Category: UFCLP events

On Julian’s Birthday Free Julian Assange & Mumia Abu-Jamal

Join the rally for free Julian Assange.
Meet at Harry Bridges Plaza, North side tower
The Embarcadero & Market Street, San Francisco.

Rally On Julian’s Birthday To Free Julian Assange & CWA NABET IFJ Journalist Mumia Abu-jamal

Journalist and publisher Julian Assange has been imprisoned in the UK for charges of espionage in the US for publishing WikiLeaks and faces extradition to the US, and this is a threat to all journalists. The San Francisco Labor Council has supported him as well as journalists around the world. Even the New York Times, The Guardian and Washington Post are calling for his freedom since they could also be prosecuted.
The International Federation of Journalists is supporting Assange and also calling for the freedom of journalist Mumia Abu-jamal who was a reporter at Philadelphia public radio and NPR where he provided commentaries. He has also won a Peabody award for his work.
Journalists and defenders of the rights of all journalists here and around the world will be speaking out.

Sponsored by National Writers Union, WorkWeek, Bay Action To Free Julian Assange

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The Fight Against Union Busting, Privatization and Contract Labor In Southern Africa & May Day 2023

The privatization of ESCOM, SAA, Transnet, and many other industries and companies is an open attack on all union and labor rights and bringing back contract labor in all of Southern Africa.
This panel will have speakers from Namibia and South Africa and look at the class struggles in Southern Africa and how we can take action now to support their life and death struggles and fight for May Day 2023.

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The PSC’s Contract Is Up. Where are our leaders?

CUNY has suffered severe cutbacks, and thus we have lost thousands of students, giving CUNY the opportunity to cut even more. The answer to this lack of funding to make the students pay. Up until 1976 CUNY was completely free, but it was also largely white.  Now that the student body is made up of Black and Brown students, CUNY is trying to squeeze every cent it can out of the most impoverished sections of the working class.  In the meantime, the buildings are not safe, they are literally falling apart.

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United Fronts, The Working Class & The War In Ukraine- What Is Needed To Defend Working People Globally

The working class faces attacks on all fronts from union-busting, privatization, the covid pandemic, racist attacks,
xenophobia, and the housing crisis. There is also a rise of fascism globally and a growing danger of imperialist war.

The military invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the Putin regime’s response to the US military encirclement of Russia by NATO is now bringing the world closer to a world war.

This panel will look at what a United Front is, how to organize it, and the role of the working class in defending the working class internationally.

It will also look at the role of the US in Ukraine, Eastern Europe and the Russia in the midst of a declining US imperialist empire.

Speakers:
Fabio Bosco, Conlutas Brazil LITCI
Guillemo Kane, Workers Party, Partido Obrero of Argentina and Buenas Aires Member of Parliament of the Left Block ‘ Left Front (Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores or FIT

George Wright, UPWA Professor Emeritus Chico State University

Steve Zeltzer, UFCLP and WorkWeek

To join the panel:

 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81903904446?pwd=bG5XR0JjU2V4YnpvemFBVThMRjVRUT09

United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCL
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info@ufclp.org

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