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India-Russia ties take a quantum leap in the fog of Ukraine war
The lodestar of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on July 8-9, it must be the disclosure by the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration in the Kremlin Maxim Oreshkin that the two leaders discussed the topic of cash payments with the use of cards of national payment systems as an important element of trade support infrastructure and interaction in general.
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Building a planet of peace is the only realistic thing to do: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2024)
On Isla Grande, Afro-Colombian residents discuss the urgent need for a sustainable electricity plant. Their efforts echo President Petro’s push for solar energy, with the aim of addressing broader regional goals of sustainable development. Yet, development and climate adaption require funding–funding that is instead going to war, with global military spending nearing $3 trillion annually.
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A Life in the Law on the Left: The Life and Legacy of Comrade Martin Stolar
Sam Falcone pays tribute to the great life of Martin Stolar. We at Monthly Review appreciated and loved him, and mourn his death.
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Opposing the creation of NATO to wage war with Russia: W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1949 speech to Congress
In 1949, W.E.B. Du Bois testified before Congress to protest against a bill that would fund the new North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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Israel’s leading paper says its own army deliberately killed Israelis on October 7. But in the U.S. media: silence
Israel ordered the “Hannibal Directive” on October 7 by ordering the killing of captive Israeli soldiers and civilians. But the U.S. media continues to hide the truth.
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U.S.-made missile suddenly ‘transformed’ into a ‘Russian’ one and killed 40 civilians
On July 8, the Russian military launched large-scale strikes on various targets across Ukraine.
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Unexpected result of French election bars a neofascist victory, constituting a moral as well as a political victory for the Left
As French parliamentary elections pushed the leftist New Popular Front into first place, a pleasant sort of shock greeted revolutionary and progressive-minded people in France and around the world who had feared the triumph of the neofascist National Rally party.
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Squaring circles for peace and war: Berlin Bulletin No. 224, July 11, 2024
One can hate or admire any of the gentlemen now involved [in the push for peace in Ukraine]; I would endorse Satan himself if he could help end this God-awful war and move towards the urgently-needed peace in the area—and elsewhere.
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What is the ‘social wage?’
The fight to defend public services is as important as the struggle over wages, but presents different challenges to workplace organising — especially with regards to bourgeois propaganda and conditioning, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY.
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Kerala, India’s Communist-led state, provides a model for digital literacy
“Little Kites” program introduced in public schools in 2018 has prepared over 1.2 million students for the future with a sense of community and sharing.
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Inside China-focused Congressional Hearings, panic, paranoia, and hypocrisy reign
On June 26th, the Committee on Oversight and Accountability sat down for a Congressional Hearing titled, “Defending America from the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare.” This was one of many Congressional hearings aimed at tackling the “China threat.”
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Righteous student activism and evolving anti-Palestinian reprisal in Canada
Specious claims of antisemitism and incivility merely distract from the genocide before our eyes.
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French elections : Antifascist victory and deep political crisis
Election results in France bring joy but also reveal a difficult road ahead.
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Canada’s whitewashing of Africa’s most ruthless regime
Rever: We should not be engaging with, or buttressing a nation that has inflicted so much harm on innocent people.
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The Commune, a living tradition for Pumé people in Venezuela
Coporo Indigena is an Indigenous community in Apure state that has resisted settler violence, displacement from their land… and now the U.S. blockade.
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The Summit of the Future
The core idea of the Summit of the Future is that humanity is facing a set of unprecedented challenges that can only be solved through global cooperation.
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The Xinjiang I saw was a hub of diversity, not oppression
From China, ROGER McKENZIE witnesses a place where Islamic culture thrives and economic development powers China’s westward expansion—a reality obscured by Western propaganda.
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‘It’s time to take Medicare Advantage off the market’
CounterSpin interview with David Himmelstein on privatized Medicare.
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U.S. ready to play ‘Tibet card’ – Asian Media report
In Asian media this week: Dangerous turn adds new anti-Beijing flashpoint. Plus: Bangkok banks used to supply Myanmar military; Why Hindu nationalists back Israel; Thais opt for neutrality in great-power war; How to stop China slipping into Japan trap; Online gambling an Indonesian epidemic.
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Copernicus: June 2024 marks 12th month of global temperature reaching 1.5°C above pre-industrial
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the European Commission with funding from the EU, routinely publishes monthly climate bulletins reporting on the changes observed in global surface air and sea temperatures, sea ice cover and hydrological variables.