Last weekend was surely the most complex in ages! Were the results favorable for “the good side”?
Subjects Archives: Protest
Cassandra calls
Eye-catching in Chemnitz were not just Hitler salutes under the statue of Karl Marx but the friendly cooperation between leaders of nasty PEGIDA anti-Islam movement, local pro-fascist thugs and a representative of the racist Alternative for Germany party (AfD).
Washington walkouts win teachers big raises
Fifteen districts started the school year on strike in Washington state—the latest to ride the West Virginia wave.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: locking down
September 10, 2018 Prison Radio broadcast from Mumia Abu-Jamal on the significance of a “lock down” that has been instituted for the entire state of Pennsylvania.
For first time ever, workers, peasants, Agri workers to hold joint rally in Delhi against Modi regime
Massive Mazdoor Kisan Sangharsh Rally on September 5 to hit out at neoliberal economic policies, communal agenda, authoritarian attacks by the BJP government.
U.S. prison strike seeks an end to slave labour, corporate profiteering and rights violations
Organized in the face of a crackdown by authorities, the action seeks to strike at the root of the prison-industrial complex.
Modern slavery: the labor history behind the new nationwide prison strike
A labor historian traces the origins of the 2018 prison strike through a legacy of involuntary servitude.
Nicaragua’s crisis – the latest stage in a permanent war
The opposition will probably delay dismantling the roadblocks and continue their terror attacks to extort maximum concessions from the government.
Watch Kshama Sawant call out councilmembers who voted to repeal the Amazon tax
Only days after passing a tax on Amazon and big business in Seattle, the corporate politicians in Seattle repeal the ordinance.
Can someone inform Donald Trump that Muhammad Ali doesn’t need his pardon?
“The power to pardon is a beautiful thing,” said Trump.
National Rifle Association brands U.S. teachers ‘lazy’
TEACHERS in the U.S. have been branded “lazy” and accused of not caring about children in a series of online videos by the National Rifle Association (NRA).
Is France heading for another May ’68?
Just fifty years ago on March 22nd we saw the beginning of the events in France which terrified the ruling class, led to one of the biggest general strikes ever, along with a wave of factory occupations, and could only be calmed by important concessions from the bosses (minimum wage raised by 35% and new […]
Debt comes for us all
“DON’T LET YOUR CHILDREN GO INTO CRIPPLING DEBT LIKE I HAVE!” I shout, as I and a group of students with SENS-UAW make our way to a major intersection just off Union Square. We wave signs, hoist our banner and merge into the crowd. We are protesting the new GOP tax bill, which will affect […]
Melbourne protesters defy cops, challenge Milo Yiannopoulos
Milo Yiannopoulos, an avid and notorious alt-right figure, ended his night with several hundred anti-fascist protesters. Joined by residents of the Flemington and Kensingston commission flats, protesting and showing the need for radical anti-capitalist defiance against fascists, such as Yiannopoulos.
‘Valve-Turners’ putting lives on the line for our climate emergency
In October 2016, while President Barack Obama was still in office, five climate change activists, including me, cut chains and closed emergency shutoff valves on five tar sands oil pipelines in four states. In one morning, we briefly stopped the flow of all Canadian tar sands oil into the United States.
