UNAC Editor

Earth Day To May Day Protests Begin In DC With ‘Essential, Not Expendable’ Protest

May 1, 2020 UNAC Editor Poverty, Prisoners, Protest, Resistance

by The ShutdownDC Alliance, Popular Resistance, published on Popular Resistance, April 27, 2020 Above: Earth Day to May Day Banner. All photos from Shut Down DC-Climate Strike Washington, DC Facebook page. Workers waved and cheered as activists toured DC in cars and bikes, sending messages of encouragement and justice. Washington, DC, April 27 – Three moving protests involving 135 people celebrated essential[…]

Is There Any Better Time Than Now For a General Strike?

April 30, 2020 UNAC Editor Austerity, Economics, Resistance

by Sonali Kolhatkar, published on Counterpunch, April 21, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into stark relief the inequalities baked into the U.S.’s capitalist system—one that deems nurses and grocery workers “essential,” but leaves them with just as few rights and privileges as they had before the crisis struck. The scenario before us, where society depends more than ever on[…]

Mayday = Worker Power

April 30, 2020 UNAC Editor Immigration, Labor Struggles, Resistance

Workers World Editorial, April 30, 2019 Today, in 66 countries around the world, May Day — International Workers’ Day — is an official paid holiday commemorated on May 1. But not in the United States. While May Day originated here, the ruling class has done everything it can to eradicate any memory of this working-class holiday. As a result, International[…]

May 1st General Strike: Claiming People(s) Centered Human Rights For the Working Class

April 30, 2020 UNAC Editor Featured, Resistance

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, April 29, 2020 The failure of the capitalist state to provide the people with elementary protections of their fundamental human rights renders the capitalist state illegitimate. “The people are defining and taking up the struggle for their human rights.” From the perspective of the People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework – “if society is structured[…]

A Tale of Two Cruise Ships – It Matters Where You Land

April 27, 2020 UNAC Editor Cuba, Public Health, Socialism

by Tim Anderson, published on The American Herald Tribune, April 26. 2020 On 19 March two cruise ships with COVID19 infected passengers and crew were evacuated, one in Havana and the other in Sydney. The first evacuation, of the Braemar, was so successful and uneventful that it barely raised a ripple in the world media. The second, of the Ruby[…]

US Provocatively Dispatches Warships to South China Sea

April 27, 2020 UNAC Editor China, Imperialism, US Military

By Peter Symonds , published on World Socialist Website, 23 April 2020 As it rapidly escalates its propaganda offensive against China, the Trump administration has provocatively sent US warships into the South China Sea. The US Navy announced on Tuesday that the amphibious assault ship USS America along with two guided-missile destroyers, USS Bunker Hill and USS Barry, were operating[…]

The Era Of Mass Strikes Begins On May 1, First Day Of General Strike Campaign

April 27, 2020 UNAC Editor Action!!, Austerity, Economics, Featured, Resistance

by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, April 26, 2020 On Friday, May 1, an ongoing General Strike campaign begins. This campaign could become the most powerful movement in the United States and reset the national agenda. It comes when the failures of the US political system have been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic, which triggered an[…]

Racism In and Against China

April 26, 2020 UNAC Editor China, Racism

By Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 22, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has resuscitated the old “yellow peril” canard to its fullest extent, revealing deep xenophobia and racist intent against China. “U.S. accusations directed at others are always a projection of its own failures and wrong doing.” Black people must walk a fine line concerning any discussion of[…]

Diseased System in a Shut-Lockdown, Never a Better Time to Fight for Socialism

April 26, 2020 UNAC Editor Austerity, Capitalism, Economics, Medicare for All, Political Analysis, Public Health

by Glen Ford, Published on Black Agenda Report, April 23, 2020 The current health and economic crisis will dramatically accelerate the processes of corporate monopolization, finance capital dictatorship, and working class precarity and immiseration. The only cure is socialism. “The duopoly parties’ refusal to establish a national health care system, beginning with Medicare for All, can only be understood in[…]