Tonight, we will be working together with the Cervantes Fraternal Society to discuss a brief history of the Panama Canal. We will discuss how and why Panama broke off from Greater Colombia in the late 1800s. We will also discuss how the US used the Panama Canal for its imperialist gains. Please join us tonight […]
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By Ryan Nisly. As Hurricane Helene brought damage to the Southeastern US last week, it highlighted the need for the United States to provide aid to, and invest in, itself. This problem has shown itself in the past through natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and through preventable disasters such as the Flint, Michigan water
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The International Day of Older Persons, celebrated annually on October 1, was established by a special resolution at the 45th session of the UN General Assembly in 1990. Unfortunately, life has not gotten any better for the vast majority of older people. A clear example of a well-coordinated global attack on the rights of older
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The World Federation of Trade Unions on the 3rd of October every year celebrates the historic anniversary of its founding as it deserves, with international mobilization through its declaration as an International Action Day. On this extraordinary occasion of its 79th anniversary that marks the entry of our Federation into its 80th year of existence
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Originally published by the World Peace Council – https://www.wpc-in.org/ The World Peace Council (WPC) denounces and condemns vehemently the recent attacks by the Israeli military against Lebanon with the destruction of civilian residences and infrastructure and the assassination of political leaders of the Lebanese people. The indiscriminate attack with heavy weapons against the Lebanese capital
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The seventh session for 2024 of the Harry Bridges School of Labor was on the Great San Francisco General Strike. We will be going over the working conditions that led to the strike, the strike itself, as well as its aftermath. We will also watch some of an old ILWU documentary on the strike. The
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Paul Robeson addressed the banquet sponsored by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in New York, on November 10, 1949, on the occasion of the celebration of the 32nd anniversary of the Soviet Union: I am deeply grateful for this opportunity to join more than half the people of the world
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Originally published by the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – https://fir.at/en/ There is no doubt that the United Nations must be strengthened as an international institution. For this reason, the UN General Assembly held a “Summit of the Future” this year on September 22/23 under the motto “Multilateral Solutions for a Better Tomorrow”. Germany and
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The US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and August 8th 1945 were the first and only time nuclear weapons were used in on a civilian population. The nuclear bombings have long been pushed as “necessary evils” by the US bourgeois state. Tonight the Peoples School along with the Asian-American Friendship Congress (aafc.us.org)
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