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Cuba’s dilemma, LGBTQ+ news, pondering strategy for organizing and power

Reader Comments: Condo Collapse; Rumsfeld Dead; Voting Rights; Critical Race Theory; Filibuster; How to Defeat Capitalism; Maggie Phair Remembered; Take Action - Syringes to Cuba; Book Sale; Summer Organizing Institute; Black Arts; more....

When Angela Davis was arrested after two months on the lam in 1971, Michael Myerson interviewed her and a codefendant in jail — turning him into a prosecution’s witness. He was now in a tough spot: Could he defy the prosecution without going to jail

Through her writings, Elizabeth Martínez inspired, provoked, educated, strategized, organized and built cross-racial and cross-ethnic alliances, all in pursuit of social justice.

Cuba demands to be left in peace, to live without a blockade, and calls for an end to the persecution of our commercial and financial relations with the rest of the world.

Reader Comments: Juneteenth; Teaching About Racism being Banned; Labor and NASA; I-Hotel; Policing; Myth of 'Good Billionaires"; Global Left - new thinking and strategizing; Syringes for Cuba; lots and lots of announcements; more ...

With the stroke of a pen, Biden could lift trade and travel restrictions and allow unrestricted remittances to Cuba, alleviating needless pandemic suffering.

A continent in upheaval

During the Vietnam War, the city of Vinh was almost destroyed by US bombing. Socialists around the world helped rebuild it. Today, Vinh's architecture stands as a monument to that internationalist solidarity.

Reader Comments: Palestine - What You Can Do; Covid Vaccines and Herd Immunity; Amazon Union Campaign - What Next; GOP Trump Kool-Aid; Help Send Urgently-Needed Syringes to Cuba;; more...