The article below was first published June 29, 2011, following a release from WikiLeaks confirming that U.S. media claims of a “massacre” in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989 were false. How many times have we been told that the U.S. is an “open” society and the media are “free”? . . .
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Boston May 31 — Less than a month after their May 3 vote to unionize, workers at the Cleveland Circle Starbucks store and supporters shut down operations on Memorial Day and declared a strike because of safety violations. First shift strike line, Cleveland Circle, May 31, Boston. Credit: Boston SBWU . . .
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For antiwar, anti-racist and working-class activists, a May 23 webinar on the role of the U.S., NATO and Ukrainian neo-Nazis in provoking and prolonging the war in Ukraine provides an antidote to the poisonous propaganda in the U.S. corporate media. Credit: UNAC Those who missed the webinar live can catch . . .
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The following is one installment of Feinberg’s “Lavender & Red” series on the intersection of LGBTQ+ and socialist history, which appeared Sept. 21, 2007, in Workers World newspaper. The 120-part series was published between 2004 and 2008 and can be downloaded free at workers.org/books. In today’s capitalist citadels, lesbian, gay, . . .
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N’Djamena, Chad Several hundred people demonstrated May 14 in N’Djamena, capital of Chad, against the presence of France in north-central Africa and in support of the anti-French struggle in Mali. Demonstrators burned at least two flags of the former colonial power and vandalized several Total service stations, a “symbol” according . . .
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On the occasion of Africa Day, several hundred South African radical left activists gathered May 25 in front of the French Embassy in Pretoria to condemn French interference in the African continent. This is the first event of its kind in this country. South Africans march against French imperialism, May . . .
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