Racism
Boston Fights Back Against White Supremacy
Just a week after Charlottesville, over 40,000 counter-protesters took to the streets in Boston, greatly outnumbering the 50 attendees at the “Free Speech Rally” organized by a group with white supremacists affiliation.
Sara Jayne
August 20, 2017
VIDEO: Take the Streets to Fight White Nationalists and Donald Trump
Last Saturday, hundreds of white supremacists mobilized in Charlottesville, Virginia, violently attacking a counter protest that denounced the hate and racism of these ultra right groups.
Left Voice
August 19, 2017
Police Raid in Munich: Special Forces Burst into Apartment Because of a Ypg-Flag on Private Facebook Page
This morning at 6 AM, ten heavily armed special forces of German police executed a search warrant in Munich in an investigation over a picture of a flag of the Kurdish militia YPG posted on a private Facebook profile. During the raid the behavior of police was both sexist and racist.
Baran Serhad
August 17, 2017
Revenge of the Corn: Los Angeles Defends Its Elotero Workers!
Hundreds attend rally in Los Angeles in solidarity with elotero Benjamin Ramirez.
Julia Wallace
July 28, 2017
The Thought of Walter Rodney: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Why are African countries “underdeveloped”? And how did the imperialist plunder of the continent begin? Was slavery a product of racism?
Kofi Shakur
June 7, 2017
Hired to Kill: Why Cops Murder with Impunity
On April 29, police officer Roy Oliver shot and killed 15-year-old Jordan Edwards with an AR-15 rifle in Balch Springs, a suburb in Dallas County.
Juan Cruz Ferre
May 18, 2017
What We Can Learn from MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign
Towards the end of his life and career, Dr. Martin Luther King proposed the idea of assembling a ‘multiracial army of the poor’ as part of his Poor People's Campaign. At a time when the political arena is as divisive as ever, there is much to be gained from revisiting the tenets of King's push for a 'radical restructuring of wealth and power.'
Lily Cichanowicz
February 13, 2017
Trump, Racism and the Working Class
Racism among workers cannot be condoned or concealed. Working class unity begins by embracing the demands of the most oppressed.
Juan Cruz Ferre
December 16, 2016
Painters’ Union Calls to Organize Against KKK
The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) Local 10 recently passed a resolution expressing the union's commitment to join mobilizations and resistance against the KKK and other racist organizations.
IUPAT Local 10
December 7, 2016
Violent Hate Crime in Los Angeles: The Survivor Speaks!
Sri Lankan victim of a hate crime speaks to Left Voice about his experience and how he sees America after Trump’s victory.
Left Voice
November 27, 2016