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Venezuela’s real story: Grassroots forum counters U.S. propaganda on elections
You may or may not remember — about a month ago, at the beginning of August, the corporate press ran nearly carbon copy coverage of Venezuel
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By Andrew Matatag

You may or may not remember — about a month ago, at the beginning of August, the corporate press ran nearly carbon copy coverage of Venezuela’s election. The U.S. State Department issued a statement that the New York Times must have used as a template.

In fact, the State Department released another statement a few days ago titled “Marking One Month Since Venezuela’s Presidential Election.” 

It’s like clockwork. A country’s people elect a leader who won’t kiss the ring of the U.S.; then, the U.S. uses its entire arsenal to delegitimize and destabilize its entire government. 

The Peoples Power Assembly in Baltimore, Maryland, held a film screening and forum to tell Venezuela’s real story. 

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Sep 14, 2024
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Cuba in Africa: A documentary by Negash Abdurahman

Sunday, Sept. 24 – 2:00 p.m.

Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, 5278 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles

Sponsored by Let Cuba Live Coalition and Black Alliance for Peace

“Cuba in Africa” is the dramatic untold story of 420,000 Cubans – soldiers and teachers, doctors and nurses – who gave everything to end colonial rule and apartheid in Southern Africa.

Director Negash Abdurahman will be available via zoom to answer questions and discuss the film.

Hear about our campaign to get Cuba #OffTheList of state sponsors of terrorism and to break the U.S. blockade of that island country. Find out how you can get involved!

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Sep 21, 2023
Oppenheimer — and the other side of the story
July 18, 2023 This week, “Oppenheimer” will open, a film that centers on the creation and use of the atomic bomb through the story of J. Rob
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By Tewa Women United

This week, “Oppenheimer” will open, a film that centers on the creation and use of the atomic bomb through the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Go see the movie if it calls to you. But please also take time to learn about the other side of the story and what unfolded at Tsankawi (also known as Los Alamos) and the Pajarito Plateau 80 years ago — the story that centers the Indigenous and land-based peoples who were displaced from our homelands, the poisoning and contamination of sacred lands and waters that continues to this day, and the ongoing devastating impact of nuclear colonization on our lives and livelihoods.

We’ve put together this resource list with a focus on Indigenous and land-based communities, so you can learn more about our side of the story and ways to respond.

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Jul 30, 2023
Los Angeles: Film screening of ‘Cuba’s Life Task: Combating Climate Change’Wednesday, October 26 - 6:00 p.m. Harriet Tubman Center, 5278 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles Join us for this remarkable film, made in Cuba, featuring Cuban leaders and experts...

Los Angeles: Film screening of ‘Cuba’s Life Task: Combating Climate Change’

Wednesday, October 26 - 6:00 p.m.

Harriet Tubman Center, 5278 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles

Join us for this remarkable film, made in Cuba, featuring Cuban leaders and experts describing the revolutionary socialist campaign, Tarea Vida. Inspired by Fidel Castro’s visionary passion for the environment, Tarea Vida is a mass-education campaign, a highly practiced system of evacuation during hurricanes, a world-renowned reforestation campaign, and an international solidarity mission to share the Cuban experience and to learn from other nations! This is in contrast with imperialist countries that view climate change as a highly competitive business opportunity. 

Cuba’s Tera Vida shows that socialism is the only way to save the planet.

Join us to view this inspiring film and discuss upcoming actions to end the U.S. blockade of Cuba.

Please wear a mask and social distance … it’s not over yet!

For more information: 323-306-6240

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Oct 21, 2022
‘Lamarca’: Movie about Brazilian revolutionary sparks lively discussion

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‘Lamarca’: Movie about Brazilian revolutionary sparks lively discussion

By Linh Co

On a quiet Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles, folks chose to watch “Lamarca” in a warm room, unintentionally replicating Brazil’s heat. “Lamarca” is a movie made in 1994 that depicts the true story of a Brazilian revolutionary who defected from the Brazilian army to fight against the regime. After the intense film, the viewers got up to chat and mingle. Then, a circle of chairs was made to facilitate a discussion.

