Struggle - La Lucha

Por una Energía a manos del Pueblo Estos días, en medio de los muchos reclamos del Pueblo: por servicios dignos de Salud, Educación, Vivienda digna, por un cese de la destrucción y venta de nuestras costas y terrenos protegidos, y por el acceso al agua en medio de una brutal sequía, está cobrando fuerzas el reclamo sobre nuestra fuente y distribución de… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/12/por-una-energia-a-manos-del-pueblo/

AI researcher warns machines could take power. The Pentagon already uses AI to choose targets Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on Sept. 8, 2026, and quit the artificial intelligence industry with a warning that drew more than 100 million views on X. The people building AI, he wrote, earnestly believe it “could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Coxon warns that AI could become capable of doing… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/12/ai-researcher-warns-machines-could-take-power-the-pentagon-already-uses-ai-to-choose-targets/

Why the Pentagon is the central axis of the U.S.-Venezuela Oil deal According to the fact sheet published by the White House on Aug. 31, the Office of Strategic Capital of the Pentagon (renamed the Department of War) will own 35% of the shares of the company North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP), selected by the Trump administration to lead oil extraction projects in Venezuelan fields with… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/12/why-the-pentagon-is-the-central-axis-of-the-u-s-venezuela-oil-deal/

In Canada, First Nation leaders announce they won’t comply with Alberta trans care ban Sept. 11, 2026 The Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada, has embarked on a mission to do something unprecedented. Its leaders announced they will assert tribal sovereignty to defy a regional ban on providing gender-affirming care for youth. “No longer will our children and families have their rights taken away,” Chief Dale Steinhauer said… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/11/in-canada-first-nation-leaders-announce-they-wont-comply-with-alberta-trans-care-ban/

The billionaire oligarchy The richest 1% own nearly a third of the country’s wealth. Between early 2025 and early 2026, their wealth grew by more than the bottom half of the country owns altogether. Corporate profits hit a record this year, the share of national income going to profits is the highest since the 1940s, and workers are… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/11/the-billionaire-oligarchy/

Rubio to sanction the wall along the Malecón and Rampa Street Havana, Sept. 10, 2026 Although the title of this commentary seems straight out of a tabloid, the reality is that the head of the U.S. State Department, the mythomaniac Marco Rubio, has developed a diabolical obsession with trying to overthrow the Cuban government. With his deep-seated hatred of Havana, Rubio — who overnight became the… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/11/rubio-to-sanction-the-wall-along-the-malecon-and-rampa-street/

They are children, not numbers Sept. 10, 2026 In 2003, before the United States unleashed the war in Iraq, a webcam maintained a fixed shot of Baghdad for hours. The page’s tagline was more important than the technology: “They are not numbers.” There were no military maps or war reports there, just a street, cars, pedestrians—people still coming and going… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/11/they-are-children-not-numbers/

El Niño is being supersized before our eyes (World Meteorological Organization, September 3, 2026). El Niño is firmly established and will intensify into a very strong event in the coming months, with big impacts on rainfall and temperature patterns and associated risks of floods, drought and extreme heat, according to a new update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Key messages - El… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/11/el-nino-is-being-supersized-before-our-eyes/

Trump is building a military command loyal to him Donald Trump is remaking the U.S. military command. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has blocked the promotions of seven U.S. Army officers selected for major general. Two are Black. Two are women. The New York Times reported the removals Sept. 1. They join more than 80 generals and admirals whom Hegseth has fired or blocked… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/09/trump-is-building-a-military-command-loyal-to-him/

Sheinbaum to Trump: “Mexico is not a colony of any country” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated on Sept. 7 that Mexican territory “is not and will never be a colony or protectorate of any foreign country,” after U.S. President Donald Trump posted an image featuring a map in which Mexico, Canada, Greenland, Iceland and some Caribbean islands are shown covered in the colors of the U.S.… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/08/sheinbaum-to-trump-mexico-is-not-a-colony-of-any-country/

