Brazil soccer fans cry out as they watch their team lose 2-1 to Belgium in a World Cup quarter final in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 6, 2018. (Silvia Izquierdo / AP) Soccer is a sport for the people but it doesn’t give any benefits to the people. Thirty-two countries leave [...]
This fourth of July, as fireworks fill the skies, the star spangled banner plays, and Americans stuff our faces with hot dogs, hamburgers and apple pie, liberals, the "left," conservatives and fascists are all vying for their variation of how to "Make America Great Again." We’re taught that democracy is an objective concept, and that [...]
Modern Industrial Agriculture: A Success? Little thought is given to how food is produced. When we are hungry, we eat the food in our pantry. When we run out of food, we go to the supermarket. Before our eyes is a seemingly endless bounty of food as we walk the aisles of the brightly-lit, climate-controlled [...]
In 2012, One Struggle visited Haiti and met with SOTA-BO union textile workers. SOTA is affiliated with Batay Ouvriye (BO). BO is an intermediate level organization born out of a mass movement in Haiti. Since the 1980’s they have hustled with fierce commitment to organize and grow, constructing textile unions, neighborhood groups and peasant [...]
Earth Day 2018 is marked by extreme contradictions. Scientists around the world agree that climate change, caused by an increase and trapping of greenhouse gases within the earth’s atmosphere, is our reality. Ocean temperatures and acidity, sea levels, and coastal flooding are on the rise because of temperature shifts. At the same time, President Trump [...]
Capitalism is in decay, and we see it reflected in society. When dollars matter more than children's lives, we must ORGANIZE and FIGHT BACK! On Monday, 04/16, join One Struggle - FIU for a discussion about the connections between the crisis of capitalism, the Parkland shooting, the NRA, the militarization of schools, and the role [...]
Students of area high schools rally at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after participating in a county wide school walk out in Parkland, Florida, on February 21, 2018. (Credit: RHONA WISE/AFP/Getty Images) Capitalism is in decay, and we see it reflected in society. When dollars matter more than children's lives, we must organize [...]