Archive | December, 2024

With the parliamentary victory, the leftist president Anura Kumara Dissanayake is better placed to implement his agenda of economic and political reforms in the crisis-hit country.

A new report from Britain’s Sky News provides details of Adnan al-Bursh’s death by torture in Israel’s Ofer Prison.

Billions were spent both on aid to the Zelensky government…as an urgent defense necessity to counter “the Russian threat.” This threat has appeared and reappeared in Germany in 1914, the 1930s, after 1945 and now again, louder than ever, with similar barked Prussian commands: “Achtung! Die Russen kommen!” as dangerously false as ever, and often followed by eastward expansion, invasion and, far too often, catastrophe, with atomic annihilation an added danger this time around.

Hurricanes Helene and Milton are the result of a long legacy of segregation, environmental racism, and extraction. This white supremacist capitalist system has brought us to this point in our climate crisis and puts marginalized people directly in the path of the destruction it causes.

The infamous Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda many see as a blueprint for the second Trump term, calls for the end to public broadcasting, because it is viewed as liberal propaganda.

On election night, despite receiving 57% of the vote, a ballot measure which would have restored abortion rights for Floridians failed. 

The streaming giant’s move has sparked criticism from entertainment workers and activists.

The political philosophy of classical liberalism, which provided the basis for liberal political praxis, was sustained by a long tradition of bourgeois economic thought, straddling both classical political economy and neo-classical economics.

Instead of solving the problems of the majority, the ‘far right of a special type’–a right that is intimately tied to liberalism–cultivates a politics of anger.

Ms. Albanese has been under relentless attack from politically motivated organizations like ‘UN Watch’, which have been waging toxic smear campaigns to silence her and to harm her human rights mandate.

“Every single Democrat who voted for this is not taking the threat of Trump remotely seriously and should be disqualified from any leadership positions moving forward,” said Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman.

Nizam Mamode, a retired NHS doctor who recently returned after working at Nasser Hospital, said he had ‘never seen anything on this scale ever.’

Understanding and truth are our best weapons against an exploitative society based on lies.

Deirbhle Sheppard highlights the shocking and persistent extent of sexual violence in our society. She unscrambles the false myths put out by the far right and argues that in fighting these, we need to join together to fight all forms of gender oppression.

UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese speaks to Tribune about Israel’s genocide as a form of ‘colonial erasure’—and why the Palestinian cause is a symbol of resistance against all forms of exploitation.

Russia has announced a $60 million diesel shipment to Cuba during bilateral meeting in Havana.

How an Indigenous commune in the Venezuelan Amazon has resisted the U.S. blockade.

On Nov. 5, voters in 10 states were presented with ballot initiatives on abortion with seven states passing pro-abortion rights measures, including in states with currently restrictive abortion laws as well as in states carried by Donald Trump. 

This should dash the hopes of Trump supporters everywhere that this time their guy really will end the wars and drain the swamp.

Michael Lavalette speaks to former Irish MEP, Clare Daly about her political history, her view on the current situation and her forthcoming general election campaign.