El 5 de mayo, la presa política Nestora Salgado dijo: “¡Basta!” Ciudadana estadounidense naturalizada, había soportado casi dos años de tormento en una prisión de México. ¿Su delito? Dirigir a… Read more »
indigenous struggles
Hunger strike, US delegation to Mexico bolster freedom campaign
On May 5, political prisoner Nestora Salgado said “Enough!” A naturalized U.S. citizen, she had endured almost two years of prison torment in Mexico. Her crime? Leading the indigenous community… Read more »
Freedom Socialist Letters to the editor August 2015
MICK PARSONS Illegally fired The interview with Mick Parsons was a real eye-opener [Adjunct professors: academia’s overstressed, underpaid labor force, Vol. 36, No. 3]. Since the article was published, Parsons… Read more »
No welcome here: an immigrant’s saga
If you have not been an undocumented immigrant from Central America making your dangerous way through Mexico only to face vigilante hate groups and la migra at the U.S. border,… Read more »
Nestora Salgado fasts for freedom, inspires defiance across Mexico
“Nestora Salgado’s name has become a symbol of resistance for many women struggling … against patriarchal violence and for indigenous communities,” said R. Aída Hernández Castillo in the Mexican daily… Read more »
El gobierno Dominicano detiene, reprime y deporta a miles de inmigrantes Haitianos y sus descendientes
Yesibon Senatus, 70 años de edad, haitiano de nacimiento, cortador de caña, desde hace tiempo lucha por la pensión y residencia Dominicana. Quesnel Michell, 22 años, hijo cañeros, nacido y… Read more »
Dominican Republic represses and deports thousands of Haitian immigrants and their children
Yesibon Senatus is 70 years old and Haitian by birth. He is a sugarcane cutter and for years has been fighting for a pension and Dominican residency. Quesnel Michell is… Read more »
Freedom Socialist editorial — Open the borders and dump capitalism
Across harsh deserts from the Sahara in Africa to the Southwest in the United States, and over deadly seas in each hemisphere, desperate people are risking their lives to escape… Read more »
Keep pressure up to free Nestora Salgado
As the third year of Nestora Salgado’s unjust imprisonment begins, her supporters continue to organize in Mexico, the USA and internationally for her release. Salgado, a U.S. citizen, was jailed… Read more »
War and other acts of terrorism; Defending refugees
French President François Hollande lost no time declaring a state of emergency following the ISIS-inspired terrorist attack in Paris this past November, which killed 130 people. Within hours the ink… Read more »
