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Close to victory: Campaign to end the Oakland School Police Department

Oakland, Calif. June 14 — For nearly 10 years, the Black Organizing Project has been fighting to defund and dismantle…

June 17, 2020

Racism, lack of jobs as workers face social pandemic

June 12 — On June 5, President Donald Trump was over the moon with joy. The numbers were “stupendous,” “AMAZING”…

June 15, 2020

COVID-19 hot spot

Houston The National Black United Front in Houston toured the Harris County Jail on May 19, Malcolm X’s 95th birthday,…

June 13, 2020

Stop exploiting J-1 cultural workers

Each year about 300,000 cultural exchange workers — students, scholars and professors sponsored by U.S. employers — enter the country…

June 13, 2020

Prisoner Solidarity Committee of WWP: ’NYPD’s racist brutality a death sentence for protesters’

DE BLASIO: RELEASE ALL PROTESTERS FROM JAIL NOW! A statement of the Prisoner Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party June…

June 10, 2020

Domestic violence: ‘The epidemic within the pandemic’

“My husband won’t let me leave the house” has become an all-too-familiar cry for help since the mandatory lockdown was…

June 10, 2020

Police terror, COVID-19 are women’s issues

These slightly edited remarks were given by Monica Moorehead at a June 7 International Women’s Alliance webinar: “Building our militant…

June 10, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic: a historic event that will intensify global working-class struggle

Below is an article first posted online on April 24 by Tom Soto, who died on May 31. Comrade Soto…

June 3, 2020

Brazil’s Trump: Bolsonaro is the ‘biggest threat’ to COVID response

On May 9, The Lancet medical journal, in assessing the COVID crisis in Brazil, wrote that “perhaps the biggest threat…

June 3, 2020

Economics behind the rebellion

Between March 18 and April 10,  over 22 million people lost their jobs as the unemployment rate surged toward 15…

June 3, 2020