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PDF of June 17 issue


PDF of June 17 issue

Download the PDF. Two faces of imperialism G7/NATO: Diplomacy among thieves Venezuela, Cabo Verde, the case of Alex Saab Also: Reparations victory Harvard workers battle layoffs Colonial legacy: anti-LGBTQ+ laws Palestine & solidarity LUMA protest Editorial: Cuts punish jobless GLOBAL: India, Greece, Honduras, France, ‘African Lion,’ Peru. Tear down the walls: . . .

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Kamala Harris goes to Central America − and so does Wall St.


Kamala Harris goes to Central America − and so does Wall St.

In 1973, Eduardo Galeano wrote what was then a groundbreaking book, “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.” Galeano carefully detailed and beautifully summarized how colonialism and then capitalism, specifically U.S. capitalism, overtook the Americas by chicanery and force to rob and plunder the . . .

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Palestinian youth defiant despite retaliation, mass arrests


Palestinian youth defiant despite retaliation, mass arrests

Hundreds of Palestinians have been arrested in retaliation for the May 2021 uprising across Palestine, including prominent twin activists Muna and Muhammed al-Kurd. Now 23, they have have documented Zionist aggression in Palestine since childhood. The two activists again showed the world the true face of the occupation with their . . .

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Harvard dining hall workers resist layoffs


Harvard dining hall workers resist layoffs

By mYia X and Phebe Eckfeldt Members of Local 26 UNITE HERE, representing Harvard dining hall workers, picket on June 3. Cambridge, Mass. June 3 — Members of UNITE HERE Local 26, which represents Harvard dining hall workers, picketed the Harvard Law School cafeteria today to demand no layoffs. The . . .

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Protesters demand: ‘Cancel LUMA Energy contract in Puerto Rico!’


Protesters demand: ‘Cancel LUMA Energy contract in Puerto Rico!’

Credit: Lorraine Liriano Puerto Ricans in the diaspora protested June 11 against the private LUMA Energy company’s June 1 takeover of the operations of the Puerto Rico Energy Network to provide electricity in their homeland. This privatization is backed by the U.S.-created and appointed Financial Control Board. The following is . . .

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Western, colonizing rulers imposed anti-LGBTQ+ laws


Western, colonizing rulers imposed anti-LGBTQ+ laws

This lightly edited article was originally published in 2007 as Part 112 in Workers World Party Comrade Leslie Feinberg’s “Lavender & Red” series on LGBTQ+ issues and communism. Feinberg’s analysis continues to be timely, explaining how, for instance, in 2019 in former British protectorate Brunei, “homosexual sex” could still be . . .

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