The strike of autoworkers at General Motors is just over a week old, but already the class lines are clear. At more than one location, pickets were injured by delivery drivers trying to drive through the lines and into the plants. Police have harassed pickets, and in Spring Hill, Tenn., . . .
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In the face of mounting legal victories and an energized movement in the streets to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police is now attacking District Attorney Larry Krasner for failing to challenge a request by Abu-Jamal’s attorneys for a new evidentiary hearing. Maureen Faulkner, widow of slain . . .
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Over the past few months, fires have destroyed millions of acres of rainforest in Brazil’s Amazon region, normally one of the wettest areas in the world, as well as in Indonesia, which has been immersed in the world capitalist economy since the U.S. covertly engineered a military coup there in . . .
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Thousands of people of many nationalities and religions gathered outside the stadium here Sept. 22 to protest the fascist rally held for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump. Under the guise of signing a trade deal to strengthen economic relations between the countries, both Modi and Trump . . .
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Rather than making a futile attempt to rationalize any of Trump’s horrifying, irrational views, our time is better spent in political analysis that points to clarity and action. For, like most bourgeois politicians, Trump likes to point a finger of blame for this or that issue at other individuals, including . . .
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Antes de 1492, lo que hoy es Estados Unidos tenía alrededor de mil millones de acres de bosques. Desde 1600 en adelante, al menos 286 millones de acres fueron destruidos. En una carta de 1763, Benjamin Franklin escribió: “La tierra despejada absorbe más calor y derrite la nieve más rápido”. . . .
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La huelga climática global del 20 al 27 de septiembre exige un examen inquebrantable de las raíces de la crisis climática. A pesar de las afirmaciones que niegan las razones del cambio de la clima, la evidencia científica masiva muestra que la liberación de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero, . . .
Continue reading ¡Hagamos a las corporaciones, bancos y el Pentágono pagar por las reparaciones climáticas! at Workers.org
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