Organizers and agitated folks of various classes, age, and nations shared a space at the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice to answer the guiding questions:

  1. What is the role of women and other oppressed gender people in the revolution?
  2. What were the conditions that would’ve made Carlos Lamarca and his comrades more successful?
  3. How do we build towards sustainability in the movement?
  4. What can we take from this movie into our organizing here in LA?

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Jul 16, 2022
Join us on Sunday, Feb. 27 for an online film showing and teach-in hosted by Youth Against War & Racism. Why do we say - No U.S./NATO War on Russia & Donbass?Watch Oliver Stone’s: Ukraine on Fire Dialogue with our guest Greg Butterfield Sponsored by:...

Join us on Sunday, Feb. 27 for an online film showing and teach-in hosted by Youth Against War & Racism. 

Why do we say - No U.S./NATO War on Russia & Donbass?Watch Oliver Stone’s: Ukraine on Fire
Dialogue with our guest Greg Butterfield 

Sponsored by: Youth Against War and Racism
Endorsed by Peoples Power Assembly, Stop Imperialist Wars
& Struggle La Lucha  

REGISTER HERE **

*Struggle-La Lucha co-editor Greg Butterfield is the coordinator of Solidarity with Novorossiya & Antifascists in Ukraine. He has written extensively on developments in Ukraine and Donbass since 2014. In September 2014, he visited Crimea to meet with exiled Ukrainian activists; when he attempted to visit the city of Kharkov in eastern Ukraine, he was deported at gunpoint. In 2016, he went to Donetsk and Lugansk, attending an anti-fascist conference and visiting the people’s militia near the front line. Many of his articles and translations can be found at Red Star Over Donbass.

**Our format will be meeting style so please be prepared to turn on your video.  Meet and talk with the room.

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Feb 22, 2022

WATCH: Eyewitness Hurricane Ida: Capitalist Climate Crisis, People’s Emergency

- Rev Annie Chambers, National Welfare Rights Organization & Peoples Power Assembly organizer

- Gregory Williams, Struggle-La Lucha writer, Louisiana resident 

- John Parker, who was part of a delegation to NOLA for the International Tribunal on Katrina & Rita

- Sharon Black introduces the film “Trouble the Water.”

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Sep 18, 2021
Commentary on 'Judas and the Black Messiah'

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Commentary on 'Judas and the Black Messiah'

I remember the feeling of being in the theater to see the movie “Malcolm X.” I was 15. My political interests had already been piqued by the L.A. rebellion

By Larry Hales

While not many people are seeing this film in a theater, but at home, I am imagining them sitting there and interacting with the film with the current social and political context as their backdrop. How might the ideas expressed impact them? How might we use the film as a tool to drive discussion and develop their understanding of the world about them?

That is the task and it is the great value of the film that not only is it well made and engaging but useful in its presentation of the politics of the most impactful communist-inspired organization of the last 50 years.

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Mar 05, 2021
“40 Years a Prisoner” screening with special guest Mike Africa Tuesday, February 16 6 p.m. EST / 5 p.m. CST / 3 p.m. PST Join us for a special screening of “40 Years a Prisoner” about the MOVE 9 political prisoners with special guest, Mike Africa....

“40 Years a Prisoner” screening with special guest Mike Africa

Tuesday, February 16

6 p.m. EST / 5 p.m. CST / 3 p.m. PST

Join us for a special screening of “40 Years a Prisoner” about the MOVE 9 political prisoners with special guest, Mike Africa. We’ll be watching the film together and you can ask Mike Africa questions regarding his experiences, the movie, and his activism today! 

REGISTER HERE: http://tinyurl.com/ILPS40Years

#Move9 #PoliticalRepression

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Feb 10, 2021
This is Why Noname Turned Down A Spot on 'Judas and the Black Messiah' Soundtrack
The Chicago MC cited Fred Hampton's actual political theory not being represented in the film. On Tuesday, the tracklist for the soundtrack
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“It was shot beautifully,” she said, “the acting was amazing. But it’s a movie about an informant. Fred is secondary and his radical communist politics are [not] centered, at all.”

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Feb 10, 2021

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