Cuba Leads Latin America Towards Affordable Covid-19 Vaccines
The mainstream media is completely silent about the most promising source of Covid-19 vaccines for the Global South – Cuba.
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Hunger in America: Covid-19 and the Nightmare of Food Insecurity
Behind all the pandemic stories now filling the media lie any number of nightmarish tales, that were already common in a country of raging inequality before the coronavirus landed on US shores.
John Lennon and the Politics of the New Left
Forty years after his murder in New York City, we remember John Lennon’s record of political engagement as a champion of the anti-war movement and a self-styled “instinctive socialist”—which brought him into conflict with Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover.
Bolivia: New Gov’t Sets to Work Undoing Damage Left by US-Backed Añez Regime
Only weeks after their landslide victory, the Movement to Socialism (MAS) party is already enacting widespread changes to Bolivia in an attempt to undo the damage of one year of military rule.
Socialist Election Win Masks Deeper Problems
The largest political bloc in Venezuela is the mass of Chavistas who have disaffilitated themselves from the ruling party, while supporting the government against the onslaught by the US and imperialist powers.
US Bankrolled Mass Murder of Millions in Central Africa to Defend US Corporate Interests
U.S. Presidents of both parties unleashed the CIA in the Congo to do the dirty work of greedy corporations, causing misery, mutilations and massacres of such magnitude they dwarfed even the wildest accounts depicted in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
Interview: Justice A.P. Shah Sees a Clear Decline in SC’s ability to Protect People’s Rights
“In several cases, the Court has refused to act in defence of citizens who have been victimised for their protest and dissent or for simply exercising their fundamental right of speech and expression.”
A Washington Echo Chamber for a New Cold War
War: what is it good for? Apparently, in Washington’s world of think tanks, the answer is: the bottom line.
On Social Democracy, Development, and Growth
The renowned economist discusses alternatives to financial liberalization, the future of welfare politics, development strategy, and contemporary models of economic growth.
Thomas Sankara: An Icon of Revolution
October 15 was the 33rd anniversary of Thomas Sankara’s murder by imperialist forces at the tender age of 37. A Pan-Africanist, internationalist and Marxist, he was committed to the total liberation of the oppressed masses from the clutches of imperialism.