13, 2023 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Mar 14, 2023)

    Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest in the U.S., was shut down on March 10 and put under the control of the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.

  • | Submerged cars on Interstate 5 in the San Fernando Valley Los Angeles County Feb 25 | MR Online

    Behind California’s extreme weather emergency

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on March 6, 2023 by Scott Scheffer (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Mar 09, 2023)

    While the giant U.S. energy corporations and banks seek out every way to profit from the climate change emergency that they inflicted on the world, extreme weather events are becoming the new normal. 

  • | Dr King | MR Online

    Honoring Dr. King’s legacy: Speak out against racism, poverty and World War III

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on January 19, 2023 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jan 26, 2023)

    A standing-room-only crowd packed St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Harlem, New York, for a “speak out to stop racism, poverty and World War III.” The event honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy on the weekend of the King Day holiday.

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