They tag us like cattle: ICE’s electronic shackles Spider-Man villain inspires New Mexico judge In the mid-1960s, Harvard researchers experimented with wearable radio tracking devices for people caught in the criminal “justice” system. These were very early prototypes of what would become the ankle monitor. In the early 1970s, experimental farms in several countries also began using similar devices for cows. Today, they… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/08/they-tag-us-like-cattle-ices-electronic-shackles/

Cassandra Wilson took the blues back to the Delta Jazz musician Cassandra Wilson died at her home in Jackson, Mississippi, on Sept. 1. She was 70. She was born in Jackson on Dec. 4, 1955, 10 weeks after an all-white jury 115 miles north in Sumner, Mississippi, acquitted the men who lynched 14-year-old Emmett Till. That is the ground she came up on, and… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/08/cassandra-wilson-took-the-blues-back-to-the-delta/

Fifty years after Mao’s death: the Cultural Revolution and the communes Fifty years ago, on Sept. 9, 1976, Mao Zedong died in Beijing at the age of 82. Mao had led the Chinese Communist Party through decades of revolutionary struggle and headed the 1949 revolution that ended landlord and capitalist rule and established the People’s Republic of China. During the last decade of his life, Mao… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/08/fifty-years-after-maos-death-the-cultural-revolution-and-the-communes/

Gold leaves New York as the dollar system cracks The Dutch National Bank announced Sept. 2 that it had shifted more than a quarter of the gold it held in New York and Ottawa to London between March and August 2026, mostly by selling bars in New York and buying gold in London. The bank said it was preparing for a crisis. Gold in… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/07/gold-leaves-new-york-as-the-dollar-system-cracks/

NPR blames Cuba for what the U.S. blockade did Sept. 5, 2026 While listening to a May 2, 2026, NPR interview with Cuban American musician Arturo Sandoval, I was reminded of the late Marxist scholar Michael Parenti’s classic text, “Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media.” In his 1986 book, Parenti described a situation still relevant 40 years later — when the U.S.… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/07/npr-blames-cuba-for-what-the-u-s-blockade-did/

Struggle ★ La Lucha PDF – September 7, 2026 Get PDF here - War on Black people rages at home - The African Holocaust has never stopped – reparations now - Baltimore police wage war on Black communities - Seneca Nation rejects Trump’s colonial claim on Lake Ontario - Federal workers get zero, federal cops get 3.8% - The salad monopoly behind the outbreak… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/06/struggle-★-la-lucha-pdf-september-7-2026/

When the settlers come down from the hills The West Bank and our responsibility Across the occupied West Bank, the scene has become grimly familiar. Armed, often masked Israeli settlers descend from hilltop settlements and outposts toward Palestinian villages, farmland and grazing areas. Palestinians have been beaten, shot, wounded and killed. Homes and vehicles are attacked, livestock stolen, olive trees cut down or… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/06/when-the-settlers-come-down-from-the-hills/

Why they hate Gary, Indiana For generations, the rule for Black workers in the United States has been “last hired, first fired.” In the Black city of Gary, Indiana, it’s now “the last place where the lights came back on.” For two weeks, thousands in the steel center were without electrical power following a powerful Aug. 11 storm called a… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/05/why-they-hate-gary-indiana/

D.C. protest defends Venezuela, demands freedom for Maduro and Flores Washington, D.C., Sept. 3 — On January 3, 2026, the Trump administration carried out one of the most brazen acts of imperialist aggression in Latin America in decades. U.S. forces invaded Venezuela and seized its elected president, Nicolás Maduro, and Cilia Flores. Both are now being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/04/d-c-protest-defends-venezuela-demands-freedom-for-maduro-and-flores/

Congressional shadow hearing to break the blockade on Cuba Washington, D.C., Sept. 4, 2026 On Sept. 2, 2026, Congresswomen Delia Ramírez and Ilhan Omar hosted a shadow hearing in Congress on “Breaking the Blockade: Reassessing the Moral and Legal Failures of U.S.-Cuba Policy.” A shadow hearing, called by the minority party, has all the formalities of an official hearing of Congress. Four witnesses gave… https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/09/04/congressional-shadow-hearing-to-break-the-blockade-on-cuba/