Keeping Quiet
A poem by the Nobel laureate, who was murdered by General Pinochet’s goons in 1973.
In Ecuador, Indigenous-led National Strike Intensifies
Ten days into the strongest challenge yet to President Guillermo Lasso’s government, the protests only appear to be growing.
The Great British Privatization Heist, Some Notes
The UK’s privatization binge is glorified asset stripping, pure and simple. Spread that over the decades since Thatcher, it is easy to understand why taxes are high (the highest since the 1950s) and the norm has become substandard and overpriced services in the denationalized industries.
Summit of the Americas Flops While Workers Summit Exposes Cracks in the Imperial Façade
The final declaration of the Workers Summit called for a robust internationalism to promote solidarity with the sovereign nations and peoples suffering from sanctions imposed by the US and its allies. Latin America and the Caribbean were proclaimed a zone of peace. Also: “People’s Summit for Democracy in Los Angeles Ends with a Bold Plan for the Future”
In Ukraine, Diplomacy Has Been Ruled Out
The remarkable 93-year-old Noam Chomsky puts the Ukraine War in the largest and most devastating context possible, in a recent interview entitled “Chronicles of Dissent”.
The Crisis of Neoliberalism and the Progressive Alternative
The current crisis in Sri Lanka is not only a political crisis; it is also a structural breakdown of the way in which neoliberalism has sought to legitimise its own regime of accumulation. This presents an opportunity to propose radical solutions that could reconstruct the State on more egalitarian grounds.
U.S. Govt’s Summit of the Americas Fails: Boycott by Presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala
The Summit of the Americas, that began on June 6, has proved to be a major diplomatic failure for the US administration. In protest against Washington’s refusal to invite the Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, the presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, and Honduras boycotted the summit.
Mapping U.S. Imperialism
U.S. imperialism is the greatest threat to life on the planet. The exact death toll of U.S. imperialism is both staggering and impossible to know. What we do know is that since World War 2, U.S. imperialism has killed at least 36 million people globally.
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NATO vs Russia: What Happens Next
In Davos and beyond, NATO’s upbeat narrative plays like a broken record, while on the ground, Russia is stacking up wins that could sink the Atlantic order.
France in 2022: the People’s Union, and Mélenchon
After the second round of the French Presidential elections, the radical Left managed to regain the initiative by forming an electoral alliance and launching an ambitious campaign for the legislative elections in June, elections that will decide which government will run France. How useful will it be to working people?