Philly Fights Back Against Fascists!
M4L’s plans to hold a national summit at the Marriott Downtown in Philadelphia (date?) has already brought together protesters outside the hotel on May 12. (workers.org/2023/05/71125/)
More demonstrations are planned, starting with an Anti-fascist Pride event on June 2 outside the Marriott at 1200 Filbert St. at 6 p.m. If you can’t be there, or even if you can, call (215) 625-2900 and tell the Marriott “Keep Moms for Liberty out!”
Trans, queer activists to Marriott: Keep ‘Moms for Liberty’ out
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Trans- and queer-led groups are protesting the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown for agreeing to host the Moms for Liberty (M4L) national conference scheduled for June 29 to July 2. Members of ACT UP Philadelphia, Galaei Philly, Stop Moms for Liberty and other activists rallied outside the hotel May 12www.workers.org/2023/05/71176/
Then and now, Stonewall means FIGHT BACK!
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June 28 will mark the 54th anniversary of the historic Stonewall Rebellion, sparked that day by a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. These raids were commonplace, as were arrests for violating anti-trans laws prohibiting “inapprThis content isn't available right now
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LGBTQ2S+ people’s liberation is bound to the struggle for Black liberation, just as it is bound up with the struggle for disability justice. Our liberation is bound to the struggle against settler colonialism and capitalism at home and around the world.
No cages! No borders! We will accept nothing less.
Overrepresented in prisons: LGBTQ2S+ people
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This article was originally published in Workers World on May 28, 2021 At every stage in the criminal injustice system, LGBTQ2S+ people are overrepresented, including within the juvenile justice system. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, this is true from arrest to sentencing to inwww.workers.org/2023/05/71013/
Boston May Day: ‘They say cut back, we say fight back!’
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The following talk was presented by Workers World Party representatives Mairead Skehan Gillis and Will Hodgkinson on May 1, 2023, in Boston. Mairead Skehan Gillis: Good evening and happy International Workers Day/Month to all of the workers across the world! We are so glad to be united wiWriters Guild-East (WGAE) strikers and their supporters from Boston-area unions, recently organized Boston University graduate and residence-life workers, and graduates in red caps and gowns — more than 1,000 people — converged on BU’s commencement May 21. The target of their anger: the union-busting commencement speaker, David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery.
WGA strikers, students tell Warner CEO: ‘Pay your writers’
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Writers Guild-East (WGAE) strikers and their supporters from Boston-area unions, recently organized Boston University graduate and residence-life workers, and graduates in red caps and gowns — more than 1,000 people — converged on BU’s commencement May 21. The target of their anger: the union-...www.workers.org/2023/05/70924/
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These remarks were given at a webinar entitled, “U.S. Women need what Cuban Women have: Socialism,” on May 11, organized by the Women and Gender Oppressed Caucus of Workers World Party. Thank you all for coming out tonight to talk about revolution! I had the amazing experience of visiting Cubwww.workers.org/2023/05/71210/
Kissinger at 100: still a war criminal
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Henry Kissinger reached 100 years old today, May 27, 2023, offering proof that world-class war criminals can escape punishment if they commit their crimes in the service of U.S. imperialism. Kissinger was National Security Adviser to President Richard Nixon and then Secretary of State under NWWP solution to debt crisis: Defund the Pentagon!
WWP solution to debt crisis: Defund the Pentagon!
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It’s television news teaser material that on June 1, the U.S. government will run out of money to pay its debts — everything from wages for its vast global armies and civilian government workers, to Social Security checks and interest payments on Treasury bonds. According to President Joe Biden....www.workers.org/2023/05/70878/
When will they come for your job?
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First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came f>Despite their optimistic forecasts, Yellen and Dimon are aware that the U.S. finance system is quickly running out of bail-out money. Their recent utterances, mostly off newspaper front pages tucked in the business sections, have all included the words “panic,” “sadness,” warnings of impending “catastrophe” and news of the creation of a “war room” at JPMorgan Chase’s Park Avenue headquarters. (Reuters, May 11)
U.S. banking system ‘extraordinarily’ sound – really?
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Jamie Dimon is Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank with over $3.7 trillion in global assets and the world’s largest bank by market capitalization, i.e., stock value. Dimon made headlines May 1, with a pronouncement: “The American banking system is extraordinarily sou...www.workers.org/2023/05/71122/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wildfires-threaten-indi...
Sparked by worsening climate-change conditions, such as drought and extreme heat, wildfires have proliferated around the globe, threatening Indigenous nations, which preserve over 80% of the planet’s biodiversity. A 2021 Canada Journal of Forest Research study found that on-reserve First Nation citizens are at disproportionate risk of wildfires compared to Canada’s settler population. (tinyurl.com/mua6x662)
Despite this, the settler-colonial regimes of Canada and the U.S. — as well as those of Australia, Israel and New Zealand — are worsening the climate crisis by imposing pipelines, fracking and strip-mining projects that devastate Indigenous lands and poison water supplies.
Any lasting solution to the ongoing environmental disaster caused by capitalism requires complete solidarity with Indigenous nations in their struggle to dismantle settler colonialism and reclaim their stolen lands.
Wildfires threaten Indigenous First Nations lands
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This month, wildfires continue to devastate Indigenous First Nations lands in the western part of so-called Canada. At least 91 fires have broken out, 25 of which authorities have admitted are out of control as of May 20. Over 964,000 acres of land have burned thus far. Smoke from the firesThis content isn't available right now
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On Nakba anniversary: Global protests show solidarity with Palestine
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To mark the 75th anniversary of Nakba (The Disaster), global protests took place this past weekend. The actions commemorate the day, when on May 15, 1948, the new Zionist state of Israel began its brutal removal of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people from their rightful lands. This genocidewww.workers.org/2023/05/70887/
With every strike, every speech, every mobilization for the prisoners, Sheikh Khader Adnan personified the Palestinian will to resist and ability to sacrifice for a great and just cause, despite the most seemingly hopeless of circumstances.
He also never hesitated to express solidarity with fellow prisoners struggling against injustice, as he did in his message to California prisoners on hunger strike in 2012 and in his message to Irish Republicans who stood with him during his own hunger strike.
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Published by Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, May 1, 2023. Sheikh Khader Adnan, Palestinian prisoner, hunger striker and resistance leader, was martyred in the early morning hours of Tuesday, May 2, after 86 days of hunger strike demanding his freedom. Adnan, 45, was marwww.workers.org/2023/05/70753/
The U.S role in fomenting violence in Haiti
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María Isabel Salvador, the author of the April 25 report from the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) to the U.N. Security Council on the current situation in Haiti emphasized “the urgent need for the deployment, authorized by the Security Council, of an international specialized ...www.workers.org/2023/05/70760/
No to white vigilantism! Why did Jordan Neely’s murderer go free?
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Workers World Party condemns the heinous murder of 30-year-old Jordan Neely on May 1 in a New York City subway. What happened to Neely was nothing more than a public lynching, reminiscent of the police killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minn. Neely’s death was recorded even a...www.workers.org/2023/05/70838
Ending masking in health care facilities is the most acute and deadly result of the Biden administration’s abandonment of strategies to combat the spread of the increasingly contagious airborne virus.
‘Give us health care, not COVID’
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Boston The entrance of Massachusetts General Hospital — a downtown Boston campus of the growing regional corporate monopoly Mass General Brigham — was the scene of a rare protest: The Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity staged an emergency press conference and speak-out on May 4. Their