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The French working class organizes to defeat Macron’s pension reforms
The Macron-led government is making a new bid to push controversial pension reforms, calling to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64.
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DADA NEW YEAR: Tristan Tzara’s Boom, Boom, Boom
I know I’m not the only one thinking that our world has lost its mind. It’s not easy being some relatively sane person nowadays. At the best of times, politics is bankrupt. At its worst, it’s toxic, dominated by demagogues, liars and cheats. Their falsehoods fly wholesale, rarely disgruntling masses of people, let alone damaging a demagogue’s political career.
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U.S.-backed coup regime has murdered 46 demonstrators
In Peru, the death toll has risen to at least 46 following the December 7 U.S.-backed coup overthrowing democratically elected socialist President Pedro Castillo.
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Should private property be abolished? Dublin students vote yes
It was a packed room for the Trinity College Dublin Philosophical Society debate on whether private property should be abolished. I was the first speaker and spoke in an impassioned way for the motion. There was much expression of assent in the room.
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America’s theater of the absurd
Our political class does not govern. It entertains.
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Dismantling the cult of Churchill
Tariq Ali’s new book examines the disconnect between Churchill’s popular image and the larger context of his life and times.
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Why the CIA attempted a ‘Maidan Uprising’ in Brazil
The failed coup in Brazil is the latest CIA stunt, just as the country is forging stronger ties with the east.
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Requiem for a dream: 100 years after the founding of the USSR
The worst crime the USSR committed, the one for which it will never be forgiven, was to have been a shared hope for a more just, more dignified and more humane society.
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The winds of the New Cold War are howling in the Arctic Circle: The Second Newsletter (2023)
In 1996, the eight countries on the Arctic rim—Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States—formed the Arctic Council, a journey that began in 1989 when Finland approached the other countries to hold a discussion about the Arctic environment.
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Union organizing surged in 2022: Let’s push for a radical labor movement in 2023
More workers are forming independent unions, untethered from the AFL-CIO and other established labor groups.
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What progressive people should know about the “Twitter Files”
The “Twitter Files” are a set of internal communications including emails between company executives as well as with politicians, the FBI, Pentagon and other agencies.
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Zelensky complicit in corporate takeover of Ukraine
“Your money is not charity, it’s an investment.” That’s what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his address to the U.S. Congress while visiting Washington on Dec. 21.
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Meta allows targeted hate speech, violence, but only against U.S. rivals
The U.S.-based tech giant overturns its decision to remove posts calling for the demise of Iran’s leader Sayyed Ali Khamenei.
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“Do not forsake me, comrade”
The continuing relevance of High Noon.
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Statement by Ana Belen Montes after her release from prison
Here is an update and current image of Ana Belen Montes, after her release from prison … we share with you the only authorized statement she wanted to share and make public, sent through her lawyer Linda Backiel on Sunday, January 8, 2023.
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New Yorker takes aim at people who still think Covid is a problem
There is an episode of the Fox animated series Family Guy where the family dog, Brian, is welcomed as a possible new contributor at the New Yorker.
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Nicaragua is world’s #1 country where citizens feel at peace, Gallup poll shows
A poll by mainstream firm Gallup found that Nicaragua is the No. 1 country in the world where citizens feel at peace. Nine of the top 14 countries are in Latin America. But the U.S. constantly attacks the Sandinista government and imposes sanctions on it.
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Mapuche Political Prisoners Hunger Strike Reaches Critical Stage
Nine political prisoners of the Mapuche people in southern Chile have been on hunger strike since November 27. Now, their protest has reached a dangerous and crucial moment.
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The smoldering Moldovan crisis
The battle between Russia and the West for Moldova has been ongoing since the Soviet collapse, despite the country’s constitutional ban on joining alliances, presumably applying only to military ones.
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Peru and capitalist extraction–the imperial mining powers behind the throne
As a rainbow of social movements in Peru prepare for a general strike starting on 4 January the country is polarised between party politicians’ intrigues and action of the masses on the streets.