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Texas law triggers US-wide attack on abortion rights

Marcus Otono, Nashville, Tennessee Tue, 12/10/2021 - 13:01

Texas has become the testing ground for a new approach to the nearly 50 year-long battle over abortion rights in the United States. Read more...

Bhaskar Sunkara's "Socialist Manifesto"

Andy Yorke, Fifth International Journal 21, August 2021 Sat, 07/08/2021 - 13:04

Andy Yorke reviews, "The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality", by Bhaskar Sunkara, published by Verso Read more...

USA: Camp Bliss – More Like Camp Hell

Dave Stockton Thu, 24/06/2021 - 10:02

More than 4,300 teenaged children are presently interned in an “emergency shelter" at the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas. Read more...

USA: Andrew Brown Jr killing: Justice can only be won by mass action

Tom Burns, Raleigh, North Carolina Mon, 03/05/2021 - 10:28

On April 21, police in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, shot Andrew Brown Jr in the back of the head. Read more...

George Floyd murder trial verdict: a first victory for mass action

Tom Burns, Workers Power, USA Wed, 21/04/2021 - 13:56
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USA: Police killings, this time it's Chicago

Tom Burns, Workers Power, USA Sun, 18/04/2021 - 17:49

Late last month, a 13 year old boy named Adam Toledo was shot by Chicago police. Adam was a Latino. Immediately after the incident, Chicago police stated that there had been an “armed confrontation”. Read more...

USA: Daunte Wright’s murder shows police cannot be reformed

Tom Burns, Workers Power, USA Wed, 14/04/2021 - 07:46

April 11, 2021 saw the murder at a traffic stop of Daunte Wright, aged 20, by police officers in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. Police allege that Mr. Read more...

USA: The Roots of the Rise in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

Benji Weiss, Workers Power USA Tue, 30/03/2021 - 17:42

IN the year since the murder of George Floyd, the harsh reality of the racism still experienced by African Americans, 150 years after the abolition of slavery and half a century since the civil rights Read more...

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