Above Photo: Supporters of Mr Ortega’s FSLN party celebrate the Nicaraguan election results. (BBC.com) The Working Class Explains…And Debunks Common Lies. As predicted by multiple polls, the Sandinistas, led by Daniel Ortega, won a resounding victory on the November 7th elections in Nicaragua. The elections were a referendum on the path that the Sandinista government has taken the country, which is grounded on large investments in social programs that have benefited people, especially the most disadvantaged, in every nook and cranny of the national territory. Support for the reelection of the Sandinista government was astounding. Of the entire patron electoral (eligible voters), about 65% came out to vote and, of those, about 75.9% voted […]
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Above Photo: El Milagro worker Guillermo Romero speaks at the vigil in Little Village, Chicago. Arise Chicago. Gathered Outside Chicago’s Flagship El Milagro Taqueria, Workers Remembered Those Who Died From Covid-19. And Celebrated A Victory That Granted Them Sundays Off. Chicago — Food production workers at El Milagro, one of Chicago’s most popular tortilla companies, join with community allies for a Day of the Dead vigil Nov. 2, 2021, in honor of five coworkers who died after contracting Covid-19 on the job. With candles and sugar skulls outside the company’s flagship taqueria in the Little Village neighborhood on the city’s Southwest Side, workers and supporters spoke […]
Above photo: A voter in Caracas. Federico Parra. AFP. For the first time in four years, every major opposition party in Venezuela participated in elections. For the fifth time in four years, the left won in a landslide. Voters elected 23 governors, 335 mayors, 253 state legislators and 2,471 municipal councilors. The governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won at least 19 of 23 governorships (one race remains too close to call) and the Caracas mayoralty in the November 21 “mega-elections.” Of the 335 mayoral races, the vote count has been completed in 322 of them, with PSUV and its […]
Above Photo: A Person Attends A Protest By New York Taxi Drivers About Debt Relief In New York On Oct. 20, 2021. Carlo Allegri / Reuters File. After a two-week hunger strike and two months of sit-ins, dozens of taxi drivers in New York City hosted a long-awaited celebration outside City Hall on November 10. On November 3, New York City reached an agreement with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA), the union fighting to relieve drivers of thousands of dollars in debt they owe for medallions, the physical permits to operate taxis. According to the NYTWA, the average debt […]
Above Photo: Top row (from left): Augustine Tang, Basia Osowki, and Wain Chin. Bottom row: Balkar Singh and Richard Chow. Alexei Hay. In early November, after 46 days of picketing and 15 days of hunger strike, members of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance won what they deserved all along: a measure of relief from the vast debts incurred when the inflated value of their city-issued medallions crashed in recent years. Under a three-way agreement among the NYTWA, the de Blasio administration, and the city’s largest medallion lender, drivers — who owe, on average, $550,000 each — will see their debt written down […]
Prisoners Won The Right To Stimulus Checks By Keri Blakinger and Joseph Neff, NBC News. October 24, 2020 Prisoners Won The Right To Stimulus Checks2020-10-242020-10-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/prison.jpg200px200px Above photo: Advocates in several states have raised concerns that some prisoners do not have access to the forms they need to apply for the stimulus money. NBC News; Getty Images. Some prisons are standing in the way. A federal judge ruled prisoners can get the $1,200 checks many Americans received. Some prison systems are putting up roadblocks, lawyers and prisoners say. This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. […]
On Saturday, Germans marked the thirtieth anniversary of East Germany’s incorporation into the Federal Republic. On the occasion, the eastern German town of Dessau unveiled a monument to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for his personal contribution to German unity. Without the USSR as a whole and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev specifically, Germany would have been left divided, and the Kremlin would have been left without a reliable partner in Europe, Dr. Ernst-Jorg von Studnitz, Germany’s former ambassador to Russia, has suggested. “German Chancellor [Helmut] Kohl always said that the key to German reunification lay in Moscow. In this regard, of […]
Tuesday’s “debate” was a trainwreck. A national embarrassment. A disgrace. If Joe Biden were looking for a pretext to skip the next two debates, he found it. It would be hard to blame him for concluding this is simply a waste of everyone’s time. We’ll see. From the start of this debate, Donald Trump interrupted Biden. Repeatedly. For a while there, it looked like Biden was going to get destroyed—that Trump would simply run over him and Biden would be left sitting there, with that far away look in his eyes. But Biden rallied. He embraced the shit-show format, grew stronger […]
It began with a call from John Bredin, who produces Public Voice Salon, a TV show, I had been on a way back. “I’ve just seen your Emmy in a junk shop in Williamsburg,” he told me. “It was wearing a wig. They were kind of using it as the store mascot,” he said. Did I want to get it back? Oh, yes. It had been eleven long years since I had seen it. A few weeks ago, on August 3rd, we agreed to meet close to the store, which was on Driggs. I had gotten the Emmy, a New York […]
