RRN: #DefendYannick – Building Pressure!

“Down with yellow unions that sell out the workers’ struggle for a pittance!” UPDATE: There is a general strike in Haiti Mon 2/9 – Tues 2/10. RRN will deliver our signed statement to the thugs at CNOHA on Wed 2/11. That gives us two more days to gather support! Please share widely. Batay Ouvriye [...]

Ferguson 2 Miami, #BlackLivesMatter Report Back and Analysis

Report Back: Miami Black Lives Matter Mobilizations, NGO’s & Constructing a Movement By Members of One Struggle Across the nation and the world, protests, blockades, and demonstrations are proliferating in response to the non-indictment of police officers involved in the murders of Mike Brown and Eric Garner. People are mobilizing, demanding justice and proclaiming that [...]

Fighting Fascism, Fighting Capitalism

by Jeff Monson Growing up in rural Minnesota and later in the suburbs of Seattle, my only experience with fascists and skinheads was watching the movie American History X or reading the history of the Nazis and the atrocities committed during the Second World War. For the most part I was unaware fascism really even [...]

The Limits of Non Profits

Aspirations for society-changing careers frequently take form at nonprofits*. This is partly because they provide jobs; nearly 7% of them in the United States, and partly because they appear to involve less cynical compliance with the status quo than so-called “corporate” jobs. Despite your analysis of capitalism and ways to move beyond it (or reforming [...]

A Garment Worker in Bangladesh Speaks Out

by Stephanie McMillan Mina* was 15 years old last year when she started working at Pretty Group, a garment factory in Gazipur, a suburb of Dhaka, Bangladesh. She spoke of her situation: “We suffer a lot because they don’t give us enough salary. I receive 5000 taka (less than $65) per month. They don’t pay [...]

Illegal fracking in the Everglades

Below is a copy of the speech given by Karen Dwyer of the Stonecrab Alliance this past Saturday in Miami. With her permission, we are sharing it here. It gives a good summary of some extremely dangerous threats to the Everglades and all of Florida. Shown in what she describes, the state’s function is to [...]

A Brief Report on May Day in Miami

On May Day we celebrate the history of workers’ struggle around the globe, as well as strengthen our determination to build a movement that can do away with capitalism and imperialism! In Miami, our May Day Committee was formed with One Struggle, MAS (Miami Autonomy & Solidarity), and the Broward Green Party. Many additional individuals [...]