Download 12-page PDF here. Not a riot — REBELLION. Editorial: Defend resisters! Defend the uprising! Photos across U.S.; workers solidarity; Whose violence? Also: Food, housing and water; Trump, WHO and Big Pharma; Pride month: LGBTQ2+ solidarity; Larry Kramer, 1935-2020; Brazil & COVID-19 Tear down prisons: Mumia’s birthday; Resistance roundup; Empty . . .
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MTA bus operator Yasmin Rowe gives the thumbs up to New York City demonstrators protesting the killing of George Floyd. There has been a groundswell of worker solidarity with protests against the racist police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. First, reports came in from Minneapolis that . . .
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Below is an article first posted online on April 24 by Tom Soto, who died on May 31. Comrade Soto had been a leading member of Workers World Party for two decades, beginning in the late 1960s. He distinguished himself in the struggles for open enrollment at the City University . . .
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Sanitation workers protest, New Orleans, May 5. Sanitation workers in New Orleans are fed up with low pay, long hours and hazardous conditions. Their problems are magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic which has officially killed nearly 1,000 people in the city’s metropolitan area. Close to 20 city sanitation workers who . . .
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Mothers on May 31 carry photos of their sons and others killed by Brazilian police. On May 9, The Lancet medical journal, in assessing the COVID crisis in Brazil, wrote that “perhaps the biggest threat to Brazil’s COVID-19 response is its president, Jair Bolsonaro.” When questioned by journalists about the . . .
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Between March 18 and April 10, over 22 million people lost their jobs as the unemployment rate surged toward 15 percent. Over the same three weeks, U.S. billionaire wealth increased by $282 billion, an almost 10 percent gain. — Institute for Policy Studies
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