US’ Anti-China Call To Arms Has Not Won Over All Of Europe By Jiang Feng, South China Morning Post. September 2, 2020 US’ Anti-China Call To Arms Has Not Won Over All Of Europe2020-09-022020-09-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/chinas-foreign-minister-visits-europe.png200px200px Above photo: China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi visits Europe. Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s tour of Europe comes at a time of heavy US pressure for the EU to step back from its dialogue and cooperation with China. But despite the frosty reception by some, a number of people are voicing support for a more balanced view of China, taking in all facets of the relationship. Against the backdrop of […]
Fed Chair Jerome Powell tried to make it seem like the end of an era, but didn’t inspire confidence in the central bank’s ability to lead in the era that comes next. On The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap, NLW looks at the shifting sands of the global economy. He says Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at Jackson Hole this week was an argument that an era that began in the 1970s is now closing. At the same time, he argues Powell did very little to provide a vision for what comes next. Instead, it is the alternative economic philosophies – Modern […]
twitter.com Thousands Allowed to Bypass Environmental Rules An AP investigation has found that thousands of oil and gas operations and other sites in the U.S. have won permission to bypass environmental rules because of the pandemic. https://t.co/kA1vrJ7OTx — The Associated Press (@AP) August 24, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: As if ignoring the coronavirus which has long since reached pandemic proportions was not enough of an assault on the American people, the Trump administration has gone a long way toward taking the U.S. back into the dark ages of pollution. After being pressured by gas and oil industries, who lied and said […]
Reforms Are Won When Social Movements Inflict Real Costs On The Economic Elite By Justin Vassallo, Truthout. August 24, 2020 Reforms Are Won When Social Movements Inflict Real Costs On The Economic Elite2020-08-242020-08-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/you-have-the-power-to-be-the-change-e1577647608266.jpg200px200px There’s a tendency in US progressive politics to focus on rehabilitating capitalism for working people. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for president had the patina of an “anti-corruption” crusade, giving a populist spin to technocratic fixes that would update the embedded liberalism of the postwar era for the twenty-first century. Think tanks and public intellectuals likewise emphasize antitrust as a means to improve the welfare of consumers and workers while giving smaller […]
A Seattle police officer was filmed telling a rabid Black Lives Matter protester that they “won” and he is resigning. The officer is not named in the clip, but tells the militant leftist that I’m sorry for that “guess what? I’m leaving. You guys won. F***ing two months baby and I’m out.” The viral video begins with the cop asking the protester how his day is going, with the leftist responding that it worse now “because you’re around.” Seattle Police Officer states Black Lives Matter won, he’s resigning and feels great about it. pic.twitter.com/XxHyYGcKyX — Rob O’Donnell (@odonnell_r) August 15, 2020 […]
How Socialists Won Our Democratic Rights By Adam J. Sacks, Tribune Magazine. August 10, 2020 How Socialists Won Our Democratic Rights2020-08-102020-08-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/fight-for-democracy-from-tribune-magazine-e1597090706842.jpg200px200px Above photo: The fight for Democracy from Tribune Magazine. The myth of modern democracy is that it was handed down from on-high. In fact, the ruling class resisted extending the franchise at every turn – and it was socialists who fought them for the right to vote. Since the advent of the modern state, ruling classes have tried to restrain the voting power of workers and those not “well-born.” Contrary to the mainstream story that capitalism naturally gave rise to […]
‘How The South Won The Civil War’ August 4, 2020 ‘How The South Won The Civil War’2020-08-042020-08-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/service.jpg200px200px Above photo: The Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Bull Run, Va. July 21st 1861, Currier and Ives. Library of Congress. Yes, the Civil War brought an end to the slave order of the South and the rule of the plantation oligarchs who embodied white supremacy. But the Northern victory was short lived — Southern ideals spread quickly to the West. It’s all about America’s ongoing battle between oligarchy and democracy. ANNOUNCER: Welcome to Moyers on Democracy. If you want to understand this moment in […]
Imagine you are an explorer who has dedicated your life to conquering one of the world’s last great unknowns: the North Pole. You have given up decades in which you abandoned your family, weathered almost unimaginable conditions, and sacrificed toes in your pursuit of becoming the first to reach the great wintry apex of the world that grabbed hold of your imagination as a youth and became the single-minded obsession of your career, of your life. And, yet, after all this sweat and sacrifice, you have always come up short. Everything has led you to this one final mission, your last […]
