May 1st, also known as May Day, or Primero de Mayo, is celebrated across the globe as International Workers Day. Precisely because this day commemorates the struggles of working people, this is one of only a few commemorations that spans across borders and touches all humanity. This is true because human labor continues to be […]
Some gente in activist circles have questioned Unión del Barrio’s February 2, 2025, position on the recent wave of youth-centered “spontaneous” protests. The most consistent criticisms are that “We have to stand with the youth” and “UdB shouldn’t try to police the movement.” Because we tend to agree with these points, some observations require more […]
On November 30, 2024, a Federal District Judge dismissed (“with prejudice”) the frivolous and reactionary lawsuit filed against Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona, Theresa Montano, Cecily Myart Cruz, the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium, and United Teachers Los Angeles – UTLA (the teacher’s union). Unión del Barrio acknowledges this legal dismissal as a small victory in […]
“¿Qué más podemos decir sobre las elecciones de 2024 que no hayamos dicho otras veces? Una cosa es clara: un sistema político podrido sólo puede producir resultados políticos también podridos. Hasta este momento, la basura fascista de Trump ha derrotado rotundamente a la basura liberal de Harris… La lucha política central… [es] superar este sistema bipartidista podrido para defender y sobrevivir esta crisis generalizada de un imperio en descomposición… debemos distanciarnos de cualquier facción que forme parte de este imperio en decadencia… [y] enfocar, priorizar y volver a la lucha comunitaria para convertirla en el corazón y el alma de cada acción política…”
What more can we say about the 2024 elections that we have not already said many times before? One thing is clear: a “garbage” political system can only produce “garbage” political results. In this particular moment, Trump’s fascist garbage has soundly defeated Harris’ liberal garbage. How could Trump (and his Project 2025) have commanded such […]
La noche del 26 de septiembre y la madrugada del 27 de 2014, una organización criminal con el apoyo de fuerzas municipales, estatales y federales entre las que destacó el ejército, secuestró y desapareció a 43 estudiantes y asesinó a 6 personas más en Iguala, Guerrero, México. El presidente en turno, Enrique Peña Nieto, quiso […]
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Links to UdB-Sponsored May Day 2023 Activities in Southern California: May 1st, also known as May Day, or Primero de Mayo, is celebrated across the globe as International Workers Day. Precisely because this day commemorates the struggles of working people, this is one of only a few commemorations that spans across borders and touches all […]
Unión del Barrio supports the righteous strike scheduled for this coming week by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in the Los Angeles Unified School District. SEIU 99 members, many of which are parents of LAUSD students, are teaching assistants, bus drivers, special education aides, and cafeteria workers, custodial workers, supervision aides, campus safety personnel, […]
Links to UdB-Sponsored May Day 2021 Activities in Southern California: – Two Locations: San Diego & North County San Diego – – Los Angeles – Los Angeles – Union del Barrio and the Comités de Resistencia continue to organize in the LA area to build true community self defense. We are going to begin our […]
Ten Difficult Lessons Unión del Barrio Takes Away From Trumpism/COVID-19 — Introduction — The Events of Jan 6th — How We Got Here — What Comes Next — INTRODUCTION: The goal of this analysis is to provide a critical/self-critical assessment of the repression suffered by our communities […]
With regard to the 2020 elections, we must first state that this electoral cycle represents the culmination of a multi-faceted structural crisis of the capitalist system that began more than four decades ago. It had almost nothing to do with democracy, but instead was a mass-based contest between political impotence versus collective psychosis. Forced to […]
Union del Barrio rejects the Trump regime’s demands to re-open schools for the 2020-2021 academic school year. As an organization committed to critical pedagogy and democratic schooling, we are convinced that public schools should not resume in-person instruction until that time when it is deemed safe by public health experts and the broader scientific community. We […]
1. Only attend known events, and maintain all pandemic-related precautions. 2. Express your anger, but do not be blinded by your emotions. 3. Be “gente solidaria”, do not surrender your class-based political principles, but also maintain a barrio-based vigilance. 4. Maintain revolutionary discipline and organizational accountability. 5. Defend our barrios, by any means necessary. There […]
Unión del Barrio sends our sincere condolences to the family of George Floyd, and we state our solidarity with protesters in Minnesota who are standing up against police terror. We unite with the international condemnation of Derek Chauvin and the Minneapolis Police Department for the blatant lynching of brother Floyd. We call for the arrest […]
Links to UdB-Sponsored May Day 2020 Activities in Southern California: – Los Angeles – – San Diego – May 1st, also known as May Day, or Primero de Mayo, is celebrated across the globe as International Workers Day. Precisely because this day commemorates the struggles of working people, this is one of only a few commemorations […]
The current historical moment requires humanity to build a united front to address the global pandemic (COVID19), by ensuring that everyone is able to access healthcare to survive the virus and to overcome the privatized, profit-driven health care system in the United States. Workers are the producers of all material wealth, and our health must be […]
On April 10, 2020, dozens of inmates at the Lansing Correctional Facility in Kansas took part in an uprising to protest unsanitary conditions within the prison during the current worldwide health crisis COVID-19 pandemic. Prisoners and their families have been very concerned about the rising numbers of coronavirus infections among prisoners across the whole country. […]
The coronavirus (COVID-19) health emergency is unfolding on a scale that has impacted all of us as a species. This moment represents a new global consciousness that is spreading across the world in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with people quickly coming to the realization that only as a species can we hope to […]
On Saturday February 22, 2020, a total of 27 delegates representing all sectors of our work gathered in downtown Los Angeles to host a National Conference on the topic of La Mujer in order to advance our organizational practice and vision around three primary themes: Combatting all forms of sexism, misogyny, and capitalist imperialist white […]