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  • | 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.

  • | In 2020 farmers blocked the parliament building in Kiev to protest legislation allowing the sale of agricultural land | MR Online

    Zelensky complicit in corporate takeover of Ukraine

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on January 7, 2023 by John Parker (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jan 12, 2023)

    “Your money is not charity, it’s an investment.” That’s what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his address to the U.S. Congress while visiting Washington on Dec. 21.

  • | Honor the legacy of Dr Martin Luther King | MR Online

    Honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King: Unite to fight racism, fascism and war

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on January 5, 2023 by Melinda Butterfield (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jan 09, 2023)

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said in 1967, “The bombs dropped on Vietnam explode at home.” Malcolm X expressed something similar when he said, “Chickens come home to roost.”

  • | Jose Maria Sison | MR Online

    Jose Maria Sison, founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on December 16, 2022 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    The greatest Filipino of the past century bereaved us peacefully.

  • | Epidemic control workers wear PPE to prevent the spread of COVID 19 as they stand next to equipment for cold weather in an area where some communities are under lockdown on Nov 29 2022 in Beijing China | MR Online

    Zero COVID: Don’t be deceived by U.S. reports on the protests in China

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on December 11, 2022 by Scott Scheffer (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Dec 18, 2022)

    The opportunism of the major U.S. media was on full display in late November over the protests against China’s anti-COVID lockdowns.

  • | John Parker speaks at CovertAction event in New York City Dec 1 SLL photo Melinda Butterfield | MR Online

    ‘Challenge the U.S. justifications for this war’

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on December 8, 2022 by John Parker (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Dec 13, 2022)

    If you like horror stories, here’s one for you. It’s the 2022 National Defense Strategy document from the U.S. secretary of defense. This document was blessed by President Biden, who is quoted in the introduction.

  • | South Korean Air Force personnel prepare to load US made and supplied cluster bombs internationally banned weapons during an exercise in 2017 at an air base in Suwon South Korea Photo New York Times | MR Online

    Cluster bombs: Biden considers sending banned weapons to Ukraine

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on December 10, 2022 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Dec 12, 2022)

    CNN reports that the Biden administration is considering adding cluster bombs to the mass of weapons it is pouring into Ukraine. The production and use of cluster bombs is prohibited under international law.

  • | John Parker speaks at Burning Books in Buffalo NY Sept 17 SLL photo | MR Online

    From the Tops Market massacre to Ukraine’s war crimes in Donbass

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on September 24, 2022 by John Parker (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Sep 27, 2022)

    Playgrounds are wonderful. I saw the joy when my child was between ages 3 and 8 playing on the playground. Here we have the science of physics and engineering used for the sole purpose of creating see-saws and swings designed to hold a child’s weight, manufacturing squeals of joy from children, not bombs.

  • | The December 12 Movement held a press conference in solidarity with the people of Jackson under the statue of Adam Clayton Powell outside the Harlem state office building named in his honor Speakers included Roger Wareham and founding chair Viola Plummer of the December 12 Movement State Senator Cordell Clear Bill Dores of Struggle La Lucha and Jason Corley of the Cuba Si Coalition SLL photo Bill Dores | MR Online

    ‘Billions for Ukraine–we say billions for Jackson’

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on September 6, 2022 by December 12th Movement (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Sep 10, 2022)

    In 2022, in the richest country the world has ever seen, Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, has no water for drinking, cooking, bathing, flushing a toilet, or fighting a fire. As of this moment, the situation is predicted to continue “indefinitely.”

  • | Pentagon | MR Online

    Biden to name Ukraine war general

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 30, 2022 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Sep 01, 2022)

    President Joe Biden is planning to declare Ukraine an official U.S. military operation, the Aug. 24 Wall Street Journal reports, making it a separate command with its own general.

  • | Screen Shot 2022 07 31 at 41642 PM | MR Online

    Crisis in Sri Lanka: Is U.S. imperialism involved?

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 31, 2022 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Aug 01, 2022)

    The scenes of massive people’s protests that have forced Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee to Singapore have filled the news media. On July 20, Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former prime minister, was appointed interim president.

  • | LGBTQ2S activists and anti fascists defend a drag brunch from neo nazis July 10 | MR Online

    What’s behind the escalating attacks on trans people?

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 25, 2022 by Melinda Butterfield (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jul 28, 2022)

    Thirty-one members of the white supremacist Patriot Front from across the U.S. were detained after preparing an assault on a Pride festival in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, June 12.

  • | Wages prices and the minimum wage | MR Online

    Wages, prices and the minimum wage

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 16, 2022 by Sharon Black (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jul 20, 2022)

    Today the federal minimum wage is $7.25! Let that sad fact sink in. Right now you can barely buy a gallon of gas in some parts of the country with that little cash.

  • | Heat waves tied to Big Energy capitalism | MR Online

    Heat waves tied to Big Energy capitalism

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 14, 2022 by Scott Scheffer (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jul 16, 2022)

    The population of the world is enduring crises from climate change that, until recently, climatologists thought may only happen decades from now. 

  • | COVID 19 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 Struggle La 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 neo Nazi 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.

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