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What if there had been no coup in Chile in 1973?: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2023)
As Chile’s people, led by the Popular Unity government, took control over their economic and political lives and worked hard to improve their social and cultural worlds, they sent a flare into the sky announcing the great possibilities of socialism.
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UN announces ‘climate breakdown’ after record summer heat
Scientists blame ever warming human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.
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NLG condemns Georgia indictments of Stop Cop City protesters
The National Lawyers Guild condemns in the strongest terms the state of Georgia’s indictments, announced today, Tuesday, September 5, against 61 people targeted for allegedly being part of the movement to #StopCopCity.
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Believing one’s own false theories
LIBERAL bourgeois writers tend to explain the problems that arise under capitalism not by the immanent tendencies of the system but by the capriciousness of particular governments.
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‘Clear as the full Moon’: The revolution will not be defeated
Who doesn’t remember when Chávez announced on national television that Maduro should be the candidate to succeed him in case he died? It was December 8, 2012, and this was the first time he talked about dying, at least in public, and the first time we wondered if our revolutionary process could really continue without him.
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Bernie Sanders champions ’32-hour work week with no loss in pay’
“Needless to say, changes that benefit the working class of our country are not going to be easily handed over by the corporate elite. They have to be fought for—and won.”
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Imperialism and the new Cold War
War and Lenin in the 21st century, part 4
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Prigozhin’s three strikes–Khodorkovsky business, Berozovsky politics, the last Africa trip
On March 5, in Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR), there was a fire-bombing of a French–owned brewery which destroyed 50,000 bottles of beer.
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Georgia Attorney General brings RICO indictments against 61 activists
The Georgia Attorney General’s Office filed RICO (racketeering-influenced and corrupt organizations) indictments against 61 individuals alleged to be part of the Stop Cop City Movement.
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Mass protests against French troops intensify in Niger as the deadline for their withdrawal approaches
France refuses to withdraw its ambassador and troops from Niger, and reiterates its threat of supporting military invasion by ECOWAS, while the regional bloc itself is “determined to bend backwards to accommodate diplomatic efforts”.
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Capitalist urbanization, climate change, and the need for sponge cities
Under the capitalist model, urban planning lacks a holistic approach, leaving human well being and ecological needs as an afterthought, which will continue to have a degenerative effect on the environment and global climate.
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The climate crisis will end when capitalism ends
Humans have an infinite capacity for wishful thinking, but a revolutionary project is by definition a recognition that wishes are for fairy tales.
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The NDP has been co-opted by Western imperialism
Since its founding, Canada’s ‘left-wing’ party has broadly supported the U.S. empire.
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Dossier no. 68: The coup against the Third World: Chile, 1973
The relationship between Chile, the curtailment of its socialist reforms, and the ongoing processes in other countries in the region and in the Global South more generally have been systematically erased in Chile, from official historiography and media narratives alike.
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The Kit Carson obelisk: Santa Fe’s cult like worship of a genocidal human trafficker and murderer
Historical analysis and context of the Kit Carson obelisk that was once again toppled in so-called Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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No respite for France as a ‘New Africa’ rises
Like dominos, African states are one by one falling outside the shackles of neocolonialism. Chad, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and now Gabon are saying ‘non’ to France’s longtime domination of African financial, political, economic, and security affairs.
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Gofundme freezes Grayzone fundraiser ‘due to some external concerns’
Gofundme has indefinitely frozen donations to The Grayzone “due to some external concerns.” The company’s actions follow a campaign of repression against our personnel by the British and Ukrainian governments.
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Burning out of control: Capitalism’s climate catastrophe
Canada’s unprecedented wildfires drive home the harsh realities of climate change, in all their enormity. We are fighting an incorrigibly destructive social and economic system, but we are also, at the same time, engaged in a struggle for survival.
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U.S. officials keep boasting about how much the Ukraine war serves U.S. interests
One of the most glaring plot holes in the official mainstream narrative on Ukraine is the way US officials keep openly boasting that this supposedly unprovoked war which the U.S. is only backing out of the goodness of its heart just so happens to serve U.S. interests tremendously.
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The many colours of hydrogen and the scam of carbon capture
THE fossil fuel industry, particularly the oil and natural gas lobby, always has new cards. Earlier, the fossil fuel industry came up with carbon credits: We, the rich countries, will burn coal, oil and natural gas so that we can continue with our current lifestyles but “compensate” by planting trees in poor countries.