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¡Ganamos con la huelga!

Lilly Thorne encabezó una huelga en Hops Burger Bar en la ciudad de Greensboro, en Carolina del Norte el 24 de diciembre de 2020. Esta huelga fue una de muchas huelgas organizadas esporádicamente por trabajadores de restaurantes y comida rápida durante la pandemia. Aquí, Lilly relata los hechos de la huelga con Tina Trutanich para Puntorojo y conecta las luchas en el trabajo con la identidad queer y la construcción de sindicatos antirracistas en el sur de los Estados Unidos y otras partes.

When we strike, we win!

On December 24, 2020, Lilly Thorne led a strike at Hops Burger Bar in Greensboro, North
Carolina. The strike represented one of many sporadic restaurant and fast-food workers’ strikes
during this pandemic. Lilly recounts the strike with Puntorojo and connects workplace struggles
with queer identity and anti-racist union building in the United States and beyond.

Us versus the billionaires and their parties

In a recent interview, Joe Biden was visually irritated when responding to a reporter who asked if his proposed policies are “socialist”. “Do I look like a socialist? Look at my career — my whole career. I am not a socialist…I beat the socialist!”

This back-handed slap at Bernie Sanders occurred precisely at the time that Sanders and the self-identified progressives and Socialists in Congress push for the 10-15 million people who voted for Sanders in the primaries to get behind Biden—despite deep ideological differences.

On the heels of the deployment of Federal police in several states to repress Black Lives Matter protests, and Trump accusing him of being soft on the movement against police violence, Biden defensively replied and criticized the protests. At a high-profile press conference at a steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with all of its dog-whistle

Assimilate This! Is it possible or desirable to assimilate into a white supremacist, colonial settler, and imperialist nation?

Assimilation is this political plasticine that is frequently at the core of newspaper editorials, scapegoating by politicians, and ideological constructs of what it is to be a citizen of the United States of America (U.S.). As such, it refers to a myth-soaked narrative of the history of the U.S. as a nation; who is assumed to belong to it, or who can be allowed to earn a spot in that ark of glorified passengers known as “Americans.”
The term “American” sits at the center of this chauvinistic and exaggerated conception of who is a “red-blooded” inhabitant, and therefore a bona fide “citizen” of the U.S. It is a misguided and vainglorious term that robs the rest of the inhabitants of the Americas of such self-designation. For everyone born or naturalized in Latin America, Central America and the Caribbean

La máquina no se detiene

Los aromas a garnachas. La música de banda. El tianguis repleto. La vida que sigue. Ahí en el fondo, junto al puesto de discos piratas, venden unas mascarillas bonitas y baratas. Pregunte sin compromiso. Está la de Avengers para el niño. Arriba de esa, la de Paw Patrol. A usted tal vez le interese una del América. ¿No? ¿Qué tal la del Cruz Azul? Llévese la que quiera pero llévese una.
No vaya a hacerla de malas. Otro obrero muerto. Giovanni López, un albañil de 30 años de edad,

¡Liberen a Susana Prieto Terrazas AHORA!

El lunes 8 de junio, la abogada y dirigente laboral, Susana Prieto Terrazas, fue detenida y arrestada en la ciudad de Matamoros, Tamaulipas, México por la Policía Estatal de Tamaulipas. El Fiscal General del Estado de Tamaulipas la está acusando falsamente de “ataques contra servidores públicos, disturbios y amenazas y coerción de personas.” Sin embargo, la razón verdadera por cual la Lic. Susana Prieto Terrazas está siendo atacada es por organizar a los trabajadores de las maquiladoras y por desafiar a los sindicatos charros que trabajan con funcionarios estatales y federales para reprimir el movimiento de los nuevos trabajadores en México. Matamoros es una ciudad fronteriza situada directamente al cruzar de la ciudad de Brownsville, Texas.

Free Susana Prieto Terrazas NOW!

On Monday, June 8th, the lawyer and labor leader Susana Prieto Terrazas was detained and arrested in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico by the Tamaulipas State Police. The city of Matamoros is located along the Texas-Mexico border directly across from Brownsville, Texas. She is being falsely accused of “attacks against public servants, riots and threat and coercion of individuals” by the Attorney General of the State of Tamaulipas. She is really being targeted for organizing maquiladora workers and challenging the corrupt and venal “charro” unions that work with state and federal officials to repress the new worker’s movement in Mexico.

Declaración de Puntorojo: Latinx debe solidarizarse con el movimiento por la liberación Negra

La revista Punto Rojo publica las voces y los puntos de vista de pensadores, trabajadores, académicos y activistas radicales mexicanos, chicanxs, latinxs y transnacionales. Nuestra publicación se solidariza con la comunidad negra y sus familiares a través del país que buscan justicia por las vidas negras arrebatadas por la violencia estatal. Justicia para George Floyd (Minneapolis), Breonna Taylor (Louisville), Tony McDade (Tallahassee), Ahmaud Arbery (Brunswick), Nina Pop (Sikeston) y por la innumerable cantidad de vidas perdidas a la violencia policial.

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