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1. Letter from the US: Why Washington hates Iran

   Imperialism & war History Barry Sheppard Of the six nations that reached a preliminary deal ... them against large urban populations twice, over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those two war crimes killed ... under the Shah (king), in a constitutional monarchy system. In the aftermath of World War II, ...

2. Anti-racists mobilise in Portland after Trump-inspired murders

   murders and an attempted murder in Portland, Oregon, on the first day of Ramadan (May 26), by a white ... crimes, told Democracy Now! on May 30: “President Trump, whose words in the campaign unleashed against ... Jeremy Christian, with a history of racist violence, armed with a knife, accosted two Black teenagers on ...

3. A new generation of Black activists are fighting the new Jim Crow

   upon. War on drugs This approach deepened in the 1980s when crack, a new form of cocaine that was much ... by conservative Republicans, Democrats joined in the “War on Drugs”. Draconian new laws against ... expanded the War on Drugs. Clinton launched a vast new program of greater police powers. Police ...

4. Letter from the US: Black Lives Matter is demand, not a plea

   recited the names of the murdered women. In Ferguson, Missouri, there was a commemoration on August 9 of ... in August to draw attention to violence against transgender women. At least 17 transgender women have ... been murdered this year, the majority women of colour. The demonstrators chanted “Say Her Name” and ...

5. Letter from the US: Black Lives Matter movements issues a radical vision statement

   the “war on terror”, including in the Middle East; characterises Israel as an “apartheid state” ... section titled “End the War on Black People”, it states: “Until we achieve a world where cages are no ... for such practices to end. It also calls for an end to the “war on Black immigrants”, including ...

6. Letter from the US: Why police can kill with impunity

   the killing. Having more Blacks and women on police forces is not the answer. Justice denied Will ... demonstrations have received the most coverage. Before he was shot dead on September 20, Keith Scott, ... footage of confrontations to the public. This law took effect on October 1, a few days after the release ...

7. Letter from the US: Trump ramps up immigrant raids amid daily protests

   the “War on Drugs” has resulted in millions of felony convictions. This mass incarceration has ... caused by US imperialist exploitation, and the crime wave resulting from the US “War on Drugs,” to get ... Anti-racism Democracy Barry Sheppard Trump’s xenophobia San Francisco Since the huge Women ...

8. Why Trump won and what happens next

   the police against Black Lives Matter, supports the “War on Drugs” and mass incarceration, and ... rollback of the “War on Drugs” or mass incarceration; instead these will be stepped up. The stocks of ... Washington’s wars. Big tax cuts for the rich are certain. Regulations on the financial firms will be relaxed. ...

9. Letter from the US: Largest civil rights march insists #BlackLives Matter, #MuslimLivesMatter

   government’s attacks on voting rights, education, the environment, healthcare and women’s rights. ... Raleigh on February 8 for what organisers called the largest civil rights rally in the South since the ... lynchings of thousands of Blacks in the aftermath of the 19th century Civil War and Reconstruction. The ...

10. From science and climate to May Day — mass actions challenge Trump

    to May 1 challenging President Donald Trump’s agenda.   The first, on April 22, was called by ... scientists and their supporters following Trump’s election to counter his attacks on scientific facts and on ... change and has expunged all references to it on its webpage. The EPA has become the EDA — the ...

11. Letter from the US: Refugees facing brutality, injustice

    through the “war on drugs”, which is really a war to keep drugs illegal and the source of super-profits. ... Liberties Union and immigrant rights groups said. Widespread abuse “Children are being abused on a huge and ... makeshift holding areas at the McAllen, Texas, Border Patrol station. The videos show dozens of women and ...

12. Letter from the US: Green Party challenges two-party fraud

    invited to speak at a rally. Officially, Obama stayed silent on the strike, but he did not need to speak ... insurance program for all, and fighter on environmental issues. She successfully opposed building trash ... illegal wars being waged by Washington and called for closing the nearly 1000 US military bases around the ...

13. Letter from the US: Fresh racist Supreme Court ruling

    economies were based on involuntary labour. It took another revolution, the bloody Civil War, to overthrow ... on April 22 that states can ban affirmative action in admissions to their public universities. At ... enrollment of Black and Latino students. The racist ruling came on top of last year's Supreme Court that ...

14. Protests reclaim King’s real legacy

    Francisco This year’s celebrations of civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King, a national holiday on ... birthday … was punctuated by protest,” New York Times said on January 19, “as a new generation of ... Vietnam War in the 1960s, when Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) was president — “Hey, Hey LBJ! How many kids did you ...

15. 'No justice, no peace' – racist violence fuels anger

    possibly including provocateurs. In one scene I saw on TV, young Black protesters, men and women, with red ... St Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9. Brown had his hands up in surrender and shouted ... “Don’t Shoot!” when a white cop shot the unarmed teen six times. His body was left lying on the ground ...

16. Letter from the US: Supreme Court overturns basic democratic rights

    passed by Congress, that violate democratic rights under the pretext of the “war on terrorism.” The ... class over how far to use the “war on terror” to violate the constitution. This split has nothing to do ... International, Global Rights, Global Fund for Women, Human rights Watch, PEN American Center, Service Employees ...

17. Obama betrays immigrants — again

    States President Barack Obama pledged on June 30 that in the face of Republican intransigence on ... On September 6, the White House announced that it would delay any action until after the November ... vague on the specifics, but this promise did raise hopes. Leaders of several immigrant groups said their ...

18. Letter from the US: NSA spying provokes protests — at home and abroad

    capital on October 26 in protest against the mass surveillance of almost all Americans and hundreds of ... activist women’s group Code Pink wore an Obama mask, and carried a large cardboard camera. Organisers ... fundamental and inalienable right to individual sovereignty in the face of a government bent on destroying ...

19. Letter from the US: Bernie Sanders taps anger, but Democratic Party a trap

    socialist groups and between them on how best to relate to this opportunity. On one side are those who have ... joined Sanders’ campaign. On the other are those who argue against that course and seek to convince ... Sanders’ supporters to break with the Democrats. This is an old debate on the left in the US. It is not ...

20. Letter from the US: What’s behind the Tea Party’s rise?

    revolution. The present Tea Party emerged on the scene after Obama’s election in 2008, in the midst of the ... revolution in the US took place over two revolutions 70 years apart. The first was the War of Independence ... Southern states. The second revolution was the Civil War and its aftermath in Radical Reconstruction, which ...

21. Letter from the US: Ruling class gets best electoral outcome

    the first cracks in the “war on drugs” monolith, as Colorado and Washington state passed referenda ... capitalist class maintain an overwhelming monopoly on politics. There are only very small parties that to ... same direction, playing on racist stereotypes. Former New Hampshire govenor John Sununu said Obama was ...

22. Letter from the US: Supreme Court rules step forwards, leap backwards

    joyous ceremonies and celebrations. Gay Pride demonstrations in California and other states on June 30 ... the tide has turned. Now it is the anti-gay bigots who are on the defensive. As it stands now, there ... men and women”. In fact, they are only “wise” in the best interests of the ruling class. They do, ...

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