Rafale Deal Gets Murkier with Yet Another Exposé
The silence of both French and Indian governments, and regulatory agencies, on the three-part series by French investigative portal, Mediapart, is telling indeed.
Brazil: Lula Makes a Comeback – Two Articles
With the Brazilian Supreme Court annulling all charges against Lula, will the world’s sixth most populous country move away from fascism and towards a social democracy putting economic justice and anti-imperialism first once more?
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Bolsonaro’s Increasing Isolation
A discussion with Joao Pedro Stedile, one of the leaders of the Landless Movement of Brazil, on the current situation in his country, which is submerged in a very grave health crisis as well as another crisis resulting from the disaster produced by the appalling government of Jair Bolsonaro.
On the Significance of the Electoral Victory of Pedro Castillo in Peru – Two Articles
Today, surprising everyone, an authentically popular left has finally arisen in Peru, after Pedro Castillo won the first round in the recent Presidential elections. The rural teacher and farmer from Cajamarca now faces off against the ultra-right-wing Keiko Fujimori in the second round in June.
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Myanmar – Two Articles
The majority of the population faces a long and protracted conflict with the Tatmadaw. The coup and its subsequent repression have created a new sense of solidarity among the minorities, and is also uniting them with the working classes in the cities. Either they together build a new Myanmar; or the alternative is barbarism.
The Palestinians: “We Shall Not Be Moved”
Israelis think that their continued assaults on the Palestinians—uprooting their orchards, razing their villages, imprisoning and killing them—will make the Palestinians simply throw up their hands and go away. But that will never happen. The Palestinians will win by their simple resolve to stay where they are.
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Stand with Haiti! A Call for Solidarity
This statement, signed by dozens of organisations from around the world, calls for support of the resistance by the Haitian people to the US-backed dictatorship of Jovenel Moise, and provides concrete ways for progressive-minded people to take action in solidarity with Haiti.
From Rafael Correa to Guillermo Lasso via Lenin Moreno
How can we explain that a significant part of popular votes did not go to the leftist candidate Andres Arauz to prevent the neoliberal banker Guillermo Lasso from getting elected? What are the lessons to be drawn?
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The Different Approaches of United States and China to Africa – Two Articles
The U.S. is in competition with–in fact is in conflict with–China in Africa. The approach of both is starkly different. One is marked by violence and racism and the other by a solidarity with roots in the Third World movement.
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Slaughter Central: The US as a Mass-Killing Machine
America’s domestic violence (shootings, massacres, world’s highest prison population, etc.) cannot be distinguished from the wars and blockades waged by the USA and its arms sales and 800 military bases around the world, that are involved in almost continual bombings and drone killings.