Africa’s Last Colony: UN Must Hold Long-Overdue Vote for Self-Determination in Western Sahara
By unilaterally ending a 29-year ceasefire, Morocco highlights the urgent need for the UN to make good on its commitments to Western Sahara.
-
-
2021: A Crucial Year for Nicaragua
2021 is a crucial year for Nicaragua, with national elections due in November. With Biden coming to power, will the US administration continue its attempts to sabotage the elections? And can Nicaragua once again defend its sovereignty against US and other foreign interference?
-
The Climate Crisis Keeps Getting Worse – And It Is Doing So at an Accelerating Rate: Four Articles
Top scientists warn of ‘ghastly future of mass extinction’ and climate disruption; New study shows Earth now warmer than any time in last 12,000 years; Global ice melt accelerating at record rate; Florida professor predicts Amazon rainforest collapse by 2064.
-
‘Who Ended the Holocaust?’
Today in the West, while hypocritical empty crocodile tears are wept over the Nazis’ victims, real history continues to be suppressed, denied and buried beneath mountains of lies.
-
Burying Pinochet
The Chilean government has finally agreed to a process of constitutional reform. Though the government is trying to sabotage the process, it’s a historic opportunity, won by millions of Chileans taking to the streets, to step out from the long shadow of Pinochet’s dictatorship.
-
21st Century Socialism Requires a New Culture on the Left
We need a pluralist and tolerant culture that puts first what unites us and leaves as secondary what divides us; that promotes a unity based on solidarity, humanism, respect for differences, defense of nature, and rejection of profit and the market.
-
Realizing the Dream of Communal Cities: A Conversation with Jennifer Lemus and José Luis Sifontes
Two committed communards walk us through the political and theoretical genesis of a new communal city being built by El Maizal commune in Venezuela, together with 6 other communes, in a process that “puts the people and not capital in the center of territorial organization.”
-
Economy | Online Blog | USA | World Politics
‘We’re Witnessing a Fundamental Political Realignment’: Mike Davis on the Crisis in the United States
In the wake of the deadly riot in Washington, DC, and with the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden just days away, Ben Hillier spoke to Mike Davis about the crises and transformations of US politics.
-
Fascism, Imperialism, and Anti-Communism at the Capitol Hill Riots
The flags of U.S. client states, anti-communist regimes, and pre-revolution puppet states dotted the sea of MAGA hats and Confederate flags at the Capitol Hill mobs. Making sense of why requires understanding the convergence between imperialism abroad and fascism at home.
-
Why India Must Oppose Dumping of Radioactive Water from Fukushima into the Pacific
Next year, the operator of the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant would start releasing radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. Several nations are up in arms against it, but Indian authorities are silent. A discussion about what is at stake for people and the environment.
