How Ernesto Guevara Became ‘Che’: The Motorcycle Diaries Revisited
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How Ernesto Guevara Became ‘Che’: The Motorcycle Diaries Revisited

ByJonah Raskin

In 1951 when Ernesto launched his motorcycle adventure, he wanted to be a swashbuckling hero, not a Marxist revolutionary or a guerrilla fighter. On the road, he became another person. He decided that “the poor” were the “unsung heroes” of Latin America.

When History Is Held Hostage: Commemorating the Continuing Sufferings of the Mappila Martyrs of 1921
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When History Is Held Hostage: Commemorating the Continuing Sufferings of the Mappila Martyrs of 1921

ByMuhammed Niyas Ashraf

While religion had a part to play in the rebellion, the movement in fact registered the resistance of the rural poor to acts of oppression and exploitation perpetrated by feudal landlords and the British colonial state.

The Original Sin and Continuous Crimes of America’s Involvement in Afghanistan
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The Original Sin and Continuous Crimes of America’s Involvement in Afghanistan

ByChris Floyd

A 40-year chapter of American involvement has come to an end. But we need to understand how we got here, or else we will simply be waiting for the next monstrous, long-running atrocity to arise, with the same rationalizations of Liberty and Freedom that our leaders have used to cover up their deliberate policies of mass murder, war profiteering and corruption.

WalmartLand: How US Stores Colonizing Mexico are Displacing Local Culture
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WalmartLand: How US Stores Colonizing Mexico are Displacing Local Culture

ByTamara Pearson

Foreign corporations have a lot of freedom in Mexico, and they are backed by trade agreements like NAFTA and USMCA that were created within very unequal power dynamics. As an activist put it succinctly, “This is nothing less than a cultural conquest.”

Remembrance Must be an Act Affirming Man’s Humanity, Three Haunting Partition Classics Tell Us
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Remembrance Must be an Act Affirming Man’s Humanity, Three Haunting Partition Classics Tell Us

ByAnjan Basu

Though unlike one another in tone and texture, ‘Adaab’, ‘Toba Tek Singh’ and ‘Garm Hawa’ have the same point of departure: that religion as the primary marker of identity is as irrational as it is abhorrent.

Afghanistan Redux: Malala Yousafzai, White Feminism and Saving Afghan Women
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Afghanistan Redux: Malala Yousafzai, White Feminism and Saving Afghan Women

ByFawzia Afzal-Khan

Malala’s “voice” has been turned into its opposite in the capitalist neocolonial economic model that extracts what is of use to it and puts it to a different purpose to serve its own agendas. She is now serving at the behest of her “handlers”—the white feminists who are poised to “save brown women from brown men.”

US Suffocates Cuba for Unwavering, Victorious Anti-Imperialism at Great Cost
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US Suffocates Cuba for Unwavering, Victorious Anti-Imperialism at Great Cost

ByAaron Maté interviews Piero Gleijeses

Cuba’s anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that’s one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the island nation through today.