“Es un derecho tener un techo” (It’s a right to have a roof over your head), chanted the crowd gathered at Foley Square, just in front of City Hall in Manhattan this past Thursday. Why the protest? After all, New York State governor Andrew Cuomo declared on September 28 that a moratorium on COVID-19–related evictions would be extended until January 1, 2021. […]

By GUILLERMO TEILLIER DEL VALLE It was 1952 and Salvador Allende was facing his first presidential campaign with few resources. He had the support of the Socialist Party, many of whose militants supported Carlos Ibáñez and the Communist Party, which was illegal and acted clandestinely. They acted as the National Front of the People. Expectations had been raised, as women […]

That traditional symbol of justice, the balanced scale held by the Roman goddess of justice Iustitia, represents for African Americans nothing close to reality in our current “justice” system. On Wednesday a Kentucky grand jury met to decide whether the three white police officers who raided Breonna Taylor’s Louisville apartment and killed her on March 13 were responsible for her […]

Last night’s debate proved that our #VoteAgainstFascism slogan is exactly right. For an hour and a half Trump launched (in classic German Nazi fashion) a blitzkrieg; that is, he attempted to roll over his opponent with overwhelming verbal force. He bullied and blustered, he shouted and shamed, he lied and leered in a take-no-prisoners prime-time performance. Be forewarned: it was […]