How Beijing’s Severe Pollution Turned into Clear Blue Skies Over a Few Years
It was no magic wand. The authorities took several tough steps over the years to achieve this miracle.
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Collapsing Empire: US Bows to African Revolutionaries
The BBC recently published an extraordinary report on how the Trump administration “has declared a stark policy shift” towards Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, the governments of which have sought to eradicate all ties to Western imperial powers, and forged the Alliance of Sahel States.
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The Globalization of Fraternity: An Alternative to the Logic of Global Capitalism
Cuba, a tiny island nation, subjected to one of the longest and most aggressive economic blockades in history, has managed to project itself onto the global stage—not through capital, weapons, or the typical instruments of imperial soft power—but through concrete international solidarity.
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Stalingrad; How the USSR and China Saved Humanity; and the Politics of Forgetting – 2 Articles
‘Stalingrad and the Politics of Forgetting’; ‘When the USSR and China Saved Humanity: How They Won the World Anti-Fascist War’: It was not the United States and its Western allies that defeated fascism in WWII. That is a myth that is promoted by Hollywood movies. In reality, it was the Soviet Union and China that defeated fascism in WWII.
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Remembering Visionary Trade Unionist Shankar Guha Niyogi – 2 Articles
‘How the Murder of Trade Union Leader Shankar Guha Niyogi Hurt India’: He was killed in 1991 by thugs hired by businessmen angered that he had given workers self-respect and infused them with the spirit of equality. Also: ‘Remembering Visionary Trade Unionist Shankar Guha Niyogi: Labour’s Unfinished Struggle in Neoliberal India’.
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250 Years Since the Publication of Tom Paine’s Common Sense
Few revolutionary tracts match in importance Tom Paine’s Common Sense. Published for the first time on January 9, 1776, 250 years ago this month, the pamphlet, a frontal assault on the entire aristocratic world, is widely credited with clearing the way for the Declaration of Independence, which was ratified just six months later.
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The Body as the Final Weapon: Palestine Action and the Spirit of Bobby Sands
In the UK, a group of political prisoners from Palestine Action have entered the very dangerous phase of a hunger strike in jail. They are using their starving bodies to scream a truth that the BBC refuses to whisper: Britain is an active participant in the slaughter of Gaza.
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The United States Attacks Venezuela and Kidnaps President Maduro – 3 Articles
“The United States Attacks Venezuela and Kidnaps its President in an Illegal Operation”; “US Starts 2026 by Bombing Venezuela and Kidnapping its President, Setting a Tone of Imperialist Violence for the Year”; “Who Is Nicolás Maduro — and Why Washington Kidnapped Him”.
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Venezuela’s Revolution Will Not Surrender – 3 Articles
“‘We Will Never Again Be Slaves’: Speech by Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodríguez”; “Let No One Fall into Enemy Provocations”; “Venezuela’s Revolution Still Stands: Debunking Trump’s Psyop”.
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“War of the Entire People”: Venezuela’s Grassroots Rise to Resist Trump’s Naval Blockade
After withstanding a decade of sanctions, Venezuela’s communes are prepared to face Trump’s illegal naval blockade and U.S. plans for economic asphyxiation.