President Trump invited the Little Sisters of the Poor to the White House. On Tuesday the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic religious group for women who have dedicated their lives to the service of the elderly, won their Supreme Court case against the Obama administration and their contraceptive mandate in Obamacare. SCOTUS ruled the Catholic order of nuns cannot be forced to take part in providing cost-free contraceptives to employees. Far left Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayer were the lone dissenting voices in the case. BREAKING: Little Sisters of the Poor win their SCOTUS case – cannot […]
Federal immigration authorities are refusing to release an HIV-positive man who has been held in a Minnesota detention facility since January, despite the fact that the man has already won his case for release before an immigration judge—and despite his severe risk of medical complications from the coronavirus outbreaks that have spread inside detention facilities across the country. “I’m dying, slowly, even with my medication,” said William Zacarias Marroquìn, a 32-year-old restaurant worker, calling from inside the Sherburne County Jail in Elk River, Minnesota. “I don’t know if they care or not, but I can be spending my time with my […]
On Tuesday, Melissa Zarda was dealing with two things at home in Kansas City, Missouri: the loud barking and mischief of her new foster puppy Winnie, a cattle dog/pitbull mix, while—above the din—relishing the hard-fought, historic victory she had just won in the Supreme Court in the memory of her beloved, deceased brother Donald. His was one of three cases featuring LGBTQ people fired for their sexual orientation or gender identity that SCOTUS yesterday ruled, 6-3, were illegal under the sex discrimination provisions of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The ruling—embracing the cases of gay men Zarda and […]
Nina Ahmad declared victory as the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania auditor general nine days after the state’s June 2 primary. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt Rourke/AP Nina Ahmad declared victory as the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania auditor general nine days after the state’s June 2 primary. Matt Rourke/AP On the night of Pennsylvania’s June 2 primary, things looked bleak for Nina Ahmad. The former deputy mayor of Philadelphia was running in a crowded Democratic primary field to become the state’s auditor general in a race that could be a preview of things to come across the country in November. […]
A combination of military and media pressure has resulted in the termination of Iraq war related criminal investigations, reflecting the power of the British military as “the only institution in the UK that is allowed to run their own criminal courts and prosecution service”, according to the Peace Pledge Union. The head of the UK military’s prosecuting body, the Service Prosecuting Authority, recently announced that they would be ending over 1,000 criminal investigations into alleged war crimes committed by British forces in Iraq. This decision comes only a few months after the Ministry of Defence was accused of covering up killings of […]
Steven Donziger Challenged A Corporate Polluter And Won, Now They’re Trying To Ruin Him By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. June 1, 2020 Steven Donziger Challenged A Corporate Polluter And Won, Now They’re Trying To Ruin Him2020-06-012020-06-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/donz.jpg200px200px Texaco was the first oil company to drill in the Amazon. To maximize profits, and because they thought they could get away with it, they did not take any steps to protect local communities or the environment from their toxic waste. For a long time, they did get away with it. Then a group of lawyers and organizations worked with locals […]
Montgomery’s Capri Theatre, seen on March 22, was closed because of the coronavirus. Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed says the city health system’s capacity to manage the crisis has hit unsustainable levels. Taylor Hill/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Taylor Hill/Getty Images Montgomery’s Capri Theatre, seen on March 22, was closed because of the coronavirus. Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed says the city health system’s capacity to manage the crisis has hit unsustainable levels. Taylor Hill/Getty Images The number of new coronavirus cases has been going up in Alabama even as the state’s governor relaxes restrictions. Last week’s number of new cases was […]
Group That Won School-Funding Suit Now Challenging Private School Vouchers By Darrel Rowland, Columbus Dispatch. May 15, 2020 Group That Won School-Funding Suit Now Challenging Private School Vouchers2020-05-152020-05-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/ohio-1-e1589552293792.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protesters hold up signs at a rally for increased school funding at the Statehouse in 2004. Adjusted for inflation, state funding for Ohio schools rose in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but since the Great Recession, inflation-adjusted funding has slightly fallen. Tom Dodge/Dispatch file photo. NOTE: Popular Resistance supports full funding of public education and opposes vouchers. All students should have a high-quality public education. The same coalition that successfully sued […]