Amelia Robles
Student-Worker Solidarity in Action: The New School Cafeteria Occupation
The New School students and workers are living at an occupation to save the cafeteria workers jobs and fight union busting. This is a clear example of student-worker alliance and solidarity in practice.
Amelia Robles
May 4, 2018On 50th Anniversary of Student Uprising, Columbia Grad Students Strike
Teaching assistants and research assistants at the university are demanding better pay and sexual harassment protections. This week’s strike comes 50 years to the day after 700 Columbia students were arrested in protest of the Vietnam War and the school’s expansion into Harlem neighborhoods.
Amelia Robles
April 26, 2018The Women’s Movement in Turkey
Ecehan Balta of the socialist collective Başlangıç Kolektifi speaks about socialism, the women’s movement and the International Women’s Strike.
Amelia Robles
February 28, 2018Ecological Crisis and Capitalist Accumulation in Contemporary Turkey
Left Voice interviews Turkish environmentalist, Zafer Ülger.
Amelia Robles
February 26, 2018Who Wins and Who Loses in Trump’s Iran Strategy?
On Friday, October 13, Trump declared that he will not re-validate the nuclear deal with Iran; nor will he break with it entirely.
Amelia Robles
October 18, 2017Catalonia’s Fight for Self-Determination
A new mass movement for Catalan self determination has emerged.
Amelia Robles
October 9, 2017Trump Administration Attacks LGBT Workers
On Tuesday, September 26th, a lawyer for Trump’s Department of Justice argued that discrimination against LGBTQ employees should not be considered a violation of federal law.
Amelia Robles
October 5, 2017337 Reported Wounded by Police Violence on the Day of the Referendum in Catalonia
Polls opened at 5AM on Sunday, October 1 in Spain for the referendum on the question of Catalonia’s independence.
Amelia Robles
October 1, 2017Repression in Catalonia Before the Referendum
A wave of repression under orders of the Spanish government in Madrid attempted to halt the referendum on October 1.
Amelia Robles
September 25, 2017Hundreds of Thousands Join General Strike Against Macron’s Labor Reform
The French working class organizes the first general strike against President Macron.
Amelia Robles
September 14, 2017