Archive | November, 2021

A tacit agreement between the government and Facebook appears to have been made: you can keep the profits, but we control the message. As such, a cynic might wonder what functional difference there is between Facebook and the national security state.

A Sydney man has set an ambitious target to phase out his alcohol consumption within the next 29 years, as part of an impressive plan to improve his health.  

President Mahoney’s decision upholds the University’s acceptance of Big Tech’s increasing control over academic discussion, and its complicity with Zionist organizations.

A funny thing happened on the way to the recovery from the Pandemic Depression: class conflict is back at the core of economics.

Nicaragua’s electoral process far proceeds that of which the U.S. media has led the people of the United States to believe.

In the macho, back-country world of Sertanejo music, Mendonça demanded respect for women.

Media repeats big lie that Nicaraguan migrants to the U.S. are escaping Ortega’s repression.

Documentary about the impact of the McCarthy era on African Americans in the film industry.

Senator Joe Manchin has emerged in recent weeks as the leading opponent of vital social programs to provide relief to working people in the areas of education, healthcare, the environment and much more.

Havana, Nov. 4 (Prensa Latina) The Communist Party of Cuba highlighted today the methods of pressure that the extreme right of Miami, U.S., exerts on Cuban artists to take sides against the government of the island.

Opposition leaders have lashed out at the police’s ‘highhanded’ behaviour.

Despite the U.S. blockade against Venezuela, the socialist government led by President Nicolás Maduro has been carrying out a successful mass vaccination drive against COVID-19

The declaration of a state of emergency by Guillermo Lasso is more likely about quelling opposition than guaranteeing security for Ecuadorians.

Official statement from La Via Campesina, as we mark 25 years of our collective struggles for food sovereignty.

Marxist economist Michael Roberts shares his take on the Glasgow climate talks—what is on and what is not on the agenda.

With COP26 just around the corner, a wave of industrial action in Scotland is demonstrating the huge opportunity of linking workers’ struggle with climate organising. Sara Bennett, Pete Cannell and Raymond Morrell argue that huge shifts in climate struggle are on the way, and that building these links will be essential to winning revolutionary change.

The international community has a political, and even legal, frame of reference regarding its position on the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Unfortunately, however, it has no genuine political mandate, or the inclination to act individually or collectively, to bring this occupation to an end.

Erika Takeo and Rohan Rice reflect on the advancement of women in Nicaragua since the Sandinista revolution.

Significant public activism and opposition to state-corporate power need to be rooted in widespread shared public knowledge.

It is perhaps fitting that United States President Joe Biden arrived in Glasgow for the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) on the climate catastrophe with eighty-five cars in tow months after declaring ‘I’m a car guy’ (for details on the climate catastrophe, see our Red Alert no. 11, ‘Only One Earth’).