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After years of calling Venezuela’s economy a dismal failure that demonstrates the dangers of socialism, Western media is now lauding its recovery for ’embracing capitalism’ — but this is not accurate.
People are crying, embracing, yelling, as the streets fill with joy. Horns honk and people dance in the middle of avenues. They can’t believe that the news traveling by word of mouth, tweet to tweet, news show to news show, is really true. As the minutes and hours pass, they confirm that it is true: This June 19th they—the Nobodies—have won.
Cuba has moved from 59 infant deaths out of every 1,000 live births to no infant deaths in the matter of a few decades, an extraordinary feat indeed. Also: Reminiscences of E.P. Menon from his visit to Cuba in 1966 as a part of an Indian delegation to the first ever Tri-Continental Conference.
The high level of killing often reported in history or later archaeology is contradicted in the earliest archaeological findings around the globe. The most ancient bones and artifacts are consistent with the title of Margaret Mead’s 1940 article: “Warfare Is Only an Invention—Not a Biological Necessity.”
July 19 is a day of celebration in Nicaragua: the anniversary of the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship. Ignoring the remarkable transformation that has taken place in the lives of the Nicaraguans under the Sandinista government, the international media continue to dish out lies.
Even as hunger and death stalked the city of Leningrad, her citizens found in themselves the strength to defy unspeakable terror one night in August 1942.
István Mészáros was a global thinker strongly committed to anti-imperialist struggles. His most singular contribution to struggles in the Global South was the role he was to play in his strong strategic support of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution.
In this interview, Corbyn, the former Labour Party leader, speaks candidly about British media, the U.K. military and intelligence services, Israel, Keir Starmer, Julian Assange and Saudi Arabia.
In the June parliamentary elections, while the right-of-center government of President Macron’s Together! bloc failed to win a majority in the National Assembly, winning 245 of 577 seats, a leftwing coalition, NUPES, took a surprising second place, with 131 seats.
As AMLO consolidates his domestic position, he is gradually becoming active in international diplomacy, and taking independent stands on issues like the U.S. blockade of Cuba and its economic war against Venezuela, and the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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