United States
How to Get Away With Murder: Another Cop Kills and is Set Free in St Louis
A former police officer is acquitted in the 2011 killing of Anthony Lamar Smith, a Black man. Thousands took to the streets in St. Louis.
Eric R.
September 17, 2017Black Panther Elders Demand an Answer: Where is Santiago Maldonado?
At this month’s Panther Breakfast, Black Panther Alumni Committee voted to support the campaign to demand the return of Santiago Maldonado.
Left Voice
September 16, 2017St. Louis Protests Against Police Impunity
Protests erupt in St Louis after the acquittal of Jason Stockley, a former cop charged with first-degree murder of unarmed Black man Anthony Lamar Smith in 2011.
Left Voice
September 16, 2017Irma Hits Puerto Rico
The path of recovery in the aftermath of Irma, in the context of unresolved economic crisis on the island.
Héctor Reyes
September 8, 2017The U.S. and North Korea: A War of Nerves, For Now.
While Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston, another storm was brewing thousands of miles away.
Claudia Cinatti
September 7, 2017Trump Cancels DACA, Launches Draconian Attack on Young Immigrants
According to reports, Trump is expected to end the DACA program today, putting hundreds of thousands of young people in jeopardy of deportation. The action would reverse a hard-fought gain, however limited, of the immigrant community and would represent one of the worst attacks on this community in decades.
Robert Belano
September 5, 2017Harvey’s Victims: Prisoners Drink Toilet Water in a Fight to Survive Under Lockdown
Inmates in Texas experience flooding and lack of food and water. They are drinking toilet water while under lockdown and two prisoners were reported dead. Left Voice interviews Rachel, whose husband is currently in Beaumont Federal Prison.
Left Voice
September 4, 2017Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges Are Wrong – Antifa and Nazis Are Not the Same
Following the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Donald Trump enraged half of the US population once again by blaming both sides (Nazis and anti-Nazis) for the reckless and deliberate killing of the peaceful protester. A few days after condemning the “violence and bigotry on many sides”, he asserted that “there was a group on […]
Isaac Russo
September 2, 2017Hurricane Harvey and the Humanitarian Crisis in Houston
On the need for a working-class response, six days into the disaster unfolding in Texas.
Thaddeus Greene
August 31, 2017Cop Organizers Aren’t Comrades
A police organizer was voted to the leadership of the DSA. What is the nature of the police and what should the position of socialists be?
Julia Wallace
August 30, 2017